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Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Closing Remarks

UserProfessor Alfonso Martinez Arias ( Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 17:30-17:35

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Planar cell polarity: From cell biology to human disease

UserProfessor John Wallingford, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 17:00-17:25

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Mechanical forces driving zebrafish epiboly

UserDr Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 16:30-16:55

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Collective migration of neural crest cells: a balance of repulsion and attraction

UserProfessor Roberto Mayor, University College London, UK.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 16:00-16:25

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Mechanisms of morphogenesis in early embryos

UserDr Benedicte Sanson, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 15:00-15:25

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Mechanical regulation of the cytoskeleton

UserDan Fletcher, UC Berkeley, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 14:30-14:55

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Zooming into the molecular networks that regulate cellular morphogenesis

UserDr Rafael Carazo Salas, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 12:45-13:10

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Modeling cytoskeletal systems.

UserDr Francois Nedelec, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 12:15-12:40

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Transport in random fields and applications to Drosophila melanogaster

UserDr Isabel Palacios, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 11:45-12:10

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Patterns in active fluids

UserDr Stephan Grill, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 10:30-10:55

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Chromatin, nuclear mechanics and the cytoskeleton

UserDr Megan King, Yale, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 10:00-10:25

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Chemotaxis: linking cell shape, behaviour and strategy

UserRobert Endres, Imperial College, London, UK.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 September 2011, 09:30-09:55

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Controlling the Cell Cycle

Please note this seminar is Fully Booked The Lawrence Bragg Lecture 2011

UserProfessor Sir Paul Nurse, The Royal Society, UK.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 16:50-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Systems Analysis in Single Cells

UserProfessor Mike White, University of Manchester, UK.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 16:20-16:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Tracking stem cells at the single cell level: New tools for old questions

UserDr Timm Schroeder, Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz, Munich, Germany.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 15:50-16:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

'Measuring the molecular dynamics of endocytosis using light microscopy

UserDr Christien Merrifield, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 14:50-15:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Fate restriction and multipotency in retinal stem cells

UserDr Jochen Wittbrobt, Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology and Physiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 14:20-14:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Embryonic patterning with an oscillating cell population

UserDr Andrew Oates, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 13:50-14:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Introduction to Physics of Living Matter Symposium 6

Registration is Required for this Meeting

UserProfessor Alfonso Martinez Arias, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 13:30-13:45

BRC Seminar Series

“Spinal cord regeneration in amphibians (Xenopus)”

UserProfessor Juan Larrain, Chile.

HouseBrain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

ClockThursday 08 September 2011, 14:00-15:00

Lecture on Systems Biology 6/6

UserProfessor Jeremy Gunawardena (Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US).

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 14 April 2011, 14:30-15:30

Lecture on Systems Biology 5/6

UserProfessor Jeremy Gunawardena ( Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US).

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 12 April 2011, 14:30-15:30

Lecture on Systems Biology 4/6

UserProfessor Jeremy Gunawardena (Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US).

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 07 April 2011, 14:30-15:30

Lecture on Systems Biology 3/6

UserProfessor Jeremy Gunawardena, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 05 April 2011, 14:30-15:30

Lecture on Systems Biology 2/6

UserProfessor Jeremy Gunawardena, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 31 March 2011, 14:30-15:30

Lecture on Systems Biology 1/6

UserProfessor Jeremy Gunawardena, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 29 March 2011, 14:30-15:30

Quantitative Cell Imaging with Digital Holographic Microscopy

UserBjörn Kemper, University of Münster, Germany.

HousePhysics of Medicine Seminar Room, PoM Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2011, 10:15-11:15

AFM-Raman-SNOM and Tip Enhanced Raman imaging studies of modern nanostructures

User. Pavel Dorozhkin, NT-MDT Co.

HouseKapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 11:00-12:00

Ill communication: tuning the vertebrate segmentation clock

UserLuis Morelli, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 13 January 2011, 15:30-16:30

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

The physics of nerves and lipid ion channels

UserThomas Heimburg, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockWednesday 08 December 2010, 11:30-12:30

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

STORM below the localisation limit

UserSusan Cox, Kings College London.

