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

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

All Talks (aka the CURE list)

From bio-inspired systems for nanoelectronics to physico-inspired tools to study bio-systems

Nanoscience Seminar

Danny Porath Physical Chemistry Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of the Hebrew University.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

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

CIKC Talks

CIKC Physics Seminar

Prof Henning Sirringhaus.

IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 15:30-17:00

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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