Marek Cieplak
Institute of Physics PAS, Poland
Biography
Head, Laboratory of Biological Physics, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Education - M.S., Department of Physics, University of Warsaw, 1973; Ph. D., Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 1977; D.Sc., Department of Physics, University of Warsaw, 1984. Professorial title, 1994. Fields of interest – condensed matter theory (spin waves, spin glasses, porous media, growth processes, atomic friction, river networks, nanofluidics, self-organized nanostructures) and biological physics (large conformational changes of biomolecules within coarse-grained models, especially as induced by stretching, proteins with knots and slipknots, protein folding, dynamics of virus capsids and other multi-proteinic structures such as a cellulosome, interaction of proteins with solids, proteins at air-water interface, modeling of proteasomes, inference of genetic networks from the microarray data). Co-author of textbook “Theory of Quanta”, Oxford University Press 1992. 250 research papers.
Abstract
Abstract : Dynamics of knotted and entangled neurotoxic polypeptides