DPG Frühjahrstagung (Spring Meeting) of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM) with the divisions and working groups:

• Biological Physics
• Chemical and Polymer Physics
• Dielectric Solids
• Thin Films
• Dynamics and Statistical Physics
• Semiconductor Physics
• Magnetism
• Metal and Material Physics
• and the working group Metal and Material Physics
• Mikroprobes
• Surface Science
• Physics of Socio-Economic Systems
• Low Temperature Physics
• Environmental Physics
• Vacuum Science and Technology
• Crystallography
• Working Group Equal Opportunities
• Working Group Industry and Business
• Working Group Energy
• Working Group Information
• Working Group young DPG
• Working Group Physics and Disarmament

International School and Conference on Biological Materials Science

Topics will encompass the formation mechanisms as well as the characterization of complex-shaped and hierarchically structured multifunctional materials present in living nature. Based on this, a further key topic will be the consideration of these architectures as archetypes for the generation of novel functional materials with an expanded property spectrum. We invite you to submit your contributions with regard to materials synthesis and design inspired by biological principles and structures. The conference will address Bio-inspired materials based on organic and/or inorganic phases including their mechanical, optical, electronic and magnetic properties as well as actuated systems. Further discussions will be dedicated to materials, which display their function in contact with biological systems, e.g. tissues. Moreover, theoretical modelling of the formation, structure and properties of biological and bio-inspired materials will play a main role.

Winter School of the Priority Program 1569 (SPP 1569) supported by the German Science Foundation (DFG). In addition to this satellite meeting also contributions of the SPP 1569 are included into the poster sessions of the conference.

The key objective of the SPP 1569 is to explore the principles of gene-regulated biomineralization for the production of multifunctional inorganic materials. The scientific aim is the application of biomolecules for the in vitro generation of inorganic functional materials as well as the biomineralization of these materials by living organisms in vivo. By using this route, materials with an enhanced property spectrum, which is not available via conventional processing techniques, shall be gained at ambient conditions by molecular architecture. The main objective is to generate materials with improved properties and novel property combinations by the conjunction of inorganic and organic components. Contact Juliane Kränzl [email protected]

Part of BIOSTEC, the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies

Bioimaging is a term that covers the complex chain of acquiring, processing and visualizing structural or functional images of living objects or systems, including extraction and processing of image-related information. Examples of image modalities used in bioimaging are many, including: X-ray, CT, MRI and fMRI, PET and HRRT PET, SPECT, MEG and so on. Medical imaging and microscope/fluorescence image processing are important parts of bioimaging referring to the techniques and processes used to create images of the human body, anatomical areas, tissues, and so on, down to the molecular level, for clinical purposes, seeking to reveal, diagnose, or examine diseases, or medical science, including the study of normal anatomy and physiology. Image processing methods, such as denoising, segmentation, deconvolution and registration methods, feature recognition and classification represent an indispensable part of bioimaging, as well as related data analysis and statistical tools.

Preliminary List of Topics

The latest advances in methodology and applications of charge densities:

• advances in data analysis
• understanding dynamics of atoms and structures
• progress in using large scale facilities
• charge densities in crystal engineering
• charge densities in materials science
• charge densities and electron diffraction
• charge densities in life sciences
• charge densities at extreme conditions
• charge densities beyond single crystal approach
• physical applications of charge densities
• charge densities of inorganic materials and minerals
• compute or/and measure?
• charge densities towards classical structural analysis
• methods beyond charge densities

Elle s’adresse à toute la communauté des scientifiques des organismes de recherche et des grands domaines de l’industrie qui utilisent les spectroscopies d’électrons.

Plenary session

Transport and Mass Storage in Macro- and Nanosized Solids

Symposia & program

• Materials
• Semiconductors
• Biomaterials
• Energy
• Nanomaterials

Workshops & Tutorials

Sustainable knowledge and preservation of Cultural Heritage for future generations

Advanced materials and technologies for renewable energies - AMREN-2 (5 - 6 May 2016)

Function-assembly of nano-materials towards electronics, energy and biological applications (one day symposium)

