Forthcoming Institute Conferences
Invited Speakers and Programme
Invited Speakers
Vesicles and Membrane Nanotubes to Study in Vitro Intracellular Trafficking
Patricia Bassereau (Institut Curie, France)
Force Generation at Dynamic Microtubule Ends
Marileen Dogterom (Amolf FOM Institute, Netherlands)
Controlling the Stickyness of Bio-molecules
Daan Frenkel (University of Cambridge, UK)
Foundations and Applications of One- and Two-Point Microrheology
Tom Lubensky (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
A Short Ride in a Fast Machine - Ultra-fast AFM and the Holo Assembler
Mervyn Miles (University of Bristol, UK)
Probing the Rheology of the Cellular Interface with Membrane Nanotubes
Pierre Nassoy (Institut Curie, France)
Material Properties and Fluctuations in Non-equilibrium Model Systems and Cells
Christoph Schmidt (University of Goettingen, Germany)
Self-assembly of Three-dimensional Shapes from DNA
William Shih (DFCI, Harvard, USA)
DNA Nanostructures and Molecular Machinery
Andrew Turberfield (University of Oxford, UK)
Structuring and Manipulating Soft Materials with Microfluidics
David Weitz (Harvard University, USA)
Micromechanics of Cells in Aging
Denis Wirtz (John Hopkins University, USA)
Provisional Programme
Talks could be changed so please check regularly until we have a confirmed programme.
Monday 6 April
| 09.00 | Material Properties and Fluctuations in Non-equilibrium Model Systems and Cells (Invited) Professor Christoph Schmidt (University of Goettingen, Germany) |
| 09.45 | The Mechanical Properties of Cells - Does Soft Matter? Dr Jochen Guck (University of Cambridge, UK) |
| 10.05 | Statistical Mechanics in Complex Fluids under Shear: Prediction and Measurement Dr R M L Evans (University of Leeds, UK) |
| 10.25 | Refreshment Break |
| 11.00 | Foundations and Applications of One- and Two-point Microrheology (Invited) Dr Tom Lubensky (University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
| 11.45 | Non-equilibrium Microrheology using Optical Tweezers Mr David Wilmer (Nottingham Trent University, UK) |
| 12.05 | Microfluidics of Cytoplasmic Streaming and its Implications for Intracellular Transport Dr Idan Tuval (University of Cambridge, UK) |
| 12.25 | Origin of the Electrophoretic Force on DNA in Solid-State Nanopores Dr Ulrich Keyser (University of Cambridge, UK) |
| 12.45 | Lunch - Rootes Social Building Restaurant |
| 14.00 | Force Generation at Dynamic Microtubule Ends (Invited) Professor Marileen Dogterom (Amolf FOM Institute, Netherlands) |
| 14.45 | Rodlike Polyelectrolytes in High Density Professor Ramin Golestanian (University of Sheffield) |
| 15.05 | Unusual Protein Aggregation in Chinese Century Eggs Ms Sabrina Jahn (University of Cambridge, UK) |
| 15.25 | Refreshment Break |
| 16.00 | Statistical Mechanics of Evolution and the Map from Sequence to Function Dr Bhavin Khatri (University of Edinburgh, UK) |
| 16.20 | From Achiral to Chiral; A Course-grained Simulation Study Mr Juho Lintuvuori (University of Durham, UK) |
| 16.40 | Voltage-induced Actuation of Weak Polyelectrolyte Brushes Mr Michael Weir (University of Sheffield, UK) |
| 17.00 | Poster Session |
| 19.30 | Conference Dinner - Chancellors Suite |
Tuesday 7 April
| 09.00 | Micromechanics of Cells in Aging (Invited) Professor Denis Wirtz (John Hopkins University, USA) |
| 09.45 | Dancing Volvox: Hydrodynamic Bound States of Swimming Algae Mr Knut Drescher (University of Leeds, UK) |
| 10.05 | Hydrodynamics at Low Reynolds Number: A Basic Swimmer and a Model Metachronal Wave Dr Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge, UK) |
