Physical Society Colloquium

What is Nanobiology?

Robert Austin

Princeton University

Robert Austin holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and is a founding father of “nano-biotechnology”. His interests over the years has included protein dynamics, in which he still is involved using picosecond infrared light sources, to include DNA dynamics and DNA sequence-dependent structures and lately the use of microfabrication and nanofabrication technologies in biotechnology. This work has broadened to include fractionation of cells in microfabricated structures and ultra-rapid mixing techniques for protein folding. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science, President of the Division of Biological Physics (APS), President Elect of the Biological Physics divison of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His activities in electronic publishing include membership on the Publications Commmitte of the American Physical Society and he is the Editor of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.