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Welcome to the Molecular Biophysics Training Program website.  The training program is funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (5T32 GM008382).  The program serves as a hub for all research and training activities in biophysics at Northwestern.  Please contact us if you have any questions about the program.

NIH Training Grant

NIGMS supports biomedical and behavioral research training programs that help provide the most critical element of good research: well-prepared scientists. Institutional and individual training, fellowship, and career development grants fund graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, clinician scientists, and scientists transitioning to independence. Programs cover basic biomedical research areas, some clinically related areas, and training at the interfaces of different fields. more

Research Spotlight--Widom Lab

From DNA sequence to transcriptional behaviour: a quantitative approach
Eran Segal and Jonathan Widom

Abstract: Complex transcriptional behaviours are encoded in the DNA sequences of gene regulatory regions. Advances in our understanding of these behaviours have been recently gained through quantitative models that describe how molecules such as transcription factors and nucleosomes interact with genomic sequences...more

Research Spotlight--Hoffman Lab

Electrostatic Redesign of the [Myoglobin,Cytochrome b5] Interface To Create a Well-Defined Docked Complex with Rapid Interprotein Electron Transfer
Peng Xiong, Judith M. Nocek, Amanda K. K. Griffin, Jingyun Wang, and Brian M. Hoffman

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