OCSBM

A great opportunity for early career colloid researchers!

Very successful trip to @isisneutronmuon with first-timers Tim and Kieran, who are already planning their next visits. Thanks to instrument scientists @tomheaden and @gns6w3 for herding the neutrons in the right direction!

Our samples are in the lap of the gods now. Will they scatter? Can we analyse it? Will they instantly evaporate due to faulty sample seals when the whole chamber is put under vacuum?

Tomorrow's seminar will be given by Christoph Salzmann (UCL). They will be talking about "Complex materials: From hydrated hydrophobes and pink phosphorus to stacking-disordered silver iodide". Join us in the PTCL lecture theatre at 2pm!

We're back with an in-person seminar! Today's will be given by Dr Alice Thorneywork (University of Cambridge, UK). They will be talking about "Understanding molecular fluctuations and transport with multiscale experimental models". Join us at 2pm in the PTCL Lecture Theatre!

Today's seminar will be given by Dr Tim Nott (University of Oxford, UK). They will be talking about ‘Phase Separation of Disordered Proteins’. Please join us in the JSR seminar room in the PTCL at 3pm!

Nominations now open for @UniofOxford’s Vice-Chancellor Innovation Awards. Recognising & celebrating high-quality research-led innovation at all levels. Deadline for submission is 10 March 2020. Find out more: ox.ac.uk/research/innov… #OxfordVCAwards

The OCSBM seminar list for Trinity term is now available - see below! softbio.ox.ac.uk/2019-2020.aspx

Today's seminar will be given by Dr Radha Boya (University of Manchester, UK). They will be talking about ‘Molecular transport in one atom thin channels'. Please join us in the JSR seminar room in the PTCL at 3pm!

Today's seminar will be given by Prof Mireille Claessens (University of Twente, NL). She will be talking about ‘Shaping materials using intrinsically disordered protein domains’. Join us in the JSR seminar room in the PTCL at 3pm!

The OCSBM seminar list for Michaelmas term is now available - see below! softbio.ox.ac.uk/2019-2020.aspx

Congratulations to OCSBM member Dr James Hallett, who was awarded the Alexei Likhtman prize at the 4th Edwards Symposium in Cambridge last week.

Today's OCSBM seminar will be given by Dr Berend van der Meer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands). They will be talking about "Defects in colloidal crystals of hard particles". Please join us at 3pm in the JSR seminar room in the PTCL.

OCSBM members Prof. Susan Perkin and Weichao Zheng are also part of the NANOTRANS network, solving soft matter transport problems at the nanoscale. Find out more at etn-nanotrans.eu and in the video below: youtube.com/watch?v=b8SuOE…

Today's OCSBM seminar will be given by Prof Tapio Ala-Nissila (Aalto University & Loughborough University). They will be talking about "Theory of Driven Polymer Translocation through Nanopores". Please join us at 3pm in the JSR seminar room in the PTCL.

Today's OCSBM seminar will be given by Prof Daniel Riveline (University of Strasbourg, France). They will be talking about "Self-organisation in living matter: from cytokinesis and cell motility to morphogenesis". Please join us at 3pm in the JSR seminar room in the PTCL!

Today's OCSBM seminar will be given by Prof Patrick Davidson (CNRS, University Paris-Sud, France). They will be talking about "Liquid-crystalline phases of colloidal suspensions of mineral nanosheets". Please join us in the JSR seminar room in the PTCL at 3pm!

Our first speaker of Trinity term will be Prof Margarida Telo Da Gama (Uni. Lisbon). She will be talking about 'Self-assembly of patchy colloidal particles: from 2 to 3 dimensions'. Please join us in the JSR seminar room in the PTCL at 3pm today!

The soft matter, biomaterials and interfaces seminars have now been announced for Trinity term 2019. Take a look: softbio.ox.ac.uk/2018-2019.aspx

The OCSBM away day was held on friday the 5th of April, with talks and posters covering topics including confined liquids, colloidal liquid crystals and active matter simulations. The day was a great success!