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockWednesday 27 October 2010, 11:30-12:30

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Single cell physiology: the control of protein activity at the single

CANCELLED will be rescheduled later in the Year CANCELLED

UserProfessor, David Bensimon, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockSunday 17 October 2010, 11:30-12:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

The social biology of sucrose utilization in yeast: I might like you better if we stuck together

The Bragg Lecture 2010

UserAndrew Murray, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Harvard University, Boston, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 17:30-18:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Collective Cell Migration: Leadership, Invasion and Segregation

UserAlexandre Kabla, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 17:00-17:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Tissue tectonics: quantitative morphogenesis across spatial and temporal scales

UserGuy Blanchard, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurobiology, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 16:30-17:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

The physical forces behind collective cell migration

UserXavier Trepat, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 15:30-16:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Rigidity comes with age: biomechanical models of tip growth

UserBela Mulder, Fundamental Research on Matter Institute, Amsterdam, Holland.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 15:00-15:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Forces and Regulation for Cell Sheet Movements in Dorsal Closure

UserDan Kiehart, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 14:30-15:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Experimental studies and simulations of factors that power and steer mitotic spindle movements

UserViji Draviam, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 14:00-14:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Tracking stem cells at the single cell level: new tools for old questions

UserTimm Schroeder, Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 11:30-12:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

A role for structured noise in developmental pattern refinement

UserBuzz Baum, LMCB University College London, London.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 11:00-11:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Variability in the cellular response to death receptor ligands

UserSuzanne Gaudet, Dana Farber Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 10:00-10:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Universal patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissue

UserAllon Klein, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard University, Boston, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 09:30-10:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

The gene regulatory logic for reading the Sonic Hedgehog morphogen gradient in the neural tube

UserJames Briscoe, NIMR Mill Hill, London.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 09:00-09:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

PLM5 Day 2

User..

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 September 2010, 08:55-18:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Development of connections in the Drosophila nervous system - from growth to function

UserMichael Bate, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 September 2010, 17:30-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Mechanics in neuronal development

UserKristian Franze, Department of Physics. The Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 September 2010, 17:00-17:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Cell dynamics driving gastrulation in the mouse embryo

UserKat Hadjantonakis, Sloan Kettering Memorial, New York, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 September 2010, 16:30-17:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Understanding How Cell Movements Direct Early Mouse Embryogenesis

UserShankar Srinivas, Department of Physiology, anatomy and genetics, University of Oxford.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 September 2010, 16:00-16:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Matricellular Elasticity and Nuclear Rigidification with Epigenetic implications

UserDennis Discher, Biophysical Engineering lab at University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 September 2010, 15:00-15:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Sequential activation of apical and basolateral contractility drives ascidian endoderm invagination

UserPatrick Lemaire, University of Marseille.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 September 2010, 14:30-15:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Growth, Form and Patterning in Development

UserBoris Shraiman, KITP University Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 September 2010, 14:00-14:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Day 1 PLM5

User..

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 September 2010, 13:30-18:00

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Diffusion in confining geometries: Counter-intuitive analytical results and supporting experiments with ion channels

UserSergey M. Bezrukov, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory (**Note non-standard location**).

ClockTuesday 14 September 2010, 13:30-14:30

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Physical Model of Contractile Ring Initiation in Dividing Cells

UserRoie Shlomovitz, Weizmann Institute, Israel).

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockTuesday 27 July 2010, 14:00-15:00

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Nanostructured-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (NERS) for Surface Science and Molecular Electronics

Cancelled, sorry for short notice

UserProfessor Z Q Tian, Director, State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University.

HouseKapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 20 July 2010, 10:00-11:00

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Physical principles in biological sensing and signalling

UserRobert Endres, Department of Systems Biology, Imperial college London.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockFriday 09 July 2010, 12:30-13:30

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

DNA replication: for better or for worse

UserJohn Bechhoefer, Dept. of Physics, Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada.

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockThursday 01 July 2010, 11:00-12:00

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Signal Encoding at the Single-Cell Level

UserMichael Elowitz, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 15 June 2010, 15:30-16:30

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Active Forces and Flow for Cellular Polarization

UserStephan Grill, MPI CBG, Dresden.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockWednesday 09 June 2010, 11:30-12:30

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

dSTORM: Super-resolution imaging with small organic fluorophores

UserProf. Dr. Markus Sauer, Department of Biotechnology and Biophysics, University of Wuerzburg.

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 11:30-12:30

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Modelling protrusion phenotypes and the force velocity relation to motile cells

This talk is jointly organised with TCM

UserDr. Martin Falcke, Mathematical Cell Physiology, Max-Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin.

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockWednesday 12 May 2010, 11:30-12:30

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Dynamics of Dpp signaling and growth control

UserDr Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan, Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Probing the dynamics of chronic disease using stable isotopes and mass spectrometry

UserDr Robert Busch, ARC Senior Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 11:30-12:30

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Emerging Concepts in Cancer Biology: Merging Glycobiology and Nanotechnology

UserShiladid Sengupta, Harvard and MIT.

HousePart 2 Seminar Room, Department of Genetics.

ClockWednesday 31 March 2010, 11:30-12:30

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

"Retinal axon guidance in substrate-bound ephrin patterns.".

UserProf Martin Bastmeier, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockMonday 22 March 2010, 11:30-12:30

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Eukaryotic chemotaxis - how amoebae use non-equilibrium physics to figure out where to go

UserProfessor Herbert Levine, Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, California.

