PIER Graduate Week 2023

Course 2. The Physics of the life sciences: Connections of fundamental physics to modern biology and medicine

Dates: 16 - 19 October 2023, 2 pm - 5:30 pm
Venue: Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, SR I-III and Harbor (for practical course)

Schedule/outline:

Time	16 Oct | Mon	17 Oct | Tue	18 Oct |Wed	19 Oct |Thu
14:00-15:00	Introduction to the lectures Optogenetics Alessandra Picchiotti Universität Hamburg	Teasing out the secrets of subtle protein dynamics Helen Ginn  DESY	Super Resolution Light Microscopy by Single Molecule Localization and Structured Illumination Thünauer, Roland, CSSB Hamburg	Integrative modelling of macromolecular assemblies using data from cryo-EM & mass spectrometry Maya Topf  HPI/UKE/CSSB Hamburg
15:15-16:15	Time-resolved spectroscopy, a Powerful Tool for the study of Photosensitised Processes in DNA Susann Quinn  University College Dublin	Crystallography, from physics to proteins  Pedram Mehrabi Universität Hamburg	Super resolution light microscopy, studying the interplay between light and matter up to the molecular level Antonio Virgilio Failla UKE Hamburg	From NMR to Brain Function, Tissue Microstructure, and Metabolism in Vivo Jürgen Finsterbusch Department of Systems Neuroscience, UKE Hamburg
16:30-17:30   People divided in small groups	How protein crystals are made (a.g. Pearson) Refinement of a protein, practical demo (a.g. Ginn) LADOM demonstration - Laser Assisted DNA optical Mapping (a.g. Fernandez-Cuesta) Guided tour of the atto-lab in DESY (a.g. Calegari) Guided tour of T-REX Beamline (a.g. Pearson)	How protein crystals are made (a.g. Pearson) Refinement of a protein, practical demo (a.g. Ginn) LADOM demonstration - Laser Assisted DNA optical Mapping (a.g. Fernandez-Cuesta) Guided tour of the atto-lab in DESY (a.g. Calegari) Guided tour of T-REX Beamline (a.g. Pearson)	How protein crystals are made (a.g. Pearson) Refinement of a protein, practical demo (a.g. Ginn) LADOM demonstration - Laser Assisted DNA optical Mapping (a.g. Fernandez-Cuesta) Guided tour of the atto-lab in DESY (a.g. Calegari) Guided tour of T-REX Beamline (a.g. Pearson)	MRI demo at UKE (until 19:00 in the evening – guided by Fisterbusch) How protein crystals are made (a.g. Pearson) Refinement of a protein, practical demo (a.g. Ginn)