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Polymers and Self Assembly: From Biology to Nanomaterials Program
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
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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
12:00 – 12:15
Maité Paternostre, Institute of Integrative Biology of the Cell,
France
pH Dependent Peptide Self-Assemblies: A Mechanism as Old as
Viruses*
12:15 – 12:30
Ivan Korendovych, Syracuse University, USA
Short Peptides Self-assemble in the Presence of Metals to Produce
Catalytic Nanomaterials*
12:30 – 12:45
Gina-Murela Mustata, Simmons College, USA
Designer Peptides Self-assemble on Graphene to Create
Remarkably Stable, Precisely Organized Substrates*
13:00 – 15:00
Lunch on own/Excursion to Corcovado
*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts