Research in Hibernation
Except for coronavirus-related work, Notre Dame suspends lab operations, altering the academic and career landscape for graduate students and postdocs. Full story here.…
Jonathan Morgan finalist in Biophysical Society’s Art of Science image contest
A single powerful image can tell a story, explain an experiment, spur discussion or capture a remarkable element of nature.
Reflecting the importance of images to scientific communication, for the past decade the Biophysical Society…
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Notre Dame's infrastructure for machine learning to be expanded
Biophysics faculty members, Jun Li, associate professor in the department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics and Olaf Wiest, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, are two of four College of Science faculty members awarded a two-year grant through the National Science Foundation (NSF), that will establish the creation of a pool of new computer nodes dedicated to providing researchers with new high performance technology for quicker speeds.
The University of Notre Dame is bolstering cyberinfrastructure that will support greater access to machine learning.
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Biophysics Faculty Promotions 2019
Congratulations to the faculty members of the Biophysics Graduate Program who have recently been promoted!
Steven Corcelli, Matthew Ravosa, and Sylwia Ptasinska Receive 2019 Joyce Awards
Steven Corcelli, Sylwia Ptasinska , and Matthew Ravosa, faculty members of the Stavropoulos Center for Interdisciplinary Biophysics and the Biophysics Graduate Program, have received 2018-2019 Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
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Drs. Bin Xu and Alexandra Jilkine Selected for Biophysical Society's Biophysical Journal Paper of the Year for 2018
ROCKVILLE, MD – The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that Bin Xu and Alexandra Jilkine, University of Notre Dame, have been selected as the winners of the Biophysical Journal Paper of the Year Award for 2018. Their winning paper is titled Modeling the Dynamics of Cdc42 Oscillation in Fission Yeast…
Biophysicist Jeffrey Peng awarded $1.1 million NIH grant to study role of protein dynamics in antibiotic resistance
The β-lactams are a vast family of antibiotics that include the well-known penicillins; they remain the most widely administered antibiotics around the globe. Results from this research could reveal new strategies for coping with the expanding scope of β-lactam resistance now happening among Gram-negative pathogens.
Patricia Clark and Paul Huber Receive 2018 Joyce Awards
Patricia Clark and Paul Huber, faculty members of the Stavropoulos Center for Interdisciplinary Biophysics and the Biophysics Graduate Program, have received 2017-2018 Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
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