Conveners
(R1-4) Biophysics/Soft Condensed Matter V - DMBP-DCMMP / Biophysique et matière condensée molle V - DPMB-DPMCM
- Paul Francois (M)
laura toppozini
(McMaster University)
6/19/14, 8:45 AM
Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
Transient nano- or mesoscopic structures in the plasma membrane, termed rafts or functional domains, are thought to be essential for many cellular processes such as signal transduction, cell adhesion, signalling, cell trafficking and lipid/protein sorting. Experimental observations of these membrane heterogeneities have proven challenging, as they are thought to be both small and short-lived....
Hannah Dies
(McMaster University)
6/19/14, 9:00 AM
Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
The symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease do not manifest in most patients until after the age of 60, suggesting a strong link between age-related changes in the composition of brain tissue and progression of the disease. In particular, age-related changes in cholesterol and melatonin levels are currently highly discussed in the literature. We studied the interaction between two amyloid-$\beta$...
Solomon Barkley
(M)
6/19/14, 9:30 AM
Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
Magnetotactic bacteria synthesize magnetic crystals in specialized organelles. This causes the cells to align with external magnetic fields. The movement of magnetotactic bacteria in applied magnetic fields has been studied previously, but only in the dilute limit in which cells do not interact. At much higher concentrations, hydrodynamic interactions and collisions can significantly alter...
Charmainne Cruje
(R)
6/19/14, 9:45 AM
Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
The development of polymer functionalized gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have promoted prospective applications in cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, such as drug delivery, photodynamic therapy and radiation therapy. The use of polyethylene glycol (PEG) functionalized GNP conjugates (PEG-GNP) have gained much attention due to promising biodistribution and stealth properties *in vivo*. Conjugates...
Prof.
Paul Francois
(McGill University)
6/19/14, 10:00 AM
Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
Many biological networks have to filter out useful information from a vast excess of spurious interactions. We use computational evolution to predict design features of networks processing ligand categorization. The important problem of early immune response is considered as a case-study. Rounds of evolution with different constraints uncover elaborations of the same network motif that we name...
