Program
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| Sunday, May 10 | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 21:30 | Welcome banquet |
| Monday, May 11 | |
| 08:00 - 08:45 | Registration |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Opening by Jan-Michael Rost, Managing Director of the MPIPKS and the Organizers |
| Chairman: Hao Yan | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Robert Austin (Princeton University) |
| Nanochannels and electronic detection of DNA
(slides as pdf) |
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| 09:40 - 10:20 | Justin Gooding (The University of New South Wales) |
| Electrochemical DNA biosensors exploiting changes in the charge transfer
properties of DNA
(slides as pdf) |
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| 10:20 - 10:40 | Eugene Petrov (Technische Universität Dresden) |
| Diffusion and segmental dynamics of double-stranded DNA
(slides as pdf) |
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| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Chairman: Ulrich Keyser | |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Ralf Seidel (Technische Universität Dresden) |
| Supertwisting DNA: Buckling, kinks and interstrand repulsion | |
| 11:40 - 12:20 | Gijs Wuite (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) |
| Measuring the physics that drives DNA-protein interactions | |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| Chairman: Gianaurelio Cuniberti | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Torsten Fiebig (Boston College) |
| Photonics with ultrafast laser pulses - From DNA to semiconductor nanorods | |
| 14:40 - 15:20 | Yuri Berlin (Northwestern University) |
| Charge transport in dynamic DNA
(slides as pdf) |
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| 15:20 - 16:00 | Notker Rösch (Technische Universität München) |
| Charge migration in DNA: Quantum mechanical and molecular dynamics studies | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Chairman: Thilo Gross | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 |
DNATEC09 Colloquium |
| Nadrian Seeman (New York University) | |
| Using DNA information to control the structure of matter in 3D
(slides as pdf) |
|
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Supper |
| 19:30 - 21:00 | Poster session with beverages and snacks |
| Tuesday, May 12 | |
| Chairman: Michael Mertig | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Yan Liu (Arizona State University) |
| DNA based molecular assembly | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Kurt Vesterager Gothelf (Aarhus University) |
| DNA-origami templated assembly of molecular structures | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Tim Liedl (Harvard University) |
| Pre-stressed DNA tensegrity structures
(slides as pdf) |
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| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Chairwoman: Deborah Fygenson | |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Serge Lemay (Delft University of Technology) |
| Charge inversion accompanies DNA condensation by multivalent ions
(slides as pdf) |
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| 11:40 - 12:20 | Ulrich Gerland (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| The second code: Physics of nucleosome positioning | |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| Chairman: Serge Lemay | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Jonathan Bath (Oxford University) |
| Molecular motors built from DNA | |
| 14:40 - 15:20 | Bernard Yurke (Boise State University) |
| Catalytic DNA systems
(slides as pdf) |
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| 15:20 - 16:00 | Milan Stojanovic (Columbia University) |
| Progress in molecular robotics | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Chairman: Marcus Elstner | |
| 16:30 - 17:10 | Shankar Balasubramanian (University of Cambridge) |
| The chemistry and biology of the quadruple helix nucleic acids: G-quadruplexes | |
| 17:10 - 17:50 | Rosa Di Felice (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) |
| Density functional theory and molecular dynamics of DNA-derivatives for nanoelecronics
(slides as pdf) |
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| 17:50 - 18:10 | Veikko Linko (University of Jyväskylä) |
| Dielectrophoretic trapping and electrical conductivity of DNA origami
(slides as pdf) |
|
| 18:30 - 22:00 |
Lab tour |
| 18:30: Busses leaving the MPIPKS for the BIOTEC (Am Tatzberg 47/48) | |
| BIOTEC: Talk and guided tour by Ralf Seidel | |
| 19:45: Busses leaving the BIOTEC for the Max-Bergmann-Zentrum (Budapester Str. 27) | |
| MBZ: Opening by Brigitte Voit, supper, guided tours with Michael Gelinsky, Michael Mertig and Tilo Pompe | |
| 22:00/22:15: Busses leaving for the MPIPKS with stoppovers at the Pullman hotel and the Leonardo hotel | |
| Wednesday, May 13 | |
| Chairman: Nadrian Seeman | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Erik Winfree (California Institute of Technology) |
| Molecular programming with DNA | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Itamar Willner (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| Mechanics, catalysis and electronics with programmed DNA nanostructures
(slides as pdf) |
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| 10:20 - 10:40 | Björn Högberg (Harvard University) |
| Folding DNA origami objects using a double-stranded scaffold | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Chairwoman: Hanadi Sleiman | |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | John Reif (Duke University) |
