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Dear Students and Colleagues,
Welcome to the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics of Columbia University. This department is dedicated to creative research in the life sciences through the integration of biochemical, molecular, cellular and biophysical approaches to biological studies. We are biophysicists using physical and computational methods to explore how molecular structure relates to biological function. We are biologists exploring the molecular basis of intercellular and intracellular signaling, gene regulation, virology, pattern formation, differentiation and sensory perception.
This diversity of research interests is unified by intensely interactive and collaborative dialogs and joint research programs between individual laboratories. Biologists uncover new biological functions and biophysicists elucidate the basic molecular structures underlying function.
We are first and foremost dedicated to scholarship and research. Our quest is to uncover the hidden, to bring order to chaos, and to think deeply. We are a community of 19 faculty, 48 students and 42 postdoctoral scientists & fellows. We are an integral part of New York's intellectual and cultural life. We have at our doorstep the world's finest ballet, symphony orchestras, operas, jazz and boundless classical and modern art.
As we are located at the northern tip of Manhattan, we are within minutes of the bucolic countryside - for those of you who desire it. Therefore, one has a choice of an urban, suburban or country lifestyle.
If you treasure scholarship and vigorous research and you delight in cultural opportunities, continue your inquiry and consider joining us. Welcome to a community of outstanding scholars, bound by mutual respect and by a common quest of discovery in biology.
With best regards,
Arthur G. Palmer, Ph.D.
Acting Chairman,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
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