Michigan Biophysics

Today's #MichiganBiophysics Seminar Speaker is Mustafa Mir from University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. ⏰ When: Today, 12pm 📍 Where: CHEM 1640

THANK YOU to everyone who supported #MichiganBiophysics on #GivingBlueDay yesterday! Our amazing donors make what we do every single day, from research in labs to learning in classrooms, possible. Thank you. #GoBlue 💙💛

Today is #GivingBlueday! 💙💛 A gift to #MichiganBiophysics enables us to continue the tradition of research and learning, develop innovative programs, and pursue new initiatives. @umichlsa #Biophysics Give today and help us continue this tradition! 👇 myumi.ch/w9xxN

Ayush Panda, a first-year graduate student rotating in Dr. Vecchiarelli’s lab, studies carboxysomes, microscopic compartments that capture carbon dioxide. He hopes this work may inspire future strategies for the climate crisis. Show your support on March 18. #GivingBlueDay

Alexandria Balde, a talented undergraduate Biophysics and Data Science major, is the Undergraduate Biophysics Representative and researches diffusion tensor immunohistology correlation in Dr. Dawen Cai's Lab. Show your support on March 18. #GivingBlueDay

Meet Autumn Pilarski, an outstanding third-year grad student in Dr. Emily Scott's lab! Autumn is working to structurally and functionally characterize a cytochrome P450 enzyme involved in sterol biosynthesis. lsa.umich.edu/biophysics/giv… Show your support on March 18! #GivingBlueDay

Meet Dr. Anna Maurer, one of our stellar core faculty members! She teaches the course "Biophysics of Disease" and researches Adeno-associated Virus biology to improve its use as a gene therapy vector. lsa.umich.edu/biophysics/giv… Show your support on March 18! #GivingBlueDay

Meet Kyra Taylor, our newest staff member! She is the administrator for both undergrad and graduate student services and assists with advising, recruitment, providing resources, answering questions, and more! lsa.umich.edu/biophysics/giv… Show your support on March 18! #GivingBlueDay

Save the Date: Giving Blueday is on March 18! This year, we’re spotlighting “the people behind the science” and prioritizing the Strategic Fund to support the personnel in our unit. Stay tuned as we highlight various members of our program in the coming weeks! #GivingBlueday

Reminder that our REU application deadline is coming up! Apply by this Saturday, February 28.

Professor Veatch's presentation as a 2026 Biophysical Society award recipient is now available for viewing! biophysics.org/video-library/…

Today's #MichiganBiophysics Seminar Speaker is Heedeok Hong from Michigan State University. ⏰ When: Today, 12pm 📍 Where: CHEM 1640

Today's #MichiganBiophysics Seminar Speaker is Brent Znosko from Saint Louis University. ⏰ When: Today, 12pm 📍 Where: CHEM 1640

Want to spend your summer doing exciting scientific research? Applications for the 2026 U-M Biophysics Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program are now open! Click for more info and to apply: lsa.umich.edu/biophysics/und…

Prof. Charles L. Brooks & his group are focused on the application of computational methods to chemically and physically oriented problems in biology. Read Prof. Brooks's feature in the Fall 2025 edition of the MICDE Magazine below! #MichiganBiophysics

Thank you to Professor Sujit Datta from Caltech for delivering a great Biophysics Krimm Lecture last Friday! #MichiganBiophysics

Today's #MichiganBiophysics Krimm Lecture Speaker is Sujit Datta from California Institute of Technology. ⏰ When: Today, 4pm 📍 Where: CHEM 1210

Last week, we held the Annual #MichiganBiophysics Retreat at Pierpont Commons on North Campus. The day consisted of presentations and posters of the great science happening in our labs, as well as time to connect as a unit.

Congrats to Prof. Sarah Veatch on winning the 2026 Agnes Pockels Award in Lipids and Membrane Biophysics from BPS for foundational scientific research understanding the miscibility phase transition and associated critical phenomena in membranes. biophysics.org/news-room?ArtM…

Congrats to Prof. Charles L. Brooks III on winning the 2026 Klaus Schulten and Zaida Luthey-Schulten Computational Biophysics Lecture Award from BPS for his pioneering work in protein folding, free energy methods and service to the field of biophysics! biophysics.org/news-room?ArtM…