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#107 - Biophysics of the Living World: A Dialogue with Raghuveer Parthasarathy
#107 - Biophysics of the Living World: A Dialogue with Raghuveer Parthasarathy
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118 minutes
Released:
Jan 30, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Raghuveer Parthasarathy about four basic principles of the living world. They define what is the hybrid discipline of biophysics and why he chose the four physical laws he lays out in his book. They discuss the mechanics of self-assembly, regulatory circuits, browning motion, predictive randomness, and scale. They provide an overview of genes and discuss sheaths, helices, histones and how they contribute to humans genetic makeup. They also discuss lipids, gut microbiome, CRISPR, and many other topics.
Raghuveer Parthasarathy is a physics professor at the University of Oregon where he studies biophysics, lipid membranes, and multicellular structures. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago and is the Senior Research Scientist at the University of Oregon. His book, So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World, can be purchased here. You can find his website here and his blog here. Twitter: @rparthasarathy7
Raghuveer Parthasarathy is a physics professor at the University of Oregon where he studies biophysics, lipid membranes, and multicellular structures. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago and is the Senior Research Scientist at the University of Oregon. His book, So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World, can be purchased here. You can find his website here and his blog here. Twitter: @rparthasarathy7
Released:
Jan 30, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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