Preliminary Program
| Oral Presentations Monday, August 25 | |
| 7:30 am to 5:00 pm |
Registration, Foege Auditorium |
| Talks in Foege Auditorium | |
| 8:30 am | Introductory Remarks (David Castner and Buddy Ratner) |
| Morning Session: Tools for Biointerface Science (Moderator: Buddy Ratner) | |
| 8:40 am | George Whitesides "Tools for Studying Complex Processes at Surfaces" |
| 9:30 am | David Castner "Biomedical Surface Analysis: Future Challenges and Opportunities" |
| 10:00 am | Bonnie Leung "Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy of Protein Interactions with Polymeric Surfaces" |
| 10:20 am | Coffee, Posters, Vendor Exhibit – Foege N130A |
| 10:50 am | Charles Bryson "An Interface for an XPS to Allow Measurements on Water Containing Samples at 4 C" |
| 11:20 am | Santosh Devasia "High-Speed AFM Imaging of Soft Samples in Liquid with Small Forces" |
| 11:40 am | Jean-Jacques Pireaux "XPS of Nano-objects" |
| 12:10 pm | Lunch, Posters, Vendor Exhibit – Foege N130A |
| Afternoon Session: Bioimmobilization & Biofunctionalization (Moderator: Sally McArthur) | |
| 1:30 pm | Ashutosh Chilkoti "Building Soft Nanostructures with Macromolecules" |
| 2:00 pm | David Grainger "Correlating XPS and ToF-SIMS Imaging of N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS)-containing Organic Films with Biological Response" |
| 2:30 pm | Lara Gamble "Imaging of DNA Microarray Surfaces: Chemistry on the Spot" |
| 2:50 pm | Judit Puskas "Effect of the Surface Properties on the Biocompatibility of Novel Polyisobutylene-based Interpenetrating Network Biomaterials" |
| 3:10 pm | Cookies, Posters, Vendor Exhibit – Foege N130A |
| 3:40 pm | Graham Leggett "Towards Functional Nanometer-scale Biointerfaces: Near-field Photopatterning of Proteins and Nucleic Acids on Metal, Oxide and Polymer Surfaces" |
| 4:10 pm | Gabriel Lopez "Soft Petrification: Robust Functional Bio-assemblies Made Easy" |
| 4:40 pm | Marco Morra "MW-dependent Effects at Biomolecular Interfaces: RT-PCR Characterization of Macrophages on High & Low MW Hyaluronan Covalently Linked to Stainless Steel Surfaces" |
| 5:00 pm | Véronique Migonney "Surface modification of PET Materials for Ligament Applications" |
| 5:20 pm | End of afternoon oral session |
| 5:45 pm | Board buses for Lake Washington Dinner Cruise |
| Oral Presentations Tuesday, August 26th | |
| 8:00 am to 2:00 pm |
Registration, Foege Auditorium |
| Talks in Foege Auditorium | |
| Morning Session: Studies at the Aqueous Biointerface (Moderator: David Castner) | |
| 8:30 am | Gabor Somorjai "Biointerfaces: The Grand Challenge of Molecular Surface Chemistry" |
| 9:20 am | Buddy Ratner "The Non-Fouling Biointerface: Water and Entropy" |
| 9:50 am | Tobias Weidner "Sum-frequency Generation Spectra of Biomolecules at the Aqueous-Solid Interface" |
| 10:10 am | Coffee, Posters, Vendor Exhibit – Foege N130A |
| 10:40 am | Patrick Koelsch "In-Situ Broadband Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy of Biomolecules at Interfaces" |
| 11:10 am | Sally McArthur "Surface Modification of Microfluidics for Protein Assays and Separation" |
| 11:30 am | Mingde Yan "Coupling Carbohydrates to Nanomaterials" |
| 11:50 am | Thomas Horbett "The Role of Fibrinogen Adsorption and Its Adsorbed State in Mediating Monocyte Adhesion" |
| 12:10 am | Lunch |
| Afternoon Session: Cluster Ion Beams & 3-D Imaging (Moderator: Lara Gamble) | |
| 1:30 pm | Nicholas Winograd "3-Dimensional Studies of Biomaterials on the Nanoscale" |
