Feb.10 – 12 2010 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ No area of research better illustrates the constructive engagement of physics and cancer biology than the burgeoning field of cell mechanics. This workshop focused on the mechanical properties of healthy and...
Apr.15 – 16 2010 Agilent, Chandler and ASU campus, Tempe. This workshop welcomed 10 scientists from Northwestern PSOC, Oregon Health Sciences Center, University of Texas and Arizona State University to be trained in scanning probe theory and practice. Workshop...
Jun.2 – 4 2010 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ Cancers are diseases of evolution. Their high mutation rates makes them hard to treat because they rapidly generate drug resistance. Infectious diseases are also a struggle between evolving pathogens and our...
Aug.28 – 31 2010 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ The Sedona Workshop was held under the auspices of the Arizona State University Physical Sciences Oncology Center, and was the third in the series of focused workshops on different aspects of cancer. The core...
Oct.25 – 27 2010 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ The conjecture that quantum mechanics plays a key role in life dates back to the 1940s, and Erwin Schrödinger’s famous book “What is Life?” However, decades later, most scientists still assume that classical...
Jan.14 – 15 2011 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ The DNA in every human cell is about two metres long. Somehow it has to be packed into the tiny cell nucleus. Which presents nature with a problem: how can a thread so long be compacted without excessive...