| 10.25 | Refreshment Break |
| 11.00 | A Short Ride in a Fast Machine - Ultra-fast AFM and the Holo Assembler (Invited) Professor Mervyn Miles (University of Bristol, UK) |
| 11.45 | Force Tranduction by the microtubule-encircling Dam1 ring Mr Jonathan Armond (University of Warwick, UK) |
| 12.05 | Routes to Helicity Dr Dwaipayan Chakrabarti (University of Cambridge, UK) |
| 12.25 | Lunch - Rootes Social Building Restaurant |
| 14.00 | Structuring and Manipulating Soft Materials with Microfluidics (Invited) Professor David Weitz (Harvard University, USA) |
| 14.45 | Phase Seperation and Interfacial Dynamics in Quiescent and Sheared Liquids Dr Wouter den Otter (University of Twente, The Netherlands) |
| 15.05 | Learning about Protein Energetics from Experimentally Observed Structures using Statistical Machine Learning Professor David Wild (University of Warwick, UK) |
| 15.25 | Refreshment Break |
| 16.00 | Controlling the Stickyness of Bio-Molecules (Invited) Professor Daan Frenkel (University of Cambridge, UK) |
| 16.45 | Coarse grained modelling of the growth of synthetic peptide fibres Mr Tom Stedall (University of Bristol, UK) |
| 17.05 | Mechanical Properties of Composite Networks of Biopolymers Ms Elisabeth Huisman (Leiden University, The Netherlands) |
| 17.25 | Posters & Drinks Reception |
| 19.30 | Dinner - Rootes Social Building Restaurant |
Wednesday 8 April
| 09.00 | Vesicles and Membrane Nanotubes to Study in Vitro Intracellular Trafficking (Invited) Professor Patricia Bassereau (Institut Curie, France) |
| 09.45 | Patchy Polymersomes with Tunable Domains Morphologies Dr Ing Caterina LoPresti (University of Sheffield, UK) |
| 10.05 | Supracolloidal Polymer Structures through Interface-Driven Assembly Dr Stefan Bon (University of Warwick, UK) |
| 10.25 | Refreshment Break |
| 11.00 | Probing the Rheology of the Cellular Interface with Membrane Nanotubes (Invited) Dr Pierre Nassoy (Institut Curie, France) |
| 11.45 | Elastic Response of Protein Self-Assembly Adsorbed at Air-Water Interface Dr Amarjeet Singh (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France) |
| 12.05 | Patternation, Modelling and Quantification of Immunological Synapses Professor Nigel Burroughs (University of Warwick, UK) |
| 12.25 | Random Tiling and Topological Defects in a Two-Dimensional Molecular Network Professor Juan Garrahan (University of Nottingham, UK) |
| 12.45 | Lunch - Rootes Social Building Restaurant |
| 14.00 | DNA Nanostructures and Molecular Machinery (Invited) Professor Andrew Turberfield (University of Oxford, UK) |
| 14.45 | Development of a Coarse-Grained Model of DNA and Applications to the Self-Assembly of DNA Nanostructures and Formation of Cruciform DNA Dr Jonathan P Doye (University of Oxford, UK) |
| 15.05 | Complexes of Oppositely Charged Polyelectrolytes, Including DNA Professor Mehdi Zeghal (Université Paris XI, France) |
| 15.25 | Refreshment Break |
| 16.00 | Self-Assembly of Three-Dimensional Shapes from DNA (Invited) Dr William Shih (Harvard Medical School, USA) |
| 16.45 | Plastic Viruses: Polymer Nanoparticles for Effective Cytosolic Delivery Dr Giuseppe Battaglia (University of Sheffield, UK) |
| 17.05 | Self-Consistent Field Theory Calculations of the Self-Assembly of Diblock Copolymer Mixtures in Solution Dr Martin Greenall (University of Leeds, UK) |
| 17.25 | Close of Conference |
Poster Programme
Please check back frequently for poster numbers as they are subject to change.
