Focus Session: Biopolymers: Molecules, Solutions and Networks II

Presentations

• Design of Responsive Peptide-based Hydrogels as Therapeutics

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 13, 2008, 1:30 PM – March 13, 2008, 2:06 PM

  Authors

  • Joel Schneider

    • Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
    • University of Delaware

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• Synchrotron x-ray diffraction study on the size distribution and mechanical stability of microtubules by microtubule-associated-protein (MAP) tau

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 2:06 PM – March 13, 2008, 2:18 PM

  Authors

  • M.C. Choi

    • UC Santa-Barbara

  • U. Raviv

  • H. Miller

  • M. Gaylord

  • E. Kiris

  • D. Ventimiglia

  • L. Wilson

  • M.W. Kim

  • S. Feinstein

  • Cyrus Safinya

    • Materials, Physics, and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Departments, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • UC Santa-Barbara

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• Effect of Mg Ions on Microrheological Properties of F-actin Solution across Isotropic-Nematic Phase Transition

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 2:18 PM – March 13, 2008, 2:30 PM

  Authors

  • Jun He

    • Brown University

  • Michael Mak

    • Brown University

  • Yifeng Liu

    • Brown University

  • Jay Tang

    • Brown University
    • Physics Department, Brown Univ.

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• The stability of cellulose

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 2:30 PM – March 13, 2008, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Tongye Shen

    • T-Division, LANL

  • S. Gnanakaran

    • T-Division, LANL

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  March 13, 2008, 2:42 PM – March 13, 2008, 2:54 PM

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• Transient Binding and Viscous Dissipation in Semi-flexible Polymer Networks

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 2:54 PM – March 13, 2008, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Oliver Lieleg

    • TU Muenchen, Germany

  • Mireille Claessens

    • Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands

  • Andreas Bausch

    • TU Muenchen, Germany
    • Technische Universit\"at M\"unchen

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• : Microtubule Self- Assembly

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 3:06 PM – March 13, 2008, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • YongSeok Jho

    • UCSB/KAIST

  • M.C. Choi

    • UCSB/KAIST

  • O. Farago

    • BGU

  • MahnWon Kim

    • UCSB/KAIST

  • P.A. Pincus

    • UCSB/KAIST

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• Direct Observation of Early-Time Hydrogelation in $\beta $-Hairpin Peptide Self-Assembly

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 3:18 PM – March 13, 2008, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Tuna Yucel

    • Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716

  • Joel Schneider

    • Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
    • University of Delaware

  • Darrin Pochan

    • Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware
    • Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware
    • University of Delaware

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• Loop Closure Dynamics of Flexible and Semi-flexible Polymer

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 3:30 PM – March 13, 2008, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Jen-Fang Chang

    • Academia Sinica

  • Yeng-Long Chen

    • Academia Sinica
    • Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica

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• Equilibrium Size Distribution of Twisted Biopolymer Bundles

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 3:42 PM – March 13, 2008, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Gregory Grason

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Robijn Bruinsma

    • University of California at Los Angeles
    • Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA
    • University of Calfornia Los Angeles
    • UCLA

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• The Dependence of Actin Filament Assembly on Linking Agent Concentration

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 3:54 PM – March 13, 2008, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Lam Nguyen

    • Florida State University

  • Qi Wang

    • Florida State University

  • Wei Yang

    • Florida State University

  • Linda Hirst

    • Florida State University

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• Dimensional percolation of sheared nano-rod dispersions and consequences for highly anisotropic property tensors

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 4:06 PM – March 13, 2008, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • M. Gregory Forest

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Xiaoyu Zheng

    • Kent State University

  • Ruhai Zhou

    • Old Dominion University

  • Richard Vaia

    • Nanostructured and Biological Materials Branch, AFRL/MLBP
    • AFRL

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• Polymer Crystallization-Driven Gelation of an Ionic Liquid

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 4:18 PM – March 13, 2008, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • David Hoagland

    • Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
    • Polymer Sci. and Eng. Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst

  • John Harner

    • Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst

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• Avalanches, hardening and softening in dense cross-linked actin networks

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 4:30 PM – March 13, 2008, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Jan Astrom

    • CSC -- Finnish IT Center for Science, Esbo, Finland

  • Sunil Kumar

    • Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

  • Ilpo Vattulainen

    • Tampere University of Technology, Finland

  • Mikko Karttunen

    • The University of Western Ontario, Canada
    • University of Western Ontario

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• Crystal aggregation in kidney stones; a polymer aggregation problem?

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 4:42 PM – March 13, 2008, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • J. Wesson

    • Medical College of Wisconsin
    • Department of Veterans Affairs

  • A. Beshensky

    • Medical College of Wisconsin

  • P. Viswanathan

    • Medical College of Wisconsin

  • W. Zachowicz

    • Medical College of Wisconsin

  • J. Kleinman

    • Medical College of Wisconsin

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