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Using super-resolution microscopy and continuous fluorescent imaging, UC Berkeley physicists have for the first time revealed the structure of bacterial biofilms, which are responsible for the tenacious nature of bacterial diseases such as cholera and chronic sinusitus. The picture provides new targets for the development of drugs that can tear down these structures.
Tag: biophysics
Biophysicist Carlos Bustamante awarded 2012 Sackler Prize
September 13, 2012:
Carlos Bustamante will share the Raymond and Beverly International Sackler Prize in Biophysics for his “seminal contributions to single molecule biophysics.”. Bustamante is a professor of molecular and cell biology, physics and chemistry, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and member of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences.
