Students enrolled in a UW–Madison doctoral program can pursue a doctoral minor in biophysics. The doctoral minor offers substantial training in biophysics. A doctoral minor in biophysics can serve as supplement to training in a broad range of disciplines in which physics, physical chemistry, biology, and medicine intersect. The biophysics minor will give students a rigorous understanding of quantitative approaches to physical and chemical problems in the life sciences. Course offerings that provide pedagogical instruction to biophysics students serve as the basis for the biophysics minor. 

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
Required Courses
CHEM/​BIOCHEM  665	Biophysical Chemistry	4
CHEM 668	Biophysical Spectroscopy	2-3
Elective Course		3
Students choose one or more of the following or any course used to satisfy elective requirements for the Biophysics Ph.D.:
BIOCHEM 601	Protein and Enzyme Structure and Function
BIOCHEM/​GENETICS/​MICROBIO  612	Prokaryotic Molecular Biology
BIOCHEM/​GENETICS/​MD GENET  620	Eukaryotic Molecular Biology
NTP/​NEURODPT  610	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Total Credits		9-10

Faculty

Chair: Dr. Alessandro Senes (Biochemistry) Website

Paul Ahlquist (Oncology) Website

Tom Brunold (Chemistry) Website

Andrew Buller (Chemistry) Website

Mark Burkard (Medicine) Website

Judith Burstyn (Chemistry) Website

Briana Burton (Bacteriology) Website

Sam Butcher (Biochemistry) Website

Silvia Cavangerno (Chemistry) Website

Baron Chanda (Neuroscience) Website

Ed Chapman (Neuroscience) Website

Josh Coon (Chemistry) Website

Gheorghe Craciun (Mathematics) Website

Cindy Czajkowski (Neuroscience) Website

Katrina Forest (Bacteriology) Website

Brian Fox (Biochemistry) Website

Sam Gellman (Chemistry) Website

Pupa Gilbert (Physics) Website

Randy Goldsmith (Chemistry) Website

Jeff Hardin (Zoology) Website

Katie Henzler-Wildman (Biochemistry) Website

Hazel Holden (Biochemistry) Website

Aaron Hoskins (Biochemistry) Website

Meyer Jackson (Neuroscience Department) Website

Mathew Jones (Neuroscience) Website

Jim Keck (Biomolecular Chemistry) Website

Bob Landick (Biochemistry) Website

John Markley (Biochemistry) Website

Megan McClean (Biomedical Engineering) Website

Matthew Merrins (Biomolecular Chemistry) Website

Julie Mitchell (Mathematics) Website

Regina Murphy (Chemical and Biological Engineering) Website

Jacob Notbohm (Engineering Physics) Website

Vatsan Raman (Biochemistry) Website

Ivan Rayment (Biochemistry) Website

Tom Record (Biochemistry) Website

Gail Robertson (Neuroscience) Website

Phil Romero (Biochemistry) Website

Subhojit Roy (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) Website

Kris Saha (Biomedical Engineering) Website

David Schwartz (Chemistry) Website

Nate Sherer (Oncology) Website

Raunak Sinha (Neuroscience) Website

Melissa Skala (Biomedical Engineering) Website

Lloyd Smith (Chemistry) Website

Aussie Suzuki (Oncology) Website

Reid Van Lehn (Chemical and Biological Engineering) Website

Ophelia Venturelli (Biochemistry) Website

Doug Weibel (Biochemistry) Website

Yongna Xing (Oncology): Website

John Yin (Chemical and Biological Engineering) Website

Martin Zanni (Chemistry) Website