Biocurious

/ a biophysics blog

About Biocurious

Biocurious is a weblog about biology (and physics, grad school, and miscellenaeous other things!) through the eyes of physicists.

What is that beautiful image?

Our header image is a close-up view of part of a macrophage, from David Goodsell's beautiful Macrophage and Bacterium 2,000,000x. What is a macrophage? From Wikipedia:

Macrophages (Greek: "big eaters", makros = large, phagein = eat) are cells within the tissues that originate from specific white blood cells called monocytes. Monocytes and macrophages are phagocytes, acting in both nonspecific defence (or innate immunity) as well as specific defence (or cell-mediated immunity) of vertebrate animals. Their role is to phagocytize (engulf and then digest) cellular debris and pathogens either as stationary or mobile cells, and to stimulate lymphocytes and other immune cells to respond to the pathogen.

If you would like to support David Goodsell's work, he has a Flickr account showcasing some art for sale.

About Us

Andre!

ANDRE BROWN
PHILADELPHIA, USA
Andre is a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies the mechanical and dynamical properties of biological stuff from single molecules to cells primarily using optical and atomic force microscopies.

Email: andre [at] biocurious [dot] com
WWW: http://student.physics.upenn.edu/~aebrown/



Philip!

PHILIP JOHNSON
TORONTO, CANADA
Philip is a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto, studying biological systems on ultrafast timescales. While now in the chemistry department, he does not know anything about chemistry.

Email: philipj [at] biocurious [dot] com
WWW: http://lphys.chem.utoronto.ca/~philipj/


Alumni




Igor!

IGOR KULIC
BOSTON, USA
Igor is a post-doc in theoretical physics at the Harvard University, in the Applied Math Lab.

Email: kulic [at] sas [dot] upenn [dot] edu
WWW: http://www.physics.upenn.edu/~kulic/