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Polymers and Self Assembly: From Biology to Nanomaterials
Program
Thursday, October 29, 2015
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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*
9:45 – 10:00
Markus Weingarth, Utrecht University, Netherlands
The Supramolecular Organization of a Peptide-based Nanocarrier
at High Resolution*
10:00 – 10:30
Ting Xu, University of California Berkeley, USA
Hybrid Biomaterials Based on Natural and Synthetic Polymers:
From Basics to Applications
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30
Ronald Zuckermann, University of California Berkeley, USA
Synthesis, Folding and Assembly of Sequence- Defined Peptoid
Polymers
11:30 – 11:45
Jon Parquette, The Ohio State University, USA
Immobilization of RubisCO by Self-assembled Nanotubes*
11:45 – 13:30
Lunch on own
Session VII
Jerson Silva, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
Chair
13:30 – 14:00
Mibel Aguilar, Monash University, Australia
Supramolecular Self-Assembly of ß-Peptides: New Materials with
Tunable Morphology and Chemical Function
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