Biomimetic Symposium (22nd June 2022)

Institute for Chemical Biology and Network for Sensor Technologies
13:00-18:30 @ B.10, Molecular Science Research Hub (MSRH), White City Campus
 

Biomimetics is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from engineering, chemistry, biology and physics to generate new materials, synthetic systems or devices with functions that mimic biological processes.

If you would like to attend, please register here: https://forms.office.com/r/UF6Y4Spcpj

 

13:00 -13:05: Welcome

Dr Nazila Kamaly; Dr Yuval Elani; Dr Alex Ivanov

 

13:05 -13:15: ICB 2022 and beyond

Professor Oscar Ces; Professor Ramon Vilar

 

13:15-14:00: ‘A journey into biomimetic design: From protein to DNA membrane pores’

Professor Stefan Howorka, University College London

 

14:00 -14:30: ‘Biomicrofluidic models of endothelial dysfunction as a predictive tool for nanoparticle performance in vivo’

Dr Nazila Kamaly, Imperial College London 

 

14:30-15:00: ‘Developing microfluidic models to study cerebrovascular disease’

Dr Paul Holloway, University of Oxford

 

15:00-15:30: Coffee Break

 

15:30-16:00: ‘Biomimetic design in neuroengineering: from therapeutics to device development’

Dr Roberto Portillo-Lara, Imperial College London

 

16:00-16:30: ‘Biomimetic synthetic material robotics’

Professor Stoyan Smoukov, Queen Mary, University of London

 

16:30-17:00: ‘Can emergent properties arise from protocell units assembling into tissue-like materials?’

Dr. Pierangello Gobbo, University of Trieste

 

17:00-17:40: PhD Flash Talks

Colin Pilkington, Tianyi Yin, Jake Samuel, Annie Sahota

 

17:40-18:30: Pizza and drinks

 
 

Past events

The first seminar from the Network: Nanomaterials for Advanced Healthcare Applications.
December 4th 2020.