Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting - October 25-30, 2015

Polymers and Self Assembly: From Biology to Nanomaterials Program

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:00 – 17:00 Registration/Information Foyer Mar da Barra Session V Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Chair 9:00 – 9:30 Dek Woolfson, University of Bristol, United Kingdom New Peptide- Based Assemblies and Materials by Design

9:30 –10:00

Vince Conticello, Emory University, USA Protein Assemblies by Design

10:00 – 10:30

Aline Miller, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Self- Assembling Peptide Based Materials for Regenerative Medicine

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:30

Akif Tezcan, University of California San Diego, USA Protein Self- Assembly by Rational Chemical Design

11:30 AM – 12:00

Joel Schneider, National Institutes of Health, USA Racemic Hydrogels from Enantiomeric Peptides: Predictions from Linus Pauling Maité Paternostre, Institute of Integrative Biology of the Cell, France pH Dependent Peptide Self-Assemblies: A Mechanism as Old as Viruses* Ivan Korendovych, Syracuse University, USA Short Peptides Self-assemble in the Presence of Metals to Produce Catalytic Nanomaterials* Gina-Murela Mustata, Simmons College, USA Designer Peptides Self-assemble on Graphene to Create Remarkably Stable, Precisely Organized Substrates*

12:00 – 12:15

12:15 – 12:30

12:30 – 12:45

13:00 – 15:00

Lunch on own/Excursion to Corcovado

*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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