P1
Real time measurements of conformational change in proteins
P Weightman1, C I Smith1, N S Scrutton2 and H L Messiha2
(1 University of Liverpool, UK, 2 University of Manchester, UK)
P2
Dynamical irrelevance of non-native contacts in models of protein folding, and consequences to sequence design
J P Garrahan1, B Gin2
(1 University of Nottingham, UK, 2 University of California at Berkeley, USA)
P3
Determination of interaction potentials in colloidal monolayers using the inversion of 2D pair correlation functions
A D Law, D M Buzza
(University of Hull, UK)
P4
Application of a new nonlinear theory of light absorption to biological molecules
F Serra, E Terentjev
(University of Cambridge, UK)
P5
Investigation of bio-adhesion through powder barrier experiments on ants
M J Anyon, M Orchard, D M Buzza, R Hammond, M M Kohonen
(University of Hull, UK)
P6
Para-, ferro- and antiferro-magnetic order in beta-sheet tapes of oligopeptides
S Jabbari-Farouji, P van der Schoot
(Eindhoven university of Technology, The Netherlands)
P7
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, UK)
P8
Water permeation through Stratum Corneum lipid bilayer from atomistic simulations
C Das2, M Noro1, P D Olmsted2
(1 Unilever R&D, UK, 2 University of Leeds, UK)
P9
Spirals and helices of liquid crystalline cellulose derivatives: electrospinning mimics plant tendrils on the nano and microscale
M H Godinho1, J P Canejo1, L F Pinto1, J P Borges1, P I Teixeira2,3
(1 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, 2 Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal, 3 Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
P10
Employing succinylated lysozyme to investigate the protein – colloid analogy
I K Voets, P Schurtenberger
(Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
P11
Microfluidic assembly of magnetic hydrogel particles
C Chen1, A R Abate2, D Lee3, D A Weitz2
(1 University of Cambridge, UK, 2 Harvard University, USA, 3 University of Pennsylvania, USA)
P12
How patchy can one get and still condense? The role of dissimilar patches in the interactions of colloidal particles
J M Tavares, P I Teixeira, M M Telo da Gama
(Centro de Fisica Teorica e Computacional, Universidade de Lisboa , Portugal)
P13
Closed-loop phase diagrams in patchy particle systems
A J Williamson, J P Doye
(University of Oxford, UK)
P14
The evolution of protein complexes
J E Andreani, J P Doye
(University of Oxford, UK)
P15
Self-assembly of complex structures from soft anisotropic building blocks
S Fejer, D Chakrabarti, D J Wales
(University of Cambridge, UK)
P16
The effect of topological constraints on entangled ring polymers
W Lo, M S Turner
(University of Warwick, UK)
P17
Elongation dynamics of amyloid fibrils: a rugged energy landscape picture
C F Lee, J Loken, L Jean, D J Vaux
(University of Oxford, UK)
P18
Polymeric memristor: plasticity of electrical properties for smart signal processing
A Smerieri, V Erokhin, M P Fontana
(University of Parma, Italy)
P19
A linear motor constructed from DNA
R A Muscat, A J Turberfield
(University of Oxford, UK)
P20
Passive microrheology of fibrillar peptide and polypeptide networks
A Aufderhorst-Roberts, A Corrigan, A M Donald
(University of Cambridge, UK)
P21
Self-assembly of virus capsids: A minimal model approach
A Wilber, J P Doye, A A Louis
(University of Oxford, UK)
P22
Non-linear elaticity in fibrin detected using magnetic tweezers
D J Pearce, T A Waigh
(University of Manchester, UK)
P23
3T3 fibroblasts cultured on PDMS substrates of parallel micro-sized grooves demonstrate three regimes of behaviour in the extent of cell orientation and confinement
P M Stevenson, K Kung, A M Donald
(University of Cambridge, UK)
P24
Investigating bile salt aggregation using coarse-grained molecular dynamics
A Vila Verde1,2, D Frenkel1,2
(1 FOM institute for atomic and molecular physics [AMOLF], The Netherlands, 2 University of Cambridge, UK)
P25
A simple patchy colloid model for the phase behaviour of lysozyme dispersions
C Gögelein1, G Nägele1, R Tuinier2, G Thomas3, A Stradner4, P Schurtenberger4
(1 Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany, 2 DSM Research, Technology & Analysis Geleen, The Netherlands. 3 Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, 4 University of Fribourg, Adolphe Merkle Institute and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials (Switzerland)
P26
Investigating pre-fibrillar events in insulin fibrillisation at surfaces using neutron reflectivity techniques
A J Dennison1, A J Parnell1, R Barker2, M P Weir1, R Cubitt3, R Staniforth4, R A Jones1
(1 University of Sheffield, UK, 2 ISIS, UK, 3 Institute Laue-Langevin, France, 4 University of Sheffield, UK)
P27
Non-equilibrium dynamics of tethered polymers in flow: a computer simulation study
G O Ibanez-Garcia, S Hanna
(University of Bristol, UK)
P28
The drying of polymer droplets
J Fairhurst, D Willmer, K Baldwin, C Kwartnik
(Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom)
P29
Shear-induced lamellar ionic liquid crystal foam
