SMC
19 January 2004 to 9 July 2004
We are currently witnessing a remarkable period of interaction between physics and biology. Not for the first time are there very good reasons for synergy the beginnings of molecular biology itself emerged from a previous period in which techniques from physics demonstrated huge potential to answer biological questions. The current surge of interest is remarkable because new experimental tools (single-molecule spectroscopy, AFM, fluorescence microscopy, micro-rheology etc.) are accompanied by a powerful body of mathematical techniques arising from the Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter.
The distinctive issues of this programme, of four sub-themes, arise at the sub-micron domain in which Brownian Motion becomes important; where biochemical processes work with (or against) the tendency to approach thermodynamic equilibrium. Throughout is the creative tension between highly-evolved and specific biological form and function on the one hand, and the overarching statistical mechanics on the other.
The programme will structured along four linked themes:
While all four will be worked on throughout the 6-month period, there will be periods of more focus on each, when the theoretically-based scientists and mathematicians of the long-term programme will be visited on a shorter-term basis by key experimentalists working in these areas and their boundaries
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Title | Year | Programme | |
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Lateral phase separation in mixtures of lipids and cholesterol systemsAuthors: H Shirotori, Peter Olmsted, ET Al, Shigeyuki Komura |
2003 | SMC | 21 October 2016 |
Bridging the microscopic and the hydrodynamic in active filament solutionsAuthors: MC Marchetti, TB Liverpool |
2003 | SMC | 21 October 2016 |
Highly specific protein-protein interactions, evolution and negative design (revised edition)Authors: Richard P Sear |
2003 | SMC | 21 October 2016 |
Mathematical models for tubular structures in the papilloma-polyoma family of virusesAuthors: Reidun Twarock |
2003 | SMC | 21 October 2016 |
Flat histogram Monte Carlo for low temperature simulationsAuthors: Lei-Han Tang |
2003 | SMC | 21 October 2016 |
Coarse-grained model of entropic allosteryAuthors: Tom McLeish, R Hawkins |
2003 | SMC | 21 October 2016 |
Multivalent ion driven condensation of DNA-actin polyelectrolyte mixturesAuthors: ET Al, OV Zribi, H Kyung, R Golestanian |
2003 | SMC | 21 October 2016 |
Propulsion of a molecular machine by asymmetric distribution of reaction-productsAuthors: R Golestanian, TB Liverpool, A Ajdari |
2003 | SMC | 21 October 2016 |
Inertial effects in the response of viscous and viscoelastic fluids.Authors: TB Liverpool, FC Mackintosh |
2003 | SMC | 21 October 2016 |
19 January 2004 to 23 January 2004
15 March 2004 to 19 March 2004
23 March 2004 to 24 March 2004
29 March 2004 to 8 April 2004
26 April 2004 to 30 April 2004
14 June 2004 to 17 June 2004
21 June 2004 to 23 June 2004
Tuesday 20th January 2004 | |||
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17:15 to 18:00 |
Julia Goodfellow Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 27th January 2004 | |||
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09:30 to 10:30 |
Alex Levine University of Massachusetts |
Room 1 |
Thursday 29th January 2004 | |||
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09:30 to 10:30 |
David Dryden |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 3rd February 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Pascal Martin |
Room 1 |
Thursday 5th February 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 | Room 1 |
Monday 9th February 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 13:00 |
Shigeyuki Komura Tokyo Metropolitan University |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 11th February 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 13:00 |
Frank Juelicher |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 17th February 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Artur Baumgaertner |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 18th February 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Enrico Carlon |
Room 1 |
Thursday 19th February 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 | Room 1 |
Tuesday 24th February 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
David Andelman Tel Aviv University |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 25th February 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Shinpei Tanaka |
Room 1 |
Thursday 26th February 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Andrej Vilfan |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 2nd March 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Tanniemola Liverpool University of Leeds |
Room 1 | |
14:00 to 15:00 | Room 1 |
Thursday 4th March 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
The deformations and Green's response of cross-linked biopolymer networks |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 9th March 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 | Room 1 |
Wednesday 10th March 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
John Trinick University of Leeds |
Room 1 | |
14:00 to 15:00 | Room 1 |
Thursday 11th March 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 | Room 1 |
Wednesday 14th April 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 | Room 1 |
Thursday 15th April 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Jeremy Smith |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 20th April 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Eshel Ben-Jacob |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 21st April 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 12:00 | Room 1 |
Thursday 22nd April 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Anthony Maggs City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution, (ESPCI) |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Itay Baruchi |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 4th May 2004 | |||
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14:30 to 15:30 |
Henrik Flyvbjerg |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 5th May 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 | Room 1 |
Thursday 6th May 2004 | |||
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11:00 to 13:00 |
Satyajit Mayor National Centre for Biological Sciences |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 11th May 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Ralph Colby Pennsylvania State University |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 12th May 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Artur Baumgaertner |
Room 1 |
Thursday 13th May 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Amalie Frischknecht Sandia National Laboratories |
Room 1 |
Monday 17th May 2004 | |||
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16:00 to 17:00 |
Stefan Egelhaaf University of Edinburgh |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 18th May 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 | Room 2 |
Wednesday 19th May 2004 | |||
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09:30 to 11:00 |
Thomas Harder University of Oxford |
Room 2 | |
11:30 to 13:00 |
Sarah Keller University of Washington |
Room 2 | |
14:00 to 15:30 |
Paul Beales University of Edinburgh |
Room 2 | |
16:00 to 17:30 | Room 2 |
Thursday 20th May 2004 | |||
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09:30 to 11:00 |
Peter Olmsted University of Leeds |
Room 2 | |
11:30 to 13:00 |
Satyajit Mayor National Centre for Biological Sciences |
Room 2 |
Friday 21st May 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Hue Sun Chan University of Toronto |
Room 2 | |
14:00 to 15:30 |
Modelling lipid rafts: size, shape, and possible involvement in membrane mechano-sensitivity |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 25th May 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Igor Potemkin Institute of Mechanics of Moscow State University |
Room 1 |
Thursday 27th May 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
David Odde University of Minnesota |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 2nd June 2004 | |||
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09:30 to 16:00 |
Dennis Bray University of Cambridge |
Room 1 |
Thursday 3rd June 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Richard Sear University of Surrey |
Room 1 |
Saturday 5th June 2004 | |||
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09:00 to 18:00 | Room 1 |
Tuesday 8th June 2004 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 |
Jonathon Howard |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 23rd June 2004 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Keith Dunker |
Room 1 |
Thursday 24th June 2004 | |||
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09:30 to 10:30 | Room 1 |
Tuesday 29th June 2004 | |||
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09:30 to 10:30 |
Maintenance and propagation of the blueprint for life Cancer and why DNA matters |
Room 2 | |
10:30 to 11:30 |
Maintenance and propagation of the blueprint for life The nuts and bolts of DNA replication |
Room 2 | |
11:45 to 12:45 | Room 2 | ||
13:45 to 14:45 |
Maintenance and propagation of the blueprint for life Packaging of DNA and the problems it presents |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 7th July 2004 | |||
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09:30 to 10:30 |
Robert Possee |
Room 1 | |
10:30 to 11:30 |
Roderick Casey John Innes Centre, Norwich |
Room 1 | |
12:00 to 12:30 |
Jonathan Doye University of Cambridge |
Room 1 |
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