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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. |
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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.
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Organizers
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Participants Tapio Ala-Nissila Tobias Ambiorsoon Fulvio Baldovin Marek Cieplak Peter Cifra Cees Dekker Giovanni Dietler Erwin Frey Max di Ventra Patrick Doyle Alexander Y. Grosberg Suckjoon Jun Jacov Kantor Mehran Kardar Christos Likos Ralf Metzler Dmitrii Makarov Murugappan Muthukhumar Aleksandra Radenovic Walter Reisner Felix Ritort Takahiro Sakaue Gary Slater Matthew Turner Ugo Valbusa Francesco Valle Stu Whittington |
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