BSS Formal Seminars

The influence of matrix geometry and stiffness on cancer invasion

Erik Sahai (Cancer Research UK, London).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Rigidity Theory and Some Applications

Micheal Thorpe.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 03 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Engineered protein pores in nanotechnology and single-enzyme studies

Giovanni Maglia, Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Belgium.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 31 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Approaching biology discretely

Professor Timothy Newman (Univ. Dundee).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Artificial Cells in Picoliter Droplets

Prof Wilhelm Huck (Nijmegen - Radboud Universiteit).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Unified study of glass and jamming rheology in soft particle systems

Peter Sollich, Department of Mathematics, King's College London.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Mesenchymal stem cell response to nanotopographical features

Matthew Dalby (Univ Glasgow).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Patchy colloids: a simple model for complex fluids

Speaker to be confirmed.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 26 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Chemotaxome – A new member with complex biological entities in systems biology.

Kohidai, Laszlo MD, PhD, Med.Habil. Cell Biology, Assoc. Professor Chemotaxis Research Group – SRI Core Facility Department of Genetics, Cell- & Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 12 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Stressing Out Cells: flow-induced migration of endothelial cells and cell adhesion on hydrogels

Prof Gerry Fuller, University of Stanford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 28 March 2013, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Extreme Mechanics of Marginal Matter

Martin van Hecke, Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, University of Leiden.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 01 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Polymer and hybrid nanostructures for applications in organic solar cells investigated with advanced x-ray techniques

Prof. Peter Müller-Buschbaum (Technische Universität München ).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 22 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nano-optics of complex media

R. Sapienza, King's College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Euler's elasticas and their applications to DNA, nucleosomes and chromatin fibers

Prof Helmut Schiessel (Leiden).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Observations of a mathematician running a wet-lab: decades of pharmacology, MICs, efflux pumps, drug interactions and antibiotic resistance in the context of models and genomics

Prof Robert Beardmore (Exeter University).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 01 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Molecular bionics: copying Nature to control Nature

Prof Beppe Battaglia (University of Sheffield).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Leverhulme Lecture: The translocation of polymers across nanometer sized pores in membranes

Prof Sandip Ghosal (Northwestern University).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Julie MacPherson, University of Warwick, UK.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Structure Formation Induced by Crystallization in P3HT/PCBM Blends

Dr Alessandro Sepe.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

How One Cell Eats Another - Physical Principles in Phagocytosis

Dr Robert Endres, University College London, UK.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Vibrational spectroscopy for cell differentiation and imaging

Dr Imran Patel.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Social Fluids

Professor Matthew Turner, University of Warwick, UK.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

High Performance Ordered Nanostructured Membranes from Block Copolymers

Dr Nataraj Sanna Kotrappanavar.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Influence of the Glass Transition on the Liquid-gas Spinodal Decomposition

Professor Walter Kob, Universite Montpellier 2, France.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Cellulose based advanced Materials

Dr Ahu Gumrah Parry.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Colloidal Dispersions in External Fields

Professor Stefan Egelhaaf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Lithium salt as a redox active p-type dopant for Spiro OMeTad in Dyes Sensitised Solar Cell

Dr Sandeep Pathak.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Bioactive glasses and their hybrids as scaffolds for regenerative medicine

Dr Julian Jones, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 26 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Dynamics of lambda-DNA coated colloids: theory and simulation

Taiki Yanagishima .

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Coarse-grained modelling of DNA for biophysics and nanotechnology

Dr Ard Louis, Rudolph Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, UK.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 19 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Lipid Nanobilayers to Host Biological Nanopores for Bio-sensing Applications

Dr Chandrashekhar V Kulkarni.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

az302's list

Dynamic arrest in polymer gels

Johan Mattsson, Soft Matter Physics Group School of Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds.

Small Lecture Theater.

Friday 12 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanoparticle-based electrodes for sustainable energy

Dr Scott Warren, Northwestern University.

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

Tuesday 17 July 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Impacts of Heating on Passive and Active Biomechanics of Cells

Joseph Chan.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Immunological implications of substrate stiffness

Gilbert Ng.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

"Raindrop" Coalescence of Polymer Chains During Coil-Globule Transition

Anna Lappala.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Robyn Pritchard.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

It's tough at low Reynolds number: Making miniature robots that swim

Simon Nathan.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Robert Unwin.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Shocks in fragile matter

Professor Vincenzo Vitelli, Instituut-Lorentz for theoretical physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Harriet Boswell.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Marie Payne.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Ionomer Design Principles for Ion-Conducting Energy Materials

Professor Ralph Colby, Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Organic Solar Cells: Cross-sectional Imaging and Polymer Characterisation

