International PhD School on

Application of Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) in Life Sciences, Soft Matter and Nanofabrication.

Aug 26-30 2013, Aalborg, Denmark

Program

Time

Aug 25, Sun

Aug 26, Mon

Aug 27, Tue

Aug 28, Wed

Aug 29, Thu

Aug 30, Fri

9:00


Tutorial Lecture:

Pedro de Pablo

Tutorial Lecture:

Yuri Lyubchenko

Laboratory exercises/ Oral presentations

Tutorial Lecture:

Svetlana Santer

Hot topic lectures:

Marcel Bus

Sergey Antipov

Pavel Dorozhkin

10:45




Coffee break



11: 00

Lecture: Pedro de Pablo

Tutorial Lecture:

Pedro de Pablo

Tutorial Lecture:

Yuri Lyubchenko

Laboratory exercises/ Oral presentations

Tutorial Lecture:

Svetlana Santer

Valentyn Volkov

12:45




Lunch



14:00

Lecture: Pedro de Pablo

Lecture/Demonstration Alexander Kotlyar

Laboratory exercises/ Oral presentations

Excursion

Laboratories and Oral presentations


16:45


Coffee break


and Gala Dinner

Coffee break


17:00

Registration

Poster session

Plenary Lecture:

Ned Seeman


Plenary Lecture:

Dmitry Bagrov


18:00

18:00 Welcome reception

Dinner buffet

Dinner buffet and poster session


Dinner buffet and poster session


Speakers



Monday morning

Pedro de Pablo, 4x45 min.Tutorial lecture: AFM: imaging techniques and applications


Monday afternoon

Alexander Kotlyar, 3x45 min.Tutorial lecture/ demonstration:  Purification, deposition and imaging of biological molecules and viruses


Tuesday morning

Yuri Lyubchenko, 4x45 min. Tutorial lectures:  Nanocinematography — Dynamics of protein-DNA complexes with AFM


Tuesday, Plenary talk

Ned Seeman, 60 min. talk on Using the chemical information in DNA to organize the structure of matter on the nanoscale


Thursday morning

Svetlana Santer, 4x45 min.Tutorial lecture: Study of polymer materials using AFM


Thursday, Plenary talk

Dmitry Bagrov, 45 min. talk on Direct visualization of dynamic processes in polymers and biological samples using AFM


Friday, morning

Marcel Bus, 25 min. talk on CD44-Hyaluronan binding, studied by single molecule force spectroscopy

Serguey Antipov, 25 min. talk on DNA-Dps complexes as the first step towards novel material

Pavel Dorozhkin, 50 min. talk on Super resolution optical microscopy with the use of AFM probe

Valentyn Volkov, 50 min. talk on Scanning near-field optical microscopy



Laboratory projects



-  Study of elasticity and adhesion on polymers and cells, Supervisor: S. Lemeshko, System: Solver Next.


- Virus and cell imaging, Supervisor: A. Kotlyar, System: Ntegra Nano.


- EFM and KPFM in application to polymers, Supervisor: V. Popok, System: Ntegra Aura.


- Complex study of cells using Ntegra Life, Supervisor: A. Shelaev, System: Ntegra Life