SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Dynamic and Responsive Optical Thin Films |
| Discussion Leader: Nicholas Abbott (University of Wisconsin) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Christopher Lowe (Cambridge University, UK)
"Holographic Sensors" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Peter Palffy-Muhory (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University)
"Photonic Band Gaps Based on Liquid Crystalline Films" |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Biotic-Abiotic Interfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Milan Mrksich (University of Chicago) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Kevin Healy (University of California-Berkeley)
"Interpenetrating Polymer Networks as Practical Biointerfaces" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break / Photo (10:15) |
10:40 am - 11:35 am | David Mooney (Harvard University)
"Peptide Organization and Mechanical Background Regulate the Fate of Interacting Cells" |
11:35 am - 12:30 pm | Philip Messersmith (Northwestern University)
"Mussel Adhesive Protein Mimetics: Exploiting One of Nature's Strategies for Control of Biointerfaces" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Interfaces to Cells |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Horst Vogel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, EPFL)
"Investigating Cellular Signaling Networks" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | 3 min Oral Introductions to Posters |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Liquid Crystalline Thin Films |
| Discussion Leader: Martien Cohen-Stuart (University of Wageningen) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Philippe Poulin (CRPP, Bordeau)
"Ordering of Colloids in Liquid Crystal Films" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Timothy Bunning (Wright-Patterson Airforce Labs)
"Dynamic Photonic Systems Based on Polymer/Liquid Crystal Nanocomposites" |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Mary Galvin (University of Delaware)
"Novel Electroactive Liquid Crystal Molecules" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Electroactive Thin Films |
| Discussion Leader: Stephen Lee (Army Research Office) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Christine Luscombe (University of California-Berkeley)
"Electroactive Polymers-from Design and Synthesis to Applications" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Stephen Forrest (Princeton University)
"Electroactive Organic Thin Films" |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Polymer Thin Films and Nanolithography |
| Discussion Leader: Nicholas Kovov (University of Michigan) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Tom Russell (University of Massachusetts)
"Routes to Order, Orientation and Healing" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Paul Nealey (University of Wisconsin)
"Block Copolymer Nanolithopgraphy" |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Jim Watkins (University of Massachusetts)
"Templates Based on Block Copolymer Thin Films" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Gradient Thin Films |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Jan Genzer (North Carolina State University)
"What are Molecular Gradients Good for?" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Eric Amis (NIST)
"Thinking Outside the Gradient Box" |
9:30 pm | Business Session |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Biomolecular Interfaces and Single Molecule Forces |
| Discussion Leader: David Lynn (University of Wisconsin) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Deborah Leckband (University of Illinois)
"Manipulating biological function with interfacial architecture" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Yves Dufrenes (U. Catholique-Louvain)
"AFM Force Spectroscopy of Single Biomolecules" |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Ka Yee Lee (University of Chicago)
"Interaction of Alzheimer's Amyloid-Beta Peptides with Lipid Membranes" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Interfacial Chemistry and Self-Assembly |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | David Reinhoudt (University of Twente)
"Writing with Molecules on Molecular Printboards" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Christopher Chidsey (Stanford University)
"'Clicking' Functionality to Surfaces: 1,2,3-Triazole Formation From Surrface-Immobilized Azides" |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |