Quantum Biology and Biophysics

Event Date/Time: Friday, March 13, 2026 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm (EDT) Time Zone Converter
Location: online

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“Quantum Biology and Biophysics” is a two-hour online event featuring two thirty-minute talks on quantum biology and two thirty-minute panels. The talks will discuss important phenomena in quantum biology, namely, chemical excitation of electrons and weak magnetic field sensitivity. The panels will cover more general topics of interest, including the relation between biophysics and quantum biology and the future of scientific funding.

This event is hosted by the Quantum Biology DAO.

For additional information, please contact Geoff Anders [email protected]

Event Speakers

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Prof. Douglas E. Brash (Yale University) 
Douglas E. Brash, PhD | Yale School of Medicine
Prof. Brash discovered chemiexcitation of melanin in skin as a new mode of disease that uses the pigment melanin to create UV-like carcinogenic lesions even after UV exposure has ended.

Brian Ross (Quantum Biology Institute)
Quantum Biology Institute | Home
Dr. Ross is the DEO of the Quantum Biology Institute, which is investigating weak magnetic field effects in biology and whether they provide evidence that quantum states last for a long enough time inside cells to be biologically relevant.

Panelists

Shey-Shing Sheu (Thomas Jefferson University)
Thomas Jefferson University | Division of Cardiology
Dr. Sheu is the William Wkoff Chair Professor of Cardiovascular Research at Thomas Jefferson University. His work aims to help elucidate cellular and molecular mechanisms by which mitochondria control calcium signaling and ROS dynamics.

Michael Montague (Quantum Biology Institute)
Quantum Biology Institute | Home
Dr. Montague is the Head of Microbiology for the Quantum Biology Institute. He has been conducting transcriptomic studies on the effects of hypomagnetic conditions on E. coli.

Engin Serpersu (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)
University of Knoxville | Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology
Engin Serpersu is a Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology at University of Knoxville and a member of the Berggren Quantum Biology Center. Previously he worked as an NSF program director relating to quantum science and was a cognizant program director for QuBBE and UChicago.

James Sinka (YC alum and ex-VC)
Independent | LinkedIn
James Sinka is a chemist, serial founder, YCombinator alumnus and ex-venture capitalist. He is also a pioneer in using cryptocurrency to find and accelerate scientific R&D.

Rae Dugger (University of Michigan)
University of Michigan | LinkedIn
Rae Dugger is a graduate student in Applied Physics at the University of Michigan. As an undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University in Professor Lydia Kisley's research group, she worked jointly with Professor Peter Hore at the University of Oxford on a computational project modeling the radical pair mechanism in avian magnetoreception.

Organizer

Geoff Anders (Leverage)
Leverage | Home
Geoff Anders is a co-founder of the Quantum Biology DAO and the Director of Research at Leverage. He is currently studying spin physics and causal mechanisms for weak magnetic field effects in biology.

Event Schedule

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