Welcome!
We are a young new biophysics and soft matter group in the Department of Applied Maths in the University of Western Ontario in London (ON). Our research is geared towards the interface between condensed matter physics, biology and biomedical sciences. Typically, we employ large scale computer simulations combined with analytical studies. Most of our projects are done in collaboration with experimental groups.
Currently we concentrate on problems related to multiscale modeling of biological systems, lipid membranes, pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems, and computational methods.
From these pages you'll find more about our research, downloadable software, events, computational facilities and jobs/studentships. If you would like to know more, get re/preprints, suggest a collaboration, etc., please don't hesitate to contact us.
Research highlights (reload the page to see a different one)
Everything that goes in or comes out of a cell has to cross the membrane in one
way or the other and thus it is of fundamental importance to know the
interactions of, e.g., alcohols, anesthetics, and other molecules with them.
We are currently studying various membrane systems including pure DPPC, mixtures
of DPPC and cholesterol, cationic lipids (DMTAP and others) with and without
DNA, and the effect of alcohol on membranes, to mention a few.
- Read the story in Tietoyhteys (in Finnish)
- More about our membrane-related research
Support
I am pleased to acknowledge funding and support by- the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Program
- Ontario Early Researcher Award Program
- Centre for Chemical Physics.
- DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) Extreme Computing Initiative (DECI)