Model Systems for Understanding Biological Processes

WE-Heraeus Physics School

Workshop
Date:
Mo, 23.02.2015 00:00  –   Fr, 27.02.2015 00:00
Speaker:
C. Beta (U Potsdam), H. Engel (TU Berlin), K. Showalter (WVU Morgantown/USA)
Address:
Physikzentrum Bad Honnef
Hauptstr. 5, 53604 Bad Honnef, Germany

Language:
English
Event partner:
Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Foundation
Contact person:
Universität Potsdam Institut für Physik und Astronomie,

Description

Biological Physics Group
Ranging from the molecular and cellular scale to tissues, organisms, and whole ecosystems, the complexity of living systems poses some of the most fundamental challenges to current scientific research. In the Biological Physics Group, we focus on the level of individual cells, where we address biological questions with the tools of physics, relying, in particular, on microscopy and micromanipulation techniques as well as on the ideas and concepts of pattern formation in nonlinear systems.