AVS 57th International Symposium & Exhibition
    Marine Biofouling Topical Conference Monday Sessions

Session MB+BI+AS-MoA
Preventing & Characterizing Marine Biofouling

Monday, October 18, 2010, 2:00 pm, Room Navajo
Moderator: G.P. Lopez, Duke University


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2:00pm MB+BI+AS-MoA1 Invited Paper
Zwitterionic Polymers for Non-Fouling Coatings
G. Tew, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2:40pm MB+BI+AS-MoA3
Resistance of Saccharide-Terminated Alkylthiol Self-Assembled Monolayers to Protein Adsorption and Marine Biofouling
T. Ederth, T. Fyrner, T. Ekblad, M. Hederos, H.-H. Lee, A. Mangone, P. Konradsson, C.-X. Du, Linköping University, Sweden, M.E. Pettitt, M.E. Callow, J.A. Callow, University of Birmingham, UK, S.L. Conlan, A.S. Clare, University of Newcastle, UK, F. D'Souza, G.T. Donnelly, A. Bruin, P.R. Willemsen, TNO Science and Industry, The Netherlands, B.G. Liedberg, Linköping University, Sweden
3:00pm MB+BI+AS-MoA4
Influence of the Characteristics of a Mineral Coating on its Ability to Resist to the Biofouling
T.H. Tran, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France
3:40pm MB+BI+AS-MoA6 Invited Paper
Influence of Physicochemical Surface Properties on the Settlement of Biofouling Microorganisms
A. Rosenhahn, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
4:20pm MB+BI+AS-MoA8 Invited Paper
Interfacial Spectroscopy: In situ Approaches to Understand Sticky Contacts
K.J. Wahl, D.E. Barlow, R.K. Everett, C.M. Spillmann, Naval Research Laboratory, G.H. Dickinson, B. Orihuela, D. Rittschof, Duke University Marine Laboratory
5:00pm MB+BI+AS-MoA10
Solid State Circular Dichroism of Insoluble Bioadhesive Films: Determining Protein Secondary Structure by Concentration Independent Analysis
D.E. Barlow, J.L. Kulp, K.J. Wahl, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
5:20pm MB+BI+AS-MoA11
Dissipative Microbalance (QCM-D) Studies of Interfacial Processes at the Nanoscale
M.A. Poggi, Biolin Scientific