Physics of Active and Living Matter

Group Leaders

• Chou, Chia-fu – Nanobioscience laboratory – Lab homepage
• Lin, Keng-Hui – Physical cell biology laboratory – Lab homepage
• Lo, Chien-Jung – Molecular-motor biophysics laboratory – Lab homepage
• Guo, Chin-Lin – Pattern formation in cell topology and tissue morphogenesis – Research topic
• Tsai, Jih-Chiang – Physics of granular flows and fluids – Lab research page
• Huang, Jung-Ren – Biological and soft matter physics, and shared facility manager – Facility homepage
• Shih, Hong-Yan – Non-equilibrium matter theory group – Lab homepage
• Hiraiwa, Tetsuya – Theoretical physical biology group – Lab homepage   Personal homepage

Theories, Modeling and Simulations

Theoretical models and methods are developed to study the structure-dynamics relations in cellular fluids; dynamic self-organizing processes in chromatin, cytoskeleton, cells and tissues; bacterial motility, spreading of infectious diseases; non-equilibrium complex systems in biology, evolutionary ecology and turbulence.

(Hiraiwa, Tetsuya / Shih, Hong-Yan)

chromatin organization and migrating cells

non-equilibrium statistical model for phase transition in turbulence

Physical Biology

The main research topics include using nano/microdevices to study biophysics of bacteria, biosensing and tissue engineering application, quantitative pattern recognition on the physiology and pathology of living systems, the effect of dimensionality on cellular behaviors and how cells utilize force to perform biological functions.

(Chou, Chia-Fu / Guo, Chin-Lin / Lin, Keng-Hui)

Silk-worm like autopilot single jet electrospinning for 3D tissue engineering scaffolds

collective cell migration during wound healing on the zebrafish tailfin

moving epithelia cells shows changes in microtubule orientation in wound healing

Soft Matter and Granular Materials

In soft matter and granular materials, we combine the knowledge and techniques from rheology, solid and fluid mechanics and non-equilibrium statistics, to deepen our understanding of the generic principles behind complex phenomena.

(Huang, Jung-Ren / Tsai, Jih-Chiang)

physics of the gelation of Ai-Yu

experimental study of intermittency and transitions of packed grains