PMSETuesday, August 21, 2007

8:00 AM-11:55 AM Westin Boston Waterfront -- Commonwealth Blrm C, Oral
Polypeptide and Protein Materials
Properties
Organizers:Timothy J. Deming
Harm-Anton Klok
Helmut Schlaad
Presiding:Daniel A. Savin
Sébastien Lecommandoux
8:00 AMVirus capsid proteins as building blocks for nanoreactors and new materials
Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen, Irene C. Reynhout, A. J. Dirks, Friso D. Sikkema, Marta Comellas-Aragones, Andres de la Escosura Navazo, Roeland J. M. Nolte
8:30 AMProtein engineering methods for analysis of structure-function relationships in protein-based elastomeric materials
Vincent P. Conticello
9:00 AMMetallopolymer-peptide conjugates: Synthesis and self-assembly of polyferrocenylsilanes end-functionalized with a β-sheet forming tetrapeptide segment
Siree Tangbunsuk, George R. Whittell, Maxim Ryadnov, Derek Woolfson, Ian Manners
9:20 AMSelf-assembly of A-B-C nanofibers and their applications
Jeffrey D. Hartgerink, He Dong, Varun Gauba, Kerstin Galler, Sergey E. Paramonov
9:40 AMBiological routes to inorgamic material synthesis
Joseph M. Slocik, Maneesh K. Gupta, Lawrence F. Drummy, Melanie M. Tomczak, Rajesh R. Naik
10:00 AMIntermission
10:15 AMCombining self-assembling cyclic peptides with soft polymers for the design of shape-defined nanostructures
Markus A. Biesalski
10:35 AMPolymer vesicles as nanocompartments for cascade reactions
Wolfgang P. Meier
10:55 AMSelf-assembly of amyloid peptide fragments and filaments
Ian W. Hamley, Marta J. Krysmann
11:15 AMSwitch it on: Controlled peptide-guided assembly of polymer-peptide conjugates
Hans G. Börner, Jens Hentschel
11:35 AMMultiresponsive vesicles from well-defined polypeptides: Formation of gene vesicles
Hermis Iatrou, Nikos Hadjichristidis

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The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007