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International Workshop on
"Polymers with spatial and mechanical constraints"
July 7-9, 2016

Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti,
Campo S. Stefano 2945
Venice - Italy

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	Scientific background The configurations and function of large biological molecules such as DNA and RNA can be nowadays manipulated either through confinement in nano-fluidic volumes or by applying pico-forces by using optical/magnetic tweezers and atomic-force microscopes. These very recent techniques obviate the need for cloning and molecular amplification steps and enable researchers to detect physical phenomena that in the past would have been obscured by ensemble averaging. These devices can be used not only to study the dynamical and mechanical properties of biomolecules but also to obtain genomic information and to characterise biological interactions at molecular level.
These phenomena will be addressed by this workshop, spanning from application of these devices in the generic science to the exploration of the underlying physics. The workshop, by gathering eminent researchers in nano-fluidics, biophysics, material physics and computational physics (see list below) will integrate state of the art micro-manipulation single molecule experiments, theory and computational approaches.
Organizers Cristian Micheletti Affiliation: SISSA, Trieste Address: Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy Phone: +39 040 378730 Fax: +39 040 3787528 Enzo Orlandini Affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Padova and Sezione INFN Padova Address: via Marzolo 8, I-35000, Padova, Italy Phone: +39 049 8277171 Fax    : +39 049 8277102 Attilio L. Stella Affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Padova and Sezione INFN Padova Address: via Marzolo 8, I-35000, Padova, Italy Phone: +39 049 8277171 Fax    : +39 049 8277102
Participants Tapio Ala-Nissila University School of Science, Aalto, Finland. Tobias Ambiorsoon Department of Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sweden. Elena Angeli Department of Physics, University of Genova, Italy. Fulvio Baldovin Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Padova and Sezione INFN, Italy. Zuzana Benkova Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. Paolo Bettotti Department of Physics, University of Trento, Italy. Anthony Birnie Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Nederlands. Michele Caraglio Department of Physics University of Padova, Italy. Enrico Carlon Institute for Theoretical Physics, Katholieke Universiteit , Leuven, Belgium. Peter Cifra Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. Lucia Coronel SISSA Trieste, Italy Giuseppe D'Adamo SISSA Trieste, Italy Cees Dekker Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Nederlands. Giovanni Dietler Laboratoire de Physique de la Matiere Vivante Institut de Physique de la Matiere Complexe, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Erwin Frey Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Universitat Munchen, Germany. Max di Ventra Department of Physics University of California, San Diego, USA. Patrick Doyle MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. Alexander Y. Grosberg School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. Suckjoon Jun Biological Science, University of California, San Diego, USA. Yacov Kantor School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Israel Mehran Kardar MIT, Cambridge, USA. Christos Likos Faculty of Physics, Wien, Austria Ludwig Lizana Umeå University Sweden Dmitrii Makarov Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin, USA. Mattia Marenda SISSA Trieste, Italy Christian Matek Department of Physics, Tech. Univ. Munich, D-85748 Garching, Germany. Ralf Metzler Department of Physics, Tech. Univ. Munich, D-85748 Garching, Germany. Davide Michieletto School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, UK Negar Nahali SISSA Trieste, Italy Dino Osmanovic Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Yitzhak Rabin Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Aleksandra Radenovic Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, EPFL,Lausanne, Switzerland. Walter Reisner Department of Physics, Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada. Felix Ritort Departament de Fisica Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Takahiro Sakaue Department of Physics, Kyushu University 33, Fukuoka, Japan. Gary Slater Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. Antonio Suma SISSA Trieste, Italy Ugo Valbusa Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita degli Studi di Genova, Italy. Lisa Weiss Faculty of Physics, Wien, Austria Stu Whittington Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada.