Bio Physics
Overview
Our TTU Bio Physics consists of Professors Cheng, Huang and Park. We
are working on a variety of biological physics problems such as membrane cholesterol organizations, lipid rafts, protein folding, and cellular
mechanics related with adhesion, microrheology, and motility.
Our group has major fabrication, spectroscopy, imaging and computation
facilities to study a multitude of biological systems ranging from single Alzheimer peptide, fingerprints, quantum dots, lipid superlattices,
liposomes, organic funtionalized mesoporous silica and cells.
Our results will provide fundamental knowledge of the physics underlying the
function-structure-dynamics relationship of cell membranes and proteins, neuroscience, protein aggregation diseases, heart diseases,
ultra-sensitive chemical sensors and cellular mechanotransduction for modern tissue engineering.
Currently, our group has seven PhD students,
one master student and three undergraduate students.
Research Topics
- Cheng's Lab :: Molecular Biophysics and Bioengineering Physics
- Membrane Biophysics;
- Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Protein Folding;
- Nano-Forensic Science;
- Medical Imaging Physics ;
- Chemical Sensors, Biosensors
- Click here for the Dr. Cheng's Lab
- Huang's Lab :: Biophysics of Lipid Membrane and Application
- Cholesterol Functions;
- Lipid-Protein Interactions;
- Liposome Technology;
- Computer Simulation of Biomembranes
- Click here for the Dr. Huang's Lab
- Park's Lab :: Cellular Biophysics
- Cellular Nano-Mechanics; Cell Adhesion, Motility & Viscoelasticity
- AFM Applications for Biological Cells and Macromolecules
- Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy
- Nano-Fabrication of Polymer
Faculty Members
Related
For a 200-ns simulation of all-atom simulations of PC/cholesterol nano-domains: animation file
For a 5-ns all-atom simulations of the unfolding of Alzheimer's beta amyloid protein on lipid nano-domains: animation file
Biophysics Photos
