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49th New England Workshop on Complex Fluids

Friday, December 2, 2011 - 12:00 to 20:00
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Harvard University
8:45 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Invited Speakers:

  • Ethan Garner, Harvard University
  • Chinedum Osuji, Yale University
  • Debra T. Auguste, Harvard University
  • Tal Raz, GnuBio
  • Stephen Quake, Stanford University

Schedule:

8:15–8:55 a.m. Breakfast and Registration, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
Morning Presentations, Maxwell Dworkin, Room G115
9:00–9:30 a.m. Ethan Garner, Harvard University
"Watching the motions of the cell wall synthesis machinery and underlying cytoskeleton in B. subtilis with high precision particle tracking"
9:30–10:00 a.m. Chinedum Osuji, Yale University
"Magnetic fields and soft matter - directing self-assembly of block copolymer, nanowire, and surfactant mesophases"
10:00–11:00 p.m. Sound Bites Session I

11:00–12:30 p.m. Lunch, Maxwell-Dworkin, Room 119
Afternoon Presentations, Maxwell Dworkin, Room G115
12:30–1:00 p.m. Debra T. Auguste, Harvard University
"2 > 1: Cooperative assembly in drug delivery"
1:00–1:30 p.m. Tal Raz, GnuBio
"Fully integrated target enrichment, DNA sequencing, and variant calling with emulsion microfluidics"
1:30–2:00 p.m. Coffee, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
2:00–3:30 p.m. Sound Bites Session II

3:30–4:00 p.m. Coffee and Cookies, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
4:00 p.m. Condensed Matter Seminar, Pierce 209
Stephen Quake, Stanford University
"Precision Measurement in Biology"