Summer School: CHANNELS, CHIPS and NANOPORE
25 August 2007 - 31 August 2007
Austria
Studying, exploiting and imitating these “secretion”, ”extrusion”, “gating” phenomena and structures open up numerous prospects of applications for detecting molecules, characterizing molecular interactions, sequencing DNA, or watching peptide folding.
Combining these investigations with microfluidics setups allows for instance high throughput detection of cells and makes electrophysiology and “patch-clamp on a chip” interesting for drug screening.
Complementary to biological channels, recent advances in technology allow creating artificial nanometre-sized pores in solid materials.
The aim of the school is to teach a broad and interdisciplinary perspective of this field. It concerns interested biologists, physicists, chemists and engineers. The core program includes invited general and research talks from experts in the field. Special emphasis will be given on the outline of current developments and the discussion of promising future research directions. Participating students and postdocs will have the opportunity to present and discuss their own research in poster sessions and student
seminarsThis summer school is the third of a series, which took place in 2005
and 2006, organized at the International University of Bremen on the
same topics. The 2005 school was entirely financed by the Volkswagen foundation. The 2006 one was financed by the French-
German University under the responsibility of the universities of Bremen (IUB) and Évry.
It will take place in the small island of Berder (http://www.lvt-
berder.com/) in France. The participants will be lodged in single and double rooms.
Combining these investigations with microfluidics setups allows for instance high throughput detection of cells and makes electrophysiology and “patch-clamp on a chip” interesting for drug screening.
Complementary to biological channels, recent advances in technology allow creating artificial nanometre-sized pores in solid materials.
The aim of the school is to teach a broad and interdisciplinary perspective of this field. It concerns interested biologists, physicists, chemists and engineers. The core program includes invited general and research talks from experts in the field. Special emphasis will be given on the outline of current developments and the discussion of promising future research directions. Participating students and postdocs will have the opportunity to present and discuss their own research in poster sessions and student
seminarsThis summer school is the third of a series, which took place in 2005
and 2006, organized at the International University of Bremen on the
same topics. The 2005 school was entirely financed by the Volkswagen foundation. The 2006 one was financed by the French-
German University under the responsibility of the universities of Bremen (IUB) and Évry.
It will take place in the small island of Berder (http://www.lvt-
berder.com/) in France. The participants will be lodged in single and double rooms.