Nature has evolved a wide array of amazing mechanisms for assembling complex nanoscale materials and devices that cooperatively function in the context of a living organism. Integration of such mechanisms into development of synthetic materials and systems opens the door for engineering novel classes of bio-inspired and mimetic nanomaterials. Further, the incorporation of biological components and/or processes into synthetic materials and devices has the potential for tremendous payoff in a variety of application areas. To achieve this potential, however, interfaces must be designed and developed that accommodate the diverse properties of synthetic and biological materials. This symposium will focus on the challenges, problems, and solutions regarding the development of nanoscale interfaces for integrating biological and synthetic materials in material architectures. The overall intent is to explore methods for developing and characterizing key interfaces that allow for the large diversity of biological functions and structures that occur in natural systems to be incorporated into synthetic materials.
Session Topics
Papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Developing and characterizing biocompatible surfaces including soft and hard lithography, surface patterning and imaging tools, chemical surface modification, surface passivation, reactive and responsive surfaces, and supramolecular assembly
- Engineering protein structure/function including protein structure and dynamics, structural modeling, phage display, engineered DNA/protein templates, molecular recognition, novel affinity tags, and self-assembling peptide structures
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Invited Speakers
Invited speakers include: Ashutosh Chilkoti (Duke Univ.), Deborah Fygenson-Kuchnir (Univ. of California-Santa Barbara), Jay Groves (Univ. of California-Berkeley) , Kinneret Keren (Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel/Stanford Univ.) , Deborah Leckband (Univ. of Illinois), Jun Liu (Sandia National Labs), Alf Mansso n ( Univ. of Kalmar, Sweden ), R. Andrew McMillan (NASA-Ames), Atul Parikh (Univ. of California-Davis), Anne Plant (National Inst. of Standards and Technology), Banahalli Ratna (Naval Research Lab), Jacob Schmidt (Univ. of California-Los Angeles), and Hao Yan (Duke Univ.). |
Symposium Organizers
George D. Bachand
Sandia National Laboratories
Biomolecular Materials and Interfaces
MS 1413
P.O. Box 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1413
Tel: 505-844-5164
Fax: 505-844-5470
gdbacha@sandia.gov |
Henry Hess
University of Washington
Dept. of Bioengineering
Center for Nanotechnology
Box 351721
Seattle, WA 98195
Tel: 206-616-4194
Fax: 206-685-4434
hhess@u.washington.edu |
Andrew Shreve
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Bioscience Division
MS G755
Los Alamos, NM 87545
Tel: 505-667-6933
Fax: 505-665-9224
shreve@lanl.gov |
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