7.-10.9.2011 Nano-Biology

CFN Summer School 2011 on NANO-BIOLOGY

in collaboration with the BioInterfaces International Graduate School (BIF-IGS)

Bad Herrenalb, Germany | 07.-10.09.2011

Nano-Biology

Special lecture by Paul Youngman:

Society meets Nanotechnology                             U North Carolina, USA

Confirmed speakers include:

Tom Brown
Gaudenz Danuser
Emmanuel Delamarche
Christian Eggeling
Rainer Heintzmann
Andreas Janshoff
Kent Kirshenbaum
Joerg Lahann
Hedi Mattoussi
Rudi Merkel
Manfred Radmacher
Barbara Sacca
Erik Schäffer
Ralf Seidel
Hans-Achim Wagenknecht
Otto Wolfbeis

U Southampton, UK
Harvard U, USA
IBM Zürich, Switzerland
U Göttingen, Germany
U Jena, Germany
U Göttingen, Germany
New York U, USA
KIT + U Michigan, USA
Florida State U, USA
FZ Jülich, Germany
U Bremen, Germany
TU Dortmund, Germany
TU Dresden, Germany
TU Dresden, Germany
KIT, Germany
U Regensburg, Germany

Agenda

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Wednesday, 7.9.2011
 
 
until
12:15
Registration
 
12:30
Lunch
 
13:45
Welcome and general information
 
14:00

Mechanics matters a tale of cells, materials and forces
Rudolf Merkel, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

 
15:00

Mechanical properties of living cells measured by AFM
Manfred Radmacher, Universität Bremen, Germany

 
16:00
Break
 
16:30
Mechanics of small systems: from nanodrums to elastic mapping of cells
Andreas Janshoff, Universität Göttingen, Germany
 
17:30
Poster session
 
19:30

Dinner: "Badischer Abend"
evening with local gastronomic specialties

Thursday, 8.9.2011
 
 
 
7:45
Breakfast
 
9:00
Inorganic nanocrystals as tunable platforms for imaging and sensing
Hedi Mattoussi, Florida State University, U.S.A.
 
10:00
Biosensing based on upconverting nanoparticles
Otto Wolfbeis, Universität Regensburg, Germany
 
11:00
Break
 
11:30

Stamps, chips and probes for biological interfaces
Emmanuel Delamarche, IBM Zürich Research Laboratory, Switzerland

 
12:30
Lunch
 
14:30

 Guided city tour or hike
(
moderate, but bring sturdy footwear and just in case rain gear)

 
17:30
Poster session
 
18:30
Dinner
 
20:00

 Nanohumanities
 special lecture by Paul Youngman, University of North CarolinaCharlotte, U.S.A.

Friday,
9.9.2011
 
 
 
7:45
Breakfast
 
9:00
High resolution imaging by structured illumination and image inversion interferometry
Rainer Heintzmann, Universität Jena, Germany
 
10:00
Observing the cellular nanoscale with STED, FCS microscopy
Christian Eggeling, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
 
11:00
Break
 
11:30
Live cell imaging of the intersection of mechanical and chemical signals
Gaudenz Danuser, Harvard Medical School, Boston, U.S.A.
 
12:30
Lunch
 
14:00
Spatiotemporal signaling mechanisms to the cytoskeleton during neurite outgrowth
Olivier Pertz, Universität Basel, Switzerland
 
15:00
Magnetic tweezers: From single enzyme dynamics to mechanics of DNA nanostructures
Ralf Seidel, TU Dresden, Germany
 
16:00
Break
 
16:30
Nanomechanics with optical tweezers: kinesin motors work against protein friction
Erik Schäffer, TU Dresden, Germany
 
17:30
Poster session
 
19:30
Barbecue
Saturday,
10.9.2011
 
 
 
7:45
Breakfast
 
9:00
Oligonucleotide analogues in nanobiotechnology and biotechnology
Tom Brown, University of Southampton, U.K.
 
10:00

Modification of DNA nanostructures with functional units
Barbara Sacca, TU Dortmund, Germany

 
11:00
Break
 
11:30
Fluorescent DNA architectures for chemical bioanalytics and imaging
Hans-Achim Wagenknecht, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
 
12:30
Lunch
 
14:00
 Functionalisation and Microstructuring of Cell Substrates using
 Designer Polymers

  Jörg Lahann (University of Michigan, U.S.A.)
 
 

15:00

Departure