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Venice meeting on
Fluctuations in small complex
systems
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Palazzo Franchetti, Venezia, 21st to 25th October 2012
SCOPE.
In this meeting, we want to bring together scientists from the fields of
biological physics and soft matter, to address and discuss novel aspects
of the role of fluctuations in small systems ranging from individual DNA
molecules to living cells. With emerging experimental tools allowing us
to mechanically probe and manipulate individual DNA molecules and to
follow the trajectories of individual biomolecules in living cells we enter
a new era of understanding biological function. Physicists contribute to
this development both experimentally and theretically, by explaining the
physical origin of the observed behaviour. From a physics point of view
this development is the more exciting as it opens up new vistas, due to
the small size of the systems involved: thermal fluctuations control the
behaviour of the systems and their dynamics. Covering topics such as the
mechanical behaviour of DNA, the denaturation of its double helix, DNA's
interaction with other biomolecules during cellular regulation, as well
as the specific motion of these biomolecules in the cell, the meeting is
collecting new views towards a closed picture of the biological function
of living cells.
The participants are from leading international labs, and combine
experimentalists and theorists working in the field.
Organisers:
Olivier Bénichou, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Iddo Eliazar, Holon Institute of Technology
Ralf Metzler, Technical University of Munich
Gleb Oshanin, CNRS
Flavio Seno, University of Padova
Attilio Stella, University of Padova and Istituto Veneto
Sponsors:
EU IRSES programme FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES 269139 DCP-PhysBio Dynamics
and Cooperative Phenomena in Complex Physical and Biological Media
J-V Poncelet Laboratory, Independent University of Moscow
CNRS
Holon Institute of Technology
University of Potsdam
University of Padova
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