Biological and Soft Materials
October 4-8, 2010, Freiburg Germany
This symposium will examine recent theoretical and computational advances in modeling structure and function of biological materials on both the molecular and cellular scale. A particular emphasis will be placed on understanding the assembly and mechanical behavior of membranes, biopolymer networks and cells. Fruitful overlap exists with other soft materials such as polymers, colloids, gels, and other complex fluids. Reaching biologically relevant timescales is not possible with molecular level approaches alone, but requires systematic and carefully informed coarse-grained models.
Focus areas will include:
- Polymers and colloids
- Membrane biophysics
- Mechanical properties of biopolymer networks
- Coarse-graining techniques for soft and biological materials
- Cell and tissue mechanics (jointly with Micromechanics symposium)
Organizers
Jörg Rottler
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of British Columbia
6224 Agricultural Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
jrottler(at)phas.ubc.ca
Krishna Garikipati
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122, USA
krishna(at)umich.edu
Siewert-Jan Marrink
Dept of Biophysical Chemistry
University of Groningen
Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
s.j.marrink(at)rug.nl
Hermann Grabert
Physikalisches Institut
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Hermann-Herder-Str.3, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
grabert(at)physik.uni-freiburg.de
Invited Speakers
- Pepe Espanol, University UNED, Madrid, Spain
- Mikko Haataja, Princeton University, USA
- Kurt Kremer, Max Planck-Institute für Polymer Research MPIP, Mainz, Germany
- Ard Louis, University of Oxford, UK
- Erik Luijten, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
- Ulrich Schwarz, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Cornelis Storm, University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Peter Tieleman, University of Calgary, Canada
- Zun-Jing Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, USA
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