Research

Theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Matter Physics.

Excitable cells under extreme and challenging conditions; energetics, voltage-gated channels, Na/K pump kinetics; initiation and propagation of action potentials. Weakly electric fish.  Mechanosensitive proteins, mechanical properties of single macromolecules, disordered proteins. Statistical mechanics modeling. Continuum models. Elasticity theory. Molecular dynamics simulations.