| 9:00-9:10 | Welcome
Reinhard Lipowsky and Ulrich Schwarz |
| Session I | Soft Interfaces
Chair: Rumiana Dimova |
| 9:10-9:50 | Helmut Möhwald: Polyelectrolyte-lipid interactions and their relevance for transport properties |
| 9:50-10:30 | Paul Janmey: Domain formation by phosphoinositides in lipid membranes |
| 10:30-11:10 | Thomas Weikl: Pattern formation during adhesion of multicomponent membranes |
| 11:10-11:40 | Coffee Break |
| 11:40-12:20 | Michael Klein: A coarse-grain model for simulation studies of soft interfaces |
| 12:20-13:00 | Helmut Ringsdorf: Death of a tumor cell - can we mimic the process ? Polymeric liposomes as biomembrane models |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Break |
| Session II | Cell Adhesion
Chair: Ulrich Schwarz |
| 14:00-14:40 | Dennis Discher: Compliant underpinnings in anchorage-dependent cell response |
| 14:40-15:20 | Alexander Bershadsky: Interplay between adhesion-dependent signaling and the cytoskeleton |
| 15:20-15:50 | Coffee Break |
| 15:50-16:30 | Dan Hammer: Adhesive dynamics: modeling the docking of cells and viruses (presented by Valeria Tohver-Milam) |
| 16:30-17:10 | Josef Käs: Polymers in cells: a journey from fundamental polymer science to cancer diagnosis and nerve repair |
| Special event | International Relations |
| 17:10-17:50 | Berthold Neizert: Funding for EU-US collaborations |
| Session III | Supramolecular Assemblies
Chair: Markus Antonietti |
| 9:00-9:40 | Peter Fratzl: Hierarchical deformation mechanisms in wood and collagen |
| 9:40-10:20 | Andreas Fery: Studying nanoshell mechanics by combined microinterferometry and AFM force spectroscopy |
| 10:20-11:40 | Coffee Break/Poster Session |
| 11:40-12:20 | Hai-Lung Dai: Nonlinear optical probe of structure and adsorption at colloidal particle surface |
| 12:20-13:00 | Dirk Kurth: Supramolecular materials with hierarchical structure |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Break/Poster Session |
| Session IV | Polymers
Chair: Monika Schönhoff |
| 14:00-14:40 | Arjun Yodh: Rods in gels |
| 14:40-15:20 | Jan Kierfeld: Bundling and adsorption of semiflexible polymers |
| 15:20-15:50 | Coffee Break/Poster Session |
| 15:50-16:30 | Tom Lubensky: Non-linear elasticity of networks of semi-flexible polymers |
| 16:30-17:10 | Helmut Schlaad: Introducing complexity in mesostructures of diblock copolymers |
| 17:10-19:00 | Lab Tours/Poster Session |
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