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News and Events

Biophysics Welcomes New Colleague, Professor Aaron Frank

Victoria Rai is Awarded an M-Sci Summer Fellowship!

Congratulations to Julie Biteen on being the 2017 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award recipient!

Congratulations to Sarah Veatch on being a 2017 Henry Russel Award recipient!

Kelsey Hallinen receives a 2016 SACNAS Presentation Award!

Biophysics professor Michal Zochowski featured in novel research in the biophysics of learning during sleep.

Randy Stockbridge and Qiong Yang have been Awarded Alfred P. Sloan Fellowships

Biophysics Welcomes New Colleague, Professor Sarah Keane

Kelsey Hallinen recently awarded a Rackham Research Grant

Researchers Focus on Cell Membranes to Develop Alzheimer's Treatments

Charlie Brooks Named Distinguished University Professor

Congratulations to our Winter 2017 Graduates!

A Milestone for UofM Biophysics!

U of M Biophysics Explores Nobel Prize Research Area

Biophysics Newsletter Launch

Nanodiscs Catch Misfolding Proteins Red-Handed

Exhibition Offers a Vibrant Glimpse of the Future of Biotechnology

Biophysics & 2017 Giving Blueday

Professor Violi named William Hobbs Moore Award Recipient

Biophysics faculty member, Professor Janet Smith, elected to National Academy of Sciences

Biophysics faculty member, Assistant Professor Sarah Keane, awarded the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award

SMART Center featured in Center for RNA Biomedicine's annual magazine

Winter 2019 Newsletter Now Live!

Biophysicist, Randy Stockbridge is Recognized by the Biophysical Society

Congratulations to Biophysics Faculty Member Janet Smith for winning the 2021 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award

LSA Researchers Watch Proteins Mobilize in Cell Membranes

Biophysics Welcomes New Faculty Member, Jordan Horowitz

Biophysics Welcomes NextProf Guests Denise Okafor and Jennyfer Mitchell

Horowitz Receives 2019 Irwin Oppenheim Award

Diving into Biophysics with Professor Chris Meiners

Enzyme design meets machine-learning

Biophysics Students Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships

Congratulations to our Graduates!

Biophysics Students Graduate with High Honors!

Congrats to our Fall 2017 Graduates!

Biophysics Club Accepted as Student Chapter of Biophysical Society

Student of the Month: Kevin Wunderly

Third Year Biophysics Major, Lindsay Ma, has Work Published

December Student of the Month: Hayden Nunley

January Student of the Month

Aaron Bart awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Welcome Biophysics REU students!

Maral Budak: September 2019 Student of the Month

Ziyuan Chen: October 2019 Student of the Month

November 2019 Student of the Month: Varsha Kumar

December Student of the Month: Liz Tidwell

January Student of the Month: Eric Donarski

February Student of the Month: Guoming Gao

Usha Kadiyala is a 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Guoming Gao awarded Rackham Research Grant

Biophysics students awarded 2016 NSF Graduate Fellowship + Honorable Mentions!

Matt Stone (Veatch Lab) featured in the Rackham Student Spotlight

Biophysics Nobel Laureate Oncley Lecturer Martin Karplus is featured in the Michigan Daily.

Pavithra Aravamudhan (Biophysics alumna, Joglekar Lab) won a 2015 ASCB and Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Kaluza Prize!

Elizabeth Gichana (Brooks Lab) is awarded an HHMI Gilliam Award for Advanced Study!

Professor Charlie Brooks has been elected as a Fellow of the Biophysical Society

Elizabeth Gichana (Brooks Lab) has been accorded a Ford Foundation Fellowships honorable mention!

We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Randy Stockbridge to the University of Michigan as Assistant Professor of Biophysics & MCDB!

Sarah Veatch is the Biophysical Society's May Biophyicist in Profile!

Kevin Wood wins a 2014 Hartwell Biomedical Research Award and the desgination of a Hartwell Investigator!

Kelsey Hallinen (First Year student) is a 2015 NSF Fellow!

