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
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
New Paper by Ana Sofia Uszoy and Dr Elting
Ana Sofía M. Uzsoy, Parsa Zareiesfandabadi, Jamie Jennings, Alexander F. Kemper, Mary Williard Elting, “Automated tracking of S. pombe spindle elongation dynamics”, Journal of Microscopy, 1-12,...
New Paper by Prof. Belmonte
Adhyapok, P, Piatkowska, AM, Norman, MJ, Clendenon, SG, Stern, CD, Glazier, JA, Belmonte, JM (Belmonte, Julio M., A mechanical model of early somite segmentation. iScience...
New Paper by Jiahui Zhang (Sagui and Roland)
A new paper by Jiahui Zhang in the computational group of Professors Roland and Sagui explore how specific repetitive DNA sequences leads to DNA triplex...
New NIH grant to Elting group
NC State Physicist Awarded $1.8 Million for Research on Cell Division MIRA grant (Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award) from NIH’s National Institute of General Medical...
Three new papers from Weninger group
July saw three new papers from the Weninger Group: Hao, P., LeBlanc, S., Case, B.C., Elston, T.C., Hingorani, M.M., Erie, D.A., Weninger, K.R., “Recurrent mismatch...
New paper by Wang and Riehn Groups in Nucleic Acids Research
Cohesin SA1 and SA2 are RNA binding proteins that localize to RNA containing regions on DNA Hai Pan, Miao Jin, Ashwin Ghadiyaram, Parminder Kaur, Henry...