2008 APS March Meeting
The March Meeting is the primary annual meeting for the Division of Biological Physics. Don't miss it!
Annual March Meeting, March 10-14, 2008, at New Orleans, LA.
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5th APS Workshop on Opportunities in Biological Physics
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Marriott Hotel
New Orleans, Louisiana
Organized by APS Division of Biological Physics
Life provides a wellspring of opportunities for physical analysis. This workshop will introduce two exciting areas in biological physics: biomechanics and genetic networks. Topics will include motion science, the physics of walking, artificial hands, the physics of cell shape, the dynamics and noise in genetic and signal transduction networks. Speakers from academia and industry will provide extensive tutorial overviews, accessible to non-specialists. There will be ample time for participants to discuss their current and future scientific and career directions with the speakers. The workshop is aimed at all physicists who are curious about the interface between physics and biology, especially graduate students and post-docs who are eager to apply their expertise in novel ways in the life sciences.
The workshop will start at 9:00 AM and run until approximately 4:30 PM. The pre-registration deadline is February 11, 2008. Pre-registration fees are $50 for students, $75 for postdoctoral researchers and $100 for all others. Workshop’s pre-registration may be submitted separately after the pre-registration for March Meeting has been submitted, by faxing or mailing the same form to the APS. The fee includes continental breakfast and a box lunch. Limited on-site registrations will be allowed with a late fee ($25) for each category and cash payment only (no credit card), but availability of box lunches is not guaranteed for late registrants.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: (biographies and abstracts) (pdf file)
- K. C. Huang, Princeton University, “The Biophysical Origins of Spatio-temporal Network Dynamics”
- Art Kuo, University of Michigan, “Mechanics and Control of Human Locomotion: Let your Physics do the Walking?”
- John Milton, Claremont McKenna College, “Motion Science: A New Frontier for Physicists”
- Gurol Suel, UT Southwestern, “Cellular Differentiation: Noisy and Dynamic, but Tunable”
- Yuhai Tu, I.B.M. Watson Research, “From Molecules to Behavior: A Single Cell's Memory, Computation and Taxis”
- Francisco Valero-Cuevas, U.S.C., “Why Haven’t We Made Better Artificial Hands? ”
- TBA
Steering Committee: Chair: Stephen Quake (quake@stanford.edu) Vice-Chair, DBP
Committee Members: Shirley Chan (ChanShirley@mailaps.org) Secretary-Treasurer, DBP
John Milton (jmilton@jsd.claremont.edu) Member-at-Large, DBP
Chao Tang (chao.tang@ucsf.edu) Member-at-Large, DBP
FINANCIAL SUPPORT PROVIDED IN PART BY: Agouron Foundation, Fluidigm Corp.
For information on past workshops, see: http://www.aps.org/units/dbp/links/index.cfm.
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