Director's Welcome

Welcome to the Maryland Biophysics Program. The Biophysics Program brings together faculty from biochemistry, biology, chemistry, engineering, and physics working on questions at the intersection of the physical and life sciences. Please visit us for one of the weekly seminars and annual symposia with leading scientists. These events are open to the public, and bring together students and faculty from across campus and from nearby institutions. We are very excited about our new Biophysics Graduate Program, where each student develops an individualized curriculum with a cross-disciplinary group of three faculty advisors.

Wolfgang Losert
Director, Biophysics Program
wlosert@umd.edu 301-405-0629

Professor Wolfgang Losert became Director of the Biophysics Program in July 2011. He is also Director of the Partnership for Cancer Technology and a member of IPST and the Physics Department.

The Biophysics program is supported by the Institute for Physical Science and Technology.

News and Special Events

Program Growing, five entered in 2011
Seven joined us this year!

December, 2012. We are delighted to introduce our 2011 entering class: Desu Chen from Nanjing Univ., Yonathan Cwik from Hebrew University, Deborah Hemingway most recently from UMCP, Brian Stock, from U. Cincinatti, , Huong Vu from Hanoi National Univ. of Education, All finished their third research group and took their qualifiers in August.

This year of four students who visited Maryland, three decided to come in Fall 2012 thanks to students, faculty and Caricia Fisher for welcoming them on their visits. These three were among the seven who matriculated in Fall 2012: Ugur Cetiner, Bogazici University, Turkey; John Gianninni, Gettysburg College, PA , Zhenghan Gao, USTC, China, Stephanie Miller, Mount Holyoke, College, Guang Shi, Nanjing University, Hongcheng Xu, Nanjing Normal University, and Haiqing Zhao, Michigan Technical University. They have all finished their first rotation and have made a presentation.

UMIACS develops novel computational methods

December, 2012. UMIACS The interdisciplinary team of researchers (David Fushman, Konstantin Berlin, Ramani Duraiswami, and Nail Gumerov), supported by UMIACS New Research Frontiers Award, develops novel computational methods to enable characterization of macromolecular structures using small-angle scattering. Read more...

The Cancer Technology Partnership between UMD and NCI

The Cancer Technology Partnership between UMD and NCI was established to bring together the expertise in physics, mathematics and engineering at UMD with basic, clinical and translational research efforts of the NCI to solve important problems in cancer research. Several workshops have been held over the last few years where researchers from both campuses have presented their work in order to facilitate interactions and foster collaboration between researchers at the NCI and UMD. Read more...

Seminars

All Seminars start at 4:00 pm. Refreshments served at 3:45 pm.
All seminars held at 1103 Biosciences Bldg (BRB 413) unless specified otherwise.

The 2013 University of Maryland Biophysics Symposium will take place on Monday May 13 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in room 0112 (Marker Seminar Room) of the Chemistry building (091) at the University of Maryland, College Park. For details, consult the program.

More seminars...