Biology and Biophysics Research Centers

	Theoretical Biophysics Group - http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/ Located at the Beckman Institute of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Research is centered on the function and structure of supramolecular cell systems.
	Harvard Biophysics - http://twod.med.harvard.edu/labgc/biophysics/ Aims to educate and train individuals to apply the concepts and methods of the physical sciences to the solution of biological problems.
	Theoretical Biology and Biophysics - http://www.t10.lanl.gov/ This group (T-10) at Los Alamos National Laboratory focuses on the modeling, analysis and informatics of molecular and cellular biological data.
	FSU Institute of Molecular Biophysics - http://www.sb.fsu.edu Contains information on the Structural Biology Research Emphasis, Center of Excellence, Biomolecular Computer Modeling, and Ph.D. Program at Florida State University.
	Biophysics at Caltech - http://thebigone.caltech.edu/biophysics/ The Department of Biophysics at the California Institute of Technology. Ranked among the best places to study biophysics by U.S. News.

	Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology - http://www.life.uiuc.edu/biophysics/ A group of research facilities and educational institutes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
	Bustamante Group - http://alice.berkeley.edu/ Laboratory of Carlos Bustamante at UC-Berkeley. Research focuses on the dynamics, structure, and kinetics of molecular motors and nucleo-protein assemblies.
	Istituto di Biofisica - http://www.ib.pi.cnr.it/ Part of the San Cataldo Research Area in Ghezzano, Pisa, Italy.
	Koch Laboratory - http://www.klab.caltech.edu/ Neuronal computation group at Caltech uses detailed biophysics and microanatomy of cortical neurons to study their complexity from an information theory point of view.
	Living State Physics Group - http://www.vanderbilt.edu/lsp/ SQUID magnetometry, cardiac electrodynamics, cellular biophysics, and biomagnetic measurements research at Vanderbilt University.

	Sackmann E22 Laboratory - http://cell.e22.physik.tu-muenchen.de The Technical University Munich's Institute of Biophysics lab researches the organization of artificial and biological membranes and the biofunctionalization of solids. In German and English.
	Biophysics and Cancer Therapy at GSI - http://www-aix.gsi.de/~bio/home.html Department at the Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung. Research includes cellular, chromosomal and DNA damage induction by heavy ions.
	Cielo Institute, Inc. - http://www.cieloinstitute.org/ A group of mathematical, physical, chemical, biophysical and biomedical researchers focused on the development of computational techniques for the analysis of polypeptides.
	Molecular and Cellular Biophysics - http://hekto.med.unc.edu:8080/ Department of Molecular and Cellular Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
	Institute of Biophysics at BAS - http://www.bio21.bas.bg/ibf/ The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences studies molecular structure, functions of biological membranes, ion channels, biopotentials, and extracellular electric fields.

	Lindsay Lab at ASU - http://green.la.asu.edu/ Conducts research in biophysics, molecular electronics and scanning probe microscopy.
	Institute of Biophysics and X-Ray Structure Research - http://www.ibr.oeaw.ac.at/ Research institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Conducts basic research ranging from biochemistry to material investigations.
	Institute of Biophysics - http://www.biophysik.uni-hannover.de Part of the University of Hannover in Germany. Their research is focused on structural biology, environmental biophysics and plant membrane proteins.
	Biophysics Research Institute - http://www.biophysics.mcw.edu/ Research and education at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
	DESC: Dutch Experiment Support Center - http://www.desc.med.vu.nl/ Describes ways to perform ground based low gravity studies on living organisms. References to publications and various links are provided.

	Hoh Laboratory - http://hohlab.bs.jhmi.edu/ Studying problems in macromolecular biophysics by atomic force microscopy at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Physiology.
	Di.S.T.Bi.M.O. - http://www.ibf.unige.it/ The Department of Biophysical, Medical, and Odontostomatological Sciences and Technologies at the University of Genova in Italy.
	Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics - http://biop.ox.ac.uk/www/top.html University of Oxford group describes the structures of complex biological macromolecules and macromolecular assemblies in order to interpret fundamental biological function.
	Roux Laboratory - http://thallium.med.cornell.edu/RouxLab/index.html Research includes the biomolecular dynamics simulation program CHARMM, Poisson-Boltzmann equation, and Brownian dynamics at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
	Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry at JHU - http://biophysics.med.jhmi.edu/ Department at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Lists faculty, research interests, graduate programs, and contact information.

	Leiden University Department of Biophysics - http://www.biophys.LeidenUniv.nl/Research/FvL/ Single-molecule research at the Leiden Institute of Physics focuses on protein dynamics and membranes.
	Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics - http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~biophys/ Located at the University of Leipzig. Includes research, publications, scientific events, teaching and history.
	Biophysics at Stony Brook - http://physiology.pnb.sunysb.edu/biophysics/pbpage.htm The State University of New York interdepartmental program including structural biology and molecular biophysics.
	University of Athens Biophysics Laboratory - http://biophysics.biol.uoa.gr Lab provides Web-based protein analysis tools along with general information.
	Division of Structural Biology and Biophysics - http://biosci.cbs.umn.edu/BMBB/structbio/index.html Located within the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota. Research includes crystallography and NMR.

Blue Ribbon Learning Sites/Lesson Plans for Teachers

	International Institute of Biophysics - http://www.datadiwan.de/iib/ib_000e_.htm Umbrella organization located in Neuss, Germany. Common research focuses on coherence in biology, biocommunication, and biophotonics.
	Unitat de Biofisica i Bioenginyeria - http://www.ub.edu/biofisica/intro.htm Biophysics and Bioengineering Unit at the University of Barcelona. Studies the mechanisms underlying respiratory function and develops methods of signal and image processing.
	Cleveland Center for Structural Biology - http://structuralbiology.cwru.edu The CCSB is a resource for researchers from different Cleveland institutions, who study structure-function relationships and properties of biological molecules.
	Moy Lab - http://www.vmoy.net/ Facility uses the atomic force microscope to acquire direct force measurements of single pairs of binding molecules in studies of cell adhesion.
	Single-molecule and Nano-biomedicine Laboratory - http://medicine.bjmu.edu.cn/department/biophysi/biophysics/LAB/NewSNL/Homepage.htm The SNL at Peking University in China studies Alzheimer's Disease, single-molecule protein detection/tracking, and de novo design of various protein templates.

	Molecular Biophysics - http://broccoli.mfn.ki.se/index.html Karolinska Institutet group is involved in the study of biological molecules using high-resolution NMR spectroscopy.
	Biophysics of Functional Systems - http://www.biophysics.unimo.it Part of the Physics Department of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The main emphasis is on functional properties of biomolecules and cells.
	Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics - http://www.ut.ac.ir/faculties/ibb/index.htm Trains students at the graduate level and focuses on research and development in biochemistry, biophysics, and related specialized fields. Located at Tehran University in Iran.
	Department Biophysics and Cell Biotechnology - http://www.biophysics.ro/ The Carol Davila Medical University Department of Biophysics and Cell Biotechnology in Romania.
	Seelig Group - http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/~jseelig/ In vivo NMR is used to study non-invasively the metobolism and anatomy of rodents, along with peptide-membrane interactions. Located at the University of Basel.

Department of Biophysics and Radiobiology - http://biophysics.kiev.ua/indexe.htm A research institute engaged in investigations on radiobiology of plants and radioecology located at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

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