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Recent Advances in Biophysical Chemistry of Transport by Biomolecular Motors and Machines, at the ACS National Meeting, August 17-21, 2008, Philadelphia, PA
The grant has been used to support the symposium on recent advances in theoretical and experimental studies of chemical transport phenomena. Investigations of transport processes play important role for understanding fundamental mechanisms in complex non-equilibrium systems, that also include petroleum problems. The goal of this symposium was to develop a theoretical framework for description of chemical transport processes and to connect it to experimental studies, and also to develop new experimental techniques. The symposium combined theoretical and experimental scientists from multiple scientific fields. There were 33 invited and 4 contributed talks. All sessions in this symposium were highly attended by many people that showed that the symposium stimulated a great interest from different scientists.
The funds from the grant have been used specifically to support overseas speakers. There were 4 foreign speakers:
1) Prof. D. Bensimon (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France) presented recent experimental results on helicases using single-molecule magentic tweezers method.
2) Prof. H. Higuchi (University of Tokio, Japan) presented the latest experimental results from dynamics of dyneins in different systems.
3) Prof. A. Vilfan (Stephan Institute, Liubliana, Slovenia) presented a unified theoretical approach to describe molecular motors transport.
4) Prof. G. Barkema (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) presented theoretical studies of translocation of polymer molecules through nanopores via extensive computer simulations and scaling theories.
