Interactions of Light With Biological Processes. Light# Relevant Concepts From Chemistry and Physics, Photons As a "substrate" In Biochemistry, Excited States and Photochemistry# Visible, Near-uv And Near -ir Spectral Regions. Research# Spectroscopy, Action Spectra Photochemistry, Molecular Engineering of Photoreceptor Proteins. Vision# Rhodopsin and Its Signaling Cascade, Genetics and Genomics Of Color Vision. Photosynthesis# Photochemistry of Energy Storage For Carbon Fixation. Uv# Dna Damage and Photorepair. Photomedicine. Phytochrome and Blue Light Receptors (photobiological Aspects).

Faculty: Biology
|Undergraduate Studies
Pre-required courses

(125801 - Organic Chemistry and 134019 - Introduction to Biochemistry and Enzimol)

Course with no extra credit

127441 - Biological Photochemistry 136034 - Photobiology