Preliminary Program subject to change
BEC203 Biophysical and Microscale Analysis of Molecular and Cellular Function
OverviewPresentations in this session will address molecular and cellular biophysics as well as the use of micro/nanotechnologies to study molecular/cell biology. Examples of appropriate topics include (but are not limited to): the use of nanomaterials and micro/nanofabrication for controlling the cellular environment and function, for functional genomics, and for high-throughput screening; relevant measurement techniques based on micro/nanofluidic or micro/nanofabricated devices; and studies of molecular recognition, receptor-ligand interactions, protein structure, and membrane-mimetic systems.
Primary SponsorMolecular Interactions and Intracellular Pathways (BEC2)

Chair

Ravi S. Kane
Merck Associate Professor
Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth Street
Ricketts Building, Room 131
Troy, NY 12180
Phone Number: (518) 276 - 02536
Email: kaner@rpi.edu

CoChair

Joshua I. Molho
Senior R&D Engineer
Caliper Life Sciences
605 Fairchild Drive
Mountain View, CA 94043
Phone Number: 650-623-0311
Email: josh.molho@caliperLS.com
Biological Large Scale Integration
Stephen Quake, Department of Bioengineering and (by courtesy) Applied Physics, Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 318 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305
Mechanical Control of Molecular Binding Kinetics in Cell-Substrate Adhesion
Tanmay Lele, Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Museum Road, Bldg 723, Gainesville, FL 32611-6005, Sanjay Kumar, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1762 and Donald E. Ingber, Childrens Hospital and Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 11-127, Boston, MA 02115-5737
Structural Basis of Prion Infectivity
David Colby, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, UCSF, Box 0518, San Francisco, CA 94143 and Stanley Prusiner, IND, UCSF, Box 0518, San Francisco, CA 94143
Fibrillation Kinetics of Recombinant Human Insulin at Interfaces and with Osmolytes: Experiments and Kinetic Modeling
Arpan Nayak, Howard P Isermann Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th st, Troy, NY 12180-3590, Amit Dutta, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th st, Troy, NY 12180-3590, Chuang-Chung Lee, Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02141, Mirco Sorci, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th st, Troy, NY 12180-3590, Gregory J. McRae, MIT, 66-372, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 and Georges Belfort, Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th st, Troy, NY 12180-3590
Investigating the Tlr4 Signaling Pathway in Macrophage Cells Using Microfluidically-Enabled Flow Cytometry
Nimisha Srivastava, Jame S. Brennan, Daniel J. Throckmorton, Steven Branda, Zhaodou Zhang and Amy E. Herr, Biosystems Research Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94551

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