| DNA nanoassembly and DNA nanodevices: Challenges, applications and research progress | |
| 11:40 - 12:20 | William Shih (Harvard University) |
| Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes
(Part 1)
(Part 2)
(Part 3) |
|
| 12:20 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| Chairman: Torsten Fiebig | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Artur Erbe (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) |
| Electronic transport through individual DNA-based molecules contacted with controllable electrodes | |
| 14:40 - 15:20 | Hans-Achim Wagenknecht (Universität Regensburg) |
| Functional DNA architectures: Photoinduced electron transfer and
fluorescent multichromophore arrangements
(slides as pdf) |
|
| 15:20 - 16:00 | Thorsten Koslowski (Universität Freiburg) |
| Atomistic DNA simulations: Charge transfer in solution and through
bio-nano contacts
(slides as pdf) |
|
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Chairman: Justin Gooding | |
| 16:30 - 17:10 | Hanadi Sleiman (McGill University) |
| Supramolecular DNA nanotechnology
(slides as pdf) |
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| 17:10 - 17:50 | Ulrich Keyser (University of Cambridge) |
| Origin of the electrophoretic force on DNA in solid-state
nanopores
(slides as pdf) |
|
| 17:50 - 18:10 | Katrin Günther (Technische Universität Dresden) |
| Influence of the bis-intercalator YOYO-1 on the mechanical and structural properties of double-stranded DNA | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Supper |
| 19:30 - 21:00 | Poster session with beverages and snacks |
| Thursday, May 14 | |
| Chairman: Ralf Seidel | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Danny Porath (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| Scanning tunneling spectroscopy, polarizability and conductivity measurements of DNA and G4-DNA molecules | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Thomas Carell (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| Metals in and around DNA
(slides as pdf) |
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| 10:20 - 10:40 | Giorgia Brancolini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) |
| Metal-DNA electronic hybridization from first principles
(slides as pdf) |
|
| 10:40 - 11:00 |
Group photo (to be published on the workshop's web page) & Coffee break |
| Chairman: Dongsheng Liu | |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Roland Netz (Technische Universität München) |
| DNA dynamics
(slides as pdf) |
|
| 11:40 - 12:20 | Erwin Frey (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| The effect of topology and self-avoidance on polymer configurations
(slides as pdf) |
|
| 12:20 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 |
Leaving for the excursion to Meissen |
| including a visit to the porcellain manufactory, listening to a procellain organ, a guided tour through the medivial city centre and having a traditional dinner | |
| Friday, May 15 | |
| Chairman: Tim Liedl | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Marcus Elstner (Technische Universität Braunschweig) |
| Simulation of charge transfer in DNA using QM/MM methods
(slides as pdf) |
|
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Deborah Kuchnir Fygenson (University of California) |
| Understanding DNA-Ag fluorophores and their prospects for DNA nanotechnology
(slides as pdf) |
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| 10:20 - 10:40 | Christiane Erler (Technische Universität Dresden) |
| DNA networks as templates for a photo-induced metal cluster formation | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Chairman: Friedrich Simmel | |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Mitsuhiko Shionoya (The University of Tokyo) |
| Metals strings in artificial DNA
(slides as pdf) |
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| 11:40 - 12:20 | Aleš Omerzu (Institut ''Jozef Stefan'' Ljubljana) |
| Zinc ions embedded in a dry DNA double helix form a 1D molecular chain
of unpaired electron spins
(slides as pdf) |
|
| 12:20 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| Chairman: Danny Porath | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Oliver Seitz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
| Nucleic acids as control elements in molecular switches
(slides as pdf) |
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| 14:40 - 15:20 | Dongsheng Liu (National Centre for NanoScience & Technology Beijing) |
| Smart DNA nanodevices based on i-motif structures
(slides as pdf) |
|
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Stephen Wells (Warwick University) |
| DNA charge transport: Correlation with pathogenic mutations
(slides as pdf) |
|
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Coffee break |
| Chairman: Eugene Petrov | |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Andrey Cherstvy (Forschungszentrum Jülich) |
| DNA-protein electrostatic recognition: Analysis of DNA-protein complexes
from protein data bank
(slides as pdf) |
|
| 16:30 - 17:10 | Friedrich Simmel (Technische Universität München) |
| Molecular production and motion clocked by a transcriptional oscillator | |
| 17:10 - 17:50 | Wrapping up |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Supper |
| 19:30 - 21:00 |
Public evening lecture |
| Thomas Carell (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) | |
| DNA - das Silizium der Nanowelt |
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