From Soft Matter to Synthetic Biology

We will start this seminar with a meeting on Tue 18.04. at 16:30-18:00 (place: Gulden room at MPI-MR), where we will explain the technical details, give a short introduction into the topic of the seminar, and where we will distribute the subjects of the talks.

Your seminar talks will then be given in blocks of 4-5 talks in the middle and towards the end of the semester (possible dates will be discussed in the first meeting)

Falko Ziebert & Kerstin Göpfrich

Possible 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