Biological physics | University of Oxford Department of Physics
Biologically inspired physics is an extraordinarily wide field, covering the behaviour of systems from single-molecule machines to organisms, ecosystems and evolution. We use the tools of physics to address biological problems and we use biology to create new tools of physics. Our work at the interface between disciplines impacts medicine and healthcare as well as the biological and physical sciences and industry. Most of our experimental biophysics research is located in the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Research in a state-of-the-art new building completed in 2021 and dedicated to high-risk, high-reward research ‘to catalyse discovery by bringing the physical sciences into the cell’. The institute provides shared infrastructure and brings together collaborating groups from across physical and life sciences in Oxford. Rotary molecular motors are essential agents of movement and energy transduction in living organisms and our biophysics of molecular motors group, led by Richard Berry
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