Tom Glen.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 12:30-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Alignment, Elongation, and Directed Migration of Cells on Textured Surfaces

Jonny Huang.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 12:30-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Structure and evolution of high-density protein systems

John Ioannou.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 12:30-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Single molecule imaging of protein pore assembly using droplet interface bilayers

Dr Mark Wallace, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Physical methods applied to study signaling in single macrophage cells

Eugenia Cammarota.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Microtubules: a template for nanomaterial assembly and transport

Stephen Fleming.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Engineering cellular systems

Dr Jim Hasellof, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Transport of Molecules across Lipid Membranes

Jehangir Cama.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 24 April 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

DNA Crowding in Nanocapillaries

Nadanai Laohakunakorn.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 24 April 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Sarah Rong.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 20 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Non stick surfaces and self motile particles: some old and new problems in colloid physics

Professor Richard Jones, University of Sheffield, UK.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Catalin Chimerel.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Gen Kamita.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Peter Smith, Institute of Life Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Li Li.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Photons, dust, and honeybees

Diederik Wiersma, European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Florence, Italy.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Hydrogel Microrheology - Measuring Heterogeneity on the Micron Scale

Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Reinhard Miller, Max-Planck Institute for Colloids & Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

The capillary interaction between vertical cylinders

Himantha Cooray.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Shaping the Future of Manipulation

Professor Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, UK.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Nick Thompson.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Functionalised nanoparticles and SERS for bioanalysis

Professor Duncan Graham, University of Strathclyde, UK.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Thermophoresis of thermoresponsive colloids

Simon Wongsuwarn.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Mesoscopic Systems: Synthesis, Interactions and Analysis

Professor Dr Helmut Cölfen, University Konstanz, Germany.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Buckling of viscoelastic protein films

Elodie Aumaitre.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Deconstructing Nuclear Pore Complex Function by Bio-Synthetic Reconstruction

Professor Roderick Lim, University of Basel, Switzerland.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Infection of macrophages by S. Typhimurium: a study of dynamics and mechanical aspects

Sarra Achouri.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 17 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Clive Roberts, University of Nottingham, UK.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Smith Sangiambut.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Michael Hausser, Univeristy College London, UK.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Peter Herrick.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 22 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Crystallization and Structure Formation in Donor-Acceptor Block Copolymers for Applications in Organic Photovoltaics

Professor Thomas Thurn-Albrecht, Martin Luther Unversity, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Gyroid Solar Cells Using ALD

Pedro Cunha.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 15 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Using bespoke fluorescence microscopy to study the soft matter of living cells at the single molecule level

Dr Mark Leake, University of Oxford, UK.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Grant.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Combining Optical and Electrochemical Devices to Investigate Activities of Biological Nano-Structures

Dr Stephane Arbault, University of Bordeaux, France.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Tunable mesoporous Bragg reflectors for sensing and light harvesting based on block-copolymer self-assembly

Stefan Guldin.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Probing liquid crystal elastomers with light

Professor Martin Copic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Buckling of protein film with finite shear properties

Elodie Aumaitre.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Hydrodynamic interactions: from Brownian motion to swimming bacteria

Dr Roberto Dileonardo, University of Rome, Italy.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Rigidity transitions of complex fluids under deformation

Dr Alessio Zaccone.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Gyroid-structured functional materials via deposition into self-assembled copolymer templates

Maik Scherer.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 11 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Cell mechanics and chromatin dynamics in embryonic stem cells

Markus Höpfler.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 14 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Aggregation of Gap Junctions

Prof. Phillip Pincus, Univ. of California Santa Barbara, USA.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Microbial Fuel Cells

Nimalika Perera.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 07 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Interactions and self assembly of heavy colloids on cross-linked polymer networks soft surfaces

Lorenzo Di Michele.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 07 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Medical Image Registration Using Graphical Processing Units

Audrunas Gruslys.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 31 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Polymeric and nanocomposite membrane for gas separation

Qilei Song.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 31 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Porous Multilayers: Novel Multifunctional Optical Materials for Applications

Dr. Hernán Míguez, Institute of Materials Science of Seville, Spain.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Red blood cell mechanics & malaria

Alex Crick.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 24 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

A better picture of the bacteria nucleoid organization

Avelino Javer Godinez.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 24 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Colloidal Gas-Liquid-Solid phase transitions induced by the Critical Casimir Effect

Dr. Peter Schall, University of Amsterdam.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Use of a supramolecular switch to move colloids along a surface

Alexandre Nicolas.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 17 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Hydrodynamic coupling and synchronization of oscillators at micrometric scales

Nicolas Bruot.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 17 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Propagation of light through the retina

Zuzanna Blaszczak.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Intracellular Transport in Drosophila Oocytes

Philipp Khuc Trong.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Umbrella Sampling with Laser Tweezers: Measurement of the Pair Potential of Charged Colloidal Stars

Prof. Seth Fraden ( Brandeis University, USA).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Probing Soft Structures

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~pschall/index.html

Prof. Peter Schall, vander Waals Zeeman Institute, Univ. Amsterdam.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Single Channel Recordings in Nanopipette-Supported Bilayers

Oliver Pambos.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Vivek Thacker.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Electrochemical detection in nanochannels: a new single-molecule technique

Prof. Searge J. G. Lemay, University of Twente, The Netherlands.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Transmission Imaging in the ESEM - what is it and why should you care?

