Neural growth via self organization of axons

Speaker: Professor Pierre-Gilles DE GENNES, Institute Curie, Paris

When: October 12, 2006 (Thu), 03:00PM to 05:00PM (add to my calendar)
Location: SCI 107
Hosted by: H. Eugene Stanley

This event is part of the Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Series.

Refreshments 3:00pm in SCI107 Lounge; talk at 3:30pm.

ABSTRACT: We describe very recent work concerning an analogy between a layer of growing axons and a polymer brush. We illustrate the utility of concepts in polymer science when applied to neuroscience.