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Research at Instituto Biofisika focuses on advancing knowledge about the physical and chemical processes underlying biology and disease.

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Revealing the physics of life

Revealing the physics of life

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Empowering scientists

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Small labs, big science

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Informing society

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Next IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Structural insights into a conserved mechanism of choline translocation and a distinct chaperonin-mediated protein folding cycle"

December 18, 2025

🗓️ December, Thu 18th, 2025, 9:00h

IBF joins Elhuyar Zientzia Azoka
December 11, 2025
IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Epithelial response to stretch during Drosophila dorsal closure: Emergence and control of deformation and polarization patterns"
December 11, 2025
BBDG Seminar: "Revealing Native Cellular Landscapes through Correlative Cryo- 3DSIM, Cryo-SXT, and Cryo-ET"
December 10, 2025
New strategies against HIV through antibody engineering
December 1, 2025
BBDG Seminar: "Thinking about group transfer potential at the emergence of metabolism"
December 1, 2025
BioForo Seminar: "Neurogenesis and transcriptomics provide a new understanding on brain evolution"
November 26, 2025
BBDG Seminar: "Molecular mechanism of lipid droplet biogenesis"
November 25, 2025
BBDG Seminar: "Integrative visual proteomics: Bridging cryoET with physics-based simulations for biological discovery"
November 19, 2025
BioForo Seminar: "Spatio-temporal dynamics of secretory protein export"
October 29, 2025
BioForo Seminar: "Unconventional strategies to inactivate oncogenic Receptor Tyrosine Kinase fusions"
October 24, 2025

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