Program - Symposium EE: Polymers in Biotechnology

 

April 5 - 6, 1999


Chairs

 

  • Mark Alper Univ of California-Berkeley
  • Kevin Healy Northwestern Univ
  • Teruo Okano Tokyo Women's Medical Univ
  • Patrick Stayton Univ of Washington

SESSION EE1: HYDROGEL SYSTEMS

 Chair: Patrick S. Stayton
Monday Morning, April 5, 1999
Salon 15 (M) 8:30 AM *EE1.1
DESIGN OF POLYMERS TO INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY OF ENDOSOMAL RELEASE OF DRUGS. Allan Hoffman , Chantal Lackey, Niren Murthy, Patrick Stayton, Dept of Bioengineering, Oliver Press, Dept of Medicine; David Tirrell, Dept of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

9:00 AM EE1.2
HYDROGELS OF ASSOCIATING POLYMERS IN THE PHASE SEPARATING REGIME. Giyoong Tae , Julie A. Kornfield, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; Jeffrey A. Hubbell, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, SWITZERLAND.

9:15 AM EE1.3
NUCLEOTIDES-RESPONSIVE HYDROGELS PREPARED FROM A FOOT-PRINTING TECHNIQUE IN POLYION COMPLEXES. Yasumasa Kanekiyo , Seiji Shinkai, CHEMOTRANSFIGURATION Project, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Fukuoka, JAPAN.

9:30 AM EE1.4
PHOTOPOLYMERIZABLE POLY (VINYL ALCOHOL) GELS. Penny Martens , Deanna Shook, Kristi S. Anseth, University of Colorado, Department of Chemical Engineering, Boulder, CO.

9:45 AM BREAK
 

SESSION EE2: TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS

 Chair: Phillip B. Messersmith
Monday Morning, April 5, 1999
Salon 15 (M) 10:15 AM *EE2.1
SELF ASSEMBLING BIOMATERIALS FOR TISSUE REPAIR. Samuel I. Stupp , Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Depts of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemistry, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Materials Research Lab.

10:45 AM EE2.2
FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES OF BIODEGRADABLE HYDROGELS AS CARTILAGE REPLACEMENT MATERIALS. Andrew T. Metters , Kristi S. Anseth, Christopher Bowman, University of Colorado, Department of Chemical Engineering, Boulder, CO.

11:00 AM EE2.3
INJECTABLE THERMO-RESPONSIVE HYDROGELS AS SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS. Ranee A. Stile , Kevin E. Healy, Northwestern University, Division of Biological Materials and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, IL; Wesley R. Burghardt, Department of Chemical Engineering, Evanston, IL.

11:15 AM EE2.4
EFFECT OF SCAFFOLD PORE SIZE ON CELL GROWTH AND EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX DEPOSITION. Holly G. Alexander , Lee K. Landeen, Jonathan Mansbridge, Anthony Ratcliffe, Advanced Tissue Sciences, Inc., La Jolla, CA.

11:30 AM *EE2.5
SYNTHETIC ECM ANALOGS: NOVEL CELL GROWTH SCAFFOLDS. Jennifer L. West , Brenda Mann, Annabel Tsai, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX.
 

SESSION EE3: BIOPOLYMERS AND BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION OF POLYMERS

 Chair: Ashutosh Chilkoti
Monday Afternoon, April 5, 1999
Salon 15 (M) 1:30 PM *EE3.1
POLYESTERS FOR A SUSTAINABLE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY. Simon F. Williams , Oliver P. Peoples, Metabolix, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

2:00 PM EE3.2
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF GENETICALLY-ENCODED ELASTIN-LIKE POLYPEPTIDES. Dan Meyer and Ashutosh Chilkoti , Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC.

2:15 PM EE3.3
BIOSYNTHESIS OF A SELF-ASSEMBLING POLYPEPTIDE BLOCK COPOLYMER. Yun Qu , Vincent P. Conticello, Dept of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

2:30 PM EE3.4
SUPERMOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF COLLAGEN-LIKE PEPTIDE AMPHIPHILES. Havazelet Bianco-Peled , Tushar Gore, Matthew Tirrell, Univ of Minnesota, Dept of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Minneapolis, MN; Yeshayahu Talmon, Technion-Israel Inst of Technology, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Haifa, ISRAEL.

2:45 PM EE3.5
BIOSYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ELASTOMERIC PROTEIN POLYMERS. R. Andrew McMillan, Terrence A.T. Lee, Yingting Zhou, Vincent P. Conticello , Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

3:00 PM BREAK
 

SESSION EE4: POLYMERS AT SURFACES

 Chair: Kevin E. Healy
Monday Afternoon, April 5, 1999
Salon 15 (M) 3:30 PM EE4.1
MODIFIED POLYSACCHARIDE GRAFTED ON AN ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE TIP FOR MOLECULAR RECONGNITION INVESTIGATIONS. Michel Grandbois , Wolfgang Dettmann, Martin Benoit and Hermann Gaub, Lehrstuhl fur angewandte physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, GERMANY.

3:45 PM EE4.2
BIOMIMETIC-INSPIRED ELECTROMAGNETIC FILTERS VIA SNAKE INFRARED PIT SURFACE STRUCTURE. Morley Stone , Angela Campbell, Timothy Bunning, AFRL/MLPJ, Hardened Materials Branch, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.

