Thursday, November 8, 2007: 8:30 AM-11:00 AM
Room 260 (Salt Palace Convention Center)

Biomaterials (08b)

#522 - Biomimetic Materials I (08B16)
This session will highlight recent activities in the field of biomimetic materials and systems. Biomimesis is the process of coordinating molecular recognition and interactions to design biological, biohybrid, and artificial materials that can be structurally similar to and/or function in similar ways as biological structures and/or use biology in the rational design and engineering of materials. In particular, the focus of this session is on systems that mimic processes where the underlying biology and biomolecular principles are well understood. We invite topics with emphasis in drug delivery; cell adhesion, signaling, differentiation, and stimulation; tissue engineering and regenerative medicine; interfacial science and engineering; and materials science which involve materials consisting of (i) natural biological molecules such as proteins, oligonucleotides and polynucleotides, and/or unnatural biomolecules that have been assembled/synthesized by biological systems; (ii) hybrid structures of synthetic (e.g., polymeric chains, metal particles, etc.) and natural biological molecules (i.e., conjugated biomaterials); or (iii) materials consisting of man-made and/or in-vitro building blocks, such as synthetic polymers, unnatural amino acids and aptamers, templated materials, polymerosomes, etc.
Chair:Mark E. Byrne
CoChair:Ilsoon Lee
8:30 AM522aTargeting The p53-MDM2 Interaction With Protein Analogous Structures
Dimitris Missirlis, Brian Lin, Marc Farine, Matthew Tirrell
9:00 AM522bTargeted Adhesion Of Multiplexed Near-Infrared (Nir) Emissive Polymersomes By DNA Hybridization
Anthony J. Kim, Natalie A. Christian, Michael J. Therien, Daniel A. Hammer
9:20 AM522cBiomimetic And Biohybrid Hydrogels: Novel Recognitive Biomaterials For Controlled Therapeutic Delivery
Siddarth Venkatesh, Mark E. Byrne
9:40 AM522dHyaluronan-Chitosan Polyelectrolytic Complex As A Platform For Delivery Of Cytotoxic Agents
Gregory Rutkowski, John H Brekke, Sarah Philen, Aderinsola Gilbert
10:00 AM522eThe Kinetic Evolution Of Mixtures Of Anionic And Cationic Lipid Vesicles Reveals Two Distinct Behavioural Regimes
Paul A. Beales, Thomas G. Tullius, T. Kyle Vanderlick
10:20 AM522fDesigning A Local Drug Delivery System for Ovarian Cancer Using Biomimetic Materials
Eva Williams, Ryan Toomey, Norma A. Alcantar
10:40 AM522gNano- And Micro- Scale Replication Of Intestinal Basement Membrane Using Chemical Vapor Deposition
Courtney A. Pfluger, Rebecca L. Carrier, Daniel D. Burkey

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