The Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP), is one of nine Physics Frontiers Centers established by the Mathemathics and Physical Sciences
Directorate of the National Science Foundation. CTBP represents a collaboration between UCSD and The Salk Institute
for Biological Studies, and is housed on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. CTBP encompasses
a broad spectrum of research and training activities at the forefront of the biology-physics interface. Research within CTBP focuses
on the following broadly defined areas:
- Cellular Tectonics
- molecular motors
- course-grain actin simulations
- Cytoskeletal elasticity
- Gene Regulatory Networks
- Competence and sporulation: Developmental decision in prokaryotes
- Mating versus filamentation in Yeast
- Gene regulatory networks in Drosophila development
- Computational Approaches to Intracellular and Intercelllular Communication
- Calcium dynmaics in the presynaptic cell
- Neurotransmitter reaction-diffusion
- Exploring ryanodine conductivity: Bridging phenomology and microscopic molecular physics
- Seeding the Biological Physics Frontier
- Free-surface approach to solvation
- Feedback in birdsong learning
- Statistical physics of darwinian evolution
These research thrusts encompass structure and function of large-scale molecular
machines, intracellular signaling processes and cellular response, and
the evolution and functioning of genetic regulatory networks.
Our mission is to conduct and foster research aimed at providing
a quantitative framework for unraveling the workings of complex biological
processes.