Research

Many faculty members push the limits of existing technology and develop new or improve existing biophysical methods.

Imaging life cells and determining the physical properties of cells.

Emphasizes the importance of a chemical perspective in biology.

Mechanisms of signal transduction and nucleic acid protein interactions are of interest to many MBSB researchers and integrate with many laboratories studying the biomedical aspects of these questions.

Research in this area examines lipids and their conformational modulation by proteins from a structural and functional perspective.

Understanding the mechanisms of interactions between molecules: enzyme-substrate, protein-DNA, protein-ligand and protein-protein.

MBSB research participates in the quiet revolution from study of static structures to their motions on various time scale, correlating dynamics with function.

30% of the proteins in typical genomes reside in cellular membranes and carry out functions of primary importance for cellular structure, communication and regulation but they are vastly understudied because they are difficult to study experimentally. There is a large and growing interest in studying membrane proteins.

A growing number of researchers work on virus evolution in collaboration with biomedical scientists studying how to fight virus infection.