About the Center for the Physics of Living Cells
The Physics Frontiers Center in Illinois is funded by the National Science Foundation and aspires to make transformational advances at a
genuine scientific frontier: the physics of living cells. The biological physics group at Illinois has grown significantly in the last few years,
with the inclusion of junior faculty in strategically important areas, the expansion of recognized strengths in biological computation and fluorescence
spectroscopy, the crossover of physics faculty from condensed matter, and importantly, the strong interest shown in the biological physics area by our
graduate students. Our effort is now at the scale where we can realistically aspire to pioneer the creation of synergies between different approaches,
which we believe is the only way to tackle convincingly the major challenges of the field.
Center for the Physics of Living Cells (CPLC) Mission
- catalyze new collaborative research directions for the faculty, which are sharply focused on the best opportunities for major technical advances
- advance the teaching of biological physics in both physics and biological communities using the Center as a focal point
- use the natural appeal of biology as a basis for effective outreach and for promoting diversity in physics
- facilitate collaborations with industrial partners and other research organizations
Other Physics Frontiers Centers
- Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas http://www.cmso.info/
- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics http://ctbp.ucsd.edu/
- Center for Ultracold Atoms http://www.rle.mit.edu/cua/new/cua2.asp
- JILA http://jilawww.colorado.edu/
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics http://www.jinaweb.org/
- Joint Quantum Institute http://www.jqi.umd.edu/
- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics http://cfcp.uchicago.edu/
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/