Focus Session: Biopolymers at Interfaces

Presentations

• Studies in Biological-Materials Interfaces.

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 16, 2006, 2:30 PM – March 16, 2006, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • C.K. Ober

    • Cornell University
    • Cornell

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• Universality Classes and Unusual Thermodynamics of Unbinding Transitions of Semi-flexible Polymers Confined to a Surface

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 3:06 PM – March 16, 2006, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Leonardo Golubovic

    • Physics Department, West Virginia University

  • Lianghui Gao

    • Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Surfaces, Potsdam, Germany

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• Polymer confinement and bacterial gliding motility

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 3:18 PM – March 16, 2006, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Junhwan Jeon

  • Andrey Dobrynin

    • University of Connecticut
    • Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut

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• Direct Observation of Biaxial Confinement of a Semi-flexible Filament in a Channel

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2006, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • M.C. Choi

    • Univ. of Calif. Santa Barbara

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• Conformation of Lysozymes Confined to nano Particles

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 3:42 PM – March 16, 2006, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Yuying Wei

  • R. Kenneth Marcus

  • Dvora Perahia

    • Chemistry Department Clemson University
    • Chemistry Department, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634
    • Clemson University
    • Chemistry Department Clemson University, Clemson SC 29634-0973

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• Interaction forces and surface morphology of microtubule-associated protein tau

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 3:54 PM – March 16, 2006, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Kenneth Rosenberg

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Jennifer Ross

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Eric Feinstein

  • Stuart Feinstein

  • Jacob Israelachvili

    • University of California, Santa Barbara
    • UCSB

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• Surface Plasmon Resonance Studies of Polysaccharide Self-Assembly on Cellulose

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2006, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Abdulaziz Kaya

  • Alan R. Esker

    • Virginia Tech Department of Chemistry (0212) Blacksburg, VA 24061
    • Department of Chemistry (0212), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061
    • Macromolecules \& Interfaces Institute, Department of Chemistry (0212), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
    • Department of Chemistry (0212), Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061
    • Department of Chemistry (0212), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061

  • Wolfgang G. Glasser

    • Virginia Tech Department of Wood Science and Forest Products (0323) Blacksburg, VA 24061

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• Assembly artificial proteins and conjugated porphyrins for biomolecular materials

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2006, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Ting Xu

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Joe Strzalka

  • Shixin Ye

  • Sophia Wu

  • Jiayu Wang

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Thomas P. Russell

  • Michael Therien

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • J. Kent Blasie

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Structural Transitions of F-actin Polyelectrolyte Bundles in the Presence of Strongly Size-mismatched Cations

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2006, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Robert Coridan

    • Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois, Dept. of Physics

  • Lori K. Sanders

    • Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Wujing Xian

    • Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Dept of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Gerard C.L. Wong

    • Dept of Materials Science and Engineering, Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois, Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
    • University of Illinois, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Bioengineering
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Dept. of Bioengineering

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• Defect Induced Morphologies of Biopolymer Bundles

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2006, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Ajay Gopinathan

    • Department of Phyics, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • UCSB
    • University of California Santa Barbara
    • Physics Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

  • Mark Henle

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

  • Uri Raviv

    • Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Daniel Needleman

    • Department of Systems Biology, Harvard University

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• Polyamine Induced Bundling of F-actin

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2006, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Glenna Z. Sowa

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • David S. Cannell

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Emil Reisler

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Andrea J. Liu

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• The fluctuating-rod limit of semiflexible biopolymers

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2006, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Ashok Prasad

  • Yukoh Hori

  • Jan\'{e} Kondev

    • Brandeis University
    • Martin A. Fisher School of Physics Brandeis University
    • Brandeis University Physics Department
    • Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University

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• Statistical and Mechanical Properties of Semiflexible Polymers in an External Field

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2006, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Ya Liu

  • Bulbul Chakraborty

    • Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University
    • Brandeis University

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