| 2:00 pm | Barbara Garrison "C60 Bombardment of Solids: Atomistic, Mesoscale, Analytic Modeling and Depth Profiling Approaches" |
| 2:30 pm | John Hammond "Quantification Aspects of C60 Depth Profiling of Polymers with XPS and TOF-SIMS" |
| 2:50 pm | David Surman "Characterization and Application of Polyatomic Ions for XPS Depth Profiling" |
| 3:10 pm | Cookies, Posters, Vendor Exhibit – Foege N130A |
| 3:40 pm | DaeWon Moon "Nano-Bio Chemical Imaging of Single Cells and Tissues for New Biomedical Applications" |
| 4:10 pm | Bonnie Tyler "3-D Imaging of Cells and Biofilms" |
| 4:30 pm | Rowland Hill "A New Instrument for Rapid 3-Dimensional Imaging and Analysis of Organic Samples" |
| 4:50 pm | Felicia Green "Developing Reliable Measurements in Ambient Surface Characterization Using DESI" |
| 5:10 pm | End of afternoon oral session |
| 5:15 pm to 7:30 pm |
Reception, Poster Session and Vendor Exhibit |
| Wednesday, August 27th | |
| Talks in Foege Auditorium | |
| Coffee Break outside Foege Auditorium | |
| Morning Session: Proteins & Cells at Interfaces (Moderator: TBD) | |
| 8:30 am | Deborah Leckband "Integrin-Cadherin Cross-talk Regulates Cell Motility in Engineered Environments" |
| 9:00 am | Charles Campbell "Quantitative SPR Microscopy and its Applications to High-Throughput Analyses of Biomolecular Binding Events and Their Kinetics" |
| 9:30 am | Barry Lutz "Point-of-care Platform for Rapid Disease Diagnosis in the Developing World" |
| 9:50 am | Albert Folch "Cell-ECM vs Cell-cell Interactions in Neuromuscular Synaptogenesis" |
| 10:10 am | Glacomo Ceccone "Plasma Assisted Production of Chemical Nano-patterns: Application to Bio-interfaces" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am | Hans Griesser "Design criteria for protein-resistant coatings – current understanding and questions" |
| 11:20 am | Anna Belu "Surface Analysis in the Medical Device Industry" |
| 11:50 pm | Noriaki Sanada "Chemical Structure of Nitrogen in DNA and related molecules Studied by XPS" |
| 12:10 pm | Muhammad Yousaf "Dynamic Molecular Surface Gradients for Studies of Cell Polarization and Migration" |
| 12:30 pm | End of Symposium |
| Poster Session (Monday, August 25th and Tuesday, August 26th) | |
| Foege N130A | |
| Musahid
Ahmed "Visualizing Organic Surfaces with Imaging Mass Spectrometry" | |
| Kagya Amoako "NO Generating Gas Transfer Membrane Using Cu Microparticles" | |
| Glacomo Ceccone "The use of Surface Analytical Methods for Development of Anti-fouling Films by Surface Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (SI-ATRP)" | |
| Fang Cheng "Monitoring Immobilized Protein Conformation Changes Using Cold-Stage ToF-SIMS" | |
| Yong Choi "Non-destructive Analysis of Bony Canliculi Size and Distribution of Human Compact Bone by Small Angle Neutron Scattering" | |
| John Foley "Characterizing Real-time Drug Release Profiles of Two Drug Compounds: Differential Sequestration, Mobilization and Release" | |
| Maria Holmberg "Competitive Protein Adsorption to Polymer Surfaces Investigated using Radioactive Labelling" | |
| Yi-You Huang "Surface Modification of Gelatin Nanoparticles with Polyethylenimine as Gene Vector" | |
| Kjell Nelson TBA | |
| Rajendra Redkar "Problems and Solutions for Biopharmaceutical Packaging" | |
| David Surman "Investigation into the Impact of Plasma Modification on the Surface Properties of Polymer Mesh’s using XPS Imaging" | |
| Syed Tofail "A Phenomenological Model for Surface Charge Derived Ossification" | |