Cambridge: Management meeting

1-2 October 2014. Management meeting in Cambridge University, UK

Cambridge University

Agenda:

October 1 (start 10:00 for UK partners)

Courses 2015	Planning of specific courses for 2015
Individual plans of ESRs and ER	Each ESR can prepare short description of methods and available infrastructure for the network. What methods/infrastructure is not available but necessary for his project and can be provided by partners? 10 min description of planned activity with focus on collaboration in the network. The detailed plan should be reflected in Asana.com
Plan of secondments	The secondments are already defined in Annex 1, but can be updated according to actual situation. In the end of the meeting we should have an updated list of secondments with concrete dates for all ESRs and ERs.
Ideas for collaboration	Topics and ideas that may be implemented during 3 years. Discussion of collaborative work.
Consortium Agreement	Discussion and possibility to sign the last version by all partners.

October 2

Individual plans of ESRs and ER	Discussion of ESR’s Individual Plans (continuation)
Summer school in Italy	Dates (July 2015) Invited speakers (names), topics.
Outreach activities	Each ESR and ER should participate in at least one outreach activity every year.
Plan for next meeting	Salou, October 2015

Venue:

Meeting will be held in Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology:

Pembroke Street
Cambridge
CB23RA

1-2 October stay at Fitzwilliam College

Storey’s Way

Cambridge CB3 0DG

Attending people:

Confirmed

Nigel Slater

Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK Targeted delivery strategies for DNA and viral therapeutics using a range of novel strategies, the improvement of the long term stability of biopharmaceuticals. more...

Vladimir Baulin

Expertise is computer simulations and theory of soft matter systems. Research is focused on the topics in the theory of Soft matter, polymer physics.

Jian Lu

University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Experimental studies of biological-material interfacial processes focusing on unravelling the molecular basis of surface biocompatibility.->

Rongjun Chen

Imperial College, London, UK Design, synthesis and characterization of biofunctional materials. Formulation of specific drug delivery systems

John Seddon

Imperial College London, UK Experimental studies by X-ray and neutron diffraction, optical and electron microscopy, calorimetry and solid-state NMR of the structure and dynamics of liquid crystalline systems.->

Fernando Bresme

Imperial College London, UK Computational and theoretical investigation of the structure and dynamics of complex interfaces of chemical relevance; colloids, biopolymers, membranes and nanomaterials.->

Carlos Marques

Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg, France Head of M3 team, a research group devoted to the experimental and theoretical study of phospholipid membrane systems. ->

Kevin Ward

Biopharma, UK Freeze-drying of pharmaceutical formulations and drug/vaccine delivery systems.->

James Kirkpatrick

Institut für Pathologie, Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Germany Various aspects of investigative pathology, which aims at unraveling the mechanisms by which diseases arise and progress.->

Patrick Booms

Universitaet Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany In vivo and in vitro studies, cell culture, experimental and clinical studies with biomaterials for soft- and bone tissue engineering.->

Fabrice Thalmann

Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg, France Theory and simulations of soft matter including hydrodynamics and phase transitions in lipid systems.->

Ian Tucker

Unilever, UK D.Phil Chemical Physicist with over 25 years experience in Home and Personal Care R&D, particularly concerning product microstructure. Expert in surfactant self-assembly, polymer-surfactant interactions, emulsions and electrokinetic factors affecting colloidal stability. more...