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Welcome students of Physics 498EBP.
Presumably you are home or in an otherwise safe place due the pandemic of the Coronavirus19. It is particular important that you do not transmit the Coronavirus to anyone else, especially those somewhat older than you, but, in fact, 40% of the people who end up in the hospital due to the virus are of the age group 18-44.
See:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-young.html
20-Somethings Now Realizing That They Can Get Coronavirus, Too
More than 40 percent of those who have tested positive for the virus in New York City are between the ages of 18 and 44.
As you also know, we have gone on-line, including lab courses such as Physics 398 EXB. This is new to all of us, but hopefully we will be able to learn something about experimental biophysics.
You will be able to “chat” with us using Zoom or “Slate”.
Sign up for Zoom (Illinois.zoom.us), and you will find that you are in the group “PHYS498EBP” where you will attend the oral presentation. Depending on the module you are working on, you might also be invited to subgroups. You can also chat with me, or Yeoan, or Rohit; similarly, you can "chat" with Seppe or Laura on Slate.
I strongly encourage you to go on the Home Page of the course:
https://courses.physics.illinois.edu/PHYS498EBP/SP2020/index.html
where you will find all the relevant information.
(The web page is still under construction, so may not have the latest on there at the moment.)
Notice that there is an “on-line” version in the first two experiments (and Seppe has already sent an email about this), and a similar one for each of the latter two experiments.
https://courses.physics.illinois.edu/PHYS498EBP/SP2020/library.html
Briefly:
The schedule is still the same: you will have 3 weeks to do the next “lab” module, and then 3 weeks to do the final “lab” module. Obviously, we cannot continue with the lab modules you have not done. But instead, we have designed two replacements.
First, is that you are to do the lab report using data that we will give you, often times, data that your fellow colleagues have generated. You should be able to answer all the questions. This will be due at the end of the 3 weeks. The data you will want is in
(Seppe has previously sent out an email on instructions for his module. We will try to merge
Second, is that you will perform a written and oral presentation of a real-life experiment that the professors and TA’s have chosen from the literature, covering the relevant lab technique: for example, one covering Super-Resolution Fluorescence, another on Optical Traps, another on Phylogenetics, etc. You will present a total of a 15-minute talk, including Powerpoint slides, as a group (of 3 or in one case 4 people). The idea is that all people will contribute equally, for example dividing the talk into 3 parts of 5 minutes each, with each part leading naturally into the next part. There will be an additional 5 minutes for questions from the class which you all will answer (or take turns). We realize this will take cooperation among the three or four of you, so we expect you to work together, to understand the material, then to organize it, to present it to yourself before and (very important!), and finally to give a smooth talk. You should definitely give it to yourselves before-hand to see what is not clear etc. It’s amazing how much you will learn by having to explain something!) You will give your talk on the last Thursday at the end of 3 weeks—do NOT delay studying the papers! You will also hand in a ~10-page (or less) paper on the experiment.
Details of the due dates are given in the revised course schedule. The material you will need for the data is now on-line in the library section of the course web site. The real-life experiments are also listed there.
Good luck! This is new for us, as well as for you, so we expect to improve this as we go on. We would very much appreciate your (well intentioned) comments/suggestions.
Most of all, be safe, both for youself and thos you come in contact with.
Paul
Module assignment for cycle 3 and 4
| Last Name | First Name | Group | Cycle 3 | Cycle 4 |
| Shahid | Sara | 1 | Fluorescence | Optical trap |
| Swarna | Nikhila | 1 | ||
| Dehghanighahnaviyeh | Sepehr | 1 | ||
| Pani | Satwik | 2 | Optical trap | Fluorescence |
| Sandler | Michael | 2 | ||
| Rasouli | Ali | 2 | ||
| Shinn | Eric | 3 | Luria-Delbruck | Phylogenetics |
| Zhang | Yu | 3 | ||
| Mankolli | Andi | 3 | ||
| Meier | Jason | 3 | ||
| Meigooni | Moeen | 4 | Phylogenetics | Luria-Delbruck |
| Chan | Aaron | 4 | ||
| Aronsohn | Maxwell | 4 | ||
| Blanchette | Nicholas | 4 |
Please contact TA if you have any questions (yyoun4@illinois.edu).