Biophysics is one of the most rapidly growing areas of physics, fueled by powerful experimental and computational methods allowing quantitative study of the complex phenomena of life. Biophysicists seek to identify clear organizing principles underlying the structure and function of living systems, from the level of single molecules to cells, tissues, organs, organisms and ecosystems. Indeed, the same physical laws governing inanimate matter can be successfully applied to the understanding of living systems.
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At Indiana University, our faculty are engaged in a broad array of research across systems and scales, from the self-organized assembly of a viral capsid and spatiotemporal dynamics of intracellular proteins during cell division, to the physical principles underlying sensing and response by individual cells, information processing in the fly brain, avalanches of activity in the cerebral cortex, and the physics of neurodegenerative disorders.
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