[bioundgrd] Radcliffe Science Symposium on "Molecules, Movement, and Motors"

[Joyce Roberge]

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Molecules, Movement, and Motors

Friday, October 14, 2011 | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
This event is free and open to the public.  Registration is required.
Please click here to register<http://www.rsvpbook.com/event.php?491593>.

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The symposium will bring together experts in genetics, chemistry, biology, physics, medicine, and engineering to discuss the mechanics of motors—from naturally occurring motors, such as those inside cells, to new synthetic motors made from DNA. The exploration about how motors work and what we can learn from studying them will address an array of questions: Are motors specific for a single task, or can they adapt to multiple functions? What makes motors start and stop moving? What are common features that make an effective motor? How can we build on new understandings of motors to cure disease and make other improvements to human life?

Speakers

Anna Christina Balazs<http://www.engr2.pitt.edu/chemical/facstaff/balazs.html>, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Robert Von der Luft Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Steven M. Block<http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Steven_Block/>, Stanford W. Ascherman, M.D., Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Biology and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at Freeman Spogli Institute,Stanford University
Susan K. Dutcher<http://cbmi.wustl.edu/html/profile_Susan_Dutcher.html>, Professor and Interim Head, Genetics, Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University in St. Louis
Larry Goldstein<http://cmm.ucsd.edu/goldstein/People_Current.html>, Distinguished Professor, Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Director, UC San Diego Stem Cell Program; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at San Diego
Ayusman Sen<http://www.chem.psu.edu/directory/axs20>, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University
James A. Spudich<http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/devbio/faculty/James_Spudich/>, Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Disease, Stanford University
Viola Vogel, <http://www.nanomat.mat.ethz.ch/> Professor in the Department of Materials and Head of the Laboratory for Biologically Oriented Materials,  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)

For more information and a symposium schedule, please visit www.radcliffe.edu<http://www.radcliffe.edu> or call 617-495-8600.











Joyce Roberge
Undergraduate Program
Biology Education Office 68-120
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
31 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-4718
fax: 617-258-9329
email: roberge at mit.edu<mailto:roberge at mit.edu>





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