SISSA

Istituto di Fisica Nucleare


 

International Workshop on
"Polymers with spatial and mechanical constraints"
Julyh 7-9, 2016


Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti,
Campo S. Stefano 2945
Venice - Italy


 

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Scientific background

The configurations and function of large biological molecules such as DNA and RNA can be nowadays manipulated either through confinement in nano-fluidic volumes or by applying pico-forces by using optical/magnetic tweezers and atomic-force microscopes. These very recent techniques obviate the need for cloning and molecular amplification steps and enable researchers to detect physical phenomena that in the past would have been obscured by ensemble averaging. These devices can be used not only to study the dynamical and mechanical properties of biomolecules but also to obtain genomic information and to characterise biological interactions at molecular level.

These phenomena will be addressed by this workshop, spanning from application of these devices in the generic science to the exploration of the underlying physics. The workshop, by gathering eminent researchers in nano-fluidics, biophysics, material physics and computational physics (see list below) will integrate state of the art micro-manipulation single molecule experiments, theory and computational approaches.


Organizers

Cristian Micheletti
Affiliation: SISSA, Trieste
Address: Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy
Phone: +39 040 378730
Fax: +39 040 3787528


Enzo Orlandini
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Padova and Sezione INFN Padova
Address: via Marzolo 8, I-35000, Padova, Italy
Phone: +39 049 8277171
Fax    : +39 049 8277102

 

Attilio L. Stella
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Padova and Sezione INFN Padova
Address: via Marzolo 8, I-35000, Padova, Italy
Phone: +39 049 8277171
Fax    : +39 049 8277102

 

Participants


Tapio Ala-Nissila
University School of Science,
Aalto,Finland.

Tobias Ambiorsoon
Department of Theoretical Physics,
Lund University, Sweden.

Fulvio Baldovin
Dipartimento di Fisica,
Universita' di Padova and Sezione INFN, via Marzolo 8 Padova 35121, Italy.

Marek Cieplak
Institute of Physics,
Polish Academy of Science, 02-688 Warsaw, Poland.

Peter Cifra
Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Bratislava, Cech Republic.

Cees Dekker
Delft University of Technology,
Delft, The Nederlands.

Giovanni Dietler
Laboratoire de Physique de la Matiere Vivante Institut de Physique de la Matiere Complexe,
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Erwin Frey
Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics,
Universitat Munchen, Germany.

Max di Ventra
Department of Physics University of California,
San Diego, USA.

Patrick Doyle
MIT,
Boston, USA.

Alexander Y. Grosberg
School of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

Suckjoon Jun
Biological Science,
University of California, San Diego, USA.

Jacov Kantor
School of Physics and Astronomy,
Tel Aviv University, Israel

Mehran Kardar
MIT,
Boston, USA.

Christos Likos
Faculty of Physics,
Wien, Austria

Ralf Metzler
Department of Physics,
Tech. Univ. Munich, D-85748 Garching, Germany.

Dmitrii Makarov
Department of Chemistry,
University of Texas, Austin, USA.

Murugappan Muthukhumar
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering,
University of Massachusetts, USA.

Aleksandra Radenovic
Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology,
EPFL,Lausanne, Switzerland.

Walter Reisner
Department of Physics,
Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada.

Felix Ritort
Departament de Fisica Fonamental,
Facultat de Fisica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Espagna.

Takahiro Sakaue
Department of Physics,
Kyushu University 33, Fukuoka, Japan.

Gary Slater
Department of Physics,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

Matthew Turner
Complexity Center,
Warwick University, Warwick, UK.

Ugo Valbusa
Dipartimento di Fisica,
Universita’ degli Studi di Genova, Italy.

Francesco Valle
CNR, Bologna, Italy.

Stu Whittington
Department of Theoretical Chemistry,
University of Toronto, Canada.



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