Signalling pathways in development, disease and aging

Exploring cellular structure and function

TOPICS

• Nuclear Structure and Function
• Regulation and Organization of the Genome
• Epigenetics
• Cell Division/Cell Cycle
• DNA Replication/Repair
• RNA Transcription and Processing/Noncoding RNAs
• Membrane Trafficking
• Cell Organelles/Mitochondria Â
• Cytoskeleton
• Development/Stem Cells
• Cell Signalling
• Cell Death/Autophagy/Cell Stress
• Cell-Matrix Interactions/Cell-Cell Interactions
• Protein Folding
• Structural Biology
• Systems/Computational Biology
• Imaging in Cell Biology
• Chemical/Synthetic Biology
• Plant Cell Biology
• Microbial Cell Biology
• Cellular Neurobiology
• Cell Biology in Immunology
• Cancer Cell Biology
• Cell Biology of Metabolic Diseases

ICNS2017 will be held at Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, South Korea. ICNS2017 will be the latest and largest international platform for sharing and exchanging recent advances in neutron scattering science. On behalf of our organizing committee, we cordially invite you to submit your research and join the exciting international conference.

Confirmed plenary speakers include:

Professor Sharon Ashbrook (University of St Andrews)
Professor Andrew Harrison (CEO of Diamond Light Source)
Professor Jean-Marie Tarascon (Collège de France)

Confirmed invited speakers include:

Dr Sian Dutton (University of Cambridge)
Dr Julian Dean (University of Sheffield)
Dr Houria Kabbour (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille, France)

Sailing the Protein Seas in the Ocean State

'Sailing the Protein Seas in the Ocean State' will discuss projects that require the integration of multiple structural, biophysical and cellular techniques to fully elucidate the molecular mechanisms that underlie biological function. This includes also dynamic aspects of protein function.

This will be a small meeting, allowing for effective communication and discussion of research and possibilities. While the meeting is anchored by a few prominent, outstanding investigators who have agreed to attend and give a keynote, most speakers will be chosen from the attendees, with particular emphasis on providing speaker opportunities to early-career participants (assistant professors, postdocs and students). There will also be a poster session.

Confirmed Speakers (alphabetical order):

• Prof. Dr. Tania Baker, HHMI; MIT
• Prof. Dr. Marius Clore; NIH
• Prof. Dr. Jane Dyson; The Scripps Research Institute
• Prof. Dr. Peter Wright; The Scripps Research Institute

Topics

• High pressure chemistry: Synthesis and novel materials
• Pressure-induced phase transitions
• Static and dynamic techniques for pressure generation
• High pressure in bio- and life sciences
• Food science and high pressure technology
• Electronic, magnetic and transport properties
• Theoretical approaches to high pressure physics and Chemistry

SCTE is intended to provide a forum for discussion on fundamental and applied research in the areas of the solid state chemistry, physics and materials science of compounds containing d- and f- elements, and as an informal platform to exchange ideas and promote new collaborations.

On this occasion, SCTE will celebrate its twentieth edition, after previous meetings from Paris (1965) to Genoa (2014).Â

The SCTE conference aims to assess the latest progress in these fields in several invited talks by experts, to foster presentations of on-going research projects by young researchers and PhD students, and to stimulate new collaborative projects.

The 2016 Symposium builds on our very successful previous meeting on the same theme in 2014.
The goal of the Symposium is to discuss state of the art image analysis approaches to tackle challenging biological problems and to identify current limitations and remaining problems in the field as currently practiced. The goal will be for developers in this area, both established as well as students/postdocs to discuss the detailed algorithms and methodologies in this field in greater technical detail than is possible at more general meetings like the GRC. The central premise is that gaining a comprehensive and quantitative understanding of highly sophisticated machines, complexes, and organelles of the cell requires the active, timely and coordinated development of complementary image analysis and data mining algorithm and approaches. We have recruited an outstanding panel of speakers (current agenda provided in the web site).

 Sessions

• Handling Compositional and Conformational Variability
  
• High Resolution Subtomogram Averaging and Related Techniques
  
• High Resolution Single Particle Analysis
  
• Resolution Assessment, Model and Map Validation
  
• Data Storage Roundtable
  
• Poster Talks

The topics of the Conference will highlight results of interdisciplinary research and development of neutron instruments and techniques, including:

• Functional and nanostructured materials;
• Magnetic colloid systems;
• Layered magnetic nanostructures;
• Carbon nanostructures;
• Materials under extreme conditions;
• Soft condensed matter (biological nanosystems, lipid membranes, polymers);
• Lattice and molecular dynamics of materials;
• Texture and properties of rocks and minerals; - Residual stresses in materials and products;
• Neutron imaging;
• Development of IBR-2 instruments;
• Development of neutron scattering techniques; - Development of neutron detectors.