NEXT GENERATION BIOPHYSICS SYMPOSIUM 2021
An informal one day virtual meeting (Wednesday, 29th September 2021) organised by Astra Zeneca, MRC LMB and Imperial College London examining the application of cutting edge biophysical techniques in complex biological settings. Bringing together scientists in both academia and industry for stimulating talks and discussions how these new and emerging technologies may be able to address challenging questions in the future.
To register for the Meeting, please follow the link.
ORGANISERS:
Chris Johnson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Stephen McLaughlin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
David Rueda, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London,
Maria Flocco, AstraZeneca UK,
Geoff Holdgate, AstraZeneca UK.
PROGRAMME:
09:00 Registration & Coffee
09:20 Welcome/Introduction by Prof. Jonathan Weber, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK
Session I – DNA Repair
09:30 Simon Boulton, The Francis Crick Institute, UK:
Mechanics of Homologous recombination at a single molecule level
10:00 Lori Passmore, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC, UK:
Insights into DNA crosslink repair through an integrated structural biology approach
10:30 Taiana Maia De Oliveira, AstraZeneca, UK:
11:00 Coffee Break
Session II – Epigenetics
11:30 Petra Hajkova, London Institute of Medical Sciences, MRC, UK:
The stability and dynamics of DNA modifications in vivo
12:00 Roseana Collepardo, University of Cambridge, UK:
Liquid-like chromatin organization from multiscale modelling
12:30 Lunch Break
Session III – Imaging Across Scales
13:30 Alice Pyne, University of Sheffield, UK:
Tackling twist, visualising supercoiled DNA structure and interactions with base-pair resolution
14:00 Beatrice Dyring-Andersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark:
Mass spectrometry in clinical dermatology
14:30 Sabrina Leslie, University of British Columbia, Canada:
ASO-RNA hybridization at single-molecule resolution
15:00 Coffee Break
Session IIII – HT Biophysics
15:15 Philipp Holliger, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC, UK:
15:45 Chirlmin Joo, TU Delft, Netherlands:
Towards Genome-wide Single-molecule Studies
16:15 William Greenleaf, Stanford University, US:
16:45 Coffee Break
Keynote Lecture
17:00 Patrick Cramer, Max Planck Institute, Germany:
Towards a mechanistic understanding of genome regulation
18:00 Close of Meeting
CONTACT:
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Francis Crick Avenue,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus,
Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.Email: nextgen@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk