Physics of Medicine (PoM) Seminar Series


2009-10-06 14:00: Terahertz technology: Shedding light on cancer (Dr Philip Ashworth, Guy's Hospital)

2009-10-06 14:45: Single cells and single molecules in microdroplets (Dr Jung-uk Shim, Microdroplets Group, Department of Chemistry)

2009-11-09 10:30: Statistical physics modeling of the bacterial flagellar motor (Thierry Mora, Princeton)

2009-11-09 11:00: Information processing in small gene regulatory networks and cascades (Aleksandra Walczak, Centre for Theoretical Science, Princeton)

2009-11-10 14:00: Patterning embryos with oscillations (Andrew Oates, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden)

2010-01-22 14:00: Nuclear structural networks: The hardware for regulation of gene expression and stem cell fate (Harald Hermann, German Cancer Research Centre (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), Heidelberg)

2010-01-28 11:00: Eukaryotic chemotaxis - how amoebae use non-equilibrium physics to figure out where to go (Professor Herbert Levine, Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, California)

2010-03-22 11:30: "Retinal axon guidance in substrate-bound ephrin patterns.". (Prof Martin Bastmeier, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

2010-03-31 11:30: Emerging Concepts in Cancer Biology: Merging Glycobiology and Nanotechnology (Shiladid Sengupta, Harvard and MIT)

2010-04-28 11:30: Probing the dynamics of chronic disease using stable isotopes and mass spectrometry (Dr Robert Busch, ARC Senior Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2010-05-11 16:30: Dynamics of Dpp signaling and growth control (Dr Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan, Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva)

2010-05-12 11:30: Modelling protrusion phenotypes and the force velocity relation to motile cells (Dr. Martin Falcke, Mathematical Cell Physiology, Max-Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin)

2010-05-26 11:30:  dSTORM: Super-resolution imaging with small organic fluorophores (Prof. Dr. Markus Sauer, Department of Biotechnology and Biophysics, University of Wuerzburg)

2010-06-09 11:30: Active Forces and Flow for Cellular Polarization (Stephan Grill, MPI CBG, Dresden)

2010-06-15 15:30: Signal Encoding at the Single-Cell Level (Michael Elowitz, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)

2010-07-01 11:00: DNA replication: for better or for worse (John Bechhoefer, Dept. of Physics, Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada)

2010-07-09 12:30: Physical principles in biological sensing and signalling (Robert Endres, Department of Systems Biology, Imperial college London)

2010-07-20 10:00: Nanostructured-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (NERS) for Surface Science and Molecular Electronics (Professor Z Q Tian, Director, State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University)

2010-07-27 14:00: Physical Model of Contractile Ring Initiation in Dividing Cells (Roie Shlomovitz, Weizmann Institute, Israel))

2010-09-14 13:30: Diffusion in confining geometries: Counter-intuitive analytical results and supporting experiments with ion channels (Sergey M. Bezrukov, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA)

2010-10-17 11:30: Single cell physiology: the control of protein activity at the single (Professor, David Bensimon, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

2010-10-27 11:30: STORM below the localisation limit (Susan Cox, Kings College London)

2010-12-08 11:30: The physics of nerves and lipid ion channels (Thomas Heimburg, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

2011-09-08 14:00: “Spinal cord regeneration in amphibians (Xenopus)” (Professor Juan Larrain, Chile)