BioMIP (Biomolecular Information Processing) carries out multidisciplinary basic research into the nature and limits to self-organization in combinatorially complex chemical systems. The research team addresses both theory and experiment in chemical systems which self-organize and evolve like living systems, using a synthetic systems approach. Electronic micro-and nanosystems provide controlled and programmable environments for studying and optimizing such systems, and so our research is also forging a link between the three rapidly expanding technologies: Information Technology (IT), Biotechnology (BT) and Nanotechnology (NT).
BioMIP is a guest group in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum. The labs are situated in Dortmund (25km away) at the BioMedizinZentrum (BMZ), because of the proximity to clean room technology for microsystem development. BioMIP gratefully acknowledges the support of EU and BMBF project funding agencies and of the TZ and Uni-Dortmund (Prof. Neyer). McCaskill is on leave from Uni Jena.