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockThursday 28 January 2010, 11:00-12:00

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Nuclear structural networks: The hardware for regulation of gene expression and stem cell fate

UserHarald Hermann, German Cancer Research Centre (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), Heidelberg.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 22 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Patterning embryos with oscillations

UserAndrew Oates, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockTuesday 10 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Information processing in small gene regulatory networks and cascades

UserAleksandra Walczak, Centre for Theoretical Science, Princeton.

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockMonday 09 November 2009, 11:00-11:30

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Statistical physics modeling of the bacterial flagellar motor

UserThierry Mora, Princeton.

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockMonday 09 November 2009, 10:30-11:00

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Single cells and single molecules in microdroplets

UserDr Jung-uk Shim, Microdroplets Group, Department of Chemistry.

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockTuesday 06 October 2009, 14:45-15:30

Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series

Terahertz technology: Shedding light on cancer

UserDr Philip Ashworth, Guy's Hospital.

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockTuesday 06 October 2009, 14:00-14:40

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Cell cortex mechanics: of blebs and other intriguing aspects of cell shape

UserDr Ewa Paluch, MPI-CBG, Dresden.

HouseSeminar Room, Centre for Physics of Medicine (PoM).

ClockThursday 24 September 2009, 13:30-14:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Physics of Living Matter 4 (day2)

Usersee abstract for detials.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 23 September 2009, 09:00-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Physics of Living Matter 4 (day1)

Usersee abstract for details.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 22 September 2009, 13:00-18:10

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

L. Bragg lecture: "Single-Molecule Approach for Biochemistry, Molecular Biology ... and Beyond"

Chair: Professor Peter Littlewood

UserProfessor Sunney Xie, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology University of Harvard.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Shape, Polarity and Individuation of Animal Cells

UserDr Michel Bornens, Institute Curie, France.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 15:00-15:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Title to be confirmed

UserDr. Damian Brunner, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 14:30-15:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Title to be confirmed

Chair: Professor Alfonso Martinez Arias

UserDr Krystyne J. Van Vliet, Department of Materials Science & Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 14:00-14:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissues

UserProfessor Ben Simons, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 12:00-12:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Multipotency and Cell Fate decision on the Epigenetic Landscape: From Metaphor to Molecules and Mathematical Model

UserDr Sui Huang, Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 11:30-12:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Excitable systems in cell populations

UserDr. Jordi Garcia Ojalvo, Polytechnical University of Barcelona, Spain.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 11:00-11:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies

UserProfessor David A Lomas, Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 10:00-10:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

DNA: Not just a double helix

UserDr Julian Huppert, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 09:30-10:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Glimpses of quantum mechanics in biology

Physics, Molecules and Cells - Chair: Dr David Summers

UserProfessor Mike Payne, Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 17 December 2008, 09:00-09:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

GRAND OPENING of the Physics of Medicine Building

UserProfessor Alison Richard, Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge Professor Sir Aaron Klug, MRC LMB, Cambridge Professor David Delpy, Chief Executive of EPSRC.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 16:00-18:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Computer modelling of the heart

UserProfessor Denis Noble, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 15:00-15:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Reverse engineering the brain: what photons and electrons can tell us about thought.

UserProfessor Winfried Denk, Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research, Biomedizinische Optuik, Germany.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 14:30-15:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Of mice, men, and microscopes: Watching the brain dynamics of motor control at the cellular scale in behaving subjects

UserDr Mark Schnitzer, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 14:00-14:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Medical Materials

Physics and Medicine (cont) – Chair Professor Athene Donald

UserDr Ruth Cameron, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 13:30-14:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

New materials for regenerative medicine applications

UserProfessor Kevin Shakesheff, Professor of Advanced Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 12:00-12:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Mechanical manipulation of single molecules in nanopores

UserDr Ulrich Keyser, Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 11:00-11:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Novel Photonics for the Biomedical Sciences

UserProfessor Kishan Dholakia, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 10:30-11:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Imaging biology in the cancer patient

Session 1: Physics and Medicine – Chair Professor Peter Littlewood

UserProfessor Kevin Brindle Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 10:00-10:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Physics of Living Matter 3

registration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you

Userregistration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 09:00-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

From words to literature in structural proteomics

L Bragg Lecture

UserWolfgang Baumeister Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried (Germany).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Molecular imaging using hyperpolarised carbon-13

From molecules to cells

UserFerdia Gallagher Departments of Biochemistry and Radiology, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 16:30-17:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

No harm in looking? The effects of optical imaging on cytoplasm

From molecules to cells

UserBrad Amos MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 15:30-16:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

