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RESEARCH GROUPS

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PROGRAMME:
Small Biosystems Lab
Nanomedicine

Group Members
Lead Researcher

Ritort Farran, Félix
STAFF MEMBERS
Frutos Domnguez, Silvia

Lorenzo Ros, Sara
Contact:
Facultad de Fisica. Universidad de Barcelona. ASSOCIATED MEMBERS
Huguet, Josep Maria
Dpto. de Fisica Fundamental.
Avda. Diagonal, 647. Palassini, Matteo

E.mail: [email protected]
CONTRIBUTORS
Website: http://www.ffn.ub.es/ritort
Alemany, Anna
Bongini, Lorenzo

Camuas Soler, Joan Main lines of research
Maosas Castejn, Mara

Rey Serra, Blanca The research group led by Dr. Ritort investigates the energetic of biological pro-
cesses at the molecular level in the broadest sense, from the fundamental unders-
Ribezzi Crivellari, Marco
tanding of irreversible phenomena at the microscopic scale to the most advanced
applications that can characterize and measure molecular interactions with a re-

solution of tenths of kilocalories per mole (kcal/mol). All this is done through a
multidisciplinary approach combining single molecule experiments and biochemi-

cal measures of phenomenological theories used in the field of biophysics, as well

as fundamental principles of statistical physics applied to physicochemical systems
out of equilibrium.
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Characterized the broad perspective our research gives a wide range of applica- 20
tions ranging from the study of the binding of a peptide to protein, aggregation T
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kinetics of complexes formed by drugs that bind to nucleic acids and the study of PO
interactions antigen-antibody.
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Our group is internationally recognized for having made fundamental advances in A
the understanding and characterization of the energetic of folding and assembly NU
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of nucleic acids, characterization of molecular motors that regulate DNA replica- A
tion and fundamental theories describing the behavior of disordered systems out /
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of equilibrium. Over the coming years we will continue working on these lines of B
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research that have proved so profitable. However, the overture to begin a new BE
line related to the fundamental problem of molecular evolution in order to better CI

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understand the physical principles that describe the increasing complexity and