Julia Bourg (4th year graduate student in the Meiners lab) awarded the Willie Hobbs Moore Trailblazer Award!

Matt Stone (Veatch Lab) is a 2015-2016 Rackham Predoctoral Fellow!

Congratulations to Prof. Sarah Veatch as she has received the 2014 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award for her substantial contributions to the field of membrane physical chemistry as it translates into biological systems!

Biophysics Welcomes Dr. Kevin Wood!

Biophysics Welcomes Dr. Qiong Yang!

Hashim Al-Hashimi has been awarded the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science

Congratulations to Prof. Ramamoorthy who is being honored for his outstanding Teaching, Scholarship, Service and Creative Activities!

Prof. Hashim Al-Hashimi wins the 2012 ICMRBS Founders Medal!

Scott Horowitz Awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Ogilvie Research Group featured in a cover article and video in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

Prof. Sarah Veatch has been selected as a 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. This is an extraordinarily competitive award involving nominations for most of the very best scholars of your generation from the US and Canada.

Professor Charles L. Brooks, III is named the 2012 recipient of the Protein Society's Hans Neurath Award

Professor Al-Hashimi featured in the Michigan Daily

U-M Chemist and Biophysicist Hashim Al-Hashimi on Popular Science 'Brilliant 10' List

Al-Hashimi Lab Featured in the MIchigan News Service

Ramamoorthy Lab Featured in Science Daily

US NEWS Covers Single Molecule Center

Single-Molecule science is focus of new SMART Center

The Art of Science - Single Molecule Fluorescence Illuminates Alzheimer’s

Kazutoshi Yamamoto wins 2011 Ritchey Travel Award!

Prof. Charles Brooks named Top 100 Chemist

DNA Caught Rock 'n' Rollin'

See how they grow: Monitoring single bacteria without a microscope

2011 Biophysics REU Program Application Online!

Fun in Biophysics

"Security guard" zinc is off-duty in diabetes

Nobel Laureate Ada Yonath presents the 2nd Annual Samuel Krimm Lecture in Biophysics

Researchers at the University of Michigan have a new resource for computation!

The Structural Biology Rap

DNA Walkers - Molecular Robots on the March

Charlie Brooks receives the Purdue University Chemistry Department Outstanding Alumni Award for 2010

Graduate Student Pieter Smith receives Fulbright award to Israel

Biophysics has been awarded its first-ever REU grant from the NSF.

Chemistry isn’t acting alone in gene expression

Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Mechanics of RNA: Conformational and Chemical Change We Can Believe In

Professor Emeritus Daniel Axelrod given the 2010 Gregorio Weber Award

Prof. Ramamoorthy elected fellow to AAAS

Ramamoorthy Lab discovers how SEVI boosts HIV infectivity

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Duncan Steel Awarded the 2010 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids

Welcome the Incoming Graduate Class of Fall 2009!

Small Molecules Mimic Natural Gene Regulators

High definition nanomovies reveal how RNA dances with drug partners

Turmeric: India's 'Holy Powder' Finally Reveals Its Centuries-old Secret

Plastic Protein Protects Bacteria From Stomach Acid's Unfolding Power

Protein's roles examined in Type 2 Diabetes Mechanics

Archived Events

Molecular Biophysics Symposium

An International Symposium on Recent Advances in Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy

Biophysics Seminar: "Electron Microscopy Approaches to Study Lipid-Protein Interactions"

Biophysics Seminar: "The Versatile Beta-Barrel Gives Up Secrets of the Membrane"

Biophysics Seminar: “Toward Total Synthesis of Chemotaxis, Phagocytosis and Stress Granules”

Biophysics Seminar: “Sensing of Small Molecules by Natural and in Vitro Evolved RNA Devices”

Biophysics Seminar: "Hijacking pathogenic membrane proteins to engineer cellular entry: A Molecular Biophysics Approach"

Biophysics Seminar "Active Matter: Applying the Materials Physics Paradigm to Biology"