Lech Staniewicz.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 15 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Multivariant gradient assemblies of oligomers and polymers on flat surfaces

Prof. Jan Genzer, North Carolina State University, USA..

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Microrheology of cell differentiation, activation and phagocytosis

Andrew Ekpenyong.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 01 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Mechanics and growth of tissues

Jean-Francois Joanny, Institute Curie.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Microfluidics and Chitosan

Sarah Gallagher.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Liquid Crystal and Nonequilibrium states in mixed suspensions of mineral colloidal plates and spheres

Prof. Henk Lekkerkerker, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Thick DNA brushes and surface elasticity

Taiki Yanagishima.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Some Exploration of Polymer Solar Cell Morphology

Paul Hopkinson.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 08 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Active Emulsions

Prof. Seth Fraden, Brandeis University, USA.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Assessing stem cell function and differentiation state with global, physical phenotypes

Dr Kevin Chalut.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

A quantitative characterisation method of cellular, porous and granular structures

Dr Rafi Blumenfeld.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Molecular dynamics at nanometric length-scales

Prof. Fridrich Kremer, University Leipzig, Germany.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 January 2011, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Carbon Nanotubes above Nano-scale

Shery Huang.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 18 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Molecular dynamics at nanometric length-scales

Prof. Fridrich Kremer.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 08 December 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Kidney Transplantation

Dr. Frederieke Bemelman, Head of Kidney transplants, Hospital of Amsterdam (AMC), Netherlands.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 December 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Optics of the Retina

Moritz Kreysing.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 30 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

The strange world of low Reynolds numbers: Fluiddynamics at the micron scale

Professor Holger Stark, Technical University, Berlin.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 09:30-10:30

BSS Formal Seminars

The strange world of low Reynolds numbers: Fluiddynamics at the micron scale

Professor Holger Stark, Technical University, Berlin.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 09:30-10:30

BSS Informal Seminars

Development of Nanoporous Structures Using Block Copolymers

Paul Zavala-Rivera.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Bottom-Up Meets Top-Down for Complex yet Well-Ordered Surface Patterns

Dr Myunghwan Byun.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Proteomic and cell biological approaches to the study of clathrin in a vertebrate conditional knockout cell-line

http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?apj10

Dr. Tony Jackson, Univ. Cambridge, Neuroscience.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 19 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Rheology of Mitotic Cells

Dr Ulysse Delabre.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Developing cell-scale biomimetic models involving lipid vesicles.

Miglena Angelova, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 12 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Why Do We Like Flowers

Dr Silvia Vignolini.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 09 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Out of Equilibrium Dynamics of Thin Polymer Films – The Effects of Spin Coating

Katherine Thomas.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 02 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

self-assembly of colloidal molecules.

Prof. Willem Kegel, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Nature's Mimics: Adventures in Ligation and Polymerisation

Dr Amanda Evans.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Plasmon-induced DNA damage?

Prof. Zdenka Kuncic, University of Sidney.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 22 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Marc Gheoghegan, Reader in Experimental Polymer Science, Univ. Sheffield.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 11:00-12:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Mapping of Mechanical Properties of Central Nervous System Tissue

Andreas Christ.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Pouria Moshayedi.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Tuesday 12 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Bacterial swarming in Pseudomonas A.: socio-microbiology or hydrodynamics?

Prof. Jan Vermant, Unive Leuven, Belgium.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanoplasmonics: Classical oscillator physics at the nanoscale

Prof. Stefan Maier, Experimental Solid State Group Department of Physics Imperial College London.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 June 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Physical Aspects of Multicellular Behaviour

http://cit.kuleuven.be/ltrk/JV/Homepage_Jan_Vermant.html

Dr. Knut Drescher, DAMTP, Cambridge, UK.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 June 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Insights into disorder

Dr. Tomaso Aste, Materials Dept, Univ. Kent.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 May 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Microfluidics: a tool for discovery and development

Prof. Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 May 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

New Breath: regenerative medicine of the airways

Prof. M. Birchall, Professor of Laryngology and Consultant Laryngologist at The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and Reader in Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Bristol.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 May 2010, 15:15-16:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Active self-organization of the actin cytoskeleton driven by molecular motors

Dr. Gijsje Koenderinck.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 07 May 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Nature's Mimics: Adventures in Ligation and Polymerisation

Dr Amanda Evans.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Jo Gornell.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Overview of the Cavendish Microscopy Facilities

Dr Richard Langdord.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Wires, Reporters and Information Capsules: Cellular journalism with DNA.

