Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting - October 25-30, 2015

Polymers and Self Assembly: From Biology to Nanomaterials

Program

Thursday, October 29, 2015 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:00 AM – 17:00 Registration/Information Foyer Mar da Barra Session VI Jerson Silva, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Chair 9:00 – 9:30 Cait MacPhee, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Bacterial Strategies for Protein Self- Assembly at Interfaces

9:30 – 9:45

Sarah Perrett, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Self-assembly of Protein Nanofibrils that Display Active Enzymes* Markus Weingarth, Utrecht University, Netherlands The Supramolecular Organization of a Peptide-based Nanocarrier at High Resolution* Ting Xu, University of California Berkeley, USA Hybrid Biomaterials Based on Natural and Synthetic Polymers: From Basics to Applications Ronald Zuckermann, University of California Berkeley, USA Synthesis, Folding and Assembly of Sequence- Defined Peptoid Polymers Jon Parquette, The Ohio State University, USA Immobilization of RubisCO by Self-assembled Nanotubes* Jerson Silva, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Chair Mibel Aguilar, Monash University, Australia Supramolecular Self-Assembly of ß-Peptides: New Materials with Tunable Morphology and Chemical Function Coffee Break Lunch on own

9:45 – 10:00

10:00 – 10:30

10:30 – 11:00

11:00 – 11:30

11:30 – 11:45

11:45 – 13:30

Session VII

13:30 – 14:00

14:00 – 14:30

C.J. Brinker, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Inorganic Polymerization at Cellular Interfaces

14:30 – 15:15

Coffee Break

15:15 – 15:45

Tom Russell, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Interfacial Assembly of Synthetic and Natural Nanoparticles

*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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