COLLMonday, 11 September 2006

8:30 AM-12:00 PM Sir Francis Drake -- Windsor Room, Oral
Structure, Interactions and Reactivity at Microbial Surfaces
Interaction Between Small Molecules and Surfaces/Microbial Detection
Organizer, Presidings:Charlene M. Mello
Terri A. Camesano
8:30 AMThe counterions of arginine amino acids impact efficacy and solution properties of the antimicrobial peptide Ac-RRWWRF-NH2
Alicyn M. Rhoades, Douglas A. Wicks, John S. Williamson
8:50 AMAntimicrobial peptide structure/function analyses and correlation to their discriminatory binding behavior for pathogenic gram-negative bacteria
Jason W. Soares, Mimi Cho, Charlene M. Mello
9:10 AMComposition effect on peptide interaction with lipids and bacteria: Variants of the C3a peptide CNY21
Lovisa Ringstad, Emma Andersson Nordahl, Artur Schmidtchen, Martin Malmsten
9:30 AMStructure/function relationships between self-assembled monolayers and bacteria viability
Joshua R. Uzarski, John R. Morris
9:50 AMAntibacterial activities of thin films containing ceragenins
Paul B. Savage, Jason Nielsen, Xinzhong Lai, Yanshu Feng, Yang Li, Matthew Richard Linford, Carl Genberg
10:10 AMModel surfaces for probing interactions and reactivity at microbial surfaces
Chengzhi Cai, Guoting Qin, Michelle K. Calabretta, Alison McDermott
10:30 AMEffect of lipid headgroup composition on the interaction between melittin and lipid bilayers
Adam Strömstedt, Per Wessman, Lovisa Ringstad, Katarina Edwards, Martin Malmsten
10:50 AMIn situ reverse transcription pcr to visualize expression of specific genes in single bacterial cells and microcolonies
G. Geesey, Catherine Reardon
11:10 AMRecent developments in whole cell methods for rapid microbial detection
Byron F. Brehm-Stecher
11:30 AMMolecular and cellular analysis of Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus subtilis spore surfaces
Adam Driks
11:50 AMConcluding Remarks

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