Faculty Areas of Interest
Cell and molecular biophysics
Living cells crawl, eat, grow, duplicate themselves, sense the world around them, signal each other, and work together in communities to form the organs and tissues of every living thing. The aim of cell and molecular biophysics is to explain how these exquisite behaviors arise from physical interactions between molecules. Biophysicists apply the principles of quantitative physical science to study fundamental problems in biology. Often, this means building new instruments, and testing quantitative models of biological phenomena. In a sense, biophysics is an exploration of the boundary between living things, and inanimate molecules.
Faculty
Daniel Cook
dcook@uw.edu
Physiological knowledge representation for multiscale biosimulation: Key to the virtual human
Bruce Ransom
bransom@uw.edu
Physiology of glial cells; pathophysiology of ischemic brain tissue injury
