Conveners
Scientific Session VI (Invited talk Viola Vogel)
- Maren Hoock (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau)
Single-molecule mechanics emerged in the late twentieth century from the convergence of polymer physics, biophysics and new force-measurement technologies that made it possible to pull, bend and unfold individual biomolecules rather than infer their behavior from ensemble averages. Optical and magnetic tweezers, as well as atomic force microscopy revealed that biomolecules are not passive...
Plant viruses represent highly uniform and genetically programmable nanoscale building blocks for bottom-up nanotechnology. Over the past years, we have used the icosahedral Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus (TBSV, diameter ~ 30 nm) as a versatile platform for the fabrication of ordered virus-based nanostructures. This work summarizes a research line developed in our group from virus self-assembly and...
In this talk, I will present the feasibility of using the Grover algorithm to reconstruct gene regulatory networks from bioinformatics data. For this purpose, we modify the Grover algorithm to use multiple distinct oracles belonging to different cells and different cell types. We apply the algorithm to simulated and real bioinformatics datasets demonstrating its applicability to noisy data.
The essential nutrient phosphorus is mined in only a few regions of the world and is mainly processed into fertilizers distributed worldwide. Its limited availability, together with increasing geopolitical uncertainties, highlights the need for a more resilient and circular phosphorus supply. Recovering phosphorus from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is a promising approach to closing the...
