Biological Physics @ CMU
The Biological Physics Initiative
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics
Research areas in Biological Physics... a selection of interdisciplinary research activities. |
Theory of biomembrane elasticity (Deserno) |
Coarse-grained MD simulation of peptides and phospholipids (Deserno) |
Viral genome packaging and ejection (Evilevitch) [more] |
Mechanical properties of viral capsids (Evilevitch) |
Surfactant formulations for self-dispersing aerosol drug carriers (Garoff) [more] |
Neutron reflection metrology for the analysis of protein-membrane interactions (Heinrich, Lösche) |
Tethered bilayer lipid membranes (tBLMs) for biomedical research (Lösche) [more] |
Membrane-mediated toxicity of β-amyloid oligomers (Lösche, Heinrich) [more] |
Association of the HIV-1 Gag matrix domain protein with acidic membranes (Heinrich, Lösche) [more] |
Single-molecule manipulations of RNA folding with optical tweezers (Mandal) |
Riboswitches and transcriptional regulation |
Structure and interactions of lipid bilayers (Nagle, Tristram-Nagle) [more] |
Elasticity and mechanical response of viral capsids (Widom) [more] |
Secondary structure and function of noncoding RNA (Widom) [more] |
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Lab Websites or departmental pagesDeserno (theory/sim) Evilevitch (exp) Garoff (exp) Lösche/Heinrich (exp) Nagle (exp/theory) Swendsen (simulation) Tristram-Nagle (exp) Widom (theory) |
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