BSS Formal Seminars

An overview of protein phase behavior

Prof Neer Asherie, Yeshiva University, New York, USA.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Cell morphogenesis across scales, from molecular processes to cell surface mechanics

Prof. Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London and Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge..

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Linking mechanochemistry with protein folding with single bond resolution

Prof. Sergi Garcia-Manyes, Department of Physics and and Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Phoretic Transport: a challenge for microscopic simulations

Prof. Daan Frenkel, Chemistry Department, Universtiy of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Understanding/engineering cell and community metabolism

Prof. Orkun Soyer, Life Sciences, University of Warwick.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Quantitative Super-Resolution Imaging of Biological Samples and DNA Nanostructures

Prof. Christian Soeller, Physics Department, University of Exeter.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Talk title: Microfluidic devices for blood analysis

Debjani Paul, Department for Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, INDIA.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Synthetic Cellularity via Protocell Design of Soft Matter Interfaces

Prof. Stephen Mann Centre for Protolife Research and Centre for Organized Matter Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Reprogramming the Genetic Code

Prof. Jason Chin, MRC LBM and Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 26 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Making sense of sewage: a multi-omics approach

Dr James Chong, University of York.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 19 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

An intracellular organization of extracellular information

Prof. Peter Swain, University of Edinburgh .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Motion of uni-flagellated bacteria at interfaces and in complex media

Prof. Jay Tang, Brown University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Gaining control of DNA-based nanodevices

Prof. Francesco Ricci, Chemistry Department, University of Rome, Tor Vergata.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Using DNA to Program Nanostructure Assembly and Molecular Machinery

Professor Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory..

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

How to read and write mechanical information in DNA molecules

prof. dr. Helmut Schiessel, University of Leiden.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Drops: A tool to structure materials

Prof. Esther Amstad, EPFL. Soft Materials Laboratory.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Light sheet fluorescence microscopy for fast volumetric imaging of bio-samples

Pablo Loza-Alvarez. Staff Scientist SLN Chief at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences. Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 26 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanopores in 2d materials‐opportunities and challenges

Aleksandra Radenovic, Associate Professor,Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Friday 24 February 2017, 14:15-15:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Simple regulatory strategies to control stochastic fluctuations in gene expression

Prof Michele Caselle, Department of Physics, University of Turin, Italy.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

3D holographic imaging of microswimmers

Dr. Laurence Wilson. Department of Physics. University of York.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Bioluminescent Reporter Screens: Illuminating Novel Regulators and Dynamics of Signaling Pathways

Prof. David Piwnica-Worms. Department of Cancer Systems Imaging Deputy Division Head, Research Affairs, Division of Diagnostic Imaging Gerald Dewey Dodd, Jr., Endowed Distinguished Chair in Diagnostic Imaging The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer C.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 18 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Vesicle bionanotechnology and biophysics: from hybrid lipid-copolymer systems to anticancer peptides

Prof. Paul Beales. School of Chemistry, University of Leeds,.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

“Lab on chip” – microfluidics, organ on chip and biomimetic channel networks

Prof. Andreas Manz. Head of Research Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Universität des Saarlandes. Saarbruecken, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Fluorescence Lifetime Techniques for Biomedical Applications

Laura Marcu, PhD. Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering. University of California at Davis.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 01 July 2016, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Exploring soft matter with DNA

Prof. Tommaso Bellini. Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale. Laboratory of Complex Fluids and Molecular Biophysics. Università degli Studi di Milano .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Bespoke Crystals: Using Bio-Inspired Approaches to Generate Crystals with Target Properties

Prof. Fiona Meldrum, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Onsager Principle -A useful principle in soft matter dynamics -

Prof. Masao Doi. Center of Soft Matter Physics and its Applications, Internationa Research Center, Beihang University, Beijing, China.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanoscale organisation and dynamics of molecules and ions at the interface with solids in solution

Dr Kislon Voitchovsky, Lecturer in Soft Matter and Biological Physics. Durham University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 22 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Conformational Spread: The Propagation of Allosteric States in Large Multiprotein Complexes

Prof. Dennis Bray, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Pippard Lecture Theater.

Friday 26 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Droplet-Based Microfluidics: High-Throughput Experimentation One Drop at a Time

Prof. Andrew J. deMello, Professor of Biochemical Engineering Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland.

Pippard Lecture Theater.

Friday 29 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Composite Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Biosensing and Bioimaging

Prof. Luis M. Liz-Marzan, Ikerbasque Research Professor and Scientific Director, CIC biomaGUNE, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain.

Pippard Lecture Theater.

Friday 22 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Nanophotonic approaches to investigate the spatiotemporal organization of biological membranes

Prof. Maria F. Garcia-Parajo, ICFO-Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain and ICREA- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Hyperspectral imaging - a flexible tool for tissue characterization

Prof. Lise Lyngsnes Randeberg, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway) .

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 13 November 2015, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

How to Understand Molecular Transport through Channels: The Role of Interactions

Prof. Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Department of Chemistry, Houston.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Continuous Droplet Interface Crossing Encapsulation (cDICE): artificial cells and capsules

Dr. Gladys Massiera. Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C – UMR 5221), CNRS - Université de Montpellier, Place E. Bataillon, Montpellier, France.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Substituted Nucleotides: versatile building blocks in DNA bio-nanotechnology

Prof. Eugen Stulz, School of Chemistry and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Osmosis beyond van't Hoff: molecular views, osmotic diodes and energy harvesting

Professor Lyderic Bocquet .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 12 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Polymer enhanced oil recovery; soft matter physics to explain an industrial question

Dr Andrew Clarke, Schlumberger Gould Research.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

A microfluidic diffusion chamber for the analysis of soft biological matter

Professor Jure Derganc, Institute of Biophysics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 22 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Developing and using atomic force microscopy to understand soft and biological systems, from bacteria to plastic bags

Professor Jamie Hobbs, Physics Department, University of Sheffield.

