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What is biophysics?!
Biophysics addresses the mysteries
of life using all of the methods
available to us in biology, chemistry,
physics, and computer science.
Biophysicists provide a quantitative
perspective, often using
sophisticated instrumentation such
as x-ray crystallography and NMR
spectroscopy, to the study of
biological problems. !
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We bring it all together.!
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Research in our labs!
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Protein Folding & Dynamics!
Membranes & Membrane Proteins!
DNA-Protein Interactions!
RNA Biophysics!
Protein Design & Evolution!
Biophysics !
Research !
for Baltimore Teens!
Johns Hopkins University!
pmb.jhu.edu
Structural Biology!
Single Molecule Studies!
Enzymes & Metabolic Pathways!
Computation, Theory & Prediction!
Program in Molecular Biophysics!
Johns Hopkins University!
3400 N. Charles Street, 110 Jenkins Hall!
Baltimore, MD 21218!
Contact: Alexias Ebert!
aebert@jhu.edu, 410-516-7245
Where will biophysics research take
us?!
Biophysicists are on the forefront of
solving problems raised by the
sequencing of the human genome from understanding how diseases
work on the molecular level to
developing new biofuels and
methods to clean the world’s water
supply to designing new drugs to
cure malaria, HIV, and cancer.!
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Valeriya Gaysinskaya — Barrick lab rotation student
Dr. Herschel Wade, Assistant Professor !
Department of Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry !
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine!
You are the next generation of
scientists who will take our
understanding of biological
phenomena to the next level.!
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You can lead the way.
Proteins carry out the vital
functions in a cell. How do
they do it and what happens !
if they lose their way?!
How is our genetic code
translated into action?!
What happens if the message
is intercepted or misread?
How do biological systems
read chemical signals and !
put them into action?!
How do changes in our DNA
cause or prevent disease?
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Get started with us.
Jasmine Hope — Baltimore Polytechnic Institute ‘07, Johns Hopkins
University ’11. Summer research in the Lorsch lab, ‘05-’09. Currently in
Teach for America.
Poonam Bheda, Bill Hawse, and Kamau Fahie — Wolberger lab
Matt Preimesberger — Lecomte lab