PMSESunday, 26 March 2006

8:30 AM-12:00 PM OMNI at CNN Center -- Intl. Blrm A, Oral
Polymer Bioconjugates for Therapeutics and Biotechnology
Biotechnology Applications
Organizer, Presidings:Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen
Heather D. Maynard
R. J. M. Nolte
8:30 AMMultivalency in biochemistry
George M. Whitesides
9:05 AMProtein modification through non-canonical amino acids
David A. Tirrell
9:30 AMChemically modified hyaluronan and hylans
Robert J. Miller
9:55 AMSmart biohybrid materials
Patrick Stayton, Allan S. Hoffman
10:20 AMIntermission
10:35 AMNanopatterned polymer films for bioconjugation
Karen L. Christman, Michael V. Requa, Vanessa E. Enriquez-Rios, Sabrina C. Ward, Kenneth A. Bradley, Kimberly L. Turner, Heather D. Maynard
10:50 AMRole of materials in engineering assisted surgery
Joseph A. Put
11:15 AMDesign of head-tail type polycation block copolymer as novel non-viral gene vector
Atsushi Harada, Masanori Kawamura, Takashi Matsuo, Toshinari Takahashi, Kenji Kono
11:30 AMCationic hydrophilic homo and co-polymer stars: Synthesis, characterization and evaluation as transfection reagents
Theoni K. Georgiou, Edna N Yamasaki, Maria Vamvakaki, Leonidas A Phylactou, Costas S. Patrickios
11:45 AMPatterned agarose-based substrates for cell culture ligand presentation
Tor W. Jensen, Rui Dong, Ralph G. Nuzzo, Deborah E. Leckband

Polymer Bioconjugates for Therapeutics and Biotechnology -- Next Session

Symposium Grid -- Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering -- Session Listing

Symposium Grid -- Drug Discovery -- Session Listing

The 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26-30, 2006