Biological Physics

Physics of Living Systems or Biological Physics studies the physics of life’s processes all the way from the molecular level to organism. Focus areas include biomembrane structure, energy landscape theory in protein folding and function, biopolymer networks, chromatin organization and function, gene networks, cancer and mechanics and interactions at the single-molecule and single-cell limit. Rice hosts the Center for Theoretical Biophysics, a NSF Physics Frontier Center, examining areas such as the physics of the genome and the physics of cellular processes.