Saturday |
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote Session: Biomineralization Pathways |
| Discussion Leaders: Marie Alberic (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany) and Jose Manuel Delgado-Lopez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain) |
3:15 pm - 3:50 pm | Lia Addadi (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) "Biomineralization Pathways: From Assembly and Deposition in Soft Tissues to Formation of Skeletal Materials" |
3:50 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Fundamental Processes and Regulation of
Biomineralization |
| Discussion Leaders: Alix Deymier (Columbia University, USA) and Michal Shemesh (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) |
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm | Karen DeRocher (Northwestern University, USA) "Properties of the Amorphous Intergranular Phase in Human Dental Enamel" |
5:45 pm - 5:50 pm | Discussion |
5:50 pm - 6:05 pm | Amanda You (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) "Characterisation of Medial Aortic Calcification in Human Aorta Using Raman Spectroscopy" |
6:05 pm - 6:10 pm | Discussion |
6:10 pm - 6:25 pm | Jennie Kunitake (Cornell University, USA) "Correlated Pathology and Spectroscopic Imaging of Human Breast Cancer Microcalcifications" |
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm | Jessica Walker (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) "Polymorph Selectivity of Coccolith Associated Polysaccharides" |
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm | Discussion |
6:50 pm - 7:05 pm | Dimitra Athanasiadou (McGill University, Canada) "Hierarchical Nanoparticulate Structure of Avian Eggshell" |
7:05 pm - 7:10 pm | Discussion |
7:10 pm - 7:25 pm | Sebastian Mergelsberg (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA) "Morphological Dependence of Element Stoichiometry in the H. americanus Exoskeleton" |
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
Sunday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Mineral Nucleation, Growth and Control, and Bio-Inspired Mineralization |
| Discussion Leaders: Joe Harris (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) and Giulia Mirabello (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Katy Olafson (University of Houston, USA) "Elucidating the Molecular Interactions Between Antimalarial Drugs and Hematin Crystal Surfaces" |
9:15 am - 9:20 am | Discussion |
9:20 am - 9:35 am | Wenjun Zhang (Huazhong Agricultural University, China) "Templated Biomineralization on Self-Assembled Protein Nanofibers Buried in Calcium Oxalate Raphides of Musa spp." |
9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Sindre Bjørnøy (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) "Correlative Microscopy and Spectroscopy Studies of Calcium Phosphate Mineralization Processes Within Alginate Hydrogels" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:15 am | Chang-Yu Sun (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) "Understanding Spherulitic Growth via Crystal Orientation Analysis in Synthetic Aragonite and Biominerals" |
10:15 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am - 10:35 am | Zhaoyong Zou (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany) "Golmite: A New Hydrated Calcium Carbonate Formed from Amorphous Calcium Carbonate in the Presence of Magnesium" |
10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am - 10:55 am | Anna Hirsch (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) "'Guanigma': The Revised Structure of Biogenic Anhydrous Guanine" |
10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Biomineralization
Mechanisms |
| Discussion Leaders: Michael Pacella (Johns Hopkins University, USA) and Anna Schenk (University of Stuttgart, Germany) |
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Aaron Finney (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) "The Influence of Amino Acids on Calcium Carbonate Nucleation" |
1:45 pm - 1:50 pm | Discussion |
1:50 pm - 2:20 pm | Adam Wallace (University of Delaware, USA) "Investigating Mechanisms of Postmortem Soft Tissues Biomineralization in Ancient Sediments with Model Systems" |
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |