Welcome to the homepage of the BioForce Group

In our group we research physics at the interface to biology and medicine. For this purpose, we

  • measure mechanical and electrical parameters of nanosystems
  • develop novel instruments for high resolution microscopy and medical diagnosis
Current projects:
  • visualizing morphological and mechanical properties of living cells and tissues
  • differentiating cancerous tissue using water flow elastography
  • illuminating transport processes in artificial and natural membranes
  • exposing biomaterials on the molecular scale

Single molecules

News

  • Cover of the journal 'Analytical Chemistry' with Johannes Rheinlaender's 3D-image of a live cell
  • Student Award of the IUPAB-2024 for Aylin Balmes und Hendrik von Eysmondt (21st conference of the International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics, Kyoto, Japan)
    2024 BPS-IUPAB price
  • Aylin Balmes selected as Young Scientist for the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2024
  • Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Life Science by the Joachim Herz Foundation awarded to Aylin Balmes
  • Poster award at the conference "AFM BioMed", M�nster, to Johannes Rheinlaender
  • Cover of the journal 'Soft Matter' with Johannes Rheinlaender's 3D-image of a live cell
  • Cover of the journal 'Applied Physics Letters' with Marc Sch�chtele's 3D-image of a live cell
  • Award 'Best Study Course' in the graduate program 'Biomedical Technologies' to Johannes Rheinlaender and Tilman Sch�ffer
  • Award for the best poster at the symposium "Novel tools to investigate cellular physiology at the nanoscale", Bochum, to Jan Seifert
  • Award 'Best Lecture Series in Pre-Clinical Studies (3rd place)' to Tilman Sch�ffer
  • Award 'Best Instructor' in the graduate program 'Biomedical Technologies' to Johannes Rheinlaender
  • Award for the best oral presentation at the AFM BioMed conference, Porto, to Nicolas Schierbaum
  • Doctoral Award from the University of T�bingen to Christoph Braunsmann
  • Award for the best poster at the 10th European Biophysical Societies' Association (EBSA) Congress, Dresden, to Nicolas Schierbaum
  • Cover of the journal 'Soft Matter' with Nicolas Schierbaum's 3D-image of a live cell
  • Award 'Best Instructor' in the graduate program 'Biomedical Technologies' to Johannes Rheinlaender