Biophysics/Soft-Matter Uber Group Meeting

Location: Knudsen 2-222; Leonard Lounge
Time: Wednesdays 11:30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. (bring lunch)

Faculty

Katsushi Arisaka
Dolores Bozovic
Robijn Bruinsma
Alex Levine
Tom Mason
John Miao
Joe Rudnick
Giovanni Zocchi

Post Docs

Brian Didonna
Thomas Cubaud
Greg Grason
Jung-Ren Huang
Mark Henle
Huaidong Jiang
Adrian Mancuso
Changyong Song

Students

Amir Ahsan
Shimul Akhanjee
Bago Amirbekian
Rob Brewster
Connie Chang
Donald Chang
Adrian Cheng
Paul Eaimkhong
Benjamin Fahimian
Lea Fredrickson
Rouzbeh Gerami
Rouzbeh Ghafouri
Sara Graves
Carlos Hernandez
Tatiana Kuriabova
Edwin Lee
Kieche Meleson
Erika Nelson
Damien Ramunno-Johnson
David Schwab
Aviva Shackell
Alex Shveyd
Yong Wang
Karim Wahba
Jim Wilking
Rashid Williams-Garcia
Aron Yoffe
Yan Zeng

Talk Schedule

    Winter 2007:

  • Jan. 24, Tom Mason, "Nano-naise: Shear-Induced Elastic Vitrification of Nanoemulsion Droplets"
  • Jan. 31, Robijn Bruinsma, "Embedding Charges in Deformable Biomembranes"
  • Feb. 7, Greg Grason, "A New Twist in Biopolymer Condensation: The Role of Chirality in Wigner Crystallization" (Bruinsma)
  • Feb. 14, John Miao, "The Past, Present and Future of the Phase Problem and its Implications to Biology"
  • Feb. 21, David Schwab, "DNA and the Statistical Mechanics of Nucleosome Positioning" (Bruinsma)
  • Feb. 28, Edwin Lee, "High-Quality Image Reconstruction of Large Macromolecules Using Equally-Sloped Tomography" (Miao)
  • Mar. 14, Alex Levine, "Meltdowns, Cracks and Cross-overs: Topological Defects and 2D Sublimation Kinetics"
  • Mar. 21, Lea Fredrickson, "Recent Progress in High Speed Bio-Imaging with Image-Intensied CMOS" (Arisaka)


  • Fall 2006:

    Oct. 5, Benjamin Fahimian, "Equally Sloped Tomography with Applications to Biomedical Imaging" (Miao)
  • Oct. 12, Katsushi Arisaka, "Ultra-fast, Photon-Counting Microscope for Live Cell and Single Molecule Imaging"
  • Oct. 19, Robijn Bruinsma, "The Physics of Bioadhesion"
  • Oct. 26, Eyal Nir, "Protein and DNA folding by single molecule optical spectroscopy" (Weiss)
  • Nov. 2, Dolores Bozovic, "Spontaneous Oscillations in Inner Ear Hair Cells"
  • Nov. 9, Yan Zeng, "Bubbles and Mismatches in DNA Melting" (Zocchi)
  • Nov. 16, Karim Wahba, "Statistical Mechanics of Membrane Proteins" (Bruinsma)
  • Nov. 30, Changyong Song, "Coherent X-ray Diffraction Microscopy for Nano-structures and Biological Specimens" (Miao)


  • Links:

    Spring 2007 Physical Chemistry Seminar Schedule (pdf format).


Last updated March 2007