Prof. Corey O'Hern Running Workshop on Jamming in Biological Systems

Corey O’Hern, associate professor of mechanical engineering & materials science, physics, and applied physics, is organizing a two-week summer program, “Jamming in Biological Systems.”

The program takes place August 6-17 at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences (KITS) in Beijing, China. 

The workshop will bring together researchers in the biological and physical sciences to focus on dense packing and jamming behavior in proteins, cells and tissues.

A short list of topics includes dense packing in protein cores, computational modeling of tissues and tumors, wound healing, epithelial-mesenchymal transitions, cell locomotion and spreading, swarming bacteria, and biological self-assembly processes.

The workshop will be hosted by the KITS, which is adjacent to the campus of the Institute of Physics (IOP), Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In addition to O’Hern, the program is organized by Mark D. Shattuck (City College of New York), and Fangfu Ye (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science).

More information about the workshop can be found at http://kits.ucas.ac.cn/index.php/events/workshop