Invited Speakers and Programme

• Please click here to see the full oral programme
• Please click here to see poster session 1
• Please click here to see poster session 2

Confirmed Speakers

• New Designed Self-Assembling Peptide Hydrogel Matrices for Tissue Engineering
  A Aggeli, University of Leeds, UK
  
• Cell Mechanics through the Cell Cycle, in Development and Disease
  B Baum, University College London, UK
• Engineered protein pores as components of soft micromachines
  J H P Bayley, University of Oxford, UK
  
• Torque generation and Switching in the Bacterial flagellar motor
  R M Berry, University of Oxford, UK
  
• Solid state nanopores for single-molecule studies
  C Dekker, TU Delft, The Netherlands
  
• Novel Photonics for the Biomedical Sciences
  K Dholakia, University of St Andrews, UK
  
• Spontaneous mechanical oscillations in motor and sensory systems
  T A J Duke, University College London, UK
• Noise and correlations in a spatial population model with cyclic competition
  E Frey, LMU
  
• Hybridization of Semiconductor Chips and Brain Tissue
  P Fromherz, MPI Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
  
• Fluid Dynamics and the Evolution of Biological Complexity
  R Goldstein, University of Cambridge, UK
  
• How a collective ‘computational primitive’ emerges from the ‘device biophysics’ of neurons and neural circuits
  J Hopfield, Princeton University, USA
  
• Mechanical Signaling by Motor Proteins during Mitosis and Cell Motility
  J Howard, MPI Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
  
• Site-Directed Surface Modification by Controlled Lipid Film Spreading and Mixing
  O Orwar, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  
• From Cell to Tissue Dynamics
  J Prost, Institut Curie, France
  
• Physics in Morphogenesis
  B Shraiman, UCSB
• Hidden Symmetries in Virus Architecture and their Implications for Virus Assembly and Viral Evolution
  R Twarock, University of York, UK
  
• Molecular Programming with DNA
  E Winfree, CalTech, USA

Instructions for Presenters

The Bernard Sunley lecture theatre is equipped with the following audio-visual equipment:

• Data projector
• PC / Laptop with PowerPoint facilities (Office XP and Windows XP)
• Laser pointer

Speakers wishing to use additional audio-visual equipment or intending to present from a Macintosh computer are asked to contact Lisa Cornwell (lisa.cornwell@iop.org) before the conference.

Presentations
Speakers are requested to bring their presentations on a CD or USB memory stick and preload them onto the PC located in the lecture theatre.  Speakers should save their presentation into the appropriate pre-named session folders pre-set on the desktop and files should be saved by speakers surname and initial. To optimise compatibility, particularly for the inclusion of multimedia components, PowerPoint presentations should have been saved using PowerPoint’s “Package for CD” facility. Direct connection of personal laptops (with set up in the break prior to the corresponding session) is an acceptable but not preferred alternative.  

The lecture theatre is reasonably large, and speakers should use a minimum 15-point font size in PowerPoint slides to ensure legibility.

Presenters are asked to prepare their talks to match the allocated times which will be rigidly enforced by session chairs.

Poster presentations

Posters will be on display in two sessions in rooms A and C in the BernardSunleyBuilding. Poster boards measure 2.0m high x 1.0m wide (portrait) and all boards are Velcro compatible.  Posters must fit within these dimensions.

• Poster Session 1 (P1) – Monday 14 July 2008
• Poster Session 2 (P2) – Tuesday 15 July 2008

Each presenter is responsible for ensuring that their poster is displayed in the correct session on the board allocated, as specified in the conference programme.

Posters can be displayed from 09:00 on the day of their corresponding session, and must be removed by 18:30 on the same day. Although organisers will endeavour to save poster material, no guarantee can be made for posters not removed at the correct times. 

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