Student's Seminar winter 2011/2012

ICS-4, building 15.1, room 249, 1:00 - 3:10

(20 minutes talk followed by 20 minutes discussion)

chaired by
R. Strey (Physical Chemistry, Universität zu Köln)
R. Merkel (Biomechanics, Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Wednesday, 26th October 2011

1:00-1:40 Matteo Gabba
(Molecular Biophysics)
Inter-domain dynamics of phosphoglycerate kinase from yeast studied by single-molecule FRET
1:45-2:25 Masoud Pourmoosa
(Theoretical Soft Matter
and Biophysics)
Collective behavior of microswimmers
2:30-3:10 Thomas Zinn
(Neutron Scattering)
Structure and kinetics of polymeric micelles by SANS

Wednesday, 23rd November 2011

1:00-1:40 Clemens Sill
(Neutron Scattering)
Lactoferrin: dynamics of a flexible protein in solution investigated by neutron scattering
1:45-2:25 Sonia Biswas
(Cellular Biophysics)
Characterization of electrodes for retinal prosthesis - a fight against blindness
2:30-3:10 Kevin Küpper
(Biomechanics)
Intrinsic calcium signals in mechanotransduction of non-contractile and contractile cells

Wednesday, 14th December 2011

1:00-1:40 Zhanna Santybayeva
(Biomechanics)
Live imaging during cell stretch experiment: preliminary results
1:45-2:25 Donald Guu
(Soft Condensed Matter)
Short-range attraction in colloidal suspensions induced by fd-viruses
2:30-3:10 Paraskevas Lamprou
(Molecular Biophysics)
Fluorescence anisotropy: a powerful tool to explore protein folding

Wednesday, 18th January 2012

1:00-1:40 Falk Hoffmann
(Molecular Biochemistry)
Protein structure prediction using global optimization with chemical shift restraints
1:45-2:25 Farzaneh Taslimi
(Theoretical Soft Matter
and Biophysics)
Suspensions of end-attractive polymers in shear flow
2:30-3:10 Sudipta Gupta
(Neutron Scattering)
Dynamic phase diagram of soft colloids

Wednesday, 8th February 2012

1:00-1:40 Nadja Wulff
(Physical Chemistry)
Photochemical [2+2]cycloaddition within microemulsions
1:45-2:25 Zhe Wang
(Molecular Biochemistry)
Backbone building from CryoEM data
2:30-3:10 Jens Elgeti
(Theoretical Soft Matter
and Biophysics)
Particle-based tissue simulations