SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | FROM ARCHITECTURE TO FUNCTION |
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion Leader: William Landis (Northeastern Ohio Universities)
"Overview" |
8:00 pm - 8:25 pm | Steve Weiner (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Teeth: From architecture to function" |
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:05 pm | Henrik Birkedal (Aarhus University, Denmark)
"The byssus of the jingle shell (Anomia): a mineralized holdfast system" |
9:05 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | FROM ARCHITECTURE TO FUNCTION (continued) |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | Sunita Ho (UCSF)
"Bone-PDL-cementum complex of a load bearing fibrous joint" |
9:25 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 12:30 pm | MINERAL PHASES AND MINERAL GROWTH MECHANISMS |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion Leader: Peter Fratzl (Max Planck Inst. Potsdam, Germany)
"Overview" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Andrzej Wierzbicki (University of South Alabama)
"The interplay between experimental and computational approaches to biomineralization" |
10:55 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:35 am | Fiona Meldrum (University of Leeds UK)
"Crystallisation within constrained environments" |
11:35 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:15 pm | Colin Brownlee (Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, UK)
"Intracellular calcification in coccolithophores - transport and homeostasis mechanisms" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PATHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLIZATION |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Marc McKee (McGill University, Canada)
"Overview" |
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | Howard Kruth (NIH Bethesda)
"Monoclonal antibody detection of cholesterol microdomains functioning in cellular cholesterol efflux" |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:50 pm | Linda Demer (UCLA)
"Relationship between vascular and skeletal mineralization" |
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Discussion |
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm | Alexander Heiss (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
"Inhibition of calcium phosphate precipitation by the serum protein fetuin-A" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | TRANSIENT MINERAL PRECURSOR PHASES |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Irit Sagi (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Overview" |
9:15 am - 9:40 am | Marc Grynpas (Toronto University, Canada)
"The control of vertebrate mineralization by polyphosphates" |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Helmut Colfen (Max Planck Inst. Potsdam, Germany)
"Pre-nucleation Clusters" |
10:55 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:35 am | Jens Rieger (BASF, Germany)
"Precursor structures in bulk / interfacial crystallization of CaCO3" |
11:35 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Fabio Nudelman (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands) "Collagen can directly control the formation of bone apatite" |
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Karina K. Sand (Copenhagen University, Denmark)
"The role of the OH bond and its relevance to biomineralization: Binding of ethanol on calcite" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PROTEIN/MINERAL INTERACTIONS |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Frederic Marin (University of Bourgogne, France)
"Overview" |
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | Kazuyoshi Endo (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
"In vitro functional analysis of molluscan shell matrix proteins" |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Michio Suzuki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Structural and functional analyses of a novel acidic matrix protein, Pif, from the nacreous layer of the Japanese pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata" |
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Lukmaan Bawazer (Univ. California, Santa Barbara)
"Directed Laboratory Evolution of Biomineralizing Enzymes" |
8:55 pm - 9:05 pm | Discussion |
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm | Elia Beniash (University of Pittsburgh)
"CryoTEM of Amelogein: self-assembly and mineralization" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | BIOINSPIRED NANO-FABRICATION |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Trevor Douglas (Montana State University)
"Overview" |
9:15 am - 9:40 am | Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard University)
"Controlled inorganic precipitation on functionalized 2D and 3D substrates" |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Shu Hong Yu (University of Science and Technology of China)
"Bioinspired synthesis of nanostructures and nanocomposites and their functionalities" |
10:55 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:35 am | Lara Estroff (Cornell University)
"Crystals grown in gels: synthesis, structure, and properties" |
11:35 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Johanna Galloway (Univ. Leeds, UK)
"Arrays of Nanomagnets formed with the Biomineralizing protein Mms6" |
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Benjamin Hatton (Harvard University)
"Mineral Nucleation and Growth on a Superhydrophobic Surface - Topological Control of Bottom-up Assembly" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | MINERALIZATION MECHANISMS |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Elaine DiMasi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
"Overview" |
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | Pupa Gilbert (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Co-orientation mechanisms in biominerals" |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:50 pm | Oskar Paris (Leoben University, Austria)
"Crystalline and amorphous phases in biomineralized tissues: lessons from scanning microbeam X-ray scattering" |
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Discussion |
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm | Asher Schmidt (Technion, Israel)
"Functionally tailored, biogenic materials: Understanding nature's strategies by solid state NMR" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | MINERALIZATION MECHANISMS (continued) |
9:15 am - 9:25 am | Jim De Yoreo (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
"The dynamics of organization and reorganization during protein self-assembly and mineralization" |
9:25 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 12:30 pm | CELLULAR AND MATRIX CONTROLS ON MINERALIZATION |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion Leader: Malcolm Snead (USC Los Angeles)
"Overview" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Benjamin Geiger (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Mechanisms underlying adhesion-mediated surface sensing in fibroblasts and osteoclasts" |
10:55 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:35 am | Bjorn Olsen (Harvard University)
"The role of polycystins in biomineralization" |
11:35 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:15 pm | Brian Cox (Teledyne Scientific Co)
"How strain stimulus can create spatial ordering in large cell populations" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | KEYNOTE PRESENTATION |
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: Lia Addadi (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Introduction" |
7:35 pm - 8:10 pm | Fred Wilt (UC Berkeley)
"Genes, proteins, and minerals: how to make hard stuff" |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | James Weaver (Univ California, Santa Barbara)
"Beasts in the Electron Microscope. A wrap-up show" |
8:35 pm - 9:00 pm | General Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |