{"205571":{"#nid":"205571","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Atlanta Colloid \u0026 Soft Matter Bag Lunch Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis\u0026nbsp;Atlanta Colloid \u0026amp; Soft Matter Bag Lunch Seminar features\u0026nbsp;Jan Scrimgeour with a talk titled, \u0022Using Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching to Probe Macromolecule Interactions in Living Cells,\u0022 and\u0026nbsp;Lawrence Bottomley\u0026nbsp;with a presentation exploring the question:\u0026nbsp;Can the conformation of a macromolecule adsorbed on a surface be accurately determined by force spectroscopy?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe seminar will take place in the \u0022M\u0022 Building, Room 3201A, at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E_________________\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlanta Colloid \u0026amp; Soft Matter Bag Lunch Seminar\u0026nbsp;Series was launched in March 2008 as a way to bring together local research groups from different schools and disciplines with a common interest in Colloid and Soft Matter research. Many of us felt that we had reached a \u0022critical mass\u0022 and an opportunity for joining forces and building a strong local community. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EColloid \u0026amp; Soft Matter Bag Lunch Seminar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is part of our endeavor to provide a community forum, as is the semi-annual\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.softmaterials.gatech.edu\/workshops\/index.php\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESoutheast Soft Materials Workshop\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.softmaterials.gatech.edu\/workshops\/index.php\u0022\u003E.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Bag Lunch Seminars take place roughly once a month. We meet and chat and eat our food (everyone brings her\/his own), and we usually have 2 oral presentations each time, given by faculty members, postdocs or an experienced graduate student:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ea technical talk (10 - 15 minutes)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;that introduces to the community a specific technique (experimental or computational) that is used successfully by the speaker\u2019s group and which the group would like the community to know about, and\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ea research presentation (30 - 35 minutes)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eby a different group, which discusses research in progress. This presentation can be used to introduce a topic and some preliminary results and should ideally end with an open question or a riddle that the presenter is currently trying to solve and that invites comments and suggestions from the audience and opens up a broader discussion..\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis aim of this format is to stimulate informal contacts between our groups, to promote the exchange of ideas and instrumental resources, and to provide a safe and supportive environment for the discussion of open questions in ongoing research projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27741","created_gmt":"2013-04-09 16:13:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:03:16","author":"Katie Brown","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-04-16T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2013-04-16T14:45:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-04-16T14:45:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-04-16 17:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-04-16 18:45:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-04-16 18:45:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1240","name":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESven Behrens\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sven.behrens@chbe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Esven.behrens@chbe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}