Schedule
VenuesThe symposium will take place on campus at Caltech. Conference registration desk will be in rear of Ramo Auditorium, Baxter Hall. Oral presentations by invited speakers will take place in Ramo Auditorium; poster presentations of contributed papers will take place in or near Ramo Auditorium (depending on weather). The opening reception will take place in the adjacent Dabney Hall garden (weather permitting) or in Dabney Hall. The closing dinner will take place in the Athenaeum.
Optional research laboratory tours will take place in both Guggenheim Laboratory and Keck Laboratories.
Monday, March 28
Optional tours of the research laboratories of either or both Profs. Mory Gharib and Michael Dickinson may be prearranged for Monday afternoon. Contact the Conference Coordinator, Martha Salcedo, no later than February 28, 2005 to make arrangements.
3:00 - 6:30 pm Registration desk open 6:00 - 7:30 Opening reception. Welcoming remarks, announcements, light refreshments. Tuesday, March 29
7:30 - 8:30 am Registration desk open.
Light refreshments, coffee, tea, etc.LOCOMOTION AND MOTILITY 8:30 - 9:00 Daniel Grunbaum: Ecological consequences of biomechanical constraints on swimming and sensing in protists. 9:00 - 9:30 Peter Ruben: Sodium channel defects: molecular mechanisms underlying myopathies. 9:30 - 10:00 Michael Dickinson: The control of aerodynamic maneuvers in fruit flies. 10:00 - 10:30 Refreshment break, light refreshments. 10:30 - 11:00 Z. Jane Wang: Fore and hind wing interactions in dragonfly flight. 11:00 - 11:30 Geoffrey Spedding: The aerodynamics of small wings: performance measurements and analysis. 11:30 - 12:00 Naomi Kato: Median and paired fin controllers for biomimetic marine vehicles. 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch MUSCLE 1:00 - 1:30 Andrew Biewener: Muscle dynamics during locomotion: from active power modulation and force economy to passive dynamics. 1:30 - 2:00 Graham Askew: Power modulation in bird flight muscles. 2:00 - 2:30 Hans Hoppeler: Functional, structural and molecular consequences of eccentric muscle work. 2:30 - 3:00 Robert Full: Biological inspiration: artificial muscles and robotics. 3:00 - 3:30 Refreshment break, light refreshments. 3:30 - 4:00 John O. Dabiri: Jellyfish swimming and the dynamics of animal vortex wakes, revisited. 4:00 - 4:30 Douglas Swank: Designing Molecular Motors: Myosin Structural Regions that Determine Muscle Mechanical Properties 4:30 - 5:00 V. Reggie Edgerton: Elements of recovery of locomotion following spinal cord injury. 5:00 - 6:00 Poster session, light refreshments (Winnett Center) 6:00 - 7:30 Banquet Dinner - Caltech (Athenaeum) Wednesday, March 30
7:30 - 8:30 am
Light refreshments, coffee, tea, etc. INTERNAL FLOWS 8:30 - 9:00 N. Michele Holbrook: Masters of microfluidics: hydrodynamics of fluid transport in trees. 9:00 - 9:30 Keith A. Mott: Information processing by stomatal networks. 9:30 - 10:00 S. Laurie Sanderson: Biological vs industrial crossflow filtration: ways to avoid a dead end. 10:00 - 10:30 Refreshment break, light refreshments. 10:30 - 11:00 Jay Hove: Flow-induced cardiac development. 11:00 - 11:30 Ghassan Kassab: A bioengineering model of coronary circulation. 11:30 - 1:00 Lunch MATERIALS 1:00 - 1:30 Stanislav Gorb: Bioinspired attachment devices: what we can learn from evolution. 1:30 - 2:00 Cheryl Hayashi: Spider silk: design, performance, and evolution. 2:00 - 2:30 John Gosline: Spider silk or hagfish silk, that is the question: alternate routes to the production of high performance protein fibers. 2:30 - 3:00 Refreshment break, light refreshments. 3:00 - 3:30 Margaret J. McFall-Ngai: Fiat lux: convergence in the biochemical and molecular design of eyes and photophores 3:30 - 4:00 Adam Summers: Building for strength and stiffness with a viscoelastic material - secrets of the cartilaginous skeleton. 4:00 - 4:30 David A. Tirrell: A bioengineering approach to materials synthesis and design. Evening free. Thursday, March 31
Travel to San Diego for those participants also attending the 35th International Congress of Physiological Sciences.
