| Andreas Mershin | |
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| Residence | American |
| Fields | Biophysicist |
| Institutions | MIT |
| Alma mater | Imperial College Texas A&M University |
| Doctoral advisor | Dimitri V. Nanopoulos |
| Known for | Biophysics of the cytoskeleton |
Andreas Mershin is a physicist notable for studying the biophysics of the cytoskeleton.[1]
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He received his MSci in Physics from Imperial College London (1997) and his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M University (2003), under Dimitri V. Nanopoulos, where he studied the theoretical and experimental biophysics of the cytoskeleton. He performed molecular dynamic simulations on tubulin and after winning an NSF grant initiated wide-reaching, cross-disciplinary collaborations performing experiments using surface plasmon resonance, dielectric spectroscopy and molecular neurobiology to successfully test the hypothesis that the neuronal microtubular cytoskeleton is involved in memory encoding, storage, and retrieval in Drosophila.
He is at the Center for Biomedical Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology researching bio- nano- materials and developing bioelectronic photovoltaic and chemical sensing applications using membrane proteins integrated onto semiconductors. A patent holder and entrepreneur in the field of biosensors[2], he is also a co-founder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' international annual "Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize"[3] for the best scientific question posed by children (www.molecularfrontiers.org).[4]