4:00 PM EE4.3
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LINKERS TO TETHER BIOMOLECULES TO GOLD SURFACES. Brenda Spangler , Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Bonnie Tyler, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT.

4:15 PM EE4.4
POLYSTYRENE AND POLY(4-HYDROXYSTYRENE): SURFACE MODIFICATION AND QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE STUDY OF CELL RESPONSE. Qiu-Hong Hu , Julie Gold, Claes Fredriksson1, Sofia Kihlman and Bengt Kasemo, Dept of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Guteborg University, 1Q-sense AB, Gothenburg, SWEDEN.

4:30 PM EE4.5
COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF THE CONFORMATION AND ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF SINGLE CHAIN POLYMERS WITH BOND-BENDING INTERACTIONS. Russell Maurice, Clarence Matthai , Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wales, Cardiff, UNITED KINGDOM.

4:45 PM EE4.6
EFFECT OF SULFOOCTYL SOFT SEGMENT SIDE CHAINS ON THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND PROTEIN ADSORPTION OF SEGMENTED POLYETHERURETHANES. Ji-Ping Yang , Chuan-Qiu Luo, Hui-Ying Chen, Institute of Polymer Science, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, P.R.CHINA.

SESSION EE5: DRUG DELIVERY APPLICATIONS

 Chair: Allan S. Hoffman
Tuesday Morning, April 6, 1999
Salon 15 (M) 8:30 AM *EE5.1
DEVELOPMENT OF BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERIC MICROSPHERE DELIVERY SYSTEMS FOR PROTEINS. Mark A. Tracy , Kevin L. Ward, Laleh Firouzabadian, Maria Figueiredo, Nan Dong, Rulin Qian, Alkermes, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

9:00 AM EE5.2
CONTROLLED RELEASE OF SOME PHARMACEUTICALS FROM TRANS-ESTERIFICATED POLY-3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE MICROPARTICLES. Teresa Eligio , Rubén Sánchez, Jacques Rieumont, Jaqueline Siquiera, Polymer Section, Advanced Material Laboratory, North Fluminense State University, Campos, R.J., BRAZIL.

9:15 AM EE5.3
SYTHESIS OF BIODEGRADABLE POLY(LACTIC-CO-GLYCOLIC ACID) FILMS BY PULSED LASER DEPOSITION. J. Talton , G. Hochhaus, Dept. of Pharmaceutics, Coll. of Pharmacy, J. Fitz-Gerald, R. Singh, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Coll. of Engineering, Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

9:30 AM EE5.4
CHIRAL INFLUENCE ON THE SOLUTION STRUCTURE OF DOUBLE CHAINED CATIONIC LIPIDS. Henrich H. Paradies , Markische Fachhochschule, Biotechnology & Physical Chemistry, Iserlohn and University of Paderborn, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Paderborn, GERMANY; Shaun F. Clancy, Witco Corporation, Greenwich, CT.

9:45 AM BREAK
 

SESSION EE6: STIMULI-RESPONSIVE AND BIOACTIVE SYSTEMS

 Chair: Mark Alper
Tuesday Morning, April 6, 1999
Salon 15 (M) 10:15 AM *EE6.1
COMPARTMENTAL REACTION CONTROL USING LIPID VESICLES:A STRATEGY FOR TRIGGERING BIOMATERIAL FORMATION. Eric Westhaus, William L. Murphy, Phillip B. Messersmith , Northwestern University, Division of Biological Materials and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, IL.

10:45 AM *EE6.2
2D AND 3D MANIPULATIONS OF CELL SHEETS USING TEMPERATURE-RESPONSIVE CULTURE SURFACES FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF TISSUE ARCHITECTURES. Masayuki Yamato , Ai Kushida, Chie Konno, Akihiko Kikuchi, Yasuhisa Sakurai, Teruo Okano, Tokyo Women's Medical Univ, Inst of Biomedical Engineering, Tokyo, JAPAN.

11:15 AM EE6.3
ADSORPTION OF HYDROPHOBICALLY MODIFIED RESPONSIVE POLYMERS ON A MODEL SURFACE. Edel Ruske , Tatiana Golubeva, Alexander Gorelov, Kenneth Dawson, Dept. of Chemistry, University College Dublin, Dublin, IRELAND.

11:30 AM EE6.4
USE OF SILVER ZEOLITES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOACTIVE ELASTOMERIC COMPOSITES. Regina S. Nascimento , Marcio B. Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Quimica, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL; Maria H. Rocha-Leao, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Quimica, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL; Luciana M. Estevao, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Quimica, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL.

11:45 AM EE6.5
IMPROVEMENT OF THE BIOCOMPATIBILITY OF GLASSY POLYMERIC CARBON CARDIAC PROSTHESIS. Marcello G. Rodrigues , Robert L. Zimmerman, FFCLRP-USP, Dept of Physics and Mathematics, RibeirãPreto, SP, BRAZIL; Hélio P. de Magalhães, HP-Biopróteses, São Paulo, SP, BRAZIL; Daryush Ila, Alabama A&M University, Center For Irradiation of Materials, Normal, AL.

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