The poroelastic properties of cytoplasm: theory and experiments

From molecules to cells

UserGuillaume Charras UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology, London (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 15:00-15:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Structure and dynamics of the cell membrane and cytoskeleton

From molecules to cells

UserPietro Cicuta Department of Physics, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 14:30-15:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Where mechanics and biochemistry meet: probing the dynamics of cell polarization and morphogenesis

Dynamics of cell assemblies

UserEd Munro Center for Cells Dynamics, Friday Harbor Labs, University of Washington, Seattle (USA).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 12:00-12:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Coupling cell cycle morphogenesis and mitotic spindle orientation to regulate tissue morphogenesis

Dynamics of cell assemblies

UserYohanns Bellaiche Curie Institute, Paris (France).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 11:30-12:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Biomechanics of epithelial sheet movements (in Drosophila)

Dynamics of cell assemblies

UserNicole Gorfinkiel, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 11:00-11:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

To see the light - living optical fibers in the vertebrate retina

Dynamics of cell assemblies

UserJochen Guck Department of Physics, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 10:00-10:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Morphogen transport and gradient formation

Dynamics of cell assemblies

UserFrank Jülicher Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden (Germany).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 09:30-10:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Mesoscopic events in living cells: insights from bacterial chemotaxis

Dynamics of cell assemblies

UserDennis Bray Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 09:00-09:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Physics and the designs of brains

Emerging properties of biological networks

UserSimon Laughlin Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 17:30-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Spontaneous activity in the developing nervous system: form and function

Emerging properties of biological networks

UserStephen Eglen. DAMTP, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 17:00-17:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Creation and destruction of biological polymer networks

Emerging properties of biological networks

UserDyche Mullins Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of San Francisco (USA).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 16:30-17:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Shift happens: A systems-level analysis of the gap gene network in Drosophila

Emerging properties of biological networks

UserJohannes Jaeger Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 15:30-16:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Evidence for the influence of nuclear architecture in shaping the organisation of genes in eukaryotic chromosomes

Emerging properties of biological networks

UserMadan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 15:00-15:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Learning from the worm: predicting phenotype from genotype

Emerging properties of biological networks

UserAndrew Fraser, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 14:30-15:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Closing Remarks

UserProfessor Peter Littlewood (Department of Physics, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 17:15-17:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

The brain as a statistical machine

The Activity of Living Matter

UserProfessor Daniel Wolpert (Department of Engineering, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 16:45-17:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Physical principles of sensory transduction

The Activity of Living Matter

UserDr Tom Duke, Department of Physics, Cambridge.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 16:15-16:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Evolving mechanisms of Pattern Generation: Segmentation in Animals

The Activity of Living Matter

UserProfessor Michael Akam (Laboratory for Development and Evolution, Department of Zoology, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 15:15-15:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Kinetics of Morphogen Gradient Formation

The Activity of Living Matter

UserDr Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan (Cell Biology, Geneva, Switzerland).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 14:45-15:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Imaging embryonic morphogenesis

The Activity of Living Matter

UserDr Richard Adams (Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 14:15-14:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Reaction diffusion and collective behavior in the self-organisation of the mitotic spindle

The Activity of Living Matter

UserProfessor Eric Karsenti (EMBL, Heidelberg).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 12:00-12:50

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Multidimensional fluorescence imaging in living cells

Watching Living Matter

UserDr Clemens Kaminski (Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 11:30-12:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Studying Single Molecules on living cells

Watching Living Matter

UserDr David Klenerman (Department of Chemistry, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 11:00-11:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Dissecting a protein-protein interaction in living cells

Watching Living Matter

UserProfessor Ashok Venkitaraman, MRC Hutchison Laboratory.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 10:00-10:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Watching and modelling limb development

Watching Living Matter

UserDr James Sharpe (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 09:30-10:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Visualisation and Modelling of Plant Morphogenesis

Watching Living Matter

UserDr Jim Haseloff (Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 09:00-09:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Imaging the Developmental Mechanics of the Heart

The Structure of Living Matter

UserProfessor Scott Fraser (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 17:15-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

How nature "designs" elastic polymers

The Structure of Living Matter

UserDr Jane Clarke, Department of Chemistry.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 16:45-17:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Can Polymer Physics Help Cellular Biomedicine?

The Structure of Living Matter

UserProfessor Josef Käs (Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 16:15-16:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Physical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity

The Structure of Living Matter

UserProfessor Ray Goldstein (DAMTP, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 15:15-15:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Soft Matter Physics of Cells

The Structure of Living Matter

UserProfessor Athene Donald (Department of Physics, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 14:45-15:15

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Understanding Biology from the Atomistic Scale

The Structure of Living Matter

UserProfessor Mike Payne, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 14:15-14:45

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Introduction and Welcome

UserProfessor Peter Littlewood (Department of Physics, Cambridge).

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 14:00-14:15

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