A J Ferreira1, P I C Teixeira2,3, C Cruz1,4, M H Godinho5, P S Kulkarni6,7, C A M Afonso7
(1CFMC-UL, Portugal, 2 ISEL, Portugal, 3CFTC-UL, Portugal, 4Dep. Física, IST, Portugal, 5Dep. Ciência dos Materiais and CENIMAT/I3N, FCT-UNL, Portugal, 6 REQUIMTE, Dep. Química, FCT-UNL, Portugal, 7 Dep. Eng. Química e Biológica,IST, Portugal)
P30
Adsorption of peptides to hydrated gold surfaces: a molecular dynamics study
A Vila Verde1, J Maranas2
(1 FOM institute for atomic and molecular physics [AMOLF], The Netherlands, 2 The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
P31
The behaviour of alpha-elastin in a two-dimensional film
A Lindsay1, C P Winlove1, P Circuta2, P Petrov1
(1University of Exeter, UK, 2 Cavendish Laboratories, UK)
P32
A neural network approach to modelling a confined liquid crystal
T Santos-Silva1, P I Teixeira2, C Anquetil-Deck3, D J Cleaver3
(1 Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Portugal, 2 Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal, 3 Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
P33
Shear-stress stimulated bioluminescence in dinoflagellates studied with holographic optical tweezers
J L Gornall, D Carberry, D Robert
(University of Bristol, UK)
P34
Protein aggregation
D Cannon, A M Donald
(University of Cambridge, UK)
P35
From fibres to networks in peptide based hydrogels
A Mohammed, L Caron, J Gao, A Miller, A Saiani
(1 University of Manchester, UK)
P36
Enhanced transport by swimming microalgae
K Leptos1, J S Guasto2, J P Gollub1, R E Goldstein1
(1 University of Cambridge, UK, 2 Haverford College, USA)
P37
Rheology and self-assembly of heterogeneous methylcellulose
Mr O Kelly, Mr H Yu, Professor, T Ryan
(University of Sheffield, UK)
P38
Undulation instability in a bilayer lipid membrane due to electric field interaction with lipid dipoles
R J Bingham1, P D Olmsted1, S W Smye2
(1 University of Leeds, UK, 2 Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK)
P39
Dynamic allostery in the catabolite activator protein
H Toncrova1, T McLeish2
(1 University of Leeds, UK, 2 University of Durham, UK)
P40
Flying colloidal carpets
N Geerts1, E Eiser2
(1 FOM Institute AMOLF, The Netherlands, 2 University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, UK)
P41
Physical approaches to stomatal science
J E McGregor, R Goldstein
(Cambridge University, UK)
P42
Self-organisation of liquid crystals: structure and dynamics
C H Weber, G Ungar, X Zeng, N Mullin, J K Hobbs
(University of Sheffield, UK)
P43
A biophysical study of bacterial cell wall structure and cell division
L Kailas, B Zhao, E Hayhurst, E Ratcliffe, S Foster, J K Hobbs
(University of Sheffield, UK)
P44
I07: A new Diamond beamline for surface x-ray scattering
T Arnold, C L Nicklin, J L Rawle, U Wagner, M Burt
(Diamond Light Source, UK)
P45
Effect of the number of shells on the pressure and energy of two-dimensional free bubble clusters
M. Fátima Vaz1, P.I.C. Teixeira2,3, F. Graner4 and S. J. Cox5
(1Instituto de Ciência e Engenharia de Materiais e Superfícies and Departamento de Engenharia de Materiais, IST, UTL, Portugal, 2Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal, 3Centro de Fisica Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, 4Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, Université Grenoble I, France, 5Aberystwyth University, UK
P46
Dynamics of colloidal jamming at fluid-fluid interfaces via lattice Boltzmann simulations
E Kim1, K Stratford2, M E Cates1
(1 SUPA School of Physics, The University of Edinburgh, UK, 2 EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
P47
Through the mesoscopic looking glass: exploring the rheology of soft glasses
P Sollich, A Barra
(King's College London, UK)
P48
The impact of poly(ethylenimine) on phospholipid bilayers as a function of ionic strength
Dr Juan Sabin1, B Frisken1, M Sikor2, J Thewalt1, A Keyvanloo1, M Schneider2, A Bailey1
(1 Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2 Universität Augsburg, Germany)
P49
Nano-fibrils and gels formed through the self-organisation of derivatives of sorbitol
S Wangsoub1,2, F J Davis1, P J F Harris1, G R Mitchell1, R H Olley1
(1 University of Reading, UK, 2 Naresuan University, Thailand)
P50
Formation of structure in gelatin during the electrospinning of nano-fibres
D E Elliott, F J Davis, G R Mitchell
(University of Reading, UK)
P51
Weakly polydisperse systems: Perturbative phase diagrams that include the critical region
P Sollich
(King’s College London, UK)
P52
Biomembrane adhesion by mobile receptor-ligand pairs
S Fenz1, R Merkel 1, K Sengupta2
(1 Institute for Bio- and Nanosystems: Biomechanics, Research Centre Jülich, Germany, 2 Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanosciences de Marseille, France)
P53
A kinesin-based molecular shuttle
H Carstairs1, R Cross2, A J Turberfield1
(1 University of Oxford, UK, 2 Marie Curie Research Institute, UK)
P54
Understanding the Lag Phase Variability of Insulin Fibrillation
Dr Line Jourdain
(University of Edinburgh, UK)
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