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 |
