| Friday, November 21, 2008: 8:00 AM-10:30 AM | |||
| 307-A (Pennsylvania Convention Center) | |||
Engineering Fundamentals in Life Science (15d) | |||
| #729 - Engineering Biomolecules (15D15) | |||
| This session invites contributions on novel methods for engineering biomolecules and the applications of these in therapeutics, diagnostics, sensors, and other engineering applications. Fundamental experimental and computational studies on the structure and structure-function properties of engineered biomolecules are also welcome. | |||
| Chair: | S. Patrick Walton | ||
| CoChair: | Kaushal Rege | ||
| 8:00 AM | 729a | Petrobactin Biosynthesis: A Target for Antibiotics and a Platform for Producing Specialty Chemicals Brian Pfleger, David Sherman, Tyler Nusca, Jaime Scaglione, Jung-Yeop Lee | |
| 8:20 AM | 729b | A Polyketide Macrolactone Synthase from the Filamentous Fungus Gibberella Zeae Hui Zhou, Yi Tang | |
| 8:40 AM | 729c | Studying the Structural Properties of Nesprin-1α By Using Engineered Protein Fragments Zhixia Zhong, Siwei Chang, Katherine Wilson, Kris Noel Dahl | |
| 9:00 AM | 729d | Characterization and Engineering of Peptide Binding to Class II Mhc by Yeast Co-Expression Wei Jiang, Eric T. Boder | |
| 9:20 AM | Break | ||
| 9:30 AM | 729e | Prediction of siRNA Functionality Using Sequence and Thermodynamic Properties Charles M. Roth, Pratik Sheth, Anik Jain, Vinit Shah, Stanley M. Dunn | |
| 9:50 AM | 729f | Engineering Vectors for Dual Gene Expression from Independent Promoters for High Throughput Studies Jun Tian, Stelios T. Andreadis | |
| 10:10 AM | 729g | Molecular Barcode-Labeled Aptamers for Biosensor Applications Shengnan Xie, S. Patrick Walton | |
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