Program in Physical Biology

Head: Joshua J. Zimmerberg

By merging the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics (LCMB), the Laboratory of Physical and Structural Biology (LPSB), and the Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics (LIMB), the Program on Physical Biology (PPB) uses systems ranging in complexity from van der Waals interactions to the physics of imaging human tissue to investigate the physicochemical basis of molecular, physiological, and pathological processes and interactions. The PBB develops novel, noninvasive technologies to probe the processes’ physical and chemical parameters. Researchers focuses on the physical chemistry of surface forces, carbon nanotubes, DNA-protein interactions, gas phase ions, polymer organic chemistry, membrane biochemistry, pore-forming antibiotics, electrophysiology, cell biology, parasitology, immunology, tissue culture, laser microdissection, cancer imaging in vivo, virology, macular degeneration, and HIV pathogenesis.

Resources

• Employee Listing
• E-Mail the Lab: jz2o@nih.gov

Units and Sections

• Section on Analytical and Functional Biophotonics
  Head: Amir H. Gandjbakhche
• Section on Cell Biophysics
  Head: Ralph J. Nossal
• Section on Intercellular Interactions
  Head: Leonid Margolis
• Section on Macromolecular Recognition and Assembly
  Head: Donald C. Rau
• Section on Medical Biophysics
  Head: Bob F. Bonner
• Section on Membrane Biology
  Head: Leonid Chernomordik
• Section on Membrane and Cellular Biophysics
  Head: Joshua J. Zimmerberg
• Section on Molecular Biophysics
  Head: V Parsegian
• Section on Molecular Transport
  Head: Sergey M. Bezrukov
• Section on Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics
  Head: Peter Basser