Session: Engineering Biomolecules (2009 Annual Meeting)

Friday, November 13, 2009: 12:30 PM

Jackson B (Gaylord Opryland Hotel)

Description:

This session invites contributions on novel methods for the engineering or biomolecules and the applications of these in therapeutics, diagnostics, sensors, and other applications. Fundamental experimental and computational studies on the structure and structure-function properties of engineered biomolecules are also welcome.

Sponsor:

Engineering Fundamentals in Life Science

Chair:

Ian J. Laurenzi
Email: ian.laurenzi@gmail.com

Co-Chair:

James E. Henry
Email: jehenry@lsu.edu

12:30 PM

(694a) Design of Recombinant Human Collagen and Collagen-Based Variants
Sam Wei Polly Chan, Senthil Kumar Raman, Himanshu Sharma, She-pin Hung, Andrew J. Putnam, Richard Lathrop, Nancy A. Da Silva and Szu-Wen Wang

12:50 PM

(694b) Labeled Aptamers for Parallel Protein Measurements
Shengnan Xie and S. Patrick Walton

1:10 PM

(694c) Predicting Accessible Splice Sites for Trans-Splicing Ribozymes
Dario Meluzzi, Karen Olson, Ulrich Muller and Gaurav Arya

1:30 PM

(694d) Engineering Asymmetric Lipid Bilayers in Giant Vesicles
Noah Malmstadt and Peichi Hu

1:50 PM

Break

2:00 PM

(694e) A Modified Gaussia Luciferase Demonstrates Prolonged and Intense Bioluminescence
John P. Welsh, Kedar G. Patel, Karthish Manthiram and James R. Swartz

2:20 PM

(694f) Engineering Aggregation-Resistant Antibodies
Joseph M. Perchiacca, Moumita Bhattacharya and Peter M. Tessier

2:40 PM

(694g) Inhibition of Fibril Formation by the Amyloid-ß Protein Involved in Alzheimer's Disease
Deborah Soto-Ortega, Brandon P. Murphy, Timothy J. Davis, Qian Wang and Melissa A. Moss

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