Past Meeting.

Krebs Institute Symposium - Physics / Physical Chemistry / Biology Interface

Tuesday 22th April 2008, Tapestry Room, Firth Court, 9.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m

9.15 Coffee (Tapestry Room)

9.40 Welcome - Vice Chancellor, Professor Keith Burnett FRS

Session Chair: Simon Foster (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology)

10.00 Ashley Cadby (Physics and Astronomy) High resolution optical microscopy

10.20 Liz Seward (Biomedical Sciences) Studying cell signaling, protein dynamics and vesicle fusion with electrophysiology and total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy

10.40 Graham Leggett (Chemistry) Biological nanostructures

11.00 Coffee in the Tapestry Room

Session Chair: David Hornby (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology)

11.30 Emma Hayhurst (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) Bacterial cell wall molecular architecture

11.50 Luke Wilson (Physics and Astronomy) Bio-inorganic hybrid devices

12.10 Jon Waltho (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) Potential opportunities in protein folding and misfolding

12.30 Jamie Hobbs (Physics and Astronomy/Chemistry) Atomic force microscopy for in vivo imaging with molecular resolution

12.50 Discussion

13.00 Lunch in the Tapestry Room

Session Chair: Jamie Hobbs (Physics and Astronomy)

13.50 Pete Artymiuk (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) Structural molecular biology

14.10 Ramin Golenstanian (Physics and Astronomy) Biological matter from a theoretical physicist’s perspective

14.30 John Olsen (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) Illuminating the nanoscale world: using photoactive proteins in bionanotechnology

14.50 Patrick Fairclough (Chemistry) Scattering techniques, light neutrons and X-rays, as applied to life sciences

Discussion session: Future perspectives and opportunities
Chair: Neil Hunter (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology)

End of symposium and tea in the Tapestry Room