From Soft Matter to Synthetic Biology

Note: Due to the current situation (corona), we will start this seminar with an online meeting. We will meet on heiCONF next Tuesday, 21.04., at 15:30 (3:30 pm). I will send you the heiCONF-link Tuesday morning.

In that meeting, we will explain the technical details, give a short introduction in the topic of the seminar, and we will distribute the subjects of the talks. 

Falko Ziebert & Kerstin Göpfrich

Topics:

part 1: fundamentals

1) polymers

2) lipid membranes & compartments

3) liquid crystals

4) colloids, stabilisation & electrostatics

5) complex mechanical response

6) microfluidics

7) intro nonequilibrium thermodynamics

part 2: complexity & synthetic biology

8) creating compartments

9) creating motility (i.e. self-sustained motion)

10) soft robotics

11) strategies for self-healing materials

12) patterning in space & time

13) DNA nanotech

14) DNA origami

15) 2D and 3D printing of biomaterials

16) synthetic cells

17) origin of life