1. Understanding wood cell wall structure, biopolymer interaction and composition for current products and new materials FP1105: WoodCellNet Start date: 01/07/2012 End date: 23 May 2016 Year: 4 Workshop No 7 Philip Turner Chair of the Action

2. 2 Welcome Announcement Biophysics workshop in Latvia, March 2016 The physical principles driving plant structures 20 places

3. A 3D probability density distribution, which describes the tendency to form a cell wall structure.

4. Schrödinger flowers … Platycodon (campanulacea)!

5. Carbonate-silica (BaCO 3 -SiO 2 ) flower formation W.L. Noorduin et al. Science 340, 832 (2013)

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11. 11 Contact me Philip Turner ph.turner@napier.ac.uk or Zurine Hernandez z.hernandez@napier.ac.uk if you wish to attend

12. 12 Reimbursement forms Ensure you submit your reimbursement forms online as quickly as possible. Within 2 weeks!

13. 13 Thank you Ingo for organising and hosting this workshop.