Dr. Yamuna Krishnan ( National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India).

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 19 February 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

The Optical Stretcher - a hot topic?

Dr Graeme Whyte.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

How disordered is a pile of marbles? Numerical techniques to quantify disorder.

Prof. Daan Frenkel, University of Cambridge, Theoretical Chemistry.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 12 February 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Granular Aggregation at Interfaces

Himatha Cooray.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Insulin fibril formation: nucleation mechanisms and morphologies

Dr Vito Fodera.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

What keeps sand-castles standing? The physics of wet granular matter

Prof. Stefan Herminghaus, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Sensing DNA with Glass Nanopores

Lorenz Steinbock.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

In Vivo studies with Optical Tweezers

Prof. Lene B. Oddershede, Niels Bohr Institute, Univ. Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

DNA homology recognition: love on first sight

Prof. Alexei A. Kornyshev, Imperial College London.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 December 2009, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Juergen Schmidtke.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Nataliya Yufa.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 18 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Flow-Induced “Shish-kebab” Formation: A New-Scenario of Kinetic Pathways for􀀁Entangled Polymer Solutions

Takeji Hashimoto, Prof. Emeritus, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 16 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Intracellular signalling in a molecular jungle: insights from bacterial chemotaxis

Prof. Dennis Bray.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Structure and stability of G-Quadruplexes

Linda Payet.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Colloidal Characterization and Thermodynamic Stability of Binary Protein Mixtures

Prof. Giuseppe Foffi.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

David Barbero.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Overview Of The Microscopy Suite

Dr Richard M Langford.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Engineered protein pores as components of soft micromachines

Hagan Bayley.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Katherine McCall.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 28 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Cells Under the Tip

http://www.pellinglab.net/people.htm

Prof. Andrew E. Pelling, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Elena Blanco.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Protein dynamics and amyloid formation: two sides of the same coin

Alfonso de Simone (University of Cambridge).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Ellie Kim.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Elli Kim.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Dipolar Gels

Dr Mark Miller (University of Cambridge).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Protein dynamics and amyloid formation: two sides of the same coin

Alfonso de Simone (University of Cambridge).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 September 2009, 14:00-15:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Biodegradable Plastic Production

Nicholas Thomson.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 10 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

On the Microrheology of Microgels

Simon Wongsuwarn.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 10 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

The Flexibility Window in Networks and Proteins

Prof. Mike Thorpe, Arizona State University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 08 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Chemically modifying surfaces and biomolecules for nanopore analysis

Dr Stefan Howorka, Department of Chemistry, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 05 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Biomolecular transport through the nuclear pore complex

Oliver Otto.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 03 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Resistive Pulse Technique for Sensing of Nanocolloids

Lorenz Steinbock ( Cavendish Laboratory).

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 03 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Cell adhesion and spreading on patterned substrates

Kevin Kung.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 03 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Survival of the aligned: Modeling the cortical microtubule array in plant cells

Bela Mulder, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wageningen University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Self-assembled nanostructures for dye-sensitised solar cells - 15min on how to capture light by a photonic crystal and other fancy structures.

Stefan Guldin.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 27 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Nanoporous Hybrid Electrochromic Materials

Li Li.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 27 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nucleation and growth of insulin fibrils in bulk solution and at hydrophobic polystyrene surfaces

Dr. James Sharp, School of Physics and Astronomy and Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre, University of Nottingham.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 22 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Hydrophobin: a protein out of the ordinary

Elodie Aumaitre (University of Cambridge).

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 20 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Granular Systems: Aggregation and Deformation

Himantha Cooray (University of Cambridge).

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 20 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Thick & thin: physics of polymers with sticky ends.

Prof. Martien Cohen Stuart, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Simulating biological nanopores with microfluidic channels

Catalin Chimerel.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

On the theory of the optical stretcher

Lars Boyde (University of Cambridge).

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Non-equilibrium fluctuations and mechanics of active gels and living cells

Fred Mackintosh, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Aggregation of Aromatic Short Peptides into Viscoelastic Nanotube Networks

Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts.

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 06 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Mimicking animal adhesion in the lab

Pedro Cunha (University of Cambridge).

