PLENARY SPEAKERS

Prof. George Whitesides
Harvard University
Tools for Studying Complex Processes at Surfaces

INVITED SPEAKERS

Dr. Charles Bryson
Apparati, Inc.
An Interface for an XPS to Allow Measurements on Water Containing Samples at 4 C

Prof. Charles Campbell
University of Washington
Quantitative SPR Microscopy and its Applications to High-Throughput Analyses of Biomolecular Binding Events and Their Kinetics

Prof. David Castner
University of Washington
Biomedical Surface Analysis: Future Challenges and Opportunities

Prof. Ashutosh Chilkoti
Duke University
Building Soft Nanostructures with Macromolecules

Prof. Barbara Garrison
Pennsylvania State University
C60 Bombardment of Solids: Atomistic, Mesoscale, Analytic Modeling and Depth Profiling Approaches

Prof. David Grainger
University of Utah
Nucleic Acids at Surfaces

Prof. Hans Griesser
University of South Australia
Plasma Based Microarrays and Bioactive Coatings

Dr. Patrick Koelsch
University of Heidelberg
Sum-frequency Spectroscopy at Aqueous Interfaces

Prof. Deborah Leckband
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Integrin-Cadherin Cross-talk Regulates Cell Motility in Engineered Environments

Prof. Graham Leggett
University of Sheffield
Towards Functional Nanometer Scale Biointerfaces: Near-field Photopatterning of Proteins and Nucleic Acids on Metal, Oxide and Polymer Surfaces

Prof. Gabriel Lopez
University of New Mexico
Soft Petrification: Robust Functional Bio-assemblies Made Easy

Dr. Dae-Won Moon
Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science
Nano-Bio Chemical Imaging of Single Cells and Tissues for New Biomedical Applications

Prof. Jean-Jacques Pireaux
Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix
XPS of Nano-objects

Prof. Buddy Ratner
University of Washington
The Non-Fouling Biointerface: Water and Entropy

Prof. Nick Winograd
Pennsylvania State University
3-Dimensional Studies of Biomaterials on the Nanoscale