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Physics of Soft and Living Matter
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Fields
Non-Equilibrium Physics
DNA Nanotechnology
Imaging
Morphogenesis
Systems Neuroscience
Population Genetics
Single Molecule Biophysics
Soft Condensed Matter
Spectroscopy
Statistical Mechanics
Frank L. Brown
Membrane structure and dynamics
Chemical kinetics, enzyme kinetics and single-molecule kinetics
Modeling and interpretation of various spectroscopic experiments
Mark Bowick
Order and Geometry
Statistical mechanics of Elastic and Fluid Membranes
Topological Defects
Jean Carlson
Identification of mechanisms and cause and effect relationships
Tradeoffs involving robustness and fragility in a complex, dynamic environment
Constraints and limitations based on inherent uncertainties
Zvonimir Dogic
Single molecule techniques, optical tweezers and physics of biopolymers
Self-assembly and equilibrium statistical mechanics
Active matter, fluid dynamics and far-from-equilibrium materials
Deborah Fygenson
DNA Nanotechnology
Biomolecular self-assembly
Paul Hansma
Atomic Force Microscopy
Development of instruments for the differential diagnosis of chronic pain
Development of instruments for reducing sensitization
Everett A. Lipman
Single Molecule Spectroscopy
Protein Folding
Matthieu Louis
Functional characterization of neural circuitry in larval chemotaxis
Sensorimotor computations directing larval chemotaxis
Principles controlling the integration of multisensory inputs
Evolution of sensorimotor computations during speciation
Cristina Marchetti
Collective cell migration
Mechanics of cells and tissue
Cell patterning in development
Statistical mechanics of active particles
Active liquid crystals
Phil A. Pincus
Debye Screening at high ionic strength
Origin of the hydrophobic interaction
Electrolyte viscosity
Microscopic model for hydration
Cyrus Safinya
Interactions, assembly, and function of proteins derived from neurons
Synthetic carriers of nucleic acids for gene delivery and silencing
Lipid-based hydrophobic drug carriers for cancer therapeutics
Joan-Emma Shea
Simulations of Protein Structure and Interactions
Biologically inspired adhesion
Development of novel simulation methods
Mark Sherwin
Interaction of light and condensed as well as biological matter in the terahertz frequency range
Develop methods based on electron paramagnetic resonance performed at sub-THz frequencies to “film” proteins in action
Boris Shraiman
Dynamics of Natural Selection: developing the Statistical Genetics Theory
Patterning and growth in development: "Growth and Form" revisited
Sebastian Streichan
Dynamics of morphogenesis: from genes to form
Whole animal live imaging at high spatiotemporal resolution
Automated data analysis on curved surfaces