2008 Annual Meeting

Session: Self-Assembled Biomolecular Structures

Presentations are welome that concern the fundamental structure, function and/or formation mechanism of natural biological systems formed by self-assembly as well as artifically designed systems with therapeutic, diagnostic or other potential application.

Chair

Robert D. Tilton, Carnegie Mellon University

Co-Chair

Shihai Feng, Los Alamos National Lab

Presentations

03:15 PM

(561a) FT-IR Studies on Stability of Proteins Adsorbed to Polysaccharide-Based Polyelectrolyte Multilayers
Jorge Almodovar, Matt J. Kipper

03:35 PM

(561b) Interactions Between Cationic Bilayers In the Presence of Polyelectrolytes with Implications to the Stability of Vesicle Dispersions
Travers H. Anderson, Hongbo Zeng, Boxin Zhao, Jacob N. Israelachvili

03:55 PM

(561c) Self Assembly of Beta Sheet Forming Peptides at the Air-Water Interface
Lorraine F. Leon Gibbons, Raymond Tu

04:15 PM

(561d) Adhesive and Mechanical Properties of Multi-Component, Block Copolymer/phospholipid Vesicles Assembled Via DNA Hybridization and Receptor-Ligand Binding
Jin Nam, Paul A. Beales, T. Kyle Vanderlick

04:35 PM

(561e) Biocompatible Nanoparticles Trigger Rapid Bacteria Clustering
Nina C. Shapley, Mona Utne Larsen, Matthew Seward, Anubhav Tripathi

04:55 PM

(561f) Electrostatic Regulation of Genome Assembly In RNA Viruses
Tao Jiang, Jianzhong Wu, Zhen-Gang Wang

05:15 PM

(561g) A Mesoscale Model of DNA and Its Application to Viral Encapsidation and Nucleosome Core Particle Assembly
Vanessa Ortiz, Edward J. Sambriski, Gordon S. Freeman, George N. Phillips, Juan J. de Pablo