BaCaTeC-Summerschool 2012
LMU Munich and Center for Nanoscience (CeNS)
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Phone +49 89 2180 3725
Fax +49 89 2180 3182
Coordination Munich:
Dr. Susanne Hennig
LMU Munich and Center for Nanoscience (CeNS)
Phone +49 89 2180 5791
Fax +49 89 2180 5649
Prof. Deborah Kuchnir Fygenson
UC Santa Barbara and California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI)
Elings Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106, U.S.A.
Phone +1 805 893 2449
Fax +1 805 893 2449
Coordination California:
Holly Woo
UC Santa Barbara and California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI)
Phone +1 805 893 4130
Fax +1 805 893 6132
Junior Nanotech Network - Nanostructures and Biomaterials:
Macromolecular Bridges between Physics and Biology
March & September 2012 – Santa Barbara, California, USA & Munich, Germany
The program “Nanostructures and Biomaterials: Macromolecular Bridges between Physics and Biology” is a joint effort for efficient knowledge transfer and sustainable networking of the Center for NanoScience (CeNS) at LMU Munich and the Californian NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), Santa Barbara. The idea is to teach world class nanoscience for graduate students by an innovative, peer-to-peer training approach and by taking advantage of local expertise and facilities. The scientific aim of this exchange is to introduce the students into new research concepts to self-reliantly achieve a thorough understanding of complex nanomaterials and biomolecular systems. Leading experts of biotechnological analysis will give insights in their latest research on a wide variety of biomaterials and will provide, together with their students, individual lab projects for the visiting scholars. A complementary focus of the program will lie in discovering novel concepts for the construction of composite and hybrid biomaterials that display unprecedented optical and mechanical properties.
The challenging scientific program will be realized by an unusual teaching concept: First, a group of ten selected PhD students from CeNS will visit CNSI in spring 2012 (March 19 – April 6), where they will be hosted individually by the Californian students. A corresponding student group from CNSI will then visit CeNS in fall 2012 (September 10 - 28), with switched hosting roles. Each visit will include two weeks of lab rotations and one week of lectures, organised as a thematically focused symposium with invited speakers. During the lab courses, each participating graduate student will present his experimental set-up and own favorite experiment in a two-day course to the visitors. The visiting students can choose between different lab courses according to their research interests, such that teaching can be performed on a very individual basis. This will guarantee efficient knowledge transfer and strongly enhance networking between the junior scientists.