Soft Nano
June 18th 2015, ASRC
Program
8:45 | Registration |
9:15 | Welcome Rein V. Ulijn CUNY Advanced Science Research Center |
9:30 | Enzyme-Instructed Self-Assembly: A Multi-Step Process for Potential Cancer Therapy Bing Xu Brandeis University |
10:00 | Pathological Crystals: From Spirals to Therapies for Stone Disease Michael D. Ward New York University |
10:30 | A modular method to synthesize multimodal high-density lipoprotein-derived nanoparticle contrast agents using microfluidics Francois Fay Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
10.50 | Coffee Break |
11:10 | Directed Self-Assembly and Crystallization of Colloids Marcus Weck New York University |
11.40 | DNA-Programmable Nanoparticle Assembly Oleg Gang Brookhaven National Laboratory |
12.10 | Hydrophobic collagen peptide nanodiscs act as substrates and scaffolds for the noncovalent organization and higher order assembly of natural proteins Kenneth McGuiness Rutgers University |
12.30 | Lunch |
1:30 | Soft Supramolecular Nanotubes for Robust Light Harvesting Dorthe Eisele City College of New York |
2:00 | Computational Design of Hierarchic Peptide Self-Assembly Vikas Nanda Rutgers University |
2:30 | Visualizing Biomolecular Structure, Hybridization, and Enzymatic Accessibility on a Carbon Nanotube Surface Jena Prakit Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
2.50 | Medical Nanotechnology: 1) Generation of nanoparticles in complex shapes in extremely small size evolved in lipid/peptide microreactors, 2) Label-free cancer cell detection/enrichment with electric polysilicon lab-on-a-chip via mechanical characteristics and potential applications in cell enrichment & therapeutics Hiroshi Matsui Hunter College/Cornell Medical School |
3.10 | Functional electrospun polymeric tubes as biodegradable micro-rockets Amit Sitt Columbia University |
3:30 | Coffee Break |
4.00 | Engineering of the Small Laccase (SLAC) from Streptomyces coelicolor for Incorporation into Bioelectrochemical Systems Scott Banta Columbia University |
4:30 | Self-Delivering Supramolecular Nanomedicine Honggang Cui John Hopkins University |
5:00 | Short peptides self-assemble in the presence of metals to produce catalytic amyloids Ivan Korendovych Syracuse University |
5.30 | Closing Remarks Rein V. Ulijn |