Session: Biophysical and Biomolecular Symposium: Targeted Delivery of Proteins & Nucleotides


BIOT		Wednesday, August 22, 2007

3:00 PM-5:20 PM BCEC -- 106, Oral
Biophysical and Biomolecular Symposium: Targeted Delivery of Proteins & Nucleotides

Organizers:	Claude Meares Wei Liu
3:00 PM		Introductory Remarks
3:05 PM	214	N-ethoxybenzylimidazoles (NEBIs) as potential pH-sensitive linkers for drug delivery Alice Luong, Seong Deok Kong, Gerald Manorek, Stephen B. Howell, Jerry Yang
3:25 PM	215	Selective antitumor aptamer-photodynamic agent conjugates as a tool in photochemo therapy Prabodhika Mallikaratchy, Weihong Tan
3:45 PM	216	Synthesis, phototoxicity and metabolic stability of porphyrins conjugated to bifunctional peptide sequences Maria Graca H. Vicente, Martha Sibrian-Vazquez
4:05 PM		Intermission
4:20 PM	217	Optical antisense imaging of tumored mice using a fluorescent DNA duplex Xinrong Liu, Yi Wang, Kayoko Nakamura, Guozheng Liu, Shuping Dou, Atsushi Kubo, Mary Rusckowski, Donald J Hnatowich
4:40 PM	218	Specific cellular delivery of quantum dot-peptide and quantum dot-polymer nanoassemblies James B. Delehanty, Dorothy Farrell, Igor L. Medintz, Hedi Mattoussi
5:00 PM	219	Transencapsidation of Semliki Forest virus RNA with tobacco mosaic virus coat protein: Evaluation of antigen expression, antigen delivery and vaccine efficiacy Alison A. McCormick, Tina Corbo, Jacqueline Bernales, John A. Lindbo, Kenneth E. Palmer, Mark L. Smith

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