Andreas Mershin

Andreas Mershin
Residence	American
Fields	Biophysicist
Institutions	MIT
Alma mater	Imperial College Texas A&M University
Doctoral advisor	Dimitri V. Nanopoulos
Known for	Biophysics of the cytoskeleton

Andreas Mershin is a physicist notable for studying the biophysics of the cytoskeleton.^[1]

Education

He received his MSci in Physics from Imperial College London (1997) and his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M University (2003), under Dimitri V. Nanopoulos, where he studied the theoretical and experimental biophysics of the cytoskeleton. He performed molecular dynamic simulations on tubulin and after winning an NSF grant initiated wide-reaching, cross-disciplinary collaborations performing experiments using surface plasmon resonance, dielectric spectroscopy and molecular neurobiology to successfully test the hypothesis that the neuronal microtubular cytoskeleton is involved in memory encoding, storage, and retrieval in Drosophila.

Career

He is at the Center for Biomedical Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology researching bio- nano- materials and developing bioelectronic photovoltaic and chemical sensing applications using membrane proteins integrated onto semiconductors. A patent holder and entrepreneur in the field of biosensors^[2], he is also a co-founder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' international annual "Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize"^[3] for the best scientific question posed by children (www.molecularfrontiers.org).^[4]

See also

• Quantum Aspects of Life (book)

• The Emerging Physics of Consciousness ^[5] Chapter 4: Towards Experimental Tests of Quantum Effects in Cytoskeletal Proteins (book)

Notes

1. ^ http://learnmem.cshlp.org/cgi/content/abstract/11/3/277?ck=nck
2. ^ Bioenergy Harvesting: Electricity from Living Trees
3. ^ http://www.molecularfrontiers.org/pages/programs/molecularfrontiersprize.php
4. ^ New Scientist article
5. ^ The emerging physics of consciousness, ISBN 978-3-540-23890-4

External links

• Mershin at the Science Blog
• Short biography of Mershin
• Mershin at Scientific Commons
• Mershin at BioInfoBank
• Mershin's New Scientist article on a Nobel prize for children
• Mershin at Molecular Frontiers
• Mershin in MIT's newspaper
• Daily Telegraph article

• Mershin at LinkedIn
• Mershin at Wired.com

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