Preliminary Program subject to change
01C19 Self-Assembled Biomolecular Structures
OverviewPresentations 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.
Primary SponsorInterfacial Phenomena (01c)

Chair

Robert D. Tilton
Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone Number: 412-268-1159
Email: tilton@andrew.cmu.edu

CoChair

Shihai Feng
Los Alamos National Lab
Los Alamos National Lab Po Box 1663 MS-E549
Los Alamos, NM 87545
Phone Number: 5056652046
Email: shihai28@hotmail.com
A Mesoscale Model of DNA and Its Application to Viral Encapsidation and Nucleosome Core Particle Assembly
Vanessa Ortiz1, Edward J. Sambriski1, Gordon S. Freeman1, George N. Phillips2 and Juan J. de Pablo1, (1)Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, (2)Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705
Adhesive and Mechanical Properties of Multi-Component, Block Copolymer/phospholipid Vesicles Assembled Via DNA Hybridization and Receptor-Ligand Binding
Jin Nam, Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Olde St. E-Quad., Princeton, NJ 08544, Paul A. Beales, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Engineering Quadrangle, Princeton, NJ 08544 and T. Kyle Vanderlick, Department of Chemical Engineering, Yale University, 10 Hillhouse Ave, Dunham Laboratory 236, New Haven, CT 08544
Effect of Redox Initiator on Free-Radical Frontal Polymerization of Poly(hydroxyethyl acrylate)
Shengyang Yang, Xiaojing Cai, Chunhui Hu, Li Chen, Su Chen and Xiaohua Lu, State Key Laboratory of Materials-oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Technology, Xinmofan Road 5#, Nanjing, China
Electrostatic Regulation of Genome Assembly In RNA Viruses
Tao Jiang1, Jianzhong Wu1 and Zhen-Gang Wang2, (1)Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, Bourns Hall A242, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, (2)California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 210-41, Pasadena, CA 91125-4100
Self Assembly of Beta Sheet Forming Peptides at the Air-Water Interface
Lorraine F. Leon Gibbons, Chemical Engineering, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Steinman Hall T-275, 140th St. & Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031 and Raymond S. Tu, The City College of New York, New York, NY 10031

Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals