Physics in Biology
Abstract
Understanding the fundamental physical phenomena that underlie biological processes and functions will provide new insight and unique opportunities for understanding biological properties and exploiting such phenomena. Physics in biology will explore the role and impact of quantum effects in biological processes and systems. Using quantum theoretical models and mathematical algorithms, new understanding of quantum effects will enable exploitation in new and existing biomimetic applications. This includes exploiting manifestly quantum mechanical effects that exist in biological systems at room temperature to develop a revolutionary new class of robust, compact, high sensitivity and high selectivity sensors. Investigation into quantitative neurophysics will examine new modalities for biological injury which could yield a new class of non-invasive medical imagers. Leveraging neuroscience and physics will lead to new modeling of acoustic signatures based on perceptibility (detection, classification, recognition, identification and localization) involving ear-to-brain mechanisms. These computational models can be used to predict which acoustic signature changes would lead to reduced perceptibility and the brain's ability to learn and adapt to novel acoustic signatures.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- f2f13a4c35b381ed638e46c29c7e0b6e