Biochemical Mechanisms for Magnetic Orientation in Animals

Klaus Schulten received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1974. He is Swanlund Professor of Physics and is also affiliated with the Department of Chemistry as well as with the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology. Professor Schulten is a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute and directs the Theoretical Biophysics Group. His professional interests are theoretical physics and theoretical biology. His current research focuses on the structure and function of supramolecular systems in the living cell, and on the development of non-equilibrium statistical mechanical descriptions and efficient computing tools for structural biology.

Honors and awards: Humboldt Award of the German Humboldt Foundation (2004); University of Illinois Scholar (1996); Fellow of the American Physical Society (1993); Nernst Prize of the Physical Chemistry Society of Germany (1981).

If you reference this work in a publication, please cite as follows:

• Schulten, Klaus; Selvin, Paul R (2008), "Lecture 18: Magnetotaxis," http://www.nanohub.org/resources/4468/.

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2. Cryptochrome
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4. Magnetorecption
5. nanobio applications
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