Research — Quantum Biosciences Consortium

Research in the Quantum Biosciences Consortium can be broadly classified under one of the following

Coherence & energy transfer

Does quantum coherence shape light harvesting and excitonic transport in photosynthetic and engineered pigment systems?

Radical-pair spin dynamics in photoreceptor proteins, and how living systems detect magnetic fields far too weak for classical sensors.

Proton and electron transfer in enzymatic reactions, and does it really matter for rates, selectivity, and regulation?

Protein spin qubits and other molecular probes that report on their environment from inside living systems.

Open theoretical and computational methods for charge, spin, and energy transfer in warm, wet, and noisy biological environments.

Can AI models be trained to predict emergent properties in biological systems to a point of predicting function from sequence data?

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