Integrating information in the brain’s EM field: the cemi field theory of consciousness McFadden, J. (2020). “Integrating information in the brain’s EM field: the cemi field theory of consciousness.” Neuroscience of Consciousness 2020(1): niaa016. Abstract A key aspect of consciousness is that it represents bound or integrated information, prompting an increasing conviction that the physical […]

Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre Seminar Tuesday 25th June, 3pm, Room 01 DK 02 Tackling antimicrobial resistance, one molecule at a time Professor Antoine van Oijen Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong vanoijen@nulluow.edu.au   Abstract Antoine van Oijen led research groups at Harvard Medical School […]

The Leverhulme Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Surrey is recruiting exceptional individuals to the full-time academic position of Lecturer in Quantum Biology. Quantum Biology is an exciting new area of research that has emerged in the last two decades through the recognition that quantum phenomena such as coherence, tunnelling and entanglement, […]

Abstract I am a quantum engineer interested in how quantum physics informs biology at the nanoscale. As a physicist, I have developed high-performance nanosensors that essentially worked due to room-temperature quantum effects in noisy environments. Currently, I am focusing on “living sensors” — organisms and cells that respond to minute stimuli, routinely outperforming technological probes […]

Explore the electron transport mechanisms between membrane cytrochromes and electrode along pili. Is this a classical conductive transport, is it ion transport, or does it involve quantum tunnelling along a series of Fe-S clusters? For example, the quantum extension of the classical Drude theory of metal conductivity shows that regularly spaced potential wells (positive metal atom […]

Interested in a PhD in quantum niology at our Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Surrey? Projects include examination of coherence in nerve ion channels, DNA repair and coherence involved in electrical communication between microbes. See here for more details and how to apply.

  Entanglement is the weirdest quantum phenomenon – so weird that even Einstein, who remember gave us warped space-time, time travel and black holes – didn’t believe it calling it ‘spooky action at a distance’. It is when interacting quantum particles maintain an instantaneous connection even after they have been separated by huge distance so […]

The real history of quantum biology In a paper published by the Royal Society journal, Proceedings A,  The origins of quantum biology, we examine nearly 100 years of pioneering and improbable questions about the relationship between the fuzzy and almost magical world of quantum physics and the rigid and organised field of biology. We also reveal […]

The University of Surrey has been awarded £1million from the prestigious Leverhulme Trust to establish the world’s first doctoral training centre for quantum biology. The Centre, which will be headed by Professors Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili, will train a new generation of scientists with the skills needed to study and even exploit the quantum […]

The full list is: Life on the Edge: the Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden Physics on Your Feet: Ninety Minutes of Shame but a PhD for the Rest of Your Life by Dmitry Budker and Alexander Sushkov Half-Life: the Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy by […]

  Life on the Edge in great company with Mary Beard and other great authors in the WSJ’s top books of 2015!

Fingers crossed for the awards night on 24th September.

Johnjoe McFadden Ecological  neo-colonialism continues to oppose the most beneficial GM crop, Golden Rice reaching the poor. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) affects more than 200 million people in the world today, causing half a million children to go blind each year due and up to 2m die due to associated immunodeficiency. By moving genes that […]

From Descartes to Darwin Though writers, philosophers and social scientists have been denying the existence of an essential core of humanity for the best part of a century, the debate on human nature has now entered a new phase. Modern science’s engagement with human nature can be traced back to the Enlightenment, when, as we’ve […]

The Austrian father of quantum mechanics, Erwin Schrödinger, famously imagined sealing a cat inside a box. The cat’s fate would be linked to the quantum world through a poison that will be released only if a single radioactive atom decays. Schrödinger pointed out that the equations of quantum mechanics insist that the atom must exist […]

Life is a battle and most of the combatants are microbes. Bacteria, viruses, protozoa, nematodes and even microscopic fungi have slain nearly everyone or everything who has ever lived on this planet and have been doing so ever since the first microbes crawled out of the primeval mud billions of years ago. And they have […]