Biophysics Seminar : "Having Fun with Unpaired Electrons: Enhancing the Sensitivity of NMR & Radicals Essential for Life"TBA

Biophysics Seminar Title: "Advances and Applications in Modern Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: Liquid State Hyperpolarization and Solid State Methods for Amyloid Fibrils"

Biophysics Seminar Title: "Tripping Up HCN Channel Regulation Through an Interaction with an Accessory Subunit"

Biophysics Seminar Title: "Structure of the HIV-1 5' Leader"

Jeff Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Cooperation, Cheating, and Collapse of Biological Populations"(Fri, 4 Dec 2015)

Biophysics Seminar Featuring Charles Sindelar, Yale University, "One Tiny Step for Kinesin, One Slightly Less Tiny Lesson for Motor Mechanics"

Biophysics Graduate Student Seminars Featuring Kristin Schimert & Chanrith Siv, Fri, 6 Nov 2015

Biophysics Oncley Lecture Featuring Nobel Laureate Martin Karplus, Harvard University, Title: "Motion: The Hallmark of Life. From Marsupials to Molecules"

Biophysics Seminar Featuring Diane Lidke, University of New Mexico, Title: "Imaging Mast Cell Activation: from Single Molecules to Synapses"

Biophysics Graduate Student Seminar Featuring Ziah Dean & Sarah Graham (Click for Titles)

Biophysics Seminar Featuring Kaushik Choudhuri, UM Microbiology & Immunology, Title “³Nanoscale Architecture of the Immunological Synapse²”

Biophysics Seminar Featuring Arun Anantharam, Wayne State University, Title: "The Role of Secretory Granule Heterogeneity in the Regulation of Ca2+-Triggered Exocytosis"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Klaus Gawrisch, National Institutes of Health “Biophysical characterization of recombinant type II cannabinoid receptor, CB2”

BIOPHYSICS SYMPOSIUM Featuring Keynote Speaker Martin Schwartz, Yale University, "Flow sensing in the vascular system"

Dissertation Defense: Josef Dunbar, "Vibrational Probe and Methods Development for Studying the Ultrafast Dynamics of Preferential Solvation of Biomolecules by 2D-IR"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Thomas Pochapsky, Brandeis University "Watching enzymes at work: NMR for structural and functional studies of cytochromes P450"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Keith Miller, "Molecular Mechanisms of General Anesthetics; from Lipids to Channels”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Peijun Zhang "HIV-1 Capsid Assembly, Maturation & Host Cell Interactions"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Yang Zhang, U-M Biological Chemistry, "Protein structure prediction and protein design"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Giuseppe Melacini “Tapping the Translation Potential of cAMP-Signalling and Amyloid Inhibition using NMR”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Junji Iwahara, University of Texas Medical Branch - "How do proteins scan DNA?"

BIOPHYSICS/MCDB FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR Featuring Randy Stockbridge “Microbial resistance to toxic fluoride: Structural and functional features of fluoride channels and transporters”

KRIMM LECTURE Featuring Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University - "Illuminating biology at the nanoscale with super-resolution imaging"

BIOPHYSICS FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR Featuring Kwangho Nam, Umea University, Sweden - "Elucidating Roles of Protein Dynamics in Enzyme Function by Molecular Simulation"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Carlos Baiz “Mapping protein conformational ensembles and folding pathways with temperature-jump two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Lukas Tamm "Entry of Ebola Virus and HIV by Membrane Fusion"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Jingyi Fei “RNA-Based Gene Expression and Regulation at Single-Molecule and Single-Cell Levels”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Jim Hurley, UC Berkeley - "The Structural Choreography of Cellular Self-Cannibalism"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Shixin Liu - University of California @ Berkeley, "Detection and Manipulation of Single Biomolecular Machines"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Bipohysics Graduate Students Julia Bourg & David Rowland - Titles TBA

