Minisymposium on Nanobiotechnology

Minisymposium on Nanobiotechnology Tuesday 24 January 2006 UMBI Shady Grove 8:30 REGISTRATION with coffee and refreshments 9:00 WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS Jennie Hunter-Cevera (UMBI) Herb Rabin Director, Maryland Enterprise Institute (UMCP) 9:10 - 10:50 SESSION I: "Macromolecular Scale" Chair: Philip DeShong (Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP) 9:10 - 9:20 Introduction, Philip DeShong 9:20 - 9:50 Phil Bryan (Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, UMBI) "Engineered proteases as molecular machines for protein purification and analysis" 9:50 - 10:20 Doug English (Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP) "Nanospectroscopy: Single molecules and nanofluidics" 10:20 - 10:50 Joe Kao (Medical Biotechnology Center, UMBI) " Controlling Biology with Light" 10:50 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK 11:15 - 12:45 SESSION II: "Macromolecular Assemblies" Chair: Greg Payne (Center for Biosystems Research, UMBI) 11:15 - 11:25 Introduction, Greg Payne 11:25 - 11:55 Jim Culver (Center for Biosystems Research, UMBI) "An Infectious Approach to Biofabrication" 11:55 - 12:25 Srini Raghavan (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UMCP) "Engineering Soft Nanostructured Biomaterials Using Biopolymers and Vesicles" 12:25 - 12:55 Kuan Wang (Muscle Proteomics and Nanotechnology Section, NIH) "Nanomechanics: force and signaling pathways" 1:00 - 2:15 LUNCH BREAK " Box lunch provided Poster viewing 2:15 - 3:55 SESSION III: "Device Integration and Applications" Chair: Ben Shapiro (Aerospace Engineering, and Bioengineering, UMCP) 2:15 - 2:25 Introduction, Ben Shapiro 2:25 - 2:55 Bill Bentley (Center for Biosystems Research, UMBI and Bioengineering, UMCP) "Engineering the Device-Bio Interface" 2:55 - 3:25 Michael Tangrea (Pathogenetics Unit, NIH) "Methods for Molecular Analysis of Tissue Specimens" 3:25 - 3:55 Michael Gaitan (Semiconductor Electronics Division, NIST) "Micro-Nano-Fabrication Approaches for Single Molecule and Single Cell Measurements" 4:00 - 6:00 DISCUSSION AND POSTERS with refreshments