Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 |
| 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm |
Welcome Reception and Dinner at West Lounge, Hotel Angeleno
(By Invitation) |
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 |
| 8:15 - 8:45 am |
Breakfast and Registration - CNSI Lobby |
| 8:45 - 9:00 am |
Thomas Mason (UCLA) - Opening Remarks |
| 9:00 - 10:30 am |
Dave Weitz (Harvard University, Department of Physics)
"Microrheology in Bionetworks and Cells"
John Crocker (University of Pennsylvania, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
"What Do Cell Rheology Experiments Really Measure?" |
| 10:30 - 10:45 am |
Coffee Break |
| 10:45 - 11:45 am |
Panel One - Michael Dennin (UC Irvine, Dept. of Physics)
Presentation and Discussion |
| 11:45 - 12:15 pm |
Open Discussion - CNSI Lobby |
| 12:15 - 1:30 pm |
Lunch - CNSI Lobby |
| 1:30 - 3:00 pm |
Daniel Ou-Yang (Lehigh University, Department of Physics)
"A Comparative Study of Living Cell Micromechanical Properties Using Oscillatory Optical Tweezers"
Tom Lubensky (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics)
"Foundations and Applications of One- and Two-Point Microrheology" |
| 3:00 - 3:15 pm |
Coffee Break |
| 3:15 - 4:15 pm |
Panel Two: Victor Breedveld (Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Presentation and Discussion |
| 4:15 - 4:45 pm |
Open Discussion - CNSI Lobby |
| 4:45 - 5:30 pm |
Reception and Poster Session I |
| 5:50 - 7:00 pm |
Dinner at CNSI |
| 7:00 - 8:00 pm |
Public Lecture on Microrheology Alex Levine |
| 8:00 - 9:00 pm |
Meeting with Local High School Science Teachers
Alex Levine & Thomas Mason |
Friday, February 8th, 2008 |
| 8:15 - 8:45 am |
Breakfast - CNSI Lobby |
| 8:45 - 10:15 am |
Christoph Schmidt (Georg-August-Universität, Göettingen)
"Active and Passive Microrheology: Non-Linear and Non-Equilibrium Systems"
Fred MacKintosh (Vrije Universiteit, Department of Physics)
"Non-Equilibrium Fluctuations in the Cytoskeleton: Microrheology in Active Gels and Living Cells" |
| 10:15 - 10:30 am |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 am |
Panel Three: Jacques Prost (ESPCI Microrheology in Biological Systems)
Presentation and Discussion
|
| 11:30 - 12:00 pm |
Open discussion - CNSI Lobby |
| 12:00 - 1:30 pm |
Lunch and Poster Session II - CNSI Lobby |
| 1:30 - 3:00 pm |
Penger Tong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Physics)
"Diffusion of Colloidal Particles at Soft Interfaces"
Todd Squires (UCSB, Department of Chemical Engineering)
"Active and Nonlinear Microrheology -- Issues, Challenges, and Ideas" |
| 3:00 - 3:15 pm |
Coffee Break |
| 3:15 - 4:15 pm |
Panel Four - Eric Furst (University of Delaware, Dept. of Chemical Engineering) Presentation and Discussion |
| 4:15 - 4:45 pm |
Open Discussion - CNSI Lobby
|
| 5:00 - 5:45 pm |
Gerry Fuller (Stanford University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering)
"Interfacial Flow Processing of Collagen to Create Contact Guidance of Cells"
|
| 6:15 - 8:30 pm |
Reception and Dinner - UCLA Faculty Center (By Invitation) |
Saturday, February 9th, 2008 |
| 9:00 - 9:30 am |
Breakfast - CNSI Lobby
|
| 9:30 - 11:00 am |
Pat Spicer (Procter and Gamble)
"Structured Fluid Consumer Products and Microstructural Heterogeneity"
Frank Scheffold (University of Fribourg, Department of Physics)
"Glassy Dynamics and Network Elasticity in Complex Fluids Probed by DWS" |
| 11:00 - 11:15 am |
Coffee Break |
| 11:15 - 12:15 pm |
Panel Five - Daphne Weihs (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering) Presentation and Discussion
|
| 12:15 - 12:30 pm |
Open Discussion - CNSI Lobby |
| 12:30 - 12:45 pm |
Closing Remarks - Alex Levine (UCLA) |
| 12:45 - 2:00 pm |
Lunch - CNSI Lobby
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