The Seminar Room, Physics of Medicine Building.

Wednesday 06 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

On fluctuations, dissipation and diffusion in external potentials

Professor Eugene Terentjev ( Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Edwards Room, Bragg building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 29 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Two-dimensional colloidal systems in optical and magnetic fields

Roel Dullens, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 April 2009, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Surface Properties of a ''Simple'' Polymer Monolayer

Elisabetta Spigone.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Identification of structure-conserving correlated motions in the β-sheet of ubiquitin

Xavier Salvatella, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, IRB Barcelona.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Young-Zoon Yoon.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 04 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

The Molecular Mechanism of Nuclear Protein Import

Dr Murray Stewart, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Particle Tracking Microrheology Around the Sol-Gel Transition

Adam Corrigan.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Microfluidic assembly of functional hydrogel particles

Chia-Hung Chen.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 18 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

The effect of network topology on pattern recognition in neural networks

Petra Vertes.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 11 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Forms and Flows of Ferrofluids

Dr Reinhard Richter, Experimentalphysik 5, Universität Bayreuth, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

The investigations and potential investigations carried with a focussed ion beam

Dr Debbie Waller.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 04 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

The unique retina of the elephant nose fish - a bio-physical project

Dr Mike Franke.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 28 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Canceled

Dr James Sharp, School of Physics and Astronomy and Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre , University of Nottingham.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Experiments on cytoskeletal and “Recombinase” motors

Dr Giovanni Cappello, Institut Curie, France.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Understanding shape and traction of adherent cells

Prof. Ulrich Schwarz, University of Karlsruhe & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 05 December 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

The optical architecture of photoreceptor nuclei

Moritz Kreysing.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Neuromechanics in Regeneration and Development

Andreas Christ.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

A singular view of DNA transactions

Dr Gijs Wuite, Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Paul Hopkinson.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Forced Mode Oscillations of Phospholid Vesicles

Aidan Brown.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Pola Goldberg-Oppenheimer.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Michelle Rigozzi.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Rare events and the flipping of genetic switches

Dr Rosalind Allen, School of Physics, University of Edinburgh.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Andreas Christ.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Moritz Kreysing.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Designing Molecular Swimmers

Prof. Ramin Golestanian, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 07 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Neural Cells and Substrate Mechanics: A Biomedical View

Pouria Moshayedi.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Stem cell measurements with the Optical Stretcher

Franziska Lautenschlaeger.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Biological Photonics: Controlling the Flow of Colour

Dr Peter Vukusic, School of Physics, University of Exeter.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 31 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Dispersion and stabilization of CNTs in silicone elastomers

Shery Huang.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Can classical rubber elasticity be applied to semi-flexible filament networks?

Jamie Blundell.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Light Scattering Detects Changes In Subcellular Structure And Organization With Connections To Cell Function

Dr Kevin Chalut.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

The biophysical properties of microtubules and their technological potential

Prof. Jack Tuszynski, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Optical force and torque on a spheroid: Generalized Lorenz Mie Theory

Dr Feng Xu, TU Darmstadt, Germany.

Edwards Room, Bragg building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 23 June 2008, 14:30-15:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Optically-assisted interrogation of cells

Dr Lynn Paterson, Physics Department, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Quadruplexes. What else ?

Dr Jean-Louis Mergny, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle USM 503, Regulation et Dynamique des Genomes, Paris, France.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Designing Self-Propelled Polymeric Capsules and Gels

Prof Anna C Balazs, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Force generation at dynamic microtubule ends

Prof Marileen Dogterom, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, AmsterdamThe Netherlands.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Reverse engineering cell mechanics

Prof. Daniel Fletcher, UC Berkeley, USA.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Capillary-Gravity Waves

Elie Raphael, ESPCI, Paris, France.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Modelling Self-Assembled Polymer Composites

Dr Nigel Clarke, Department of Chemistry, Durham University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Hydrodynamic studies with optical tweezers

Dr Jurij Kotar.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Reliable neuronal logic devices from patterned hippocampal cultures.

Dr Assaf Rotem, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Identification of micro-RNAs in fungal species

Han Min Wong.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Changes in skeletal muscle cell volume during exercise

Prof Chris Huang, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 07 March 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Soft Matter for Hard Copy

Dr Andrew Howe, Kodak European Research, 332 Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WN.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Pouria Moshayedi.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Mechanics in the nervous system: avoiding the hard way

Kristian Franze.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Monitoring the microscopic water distribution in soft solids with multidimensional NMR relaxometry

Dr Brian Hills, Institute of Food Research, Norwich.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Cyril Picard.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Emulsification and stabilisation of oil in water in presence of a polysaccharide, chitosan

Linda Payet.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Tiny Hands make Light Work

Prof Miles Padgett, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 01 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

In vitro preparation of biocompatible, biodegradable polymer coatings.

