Physics of Life Town Meeting

2 October 2017
Royal Society, London, Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall
Workshop chairs: Tom McLeish FRS and Martin Cann

Meeting overview:
We invite you to join us for the first Physics of Life Town meeting, which will be held at the Royal Society in London. This interdisciplinary meeting will showcase the Physics of Life network which is now in its second phase (PoLNET2); 2017-2020). The event will highlight the opportunities available when working across Biology and Physics as experienced by researchers, funders and industrial partners. There will be plenty of information available on future PoLnet2 plans, how best to engage with the network and the funding and event opportunities available over the next 3 years. The programme involves a schedule of invited talks and open discussion. All are welcome!

Purpose

The idea of this workshop is to bring together people from biology and physics backgrounds to discuss and showcase the interdisciplinary collaborative opportunities and benefits available from the perspectives of research, industry and funding.

Who should attend?

This meeting should be of broad interest to anyone working within and across Biology and the Physical sciences. We invite participation from all interested parties including academic, industrial and UK funders who are interested learning about and generating new collaborative research interactions at the physical/life sciences interface. 

Programme

Provisional programme
Physics of Life Town meeting

October 2 2017

9.30	Registration and Coffee (City of London rooms 1,2 and 3)
10.00	Welcome from Tom McLeish FRS and Martin Cann
10.15	Introduction from Sir John Skehel, FMedSci FRS (Vice-President and Biological Secretary, The Royal Society)
10.30	Ben Simons (Cambridge University) 'A unifying theory of branching morphogenesis'
11.30	Helen Saibil FRS (Birkbeck College) '3D cryo-electron microscopy of macromolecular machines'
12.30	Elena-Lurie Luke (P and G), 'Physics of Life: an industrial perspective'
13.00	Lunch (City of London rooms 1,2 and 3)
14.00	Physics of Life showcase: Giovanni Sena (Imperial College London), 'Imaging plant roots under mechanical stress'
14.20	Physics of Life showcase: Daniel Frankel (Newcastle University), 'Hyaluronan in cancer - from the Naked Mole Rat to chemotherapy resistance'
14.40	Physics of Life showcase: Rhoda Hawkins (University of Sheffield) 'Investigating the mechanism of energy consumption in ATPase proteins'
15.00	Funding talks from Ellen Meek (EPSRC), Peter Burlinson (BBSRC), Karen Brakespear (MRC), Tom Collins (Wellcome), Lauren Kerr (CRUK)
15.25	Funder panel discussion and latest information on TTL
16.30	Tea and depart (City of London rooms 1,2 and 3)

Registration

Registration for this event is FREE. To register, please fill out the form below. Please note there are an allocated number of spaces for this event, registration will be made on a first come first served basis. Accommodation for this event will need to be organised separately. For enquiries relating to this event, please email: k.h.baker@dur.ac.uk. 
Registration deadline: 20th September. REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.

Directions

The meeting will take place at the Royal Society, London.