Ryle Seminar Room no930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 15 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

smh80's list

Nanostructure characterization of planar biomimetic membranes with neutron reflectometry

Dr. Marco Maccarini, TIMC/IMAG, Grenoble.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory..

Friday 08 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Interferometric scattering microscopy: From high-speed nanometry to ultra-sensitive label-free imaging

Professor Philipp Kukura, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Cell-size control and homeostasis at the single-cell level

Professor Suckjoon Jun, UCSD Physics and Molecular Biology.

Ryle Seminar Room no930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 17 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Growth and form of the gut

Dr Thiery Savin, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University .

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Quantitative high spatiotemporal resolution imaging of biological processes

Dr Melike Lakadamyali, NEST fellow, ICFO, Barcelona.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Modelling DNA organisation by DNA-binding proteins: the bridging-induced attraction and chromatin reconstitution

Dr Davide Marenduzzo, Lecturer in Biophysics, University of Edinburgh.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Flagellated bacterial motility in polymer solutions

Dr Vincent A. Martinez, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

The transport of active swimmers in shear flows

Dr Rachel Bearon, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool .

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Surgical Imaging, Biophotonics and Endoscopy

Dr Daniel Elson, Reader in Surgical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

An evolutionary perspective to systems and synthetic biology: From cellular networks to microbial communities

Dr Orkun Soyer, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Biomedical photoacoustic imaging for the clinical and life sciences

Professor Paul Beard,Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

CANCELLED - The transport of active swimmers in shear flows

Dr Rachel Bearon, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

On growth and flow: bacterial biofilms in porous environments

Mack Durham, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 14 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Enhancing single-molecule detection with DNA origami nanostructures

Prof. Dr. Philip Tinnefeld, Institut für Physikalische & Theoretische Chemie TU Braunschweig.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 07 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

The complexity, modularity and evolution of self-assembling structures in biology

Dr Sebastian Ahnert, TCM, Cavendish Laboratory.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

What is Biological Adaptation and How Can it be Measured?

Dr Joel Peck, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Biomedical photoacoustic imaging for the clinical and life sciences

Professor Paul Beard,Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Sonocytology: Manipulation and Sensing Particles

Dr Anne Bernassau, University of Glasgow.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Tuning Protein Aggregation Pathways by Charges

Prof. Dr. Frank Schreiber, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Biomolecular machines on and of DNA

Professor Dr Ralf Seidel, Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, University of Münster, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Watching single molecules

Professor David Klenerman FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Contact Line – Quo Vadis?

Professor Dirks Aarts, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 09 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

If the fittest never arrive, then they can't survive: on the topology of evolutionary search.

Prof. Ard A Louis, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Particles and fluids

Dr Mark Haw, Department of Engineering, University of Strathclyde.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 25 April 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Living photonic devices from patchy colloids: Inspiration from cephalopods

Alison Sweeney, University of Pennsylvania.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 March 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Living Clusters in Suspensions of Active Colloids

Bortolo Mognetti, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 07 March 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Mechanisms of leading edge protrusion in interstitial migration

Dr Guillaume Charras, UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 28 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Working under confinement

Miguel Rubi, Universitat de Barcelona & Leverhulme Professor at Imperial College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 21 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Biomimetic routes to colloidal self-assembly

Jasna Burjic, NYU, Physics and Soft Matter Center.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 14 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Are CMOS image sensors (and CCDs) dinosaurs?

Dr Renato Turchetta, STFC-RAL Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 07 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Bioinspired materials and devices

Dr Elisa Mele, The Italian institute of Technology .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 31 January 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Reversible Control of NON-Volatile Magnetic Memory Using Soft Materials: Liquid-Crystalline Elastomer Nanocomposites

Raffaele Mezzenga, ETH Zurich.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 24 January 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Physico-chemical properties of colloids, their interaction with cells, and some applications

Prof Wolfgang Parak, Biophotonics Group, University of Marburg, Marburg Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 17 January 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Light, camera, action: watching single DNA/RNA polymerases at work in living cells

Achillefs Kapanidis, Dept Physics, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 29 November 2013, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Artificial evolution strategy for pet reconstruction

Franck Vidal, School of Computer Science, Bangor University .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

BSS Formal Seminars

VIRUS ASSEMBLY AND GENOME TRANSLOCATION: ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES FROM POLYMER PHYSICS

Murugappan Muthukumar, Dept Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

BSS Formal Seminars

X-ray phase contrast imaging - detecting the undetectable

Sandro Olivo, Dept of Medical Phys & Bioengineering, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Engineered Nanoparticles: the Bionano Interface in a Biological Environment

Francesca Baldelli-Bombelli, Department of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Accelerating localisation microscopy

Susan Cox, Department of Biology, King's College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Using evolutionary sequence variation to make inferences about protein structure and function

Lucy Colwell, Chemistry Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

BSS Formal Seminars

Stochastic signal encoding strategies in single cells

James Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Formal Seminars

Active Emulsions

Prof. Seth Fraden, Brandeis University, USA.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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