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
Albert Berger
berger@u.washington.edu
Neural and chemical control of respiration; neuron structure and function
Daniel Cook
dcook@u.washington.edu
Physiological knowledge representation for multiscale biosimulation: Key to the virtual human
Bertil Hille
hille@u.washington.edu
Properties of ionic channels and receptors in excitable membranes
Bruce Ransom
bransom@u.washington.edu
Physiology of glial cells; pathophysiology of ischemic brain tissue injury
Mike Regnier
mregnier@u.washington.edu
Molecular mechanisms of striated muscle contractile regulation
