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Previous BIO Workshops:

Electrostatic Interactions
and Biophysics
2004

Coulomb Effects
2001

Molecular Biophysics:
At the Interface Between
Physics and Biology
1997

 

"Physics Inspired by Biology"
May 4-6, 2007
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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Friday, May 4

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8:15	REGISTRATION
9:00	Boris Shklovskii University of Minnesota	Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:05	David Nelson Harvard University	Neutral Mutations and Gene Surfing in Microorganisms
9:40	Amit Meller Boston University	DNA translocation, unzipping and detection of DNA-protein interactions using solid state nanopores
10:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:00	Eugene Shakhnovich Harvard University	How protein physics shapes biological evolution.
11:35	Serge Lemay Kavli Institute of Nanoscience	Charge inversion accompanies DNA condensation by multivalent ions
12:10	LUNCH
2:00	William Gelbart UCLA	What determines the size of a virus?
2:35	Jean-Francois Joanny Institut Curie	Active gels: towards a physical description of the cytoskeleton
3:10	BREAK
3:40	Herbert Levine UCSD	Gene silencing by small RNA molecules: Do we really need yet more regulatory complexity?
4:15	Poster Session

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Saturday, May 5

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9:00	Daniel Fisher Harvard University	Simple Models of a Simple Circadian Clock
9:35	Michael Rubinstein University of North Carolina	Physical Model of the Airway Surface Layer of a Lung
10:10	COFFEE BREAK, Posters
11:00	Robert Austin Princeton University	Demonic Bacteria
11:35	Boris Shklovskii University of Minnesota	A toy Coulomb model of virus self-assembly. Energy optimization and kinetics.
12:10	LUNCH
2:00	Rob Phillips Caltech	How Viruses Make New Viruses
2:35	Thomas Powers Brown University	Life at low Reynolds' number revisited
3:10	COFFEE BREAK
3:40	David Bensimon Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'ENS	Helicases: Passive and active mechanisms
4:15	Sergey Bezrukov National Institutes of Health	Surprising features of particle dynamics in channel-facilitated transport

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Sunday, May 6

9:00	Robijn Bruinsma UCLA	Melting of Condensed DNA bundles: a T=0 quantum phase transition?
9:35	Cynthia Reichhardt Los Alamos National Laboratory	Electrophoresis of DNA on a disordered two-dimensional substrate
10:10	Leonid Mirny MIT	Coupling of folding and binding in protein recognition.
10:45	COFFEE BREAK
11:15	Alexander Grosberg University of Minnesota	Solitary knots
11:50	Ralf Bundschuh The Ohio State University	Aggregation and folding phase transitions of RNA molecule