I'm Eric Schwartz.
I'd like to tell you about a course being offered this September at the Marine Biological Laboratory.
Increasingly, we are learning about how the function of individual proteins determines the behavior of cells
and even ourselves.
Our belief is that how we know determines what we know.
Therefore, we will begin each day with a
brief discussion of electronics and optics.
Then, we will use that information to construct
amplifiers, and microscopes
in order to observe to the behavior of protein molecules.
We will isolate channel proteins,
incorporate them into bilayers and cells,
and study the electrical currents and optical signals
on a millisecond time scale.