Dr Easan Sivaniah (from Leeds University).

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 30 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Jurij Kotar.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Wormlike and Glassy Wormlike Chains

Note unusual time

Professor Klaus Kroy ITP, Leipzig University, Postfach , Leipzig, Germany.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 November 2007, 10:30-11:30

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Moritz Kreysing.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 28 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

The rheology of cellular systems

Dr Alexandre Kabla, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Jurij Kotar.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

"Block copolymer membrane synthesis of functional materials and their application in bulk heterojunction solar cells"

Ed Crossland.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Emergent properties in biological macromolecular assemblies

Professor Tim Wess School of Optometry and The Institute of Vision, Cardiff University.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

"Pattern replication in organic-inorganic hybrid materials"

Mihaela Nedelcu.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Cancer cell mechanics

Dr Michael Beil, Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Germany.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Kalin Dragnevski.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 31 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Jashil Benawra.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

"Bone: nanomechanics and biomimetics”

Michelle Oyen.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 17 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

"Cell adhesion on micropatterned substrates"

Peter Stevenson.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

"Cell adhesion on micropatterned substrates"

Peter Stevenson.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Investigation of Mechanical Properties of Onion Epidermal Tissue by ESEM

Tao Zheng.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 20 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Understanding Cell Mechanics: From Axonal Instabilities To Oscillating Fibroblasts

Dr Pramod A Pullarkat, Universitat Bayreuth.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 June 2007, 14:30-15:30

BSS Informal Seminars

Mechanical Property of the Red Blood Cell Membrane using Optical Tweezers

Young Zoon Youn.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 13 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Stretching, Sorting and Twisting in Microfludics

Dr Jonas Tegenfeldt, Lund University, Sweden.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 13 June 2007, 09:00-10:00

BSS Formal Seminars

From Flat Fluidics for Physiological Applications to Phase Transitions in Biological Membranes

Dr Matthias Schneider, University of Ausburg.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 12 June 2007, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Soft-Matter and Biological Physics at the Nanometre Scale

Dr Ulrich Keyser, Universitat Leipzig.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 12 June 2007, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Magneto-optic tweezers and their application in soft mater research

Assistant Professor Igor Poberaj, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 08 June 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Low Vacuum EM Imaging of Biological Samples

Sue Kirk.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 06 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Single Molecule Biology: Coming of Age

Dr Liming Ying, Biological Nanoscience, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 June 2007, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Soft Active Matter : From Polymer Physics To The Cell Cytoskeleton

Dr Tanniemola Liverpool, Leeds University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 05 June 2007, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Cell Divisions During Epithelial Morphogenesis

Dr Sebastien Courty, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Departement de Physique.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 31 May 2007, 11:00-12:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Cholesteric Elastomers for Tunable Laser

Yoshihito Hirota.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 30 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Active Remodelling of the Actin Cytoskeleton

Christian Schreiber.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 30 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Uncovering Buried Biological Interfaces

Dr Simon Titmuss, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 May 2007, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Fractional calculus approach for viscoelasticity at the sol-gel transition: application to sol-gel materials and biogels

Alain Ponton, Matière et Systèmes Complexes, UMR 7057 CNRS & Université Denis Diderot-Paris 7, Paris, France.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

The Structured Oil in Creams

Chia-Hung Chen.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Effects of Environmental Parameters on the Isomerisation of Azobenzene

Francesca Serra.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

A Molecular Mechanism for Toughening and Strengthening Waterborne Nanocomposites

Dr Joe Keddie, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Influence of an Electric Field on the Behaviour of Polymer Blends

Katherine Thomas.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 16 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Natural Structural Colours - Scientific Attempts to Copy Them

Mathias Kolle.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 16 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Physical description of mitotic spindle orientation during cell division

Dr Andrea Cecilia Jimenez Dalmaroni, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems , Dresden, Germany.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Distinct tensile and adhesive forces determine germ layer organization during gastrulation

Dr Carl Philipp Heisenberg, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Germany.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Two Dimensional Coherent Infra-Red Spectroscopy for the measurement of vibration-vibration coupling, and its application to the study of protein composition, dynamics, structure and function

Prof David Klug, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Neuronal Groups and their Role in Hearing

Petra Vertes.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 02 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Self-organization of Interphase Microtubule Arrays in Fission Yeast

Yung-Chin Oei.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 02 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Polymer Physics and DNA Topology

Professor Giovanni Dietler, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Vivante, Institut de Physique de la Matiere Complexe , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 April 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Studying the Aggregation of Proteins

Danielle Cannon.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 April 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

The Application of Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (ESEM) to Biological Samples

Juliette McGregor.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 April 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nano-Structuring Surfaces by Templated Assembly

Professor Alain Jonas Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 March 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Modeling Large-scale Aggregation Mechanisms of Beta-lactoglobulin Protein

Kristin Domike.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 15 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Emulsion stabilized by proteins – surfactant-covered drops or capsules?

