These note are intended to give background material in mathemat- ical population genetics and also, in part, to form the background for some of the material given by other lecturers.Some standard ge . . . . .

Contents: An introduction to experimental techniques in structural biology; Molecular dynamics and modelling; An introduction to protein structure; Geometry and physics of proteins; Scaling of foldin . . . . .

Biomedical research will be revolutionised by the current efforts to sequence the human genome and the genomes of model organisms. Of the newly sequenced genes, 50% code for proteins of unknown functi . . . . .

Contents: What is conservation biology? The biology of human-caused extinctions; Systematics and endangered species conservation; Biology of small populations; Introduction; Demography; Genetics; . . . . .