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Daniel Axelrod "Evanescence in Fluorescence Excitation and Emission Microscopy"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Hari Shroff - "Imaging Biology at High Spatiotemporal Resolution"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Ann Kimble-Hill "The Goods, the bad, and the ugly: Charges and their role in lipid phase separation"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring James Ferrell - “Bistability, trigger waves, and the spatial coordination of mitosis”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Heiko Heerklotz "Modes of membrane disruption by antimicrobial compounds"

BIOPHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR Featuring Samuel Kotler - Title TBA

*No Biophysics Seminar on Oct. 3rd*

BIOPHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR Featuring Anton Loukianov “Transient-grating Stark Spectroscopy” & Madhuresh Sumit “Band-pass processing in GPCR-calcium-NFAT4 signaling”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Steve Scheiner "Hiding in Plain Sight: The CH--O Hydrogen Bond"

Biophysics Graduation Reception

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Norbert Scherer "Insights into Stochastic Growth and Division of Single Bacterial Cells, or A Bug's Life"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Ilya Levental "Structural Determinants and Functional Consequences of Protein Partitioning to Membrane Domains"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Phil Selenko "Looking at Proteins Inside Live Cells with Atomic Resolution: Science Fiction or Science Reality?"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Peter Chien "Mechanisms of regulated protein degradation during the bacterial cell cycle"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Sam Hess "Localization-Based Super-Resolution Imaging: Methods and Biological Applications"

Biophysics Undergraduate Research Roundabout/Poster Session

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring David Schwab, "Universal Mechanisms of Multicellular Computation"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Rob Garrod "Simulating Pre-biotic Proto-stellar Chemistry in the Age of ALMA: The Curious Case of Glycine"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Emily Rauscher "Peering Into the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Worlds"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Wei Cheng "Optical Trapping and Multi-parameter Analysis of Single HIV-1 in Culture Media Reveal the Positive Cooperativity of Envelope Spikes in Mediating Viral Infection"

David Spiegel ""Exoplanets and Astrobiology"

Dawen Cai "Over the Brainbow - Tracing Neural Circuits in the Mouse Brain"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Charalampos (Babis) Kalodimos "NMR of Large Proteins: Molecular Chaperones"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Andy LiWang "Structural Gymnastics by Proteins Make the Clock Mechanism Go Around"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Senyon Choe "Facile NMR structure determination of human membrane proteins"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring F. Peter Guengerich “Cytochrome P450 Steroid Oxidations: Answers and More Questions”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Kalodimos (Babis) Charalampos "NMR of Large Proteins: Molecular Chaperones"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Uhn-Soo Cho “Control of Substrate Access to the Active Site in Methane Monooxygenase”

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Biophysics Graduate Student Matthew Stone

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Prof. Steve Scheiner POSTPONED!!

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Biophysics Graduate Students

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Tatyana Igumenova Title: "Protein Kinase C: Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Regulatory Domains"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Prof. Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schulten Title: "Stochastic simulations of cellular processes: From single cells to colonies"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR Featuring Leela Ruckthong & Josef Dunbar

Biophysics Seminar Presented by Chad Rienstra "High Resolution Structures of Microcrystals, Membrane Proteins, and Fibrils by Solid State NMR"

Keynote Lecture of the Molecular Biophysics Training Grant Symposium

Biophysics Krimm Lecture, "Single-Molecule Spectroscopy and Imaging: 3D Nanoscopy and Biomolecular Dynamics"

Victoria D'Souza, Harvard, "Unraveling retroviral genome—one segment at a time"

Biophysics Research Poster Session

Lauren Webb, University of Texas @ Austin, "Investigating Electrostatic Mechanisms of Biomolecular Organization and Function Through Vibrational Spectroscopy"

BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR<br>The Importance of Being Flexible: Consequences of Structural Fluctuations for Protein Function</br>

Gregory Bowman, University of California, Berkeley, "The importance of being flexible: consequences of structural fluctuations for protein function"

Hasan Yardimci, Harvard Medical School, "Single-molecule studies of replicative DNA helicases"

Jen Hsin, Stanford University, "Physical & Molecular Mechanisms of the Bacterial Division Machinery"

