Biochemistry
Biochemistry is the scientific field concerning the chemical reactions that occur within living organisms.
Development of tools for molecular analysis
This research topic is the one that has the most stringent connection to biotechnology - new molecular methods necessarily become increasingly detailed and with the resulting high resolution of research data, more extensive methods to handle and analyze the data are required.
Development of tools for molecular analysis
Mitochondria
Living cells are dependent on the conversion of energy that originates from digested material and light. This conversion delivers a chemical representation of this energy to the cell and it takes place inside the membrane systems of compartments inside the cell - either chloroplasts or mitochondria.
Mitochondria
Nitrogen fixation
Some organisms, such as Rhodospirillum rubrum, a bacterium that has been well studied at the department for biochemistry and biophysics, has the catability of binding nitrogen from the air for use within the cell. The products of this nitrogen metabolism then becomes available to certain plants that cohabitate the soil where these bacteria thrive.
Nitrogen fixation
The metabolism of lipids
Studies of the interactions between membrane proteins and lipids has long been a focus at the department of biochemistry and biophysics. It is a challenging area of research where the study of the dynamic aspects of interactions of the lipids is paramount.