Fall 2018

The biophysics/soft matter seminars will be held Mondays at 1:30am in P8445.2 unless otherwise stated.

Date Speaker Topic
Sept 24 John Frostad (Chemical and Biological Engineering, UBC)

Micromechanical characterization of soft particles

Oct 1 Gwynn Elfring (Mechanical Engineering, UBC)

Active particles in complex fluids

Oct 15 Cole DeForest (Chemical Engineering, Washington Univ.)

User-programmable hydrogel biomaterials to probe and direct 4D stem cell fate

Oct 22 Celine Ruscher (Physics, UBC)

The Voronoi Liquid: a new model to probe glass transition.

Oct 29 Magdalena Bazalova-Carter (Physics, Victoria)

Radiotherapy of cancer: slow or fast?

Nov 5 Mike Kirkness (MBB, SFU)

Optimization of Single-Molecule Assay for Proteolytic Susceptibility: Force-Induced Collagen Destabilization