Understanding the physical principles of
biological systems
Modern biophysics links multiple scales of biological organisation.
Biophysical mechanisms govern molecular functions inside the cell, which are building blocks for regulatory and metabolic networks in an organism.
Statistical physics describes principles of biological information, which is encoded in genomes and edited by evolution.
The mission of IBP is to integrate all of these research directions into an interdisciplinary science of living systems, and to train tomorrow’s research leaders in this exciting field.
IBP news
January 2023
New paper on the role of polarization in biofilm development has appeared in PLOS Biology
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November 2022
We welcome Bahareh Bagheri, a new postdoc in the Bollenbach group
October 2022
We welcome Stephan Wimmi, a new postdoc in the Maier group
Upcoming Events
Cologne Evolution Colloquium by Rosalind Allen
Joint Seminar with Großes Physikalisches Kolloquium
31.01.2023
Statistical physics approaches to understanding how antibiotics kill bacteria
Delbrück Lecture by Eduardo Rocha
07.02.2023
Bacterial genomes as playgrounds of mobile genetic elements
Delbrück Lecture by Daniel Fisher
14.02.2023
Why is there so much fine scale microbial diversity? Ecology and evolution in high dimensions.
Cologne Evolution Colloquium by Mark Zwart
01.03.2023
TBA
Delbrück Lecture by Kevin Foster
22.03.2023
TBA
Delbrück Lecture by Sara Mitri
22.05.2023
TBA
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