On March 3-7, 2014, Andrei and Marco took part in American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting 2014 in Denver, Colorado, USA. They presented the following contributions:

• The Cooperative Behaviour of α-Helical Antimicrobial Peptides in Different Environments
• Effect of Alcohol on Interaction of Model Biological Membrane with Steroids
• Cell Dynamics Simulations of Cylinder-Forming Diblock Copolymers in Thin Films on Topographical and Chemically Patterned Substrates

After the meeting they visited the group of Professor David Wang in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO, USA. In the afternoon of 7 March 2014 Andrei gave a seminar in Fort Collins on “Block copolymers under external fields”.

With David Wang (R)

At APS

Colorado

Poster session

Poster session

With members of Wang’s group