AVS 53rd International Symposium
    Biomaterial Interfaces Friday Sessions

Session BI-FrM
Biomolecular Surface Characterization II

Friday, November 17, 2006, 8:00 am, Room 2014
Moderator: P. Kingshott, The Interdisclinary Nanoscience Centre (iNANO), Denmark


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8:00am BI-FrM1 Invited Paper
Probing Relations Between Molecular Orientation and Electron Transfer in Immobilized Metalloprotein Films Using Frequency-Domain, Planar Waveguide Spectroelectrochemistry
S. Saavedra, Z. Oraci, A.F. Runge, W.J. Doherty, S.B. Mendes, University of Arizona
8:40am BI-FrM3
Volumetric Interpretation of Protein Adsorption: Partition Coefficients, Interphase Volumes, and Free Energies of Adsorption to Hydrophobic Surfaces
E. Vogler, H. Noh, Penn State University
9:00am BI-FrM4
Adsorption-Induced Changes in Protein Bioactivity Correlated with Adsorbed Protein Orientation and Conformation
K.P. Fears, R.A. Latour, Clemson University
9:20am BI-FrM5
SIMS Detection of Peptides on Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers
Z. Zhu, O. Hadjar, P. Wang, J. Laskin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
9:40am BI-FrM6
Temperature Stability of Protein Monolayers Studied by Ellipsometry in the Infrared, Visible and Ultraviolet Spectral Regions
H. Arwin, Linköping University, Sweden, D.W. Thompson, J.A. Woollam, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
10:00am BI-FrM7
Fibronectin Adsorption onto Tantalum-Oxide Examined by QCM-D and Elipsometry: The Influence of Nano-Roughness
M.B. Hovgaard, K. Rechendorff, F. Besenbacher, M. Foss, University of Aarhus, Denmark
10:20am BI-FrM8
Electrodeposition of Chitosan for BioMEMS: Real-Time, In-Vitro, and Post-Process Characterization
S.L. Beatty, E.C. Dreyer, X. Luo, G. Rubloff, University of Maryland
10:40am BI-FrM9
Biomolecule Adsorption Studies at Interfaces using Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy, Quartz Crystal Microbalance, Dielectric Spectroscopy, and Conducting-Probe Atomic Force Microscopy
O. Mermut, R.L. York, D.C. Phillips, J.Y. Park, UC, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, K.R. McCrea, R.S. Ward, Polymer Technology Group, G.A. Somorjai, UC, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
11:00am BI-FrM10
Low-Fouling Amine-Terminated Poly(ethylene Glycol) Thin Layers and Effect of Immobilization Conditions on Their Mechanical and Physicochemical Properties
Y. Martin, P. Vermette, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
11:20am BI-FrM11
Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy on 5'-Methyl thioadenosine/S-Adenosylhomocysteine Nucleosidase (MTAN) from Escherichia Coli by Atomic Force Microscopy
B.I. Kim, J.O. Holmes, K.A. Cornell, Boise State University, P. Deschatelets, Potentia Pharmaceuticals Inc.
11:40am BI-FrM12
Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy of Stimulus-Responsive Polypeptides
S. Zauscher, A. Valiaev, A. Chilkoti, T. Oas, Duke University