Stefano DiTalia, Princeton, "Signal integration and cell cycle switches in Drosophila embryonic development"

Nan Hao, Harvard University, "Dynamic signal processing by transcription factors"

Ran Kafri, Harvard Medical School, Title: "Regulation of cell size in animal cells"

Peter Wolynes, Rice University, to present the Oncley Lecture, "Recent Successes of the Energy Landscape Theory of Protein Folding"

*SEMINAR TO BE RESCHEDULED* Kevin Wood, Harvard University, "Decoding the multi-drug response in populations of bacteria and human cancer cells"

Terence Hwa, University of California, San Diego, "Bacterial Growth Laws: Origins and Consequences"

Allen Liu, UM Mechanical Engineering, "Systems Analysis of Clathrin-Coated Pit Dynamics"

Ruth Nussinov, NIH Center for Cancer Research *POSTPONED*

Magdalena Ivanova, UCLA, "Applications of Biophysical Methods to Studies of Amyloid Aggregation"

Carol Post, Purdue University, "Allosteric mechanism to regulate association of Syk tyrosine kinase with B cell receptor"

Angela Violi, UM Mechanical Engineering, "Update of Environmental Nanoparticles"

Eric Oldfield, University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign - "Targeting Isoprenoid Biosynthesis in Drug Discovery"

Undergraduate Open House

Jacob Schaefer, Washington University in St. Louis, "Cell-Wall Architecture of Staphylococcus Aureus and the Mode of Action of Glycopeptide Antibiotics by Solid-State NMR"

Michael Mayer - UM Biomedical Engineering - "Nanopores with Fluid Walls for Characterizing Single Molecules"

David Weliky, MSU, Dept. of Chemistry "Structure/Function of Membrane-Associated Viral Fusion Proteins and Structure of Recombinant Proteins in Bacterial Inclusion Bodies"

Elizabeth Rhoades, Yale University "Probing polymormphic, aggregation-prone proteins with single molecule fluorescence: Studies of a-S ynuclein and Tau"

Symposium on Biophysics - Diverse Research at the Forefront, featuring Prof. Martin Zanni, Univ. of Wisconsin

Peter Wright, Scripps Research Institute, "Exploring protein energy landscapes by NMR relaxation"

Joachim Frank, Columbia University, to present the Oncley Lecture "The Dynamics of Translation as Seen by Cryo-EM"

Susan Marqusee, UC Berkeley, "Manipulating the protein energy landscape"

Yves Bollen, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands "Functional protein dynamics measured by NMR spectroscopy and single molecule fluorescence micrsocopy"

Alexander Nevzorov, NC State Univ., "Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins by Solid-State NMR: Uniaxial Alignment, Spectroscopic Assignment, and Structure Calculations"

Koon-Kiu Yan, Yale University "Biological Networks: Construction, structure and dynamics"

Andreas Doncic, Stanford University "Establishing principles of cell fate regulation"

Andreas Doncic, Stanford University "Establishing Principles of Cell Fate Regulation"

Yang-Yu Liu, Northeastern University "Taming Complexity-The mathematics of network control"

Qiong Yang, Stanford University, "Delayed switch-like negative feedback ensures orderly mitotic progression in early embryos"

Xiaohui Qu, Univ. of California, Berkeley "Watching single ribosome translation in real time: a quantitative"

Ilya Finkelstein, Columbia University, "How do DNA-binding motor proteins navigate on crowded DNA?"

Carlos Lopez, Harvard Medical School, "Exploring multiple apoptosis signaling mechanisms and their role in cancer biology using models as executable algorithms"

Megan Thielges, Stanford University, "Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Protein Dynamics, and Biological Molecular Recognition"

Prof. Daniel Southworth, U-M "The Structure and Mechanism of the Hsp90 Molecular Chaperone: A Ubiquitous Facilitator of Cellular Signaling "

Prof. Carl Frieden, University of Washington - “The Apolipoprotein E family of proteins and Alzheimer’s Disease

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