AVS 59th Annual International Symposium and Exhibition
    Biofilms and Biofouling: Marine Medical Energy Focus Topic Thursday Sessions

Session MB+BI-ThM
Biofilms and Biofouling in Medicine

Thursday, November 1, 2012, 8:00 am, Room 23
Moderator: L. Hanley, University of Illinois at Chicago


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8:20am MB+BI-ThM2
Simple and Versatile Approaches to Design Oligoethylene Based Self-Assembled Monolayers using Thiolene Chemistry on Different Metal Oxide Surfaces: Impact on Protein Adsorption
A. Galtayries, A. Dellinger, Chimie ParisTech (ENSCP), France, V. Semetey, Institut Curie, France
8:40am MB+BI-ThM3
Antibacterial Studies of Plasma Polymerised Cineole Thin Films
A. Pegalajar-Jurado, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, C.D. Easton, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Australia, S.L. McArthur, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
9:00am MB+BI-ThM4 Invited Paper
Robustness Analysis of Biofilm Antibiotic Tolerance
R.P. Carlson, Montana State University
9:40am MB+BI-ThM6
Analysis of Force Curves of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa obtained by Atomic Force Microscopy
E.V. Anderson, R.L. Gaddis, T.A. Camesano, N.A. Burnham, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
10:40am MB+BI-ThM9 Invited Paper
Light and Dark Biocidal Activity of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes
K. Schanze, University of Florida, D.G. Whitten, T. Corbitt, E. Ji, D. Dascier, University of New Mexico, A. Parthasarathy, S. Goswami, University of Florida
11:20am MB+BI-ThM11
Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Activity of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds in Solution and Immobilized on a Surface
H.C. Van der Mei, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
11:40am MB+BI-ThM12
Combinatorial Discovery of Materials That Resist Bacterial Adhesion
A.L. Hook, C. Chang, J. Yang, University of Nottingham, UK, R. Langer, D.G. Anderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S. Atkinson, P. Williams, M.C. Davies, M.R. Alexander, University of Nottingham, UK