February 28, 2021 at 8:55 pm by Sean Crommelin Increasingly, disciplines like physics have found a home in research into biology â particularly research looking at the functioning of biological systems within and between cells. A row of yeast cells with glowing-green polarization caps. Courtesy of Carlos Gomez Researchers working at UC Santa Barbara, including Samhita Banavar, a former graduate student in the department of physics who is now at Stanford University, Otger Campà s, with the California NanoSystems Institute, Michael Trogdon and Linda R. Petzold in the departmen...