The Biological Physics Training Laboratory
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Biology, Mathematics
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Biological Physics Teaching Laboratory
A unique facility dedicated to interdisciplinary research and training at the interface of biology, mathematics and physics
This laboratory serves to acquaint students from a variety of disciplines with modern quantitative techniques in biological physics and soft condensed matter physics. Emphasis will be placed upon phenomena at the micron scale, involving biological form and motion, studied through microscopy and micromanipulation. Students will learn about techniques such as optical trapping, micropipette aspiration, and electrophysiological recording methods. They will also learn about phenomena such as the action of motor proteins, the shapes of membrane vesicles, and Brownian fluctuations; about quantification of these observations through image analysis and statistical methods, and about explanation of these phenomena based on the principles of statistical mechanics, continuum mechanics, nonlinear and stochastic dynamics - all linked together through the underlying biology and biochemistry. The laboratory, which was initially developed under a National Science Foundation IGERT grant, is now supported by the University of Arizona's BIO5 Institute for Collaborative BioResearch.
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