Under this heading we convey important messages and other information of interest (last message first!)

• Please drop in on monday November 22 to give me a brief status report on the progress in your project.
• Notice that we move Marina Voinova's lecture to next monday (November 29) to make it possible for you to attend GöTEBORG MESOSCOPIC LECTURE, On Monday Nov.22, in GD-salen at 3.15 pm, Uri SIVAN, from Technion in Haifa (Israel) will speak about: Self Assembly of Molecular Scale Electronics by Biotechnology Abstract: Attempts to harness DNA recombinant technology to the self-assembly of molecular scale electronics will be described. The self assembly of DNA templated metal wires, positioning of gold grains at exact molecular adresses and the utilization of RecA protein as a universal molecular assembler will be used to illustrate the potential of such an approach. Coceptual barriers related to complexity will be discussed.
• !!!! DON'T MISS THIS ONE: There is one very interesting EXPERIMENTAL option with Marina Voinova available!!!! You have reply fast to her. You'll start next week! The project is 100% lab work on extremely hot Bioconjugate Technique - 'Bead-Teathered DNA'.
• saturday November 20 there will be a large gathering of Engineering Physics Alumni - take the chance to go there and hear active engineers talking about their work experience, find out what jobs they can offer etc...contact Jan Lagerwall for more info or have a look at FF
• On Thursday November 18 in FB from 13-15 Gunnar Bjursell professor in molecular biology will give a talk for 1st year students: "Why the biologist of tomorrow first must have a PhD in Physics" I have got the permission for you to attend this, suggested by the speaker himself so please take the chance - he is really a great speaker. This is considered as one of the guest lectures in Adv Living State Phys
• For those of you who are following the Göteborg University Curriculum NINK should be something to look out for (and I'm sure the rest of you can sneak in on some of the meetings....).
• more job stuff. I just visited a large bioexhibition in Göteborg and found quite some interest for the type of education which you're going through. Next step is to meet some company officials and discuss diploma works, possible jobs etc..
• GUEST LECTURE MONDAY November 8 and 15, Leif Mattson will lecture on concentration dependent physics of relevance in biology.
• GUEST LECTURE MONDAY December 6: Arne Rosen who does cancer treatments with special laser techniques will come and talk to us about "medical physics"
• Is the following reasonable for an average grown-up: 10kg and 2 m^2 of skin, 9m and 1m^2 of large intestine (tjocktarm), 6 m and 200 m^2 of small instestine (tunntarm), 70% water and 20 kg skeleton, 5 litres of blood, 10^8 m of blood vessels, and 10^4 hairs
• Marina Voinova has three very interesting suggestions for projects: a) Biological Interfaces (with four subprojects possible), b) Cell recognition on surfaces and c) tethered sensors. Contact her for more info!
• GUEST LECTURE MONDAY NOVEMBER 1: Torbjörn Lundh, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm will give an overview on morphogenesis (i.e. biological pattern formation) with a rather strong basic mathematics emphasis. Lecture notes will be handed out. For you who think about projects in this direction he will also be available as supervisor.
• Remember that to November 8 I want to have a synopsis of your project stating main idea, what hypothesis you will investigate (if any) and a lay-out of the report you will do (email is OK).
• Give me suggestions for themes or guest lecturers you want to listen to during the period up to Christmas
• Nov 8 Leif Matsson, Biomatter Physics, Chalmers/GU, will give his first guest lecture on the physics of concentration dependent system with real biological applications. Lecture notes will be distributed.
• If you feel you need to spread out your project over a longer time don't hesitate to use also the third quarter. A few groups will be doing this.
• My ambition is to meet each group at least once a week to discuss your progress. For some groups who have found a good working supervisor s(he) will substitute for me at times.
• On monday and tuesday there is a large biomedical initiative meeting in Göteborg. I got a free ticket from Chalmers (value 6000SEK!!) and will tour around in those days and hand out a small leaflet to the approximately 100 companies present describing this year of Biological Physics AND FOREMOST your capacity as physicist, etc...ideally suited to solve their problems. In other words I will basically try to get their attention to look for students with your background in a good and solid physics and mathematics basis topped with an insight and methods of use in biological circumstances.