Physics of Life Town Meeting 2019

3 December 2019
Royal Society, London, Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall

Meeting Overview

We invite you to join the Physics of Life Town meeting which will bring together the well established community to conclude the second phase of the Physics of Life Network (PoLNET2; 2017-2020). This interdisciplinary meeting will be packed with a mix of invited speakers, introductions to projects funded through the Physics of Life Collaboration fund, a review of PolNET2's achievements, open discussions with research councils and a lunchtime student poster session. We are delighted to also be joining forces with BBS. All are welcome to join this meeting!

Purpose

The idea of this meeting 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 life and physical sciences. We invite participation from all interested parties including academic, industrial and UK funders who are interested in generating new collaborative research interactions at the physical/life sciences interface. 

Provisional programme
Physics of Life Town meeting

8.45-9.20	Registration and Coffee (City of London rooms 1,2 and 3)
9.20-9.30	Welcome from Venki Ramakrishnan (President of The Royal Society)
9.30-10.30	Morning plenary: Philip Nelson (University of Pennsylvania) "Stochastic Simulation to Visualise Gene Expression, Error Correction, and Decision Making in Living Cells"
10.30-11.15	Invited plenary from BBS Adam Perriman (2016 BBS Young Investigator Award recipient, University of Bristol) "Artificial membrane binding proteins for cellular therapies"
11.15-11.45	Refreshment Break
11.45-12.00	Tom McLeish (University of York) Review of PolNET2 and future directions
12.00-12.15	Guillaume Salbreux (Francis Crick Institute) "Stochastic fluctuations during mammary development and breast cancer morphogenesis"
12.15-12.30	Robert Insall (Glasgow University) "MEGA-FLIM: quantum technologies for megapixel time-resolved imaging and control across biological scales"
12.30-12.45	Daniel Hebenstreit (University of Warwick) "Transcription and nuclear phase transitions"
12.45-13.00	Martin Howard (John Innes Centre) 'Biological Physics of protein clustering in epigenetic memory and transcriptional control'
13.00-14.00	Lunch with student poster session
14.00-14.45	Afternoon Plenary: Ottoline Leyser (University of Cambridge) "Pizza, ping pong and public engagement at the physics:biology interface"
14.45-15.00	Marc Holderied (University of Bristol) "Biological metamaterials for enhanced noise control technology"
15.00-15.15	Jennifer Littlechild (University of Exeter) "Molecular Mechanics of enzymes"
15.15-15.30	Jamie Hobbs (University of Sheffield) 'The Physics of antimicrobial resistance'
15.30-15.50	Refreshment Break
15.50-16.05	Christopher Pain, Alexandra Porter and Fan Chung (Imperial College London) "Health assessment across biological length scales for personal pollution exposure and its mitigation (INHALE)"
16.05-16.15	General Questions
16.15-16.25	Johanna Roostalu (Wellcome Trust) "Funding opportunities for the Physics of Life community from Wellcome"
16.25-16.35	Funding talk from UKRI Rosanna Greenop/Sarah Newman (EPSRC)  "Funding opportunities for the Physics of Life community from UKRI"
16.35-17.00	Funder Q and A
17.00	Meeting Close

Registration

Registration for this event is FREE and includes refreshments and lunch.
Please note: If you are booking a place but find you are no longer able to make the event, please be respectful and cancel your place as soon as possible by email to [email protected], so that the funding of the place can be allocated elsewhere.
To register, please complete the form below. Please note there are an allocated number of spaces for this event (100 places), registration will be made on a first come first served basis. Accommodation for this event will need to be organised separately.
Registration for this event has now closed. For enquiries relating to this event, please email: [email protected]. 

Poster abstract submission

We have space for a limited number of student and ECR posters. The deadline for submission has now passed. The poster board size is 1m wide x 2m high.

Venue

The meeting will take place at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG