The scientific work of the PULS Group is concerned with Physics Underlying Life Sciences. It was established in 2010 at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. There, it is embedded in the Department of Physics. It is also part of the Excellence Cluster Engineering of Advanced Materials.
In 2014 an arm of the group began to develop at the Institute Ruđer Bošković in Zagreb, Croatia with the support of the European Research Council Grant, as part of an effort to enable the transfer of knowledge from more to less developed parts of the European Research Area. The Zagreb team is embedded into the Group of Theoretical Chemistry at the Department for Physical Chemistry.
The group consists of a diverse team of researchers with various backgrounds in Physics, Chemistry and Biology allowing for synergetic benefits arising from the collaboration.
Introduction While it is well established that individual cells can sense and react to mechanical cues from the environment, the interaction between mechanical and biochemical signals in tissues is poorly explored. It has been demonstrated that the cytoskeleton organization changes during tissue de...
Introduction While in condensed matter physics, transport has been subject to in-depth studies for a number of decades, in biological systems, the transport of molecules, materials and even entire cells and organisms raises new horizons. Diffusion of proteins and peptides challenges the limits ...
IntroductionBiological membranes are comprised of amphiphilic lipids forming a fluid bilayer that serves as a two-dimensional interface where a number of associated proteins perform a variety of functions. While each kind of protein is present at a relatively low concentration, the sheer number of ...
IntroductionEach molecule in solution exhibits conformational preferences that depend strongly on the solvent type, the intrinsic structural properties of the investigated molecule and the existing boundaries. Understanding the change in this conformational space, which is often counterbalanced by ...
