Life Matters
Symposium & Reception
Cancelled
Cancellation of the Life Matters Symposium
Hereby we inform you about the developments regarding the farewell symposium of Gijsje Koenderink on Friday, March 20.
Due to the rapidly developing situation regarding the Corona virus, we, unfortunately, have had to decide not to let the symposium take place as planned and to move it to a later date.
As soon as more is known about a new date, we will keep you informed.
Hope to have informed you sufficiently,
Bela Mulder
Sander Tans
Symposium organizers
The symposium is in honor of Gijsje Koenderink’s appointment as professor at the Bionanoscience Department at the Delft University of Technology. We want to thank her for her many contributions to AMOLF, and honor her widely recognized research at the intersection between soft matter physics and biological systems.
Gijsje Koenderink is a leading figure in the physics of the intra- and extracellular biopolymers, with a special focus on their active and passive mechanical properties. She is an expert in reconstituting simplified biomolecular systems in tailor-made artificial environments.
Gijsje has contributed to the success and further development of the activities in the area Living Matter at AMOLF. The symposium pays tribute to the way she inspired us all and the many collaborations she set up at AMOLF and beyond. We are bringing together a diverse group of colleagues of Gijsje, all at the forefront of today’s research on the mechanics of biopolymers and cells.
Symposium organizers:
Bela Mulder
Sander Tans
Contact
Henriëtte Langeveld
Secretary Life Matters Symposium| AMOLF
E-mail: h.langeveld@amolf.nl
Location
AMOLF | Science Park 104 | 1098 XG Amsterdam
For directions see: AMOLF contact & directions
Program
09.45 SYMPOSIUM | Welcome, coffee
10.15 Symposium opening by Huib Bakker (AMOLF)
10.30 Albert Philipse (Utrecht University) – Sensing charge-to-mass ratio’s of colloids, proteins and polyelectrolytes
10.55 Krassimir Velikov (Unilever/University of Amsterdam) – Cellulose microfibrils: properties and application in designed complex fluids and soft materials
11.20 Jose Alvarado (University of Texas) – Biological polymers: from inert matter to living matter
11.45 Lunch
13.15 Pavlik Lettinga (Leuven University) – Sitting in the dark
13.40 Karin Jansen (UMC Utrecht) – Dissecting how the extracellular matrix controls cell behavior
14.05 Fred MacKintosh (Vrije Universiteit) – Mechanical phase traditions and elastic anomalies in fiber networks
14.30 Tea Break
15.00 Chase Broedersz (München University) – Mechanics and dynamics of cells in soft and confining environments
15.25 Marileen Dogterom (Delft University of Technology) – What’s next?
15.50 Gijsje Koenderink (Delft University of Technology) – The soft matter within
16.15 RECEPTION
18.00 End