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Biologically Inspired Nanomaterials Workshop Program

Biologically Inspired Nanomaterials Workshop Program

November 12-15, 2005, Penn Stater Hotel

(207 Conference Room)

November 12:

17:00-18:00 Opening Session (Talk-PDF-1MB) (Melik Demirel and Scott Reed)

17:15-18:15 Keynote lectures

Self Assembly in Living and Synthetic Materials

      David L. Allara, Pennsylvania State University, How we can use molecular self-assembly and molecular interface characterization to model biological systems?

Uwe B. Sleytr, University of Nat. Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, S-layers as basic buiding block for a molecular construction kit

19:00-    Reception Dinner

November 13:

08:00-9:30 Continental Breakfast

08:30-12:45 Morning Session (Coffee break 10:15-10:45)

Session Chair: Atul Parikh and Scott Reed

Bio-Nano-Interface

      Itamar Willner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Biomolecule-Nanoparticle Hybrids for Sensor and Circuitry Applications

      Vincent M. Rotello, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Interfacing Nanoparticles with Biomacromolecules

      Mary Elizabeth Williams, Pennslyvania State University, Molecular Recognition Using Metal Binding Artificial Oligopeptides

Giacinto Scoles, Princeton University, What can we learn from the mechanical response of oriented proteins deposited on a metal surface?

Robert H. Austin, Princeton Univeristy, Nanoscale structures and biomolecule absorption: taming the beast      

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-17:30 Afternoon Session (Coffee break 15:15-15:45)

Session Chair: Vincent Crespi and Melik Demirel

Probing Biological Systems using Nanomaterials

Joachim P. Spatz, Max Planck Institute fur Metallforschung, Biomimetic Studies of Cell Adhesion and Mechanics Applying Nano- and Microscopic Tools

Weihong Tan, University of Florida, Single DNA nanomotor for providing energy at the nanometer scale       

Geoffrey F. Strouse, Florida State University, Optically Probing Biomolecular Structures via Nano Surface Energy Transfer  

Raymond E. Goldstein, University of Arizona, Motility, Mixing, and Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity

      William O. Hancock, Pennsylvania State University, Integrating kinesin molecular motors into hybrid biological systems

November 14:

08:00-9:30 Continental Breakfast

08:30-12:30 Morning Session (Coffee break 10:15-10:45)

Session Chairs: Vincent Crespi and Scott Reed

Patterning with Biological Structures

      Paul S. Weiss, Pennsylvania State University, Creating Nanostructures through Self- and Directed Assembly

      Jayanth R. Banavar, Pennsylvania State University, University Origami of Life

      James E. Hutchison, University of Oregon, Organization of 1- and 2-D Nanoparticle Arrays via Assembly of Ligand-stabilized Nanoparticles on Functionalized Biopolymers

      Steven G. Boxer, Stanford, Tethered vesicle gymnastics

      Mingdi Yan, Portland State Univeristy, Molecularly Imprinted Materials

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-18:00 Afternoon Session (Coffee break 15:15-15:45)

Session Chairs: Atul Parikh and Melik Demirel

Bio-inspired Functional Nanomaterials

      Peixuan Guo, Purdue, Fabrication of Patterned RNA Superstructures for Nanodevice, Gene Delivery and Therapy

Cristian Micheletti, SISSA, Italy Coarse grained models for the elasticity of Proteins

Atul N. Parikh, University of California Davis, Substrate Effects in Assembly, Structure, and Dynamics of Supported Phospholipid Membranes 

Erin D. Sheets, Pennsylvania State University, Patterning chemical complexity into biomimetic membranes

Melik C. Demirel, Pennsylvania State University, Molecular Forces in Proteins

19:00 Dinner

November 15:

08:00-9:30 Continental Breakfast

08:30-10:50 Poster session (click for poster titles )

 

 

12:00-12:00 Adjourn

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED NANOMATERIALS

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