Conference Archive
Conference and Training Course in Emergent Themes in Biophysics
| Date: | Mon, 17 September 2007 to Tue, 18 September 2007 |
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| Venue: | Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, UK |
| Organised by: | Biological Physics Group of the Institute of Physics |
Introduction
| Registration | Call for Abstracts |
| Venue | Accommodation |
PDF of Conference Poster (A1)
PDF of First Announcement (A4)
We present a one-day research meeting on emerging themes in biological physics combined with a one day training course intended for students and PDRAs who are considering a career in biophysical research. Programs will be based on invited talks from leading UK researchers and will include poster sessions. They will highlight a series of emergent themes in biological physics.
Day one is a training session in which distinguished speakers discuss experimental and theoretical methods. It is primarily intended for graduate students and post-docs who are interested in exploring the possibility of interdisciplinary research at the interface between physics and biology. The session is not restricted to those already working in this area. The programs of the two parts of this meeting are designed to be complementary: participants in the training session will be expected to attend on both days. Participants will be encouraged to present posters on their existing research projects.
Day two focuses on three rapidly developing fields in whose development physics is expected to play an important role over the next decade: networks, excitability, and motility. Presentations by experts in each of the three highlighted themes will start with an overview intended for non-specialists and will include state-of-the-art research. There will be a poster session. A limited number of contributed talks will be selected from submitted abstracts.
Day 1 - Training session
| 09:00 | Biorheology T A Waigh (University of Manchester) |
| 10:00 | Systems biology: a Personal introduction M Howard (John Innes Centre Norwich) |
| 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 | Microscopy techniques A M Donald (University of Cambridge) |
| 12:30 | Fluctuations in nanobiology M S Turner (University of Warwick) |
| 13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 | Nerve cells N Cohen (University of Leeds) |
| 15:30 | DNA self-assembly and molecular machinery A.Turberfield (University of Oxford) |
| 16:30 | Refreshment Break |
| 17:00 | Mathematical modelling of the electrical action potential of biological excitable cells M Boyett (University of Manchester) |
| 18:00 | Close |
Day 2 - Research Themes
| 09:00 | Genetic networks R Allen (University of Edinburgh) |
| 09:40 | Surprisingly noisy transcription networks D Stekel (University of Birmingham) |
| 10:20 | Biological Networks M Muldoon (University of Manchester) |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 | Fluorescence techniques and imaging P O’Shea (University of Nottingham) |
| 12:10 | Modelling motility T Liverpool (University of Bristol) |
| 12:50 | Tubulin motility R.Cross (University of Surrey) |
| 13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 | Molecular motility in muscle J Trinick (University of Leeds) |
| 15:10 | Modelling developing tissue R.Smallwood (University of Sheffield) |
| 15:50 | Biophysical modelling of the temporal and spatial-temporal complexity in the heart H Zhang (University of Manchester) |
| 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:45 | Open Biological Physics group meeting |
| 17:15 | Close |
Poster Programme
| P1 | Nucleation and growth of insulin fibrils in bulk solution and at hydrophobic polystyrene surfaces M I Smith, J S Sharp, C J Roberts (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) |
| P2 | Imaging mammalian cells in the low vacuum electron microscope S E Kirk, J N Skepper, A M Donald (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
| P3 | The application of ESEM to biological samples J E McGegor, A M Donald (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
| P4 | Physical description of mitotic spindle orientation during cell division A C Jimenez Dalmaroni1, M Thery2, V Racine2, M Bornens2, F Julicher1 (1Max Planck Institute Fur Physik Komplexer Systeme, Germany, 2 Institut Curie, CNRS UMR144, Compartimentation et Dynamique Cellulaire, Paris, France, France) |
| P5 | Cell adhesion on micro-patterned substrates P M Stevenson, A M Donald (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
| P6 | Structural dynamics based genetic homology and drug resistance mutations in HIV-1 protease J X Zhou1, K Hamacher2 (1Glasgow University, United Kingdom, 2Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany) |
| P7 | Imaging living oral bacteria using atomic force microscopy B Turner, N Thomson, J Kirkham, D Devine (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) |
| P8 | In silico modelling of transcription network evolution in prokaryotes D Jenkins, D J Stekel (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) |
| P9 | Novel biocompatible polymer as gene delivery vehicle X Zhou, F Pan, C Grant, JR Lu (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) |
| P10 | Correlator Based Optical Fibre Picorheology of Aggrecan and Fibrin Solutions |
Organising Committee
Dr Tom Waigh, University of Manchester, UK
Professor Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford, UK
Enquiries
Claire Garland
The Institute of Physics
76 Portland Place
London
W1B 1NT
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7470 4800
Fax: +44 (0)20 7470 4900
E-mail: claire.garland@iop.org
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