PMSESunday, August 19, 2007

8:00 AM-12:20 PM Westin Boston Waterfront -- Grand Ballroom E, Oral
New Concepts in Polymeric Materials
Polymers and Biology
Organizer:E. Bryan Coughlin
Presiding:Ronald N. DeMartino
8:00 AMEffect of polyelectrolyte tacticity on protein-polyelectrolyte interaction
Honglei Zhang, Jean-Michel Guenet, Robin Curtis
8:20 AMIn vitro biomineralization induced by self-assembled extracellular matrix proteins
Xiaolan Ba, Yizhi Meng, Yishu Huang, Helga Füredi-Milhofer, Seo Young Kwak, Shouren Ge, Yixian Qin, M. Rafailovich, Elaine DiMasi, Nadine Pernodet
8:40 AMInterfacial peptides for the cellularization of titanium implants
Steven R. Meyers, Xiaojuan Khoo, Daniel J. Kenan, Mark W. Grinstaff
9:00 AMLocally controlled release of basic fibroblast growth factor from biodegradable hollow capsules
Yuki Itoh, Michiya Matsusaki, Toshiyuki Kida, Mitsuru Akashi
9:20 AMNovel fibrillar protein hydrogel as tissue engineering scaffolds
Hui Yan, Julie E Gough, Antti Nykanen, Janne Ruokolainen, Aline F Miller
9:40 AMNovel semicrystalline PVA hydrogel as load bearing cartilage substitute
Hatice Bodugoz Senturk, Ebru Oral, Jeeyoung Choi, Jean Hsiang Kung, Celia Edith Macias, Orhun K. Muratoglu
10:00 AMIntermission
10:20 AMPeptide surface modification of p(HEMA-co-MMA)-b-PIB-b-p(HEMA-co-MMA) block copolymers to enhance endothelialization
Umaprasana Ojha, Dingsong Feng, Amol Chandekar, James E. Whitten, Rudolf Faust
10:40 AMPreparation and characterization of an artificial peptide with repetitive sequences
Silke Gerber, Kristin Kirchhof, Jörg Kressler, Christian E. H. Schmelzer, Carmen Scholz, Thomas C. Hertel, Markus Pietzsch
11:00 AMReversible encapsulation of DNA into semipermeable polymer capsules
Alexander N. Zelikin, Alisa L. Becker, Qi Li, Kim Wark, Frank Caruso
11:20 AMSynthesis and characterization of engineered proteins with controllable properties for use in spinal cord nerve regeneration
Karin S. Straley, Sarah C. Heilshorn
11:40 AMTailored protein-based nanocarriers
Georgi Mihov, Radu Gropeanu, Christoph Kuhlmann, Heiko Luhmann, Tanja Weil
12:00 PMTransition metal binding in designed peptide block copolymer micelles
Adam D. Richardson, Sunandan Banerjee, Joseph C. Wright, Martin A. Case, Daniel A. Savin

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