Nynke Dekker
Professor of Biophysics
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My research group focuses on probing biological function at the single-molecule level, and has explored closely related topics such as viral replication, bacterial transcription, and bacterial and eukaryotic replication. We have predominantly focused on the activity of molecular motors engaged in these processes. The research is highly inter-disciplinary, encompassing biological physics, biochemistry, and molecular biology, which makes it challenging but simultaneously very interesting and rewarding. The questions that we ask are biological in nature, but the biophysical concepts, analysis, and instrumentation that we develop to answer them are solidly based in physics. This allows us to generate a precise and mechanistic biophysical description of biological processes.