SUNDAY |
2:00 PM | Arrival & Registration (continues to end of evening session) |
6:00 PM | Dinner |
7:30 - 9:30 PM | Self -Assembly on Surfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Shuichi Takayama |
7:30 PM | Paula Hammond (MIT) Surface Directed Assembly and Patterning of Funcional Mateials: From Polyelectrolytes to Colloids |
8:30 PM | Helmut Strey (Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst) From Micro To Nano: Polymer Transport In Long-Range Ordered Porous Materials |
MONDAY |
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Self-Assembly in Solution |
| Discussion Leader: Gerhard Nägele |
9:00 AM | Eric Kaler (Univ. of Delaware) Surfactant Microstructures Captured by Polymerization |
10:00 AM | Coffee Break |
10:30 AM | Lee Magid (Univ. of Tennessee) Structure and Dynamics of Wormlike Micelles |
11:30 AM | Jean Francois Berret (CNRS-Rhodia) Rheophysics of Associating Polymer Networks |
12:30 PM | Lunch |
1:30 - 4:30 PM | Free Of All Formal Activity |
4:30 - 6:00 PM | Poster Session I and reception |
6:00 PM | Dinner |
7:30 - 9:30 PM | Proteins and Membranes |
| Discussion Leader: Stephanie R. Dungan |
7:30 PM | Sol Gruner (Cornell) The Effect Of Hydrostatic Pressure On Membrane Lyotropes and Proteins |
8:30 PM | Abraham Lenhoff (University of Delaware) Measuring, Manipulating, Modeling and Making the Most of Protein-Protein Interactions |
TUESDAY |
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Colloidal Suspensions - Confinement, Fields and Rheology |
| Discussion Leader: Ralph Colby |
9:00 AM | David W.M. Marr (Colorado School of Mines) Field-Induced Colloidal Structures In Confined Geometries |
10:00 AM | Coffee Break |
10:30 AM | B. Jose Luis Arauz-Lara (Universidad San Luis Potosi) Structural Properties of Confined Colloidal Suspensions |
11:30 AM | Derek Chan (University of Melbourne, Australia) Direct Measurement and Interpretation of Colloidal Forces between Deformable Bodies |
12:30 PM | Lunch |
1:30 - 4:30 PM | Free Of All Formal Activity |
4:30 - 6:00 PM | Poster Session I continued |
6:00 PM | Dinner |
7:30 - 9:30 PM | Supported Membranes and Thin Film Nanostructures |
| Discussion Leader: Benjamin Chu |
7:30 PM | Marjorie Longo (UC Davis) Biomimetic Systems for Probing Protein Biomembrane Interactions |
8:30 PM | Mohan Srinivasaro (Georgia Tech) Three-Dimensionally Ordered Array Of Holes In A Polymer Film: It's Not All Hot Air |
WEDNESDAY |
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Polymers and Proteins At Surfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Seth Fraden |
9:00 AM | Maria Santore (Univ. Mass. At Amherst) Protein Denaturing and Reconformation Dynamics on Surfaces |
10:00 AM | Coffee Break |
10:30 AM | Deborah Leckband (University of Illinois) Probing Adhesion Protein Function By Direct Measurements |
11:30 AM | Michael Rubinstein (University of North Carolina) Adsorption of Charged Polymers |
12:30 PM | Lunch |
1:30 - 4:30 PM | Free Of All Formal Activity |
4:30 - 6:00 PM | Poster Session II and reception |
6:00 PM | Dinner |
7:30 - 9:30 PM | DNA in Flow |
| Discussion Leader: Andrea Chow |
7:30 PM | Ron Larson (University of Michigan) Single-Molecule Polymer Hydrodynamics and Rheology |
8:30 PM | Eric Shaqfeh (Stanford University) Dynamic Simulation Of DNA In Mixed Flows With Application To Cleaving For Sequencing |
THURSDAY |
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Polyelectrolytes in Biophysics |
| Discussion Leader: Andrea J. Liu |
9:00 AM | Roland Netz (MPI Golm) DNA-Polyelectrolyte Complexes |
10:00 AM | Coffee Break |
10:30 AM | William Gelbart (UCLA) Association of Semi-flexible Polyelectrolytes, and Models for the Bundling of DNA and Actin |
11:30 AM | Nancy Stellwagen (University IOWA) Probing the Biophysical Properties of DNA with Capillary Electrophoresis |
12:30 PM | Lunch |
1:30 - 4:30 PM | Free Of All Formal Activity |
4:30 - 6:00 PM | Poster Session II continues |
6:00 PM | Dinner |
7:15 - 9:30 PM | Future Direction in Colloidal, Polyelectrolyte
and Macromolecular Solutions |
| Discussion Leader: Mark Burns |
7:15 PM | Esin Gulari (NSF) Brief Overview: Trends in Colloidal, Polyelectrolyte and Macromolecular research at the National Science Foundation |
7:30 PM | David J. Pine (UC Santa Barbara) Engineering New Colloids For Photonics Using Microfluidics |
8:30 PM | Glenn McGall (Affymetrix) Application Of Colloidal Silica Films In High-Density DNA Array Biosensors |