The paradigm of structural biology that "structure = function", has successfully guided the discovery of vast amounts of biomolecular structures. Yet function crucially depends on how these molecular structures are assembled into larger multi-molecular entities. The principles of structural organization of such assemblies – involved in a multitude of health and disease processes in the living cells – are still incompletely understood. Supported by the Strategic Partner Funds of UCL and University of Toronto, this workshop will focus on activities at UCL and University of Toronto that aim to understand the physics of such biological assemblies. It will take the form of two simultaneous, virtually linked in-person events at UCL and at the University of Toronto.

Organizers:

Anton Zilman, Department of Physics and IBME, UofT, zilmana@physics.utoronto.ca

Bart Hoogenboom, Department of Physics and Astronomy and London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL, b.hoogenboom@ucl.ac.uk