science:biophysics //Integrative Genomics

Ever since I’d manifested that ‘biophysics rules my world’, I found the meetings of the Biological Physics Division at the DPG Frühjahrstagung (German Physical Society Meeting, section Condensed Matter) extremely inspiring and stimulating. This year’s meeting takes place in Berlin in the last week of March. In the course of a week, there are typically [...]

This time finding the most relevant posters of the session was a simple task; they were all pretty much lined up in the poster session’s subgroup of “DNA, RNA Structure & Conformation II”. And I must say, there was not a single one that did not immediately caught my interest! Jun Lin from UCSB has [...]

Monday evening had ended with a fairly nice reception after Roger Tsien’s National Lecture. But still, the single-molcule sessions on Tuesday morning were packed with people. Nanopores are a big issue and the talks mostly emphasized this trend whilst pointing out the difficulties and hurdles to deal with on the way. Pretty impressive once more, [...]

Whilst browsing the posters in today’s session I did find quite a few very interesting once (again, a personal very much non-representative selection purely driven by personal interest;-). Holly Wolcott wants to attack critizism that often argues about the number of proteins specifically bound to quantum dots. In carefully conducted experiments, she found a nice [...]

Almost tempted to start a poll on finishing the everlasting question of the best place for some (very) decent lunch during a meeting at the Moscone Convention Center, I’ve found my answer already: Check out the cafe at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, just 300yards from the backside of Moscone North (crossing Mission St). Healthy, fresh [...]

Wow, what a poster session! Apparently, there was quite some interest in our work on the Allan variance which mostly covered our Optics Express and SPIE Proceeding, because even after the “regular stand-by time” people would not let me leave;-). Thanks to all of you that dropped by, I’ve learnt a lot and hope I [...]