Category Archives: Biological Physics

Physics Meets Biology

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Athene Donald

I am off to the Institute of Physics’ Physics Meets Biology meeting in Oxford later this week, organised by the Biological Physics Group, whose committee I have chaired for the last 3 years. We held our first meeting (with the … Continue reading →

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What is required for successful interdisciplinary working?

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Athene Donald

Yesterday I cycled over to the Addenbrookes Site for a meeting with Maria Spillantini of the Brain Repair Unit. She is particularly interested in Parkinson’s Disease, and we were discussing the nature of protein aggregation in Lewy Bodies – abnormal … Continue reading →

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Proteins turn up in many guises

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Athene Donald

I have just come back from a brief trip to the Netherlands to discuss a project on protein aggregation at high concentrations with collaborators from NIZO (a Dutch food research organisation) and Eindhoven University.  This project – funded by a … Continue reading →

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