Biophysics
Biophysicists provide and apply physical techniques and try to understand life processes and structures in terms of underlying physical laws and principles. The distinction between the “live” (biology) and “dead” (physics) world is disappearing more and more.
Our research
- Photosynthetic light harvesting: dynamics and acclimation
- NMR/MRI in soft matter and food science
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Applied to Foods
- Single-molecule Biophysics
- Acclimation responses in photosynthetic organisms
- Nanodynamics of biomolecules
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News
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Sonja Schmid wins Steinhofer Award for protein dynamics research
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Competitive 3Mio grant for nanopore consortium involving Sonja Schmid at BIP
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Donny Merkx receives the C.J. Gorter NMR-DG Award
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Special Issue in Food Structure – Multiscale simulations and experimental characterization of structured foods
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Special Issue in Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry – Multiscale Food Structures and FoodOmics
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Breaking the photobleaching limit in single-molecule FRET with DyeCycling
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First international blind study on single-molecule FRET kinetics
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Contribution to book “Photosynthesis in Action”
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Science illustration covered in the Volkskrant
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Congratulations to Dr. Ahmad Farhan Bhatti for defending his PhD thesis
Our latest publications
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The effects of different daily irradiance profiles on Arabidopsis growth, with special attention to the role of PsbS
Frontiers in Plant Science (2023), Volume: 14 - ISSN 1664-462X -
In vitro 1H MT and CEST MRI mapping of gastro-intestinal milk protein breakdown
Food Structure (2023), Volume: 36 - ISSN 2213-3291 -
Paving the way towards future-proofing our crops
Food and Energy Security (2023), Volume: 12, Issue: 3 - ISSN 2048-3694 -
Single chloroplast in folio imaging sheds light on photosystem energy redistribution during state transitions
Plant Physiology 191 (2023)2. - ISSN 0032-0889 - p. 1186 - 1198. -
Orientation-Locked DNA Origami for Stable Trapping of Small Proteins in the Nanopore Electro-Osmotic Trap
Nano Letters 23 (2023)3. - ISSN 1530-6984 - p. 788 - 794.