Biological Physics
Welcome to the biological physics group at NC State. We are a highly collaborative collection of research groups that is interested in the physics of biological systems. Please email bio-physics@ncsu.edu if you would like more information and visit the Physics Department graduate program webpage if you would like to learn about how to join the department as a PhD student.
Member Groups
Julio Belmonte – Cell and Tissue Dynamics
Mary Elting – Cell Mechanics
Sharonda LeBlanc – Single-molecule Enzyme Biophysics
Shuang Fang Lim – Nanoprobes for Biophysics
Robert Riehn – DNA physics in nanofluidics
Christopher Roland – Computational Biophyiscs
Celeste Sagui – Computational Biophysics
Hong Wang – DNA-protein interactions
Keith Weninger – Nanoscale Conformation Dynamics using FRET
Adjunct Member Groups
Jerzy Bernholc – Computational Biophysics
Laura Clarke – Biomatrials for Tissue Scaffolding
Karen Daniels – Active Matter, Wetting Dynamics
Hans Hallen – Nanophotonic Probes
News
Dr. Abbas Ghaffari defends Ph.D. thesis
Congratulation to Dr. Abbas Ghaffari who defended his thesis “Near-Field Interferometry based on Subwavelength Aperture and it Application in Small Particle Detection” under the direction...
Dr. Marc Begley defends PhD thesis
Congratulations to Dr. Marc Begley to the defense of his PhD thesis under the direction of Dr. Elting.
De. LeBlanc Wins $1.15M Chan Zuckerberg Science Diversity Leadership Award
Sharonda LeBlanc, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, has received a Science Diversity Leadership Award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). The five-year,...
Dr. Pengning Xu defends PhD thesis
Congratulations to Dr. Penging Xu for the defense of his Ph.D. thesis “Dynamic Slippage of Mutagenic Trinucleotide Repeat DNA Revealed by Single Molecule FRET.” under...
Dr. Jiahui Zhang defends PhD thesis
Congratulations to Dr. Jiahui Zhang to the defense of his PhD thesis “Modeling and Understanding Pathogenic Trinucleotide Repeats and Related Proteins.” under the direction of...
Dr. Ming Liu defends PhD thesis
Congratulations to Dr. Ming Liu for the defense of his thesis “Protein-induced DNA Conformation Changes under Nanoconfinement.” under the direction of Drs. Riehn and Wang.