Physics of Functional Biological Assemblies: Pushing, Pulling and Sensing Workshop
Workshop - Aspen, CO, United States
This workshop will bring together theoretical physicists, experimental biophysicists and cell biologists enabling the identification of current theoretical and computational challenges, as well as key questions that need to be addressed by quantitative, physics-based experiments. We anticipate that focusing on the physical basis of function in these remarkable assemblies should provide a foundation for innovative new cross-disciplinary approaches. The themes will tend to center around cytoskeletal assemblies as active matter including spatial organization, network mechanics and rheology, single motor transport and intracellular cargo transport, force transmission, mechanosensing, membrane-ECM-cytoskelton interactions and dynamics, intermediate filament structure and mechanics and bacterial cytoskeletons.
(Courtesy of a bacterial cytoskeleton, via flickr.com)
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Sunday, May 26, 2013 – Sunday, June 30, 2013
Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, United States
Contact email: agopinathan@ucmerced.edu
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