Dr Peter Fischer, Institute of Food Science and Nutrition, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 March 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Functional changes in cells detected with an optical stretcher

Franziska Lautenschlager.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Studying single molecule dynamic with local probe techniques

Professor Heinrich Hoerber, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 March 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Two-point microrheology and its application to biological materials

Adam Corrigan.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

This talk has been canceled/deleted

Professor David Klug.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Andreas Christ.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 21 February 2007, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

How filament assembly dynamics can power the crawling motion of amoeboid cells

Dr Murray Stewart, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Nick Traitler.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 14 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

New Functions for Glial Cells: From Soft Guideposts for Neuronal Migration to Living Light Guides in the Retina

Kristian Franze from the University of Leipzig.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 12 February 2007, 14:00-15:30

BSS Formal Seminars

DSM Innovation: Functional Coatings and Biomedical Materials

Dr Jens Thies.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Conformation and aggregation of alpha-synuclein affected by lipids.

Kerensa Broerson MRC-LMB.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Using thermal probes for analysis and characterisation of materials on a micro and nano scale

Professor Mike Reading, School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Let's talk about my balls!

Dr Mark Krebs.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 31 January 2007, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Building from bottom up: Fabrication of novel materials using designer self-assembling peptides

Dr Shuguang Zhang Center for Biomedical Engineering NE47-379, 500 Technology Square, Center for Bits & Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA..

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

Friday 26 January 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Bio-Inspired Growth of Crystals: Hydrogels and Self-Assembled Monolayers

Assistant Professor Lara Estroff.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 19 January 2007, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Chau Ransley.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 29 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Rheology of Viscoelastic Suspensions of Rigid Spheres

Prof Pier Luca Meffettone.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Elisabetta Spigone.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 22 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Young-Zoon Yoon.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 22 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Some Like it Hot: High Temperature Experiments in the ESEM

Dr Sarah Hainsworth, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Controlling Cell Adhesion – The Science of Surface Character and Biomaterials

Peter Stevenson.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 15 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

C Dots: Highly Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles for Materials and Life Sciences Applications

Prof Uli Wiesner, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Cool dynamics : The trials of trying to nucleate ice in a chamber

Debbie Waller.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 08 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Laser Manipulation in Liquid Crystals: an approach to microfluidics and micromachines

Prof Helen Gleeson, Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Manchester University.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Nico Voicu.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Some properties of microgel particles

Dr Alex Routh, Department of Chemical Engineering and BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 October 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Compact self-wired cultured neural networks

Dr Yael Hanein, School of Electrical Engineering; Physical Electronics, Tel-Aviv University.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 October 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Explaining the Broadband Absorbance of Melanins

Jennifer Riesz, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 04 July 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanopores for Biological and Soft-Matter Physics

Dr. Ulrich F. Keyser, Delft University of Technology.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 19 June 2006, 12:00-13:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanomechanics of self-assembled protein filaments

Dr Laurent Kreplak.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 16 June 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

The Interaction of Light with Cells

Dr Jochen Guck (Universität Leipzig).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 15 June 2006, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Kinetics and Pathways in Self-Assembly: Light Scattering and Theoretical Studies on Human Papillomavirus Capsids

Professor David Wu, Chemical Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 June 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Optical Tweezers

Dr Jurij Kotar.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 June 2006, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Ultrafast and low barrier motions in the photoreactions of the Green Fluorescent Protein

Dr Jasper van Thor.

Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 02 June 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Single Molecule Force-Spectroscopy Maps the Details of the Protein Free Energy Landscape

Dr Jasna Brujic (Fernandez Lab, University of Columbia).

Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 02 June 2006, 11:00-12:00

BSS Informal Seminars

FIB SEM/(ESEM) for Polymers

Jashil Benawra.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 31 May 2006, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

The potential of ESEM for use in biology: Sample damage and dynamic systems

Sue Kirk.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 31 May 2006, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

3-D cryo-EM in biology: specimen preparation and imaging for tomography

Michael Marko.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 26 May 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Single Molecule Approaches to Biology

Dr Liming Ying.

Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 26 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Characterization of Local Conformational Changes in Polymer Brush Surfaces using Imaging Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

Rosa Poetes.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 May 2006, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Investigating the fibrillisation pathway of TTR105-115 : a model amyloidogenic system

Sarah Shammas.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 May 2006, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

CANCELLED

Dr Mark Leake.

Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 23 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Applying Nonlinear Dynamics in Medicine to Understand Cardiac Arrhythmias and Epilepsy

Dr Jennifer Simonotto.

Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 19 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

BSS Informal Seminars

What is amyloid gelation? Characterization using microrheology

Adam Corrigan.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 17 May 2006, 13:00-14:00

BSS Informal Seminars

Investigation of mechanical properties of onion epidermal tissue by ESEM

Tao Zheng.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 17 May 2006, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

DNA-based supramolecular structures and devices

Dr Friedrich Simmel.

Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 15 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Interfaces, Films and Membranes: Soft Matter Physics in 2 Dimensions

Dr Pietro Cicuta.

Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 12 May 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Some Optical Properties of Fluorescently Modified Amyloid Fibrils

Kevin Channon.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 10 May 2006, 13:00-14:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Polyelectrolyte multilayer microcapsules as a novel biomimetic system

Prof. Dr. Olga Vinogradova, http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~vinograd.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 April 2006, 14:15-15:30

BSS Informal Seminars

Single molecule measurements unravel the less traveled pathways in protein unfolding

Dr Jasna Brujic.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 29 March 2006, 12:30-13:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Measuring Intermolecular Forces in Biology

Dr Erik Schffer, Dresden.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 March 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

TBA

Sam Ahir.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 15 March 2006, 12:30-13:30

BSS Formal Seminars

PLEASE NOTE SEMINAR CANCELLED

Jochen Guck, Universitt Leipzig.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 13 March 2006, 10:00-11:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Granular materials with even circuits: Ball-bearings and dry quicksand

Professor Nick Rivier, Laboratoire de Physique Thorique, Universit Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 March 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Dynamics of Pattern Formation in Electric Field Experiments

David Barbero.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 08 March 2006, 12:30-13:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Signal processing in bacterial chemotaxis

Victor Sourjik.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 March 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Secondary electron emission from organic monolayers

Chau Ransley.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 March 2006, 12:30-13:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Fission yeast interphase microtubules: self-sufficient and self-centred!

Rafael Edgardo Carazo Salas, CCL Cancer Research UK, London.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Ligand-receptor interactions in proteins and membranes

P-L Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Informal Seminars

Characterisation & Nano-fabrication using focused ion beam SEM

Debbie Stokes, Dr.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 15 February 2006, 12:30-13:30

BSS Informal Seminars

Finding Ways to Understand Growth Kinetics

Kristin Domike.

Edwards Room, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 February 2006, 12:30-13:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Polymers in motion

Dick J. Broer, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven University of Technology.

IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 27 January 2006, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Atomic force microscopy and force spectroscopy of membrane proteins - Joint seminar with Nanoscience

Sonja Contera, Dept. of Physics, University of Oxford.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 November 2005, 15:30-16:30

BSS Formal Seminars

In situ experiments in the ESEM - a challenge for both the scientist and the engineer

Dr Armin Zankel, Research Institute for Electron Microscopy, Graz University of Technology.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 November 2005, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Functional nanoporous materials from reactive block copolymers

Marc Hillmyer, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 November 2005, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Protein Assisted Assembly of Carbon Nanotube into Functional Materials - joint with Nanoscience

Dr. Alan B. Dalton, Department of Physics and the Unis Materials Institute, University of Surrey.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Granular Segregation as a Critical Phenomenon

Prof. Tom Mullin, Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Dynamics of single molecular motors labeled to quantum dots in a living cell

Sebastien Courty, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Dpartement de Physique, Ecole Normale Suprieure, Paris.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 07 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Differences between non-specific and bio-specific, and between equilibrium and non-equilibrium, interactions in biological systems

Professor Jacob Israelachvili, University of Calirfornia Santa Barbara.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 June 2005, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Thin film and interface effects in electroactive and responsive polymers

Prof Richard Jones, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 10 June 2005, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Bio-Inspired Crystal Growth

Dr Fiona Meldrum, Biomineralisation, University of Bristol.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 May 2005, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

The Outstanding Magnetic Behaviour of Nematic Suspensions of Goethite Nanorods

Patrick Davidson, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay, France.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 May 2005, 13:30-14:30

BSS Formal Seminars

The properties of free polymer surfaces and their effect upon the glass transition in thin polymer films

Dr James Sharp, University of Nottingham.

HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 21 April 2005, 01:15-02:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Sudden Cardiac Death. Medicine is not enough, we need physical sciences as well

Dr Richard Saumarez.

HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 January 2005, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Swelling and deformation of gels: an old problem revisited

Professor Masao Doi.

HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 January 2005, 11:15-12:15