From Soft Matter to Synthetic Biology

--- Registration opens on 05.10.20, 12:00 ---

NOTE: This seminar will be online. We will meet on heiCONF on 03.11.20, at 15:00 (3:00 pm) for a first meeting (the heiCONF-link will be sent to you, if you are registered, a few days in advance).

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

Tentative 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