6th Minerva Student Symposium ( co-organized with Schmidt Center WIS)

Rehovot, March 2005.

 

Program

Saturday, March 5, 2005

19:00 Welcome Dinner - River restaurant, Hamada street, no.6, Rehovot
Opening remarks: Dr. Gisela Steffens, Science Counselor of the German Embassy

Sunday, March 6, 2005

08:45-10:40

Opening Session - Electronic Devices
Chair: Prof. Meir. Lahav

08:45-09:00

Welcome Address Prof. Samuel Safran - Vice President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
Prof. Hans-Jürgen Butt – Head of the Beirat of the Schmidt Minerva Center
Prof. Reshef Tenne – Director of the Schmidt Minerva Center

09:00-09:40

Keynote Lecture 1 - Interfacing Biomolecules and Excitable Cells with Electronic Devices.
Prof. Andreas Offenhäuser - (ISG-2 Jülich,Germany)

09:40-10:00

Lecture 1 - Investigations of Tethered Bilayer Lipid Membranes
Inga Vockenroth – (MPIP Mainz, Germany)

10:00-10:20

Lecture 2 - Study of New Materials for Molecular Electronics: Oligoacenes
Dr. Michael Bendikov – (WIS, Israel)

10:20-10:40

Lecture 3 - Novel Discotic Materials for Device Applications.
Daniel Wasserfallen – (MPIP Mainz, Germany)

10:40-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:50

Second Session - Study of Biomolecules
Chair: Dr. Raz Jelinek

11:00-11:30

Lecture 4 - Studying the Deformation Mechanisms of Natural Polymeric Materials
Prof. Peter Fratzl - (MPIKG Golm, Germany)

11:30-11:50

Lecture 5 - The Role of Arp2/3 Complex in Actin Cytoskeleton Reorganization: Formation of Asters and Stars
Dr. Anne Bernheim-Groswasser – (BGU, Israel)

11:50-12:10

Lecture 6 - DNA Hybrid Materials for Surface Patterning and Nucleic Acid Detection
Andreas Herrmann - (MPIP Mainz, Germany)

12:10-12:30

Lecture 7 - Bio-Organic Mimic of The NPC for Specific Molecules Pumping
Yaron Caspi – (WIS, Israel)

12:30-12:50

Lecture 11 - Monomer Dynamics in DNA and Actin Polymers
Dr. Oleg Krichevsky – (BGU, Israel)

12:50-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00

Third Session - Optoelectronics
Chair: Prof. Andreas Offenhaser

14:00-14:20

Lecture 8 - Functional Conjugated Polymer/Porous Inorganic
Guest-Host Nanocomposites
Dr. Gitti Frey - (Technion, Israel)

14:20-14:40

Lecture 9 - Behavior of Evaporating Droplets at Non-soluble and Soluble Surfaces – Modeling with Molecular Resolution
Rodrigo Cordeiro – (MPIP Mainz, Germany)

14:40-15:00

Lecture 10 - Electro-Optical Characterization of Conductive Monolayers Made of Polydiacetylene
Shusterman Olga – (BGU, Israel)

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:30

Fourth Session - Biosensors
Chair: Prof. Michael Elbaum

15:30-16:10

Keynote Lecture 2 - Chromatic Polymer Nano-Patches for Probing Surface Processes in Living Cells
Dr. Raz Jelinek - (BGU, Israel)

16:10-16:30

Lecture 12 - New Synthetic Strategies to Tethered Bilayer Lipid Membranes
Catherine Breffa – (MPIP Mainz, Germany)

16:30-16:50

Lecture 13 - Harnessing Antibodies for Structural Characterization of
Cholesterol-Rich Domains in Membranes
Dr. Luana Scheffer – (WIS, Israel)

16:50-17:10

Lecture 14 - Development of a Novel Cell-Based-Biosensor Platform: Impedance Spectroscopy and Extracellular Recording on Microelectrode Array Chips
Per Sörensen – (MPIP Mainz , Germany)

17:10-17:30

Lecture 15 - Fiber-Optic Biosensors
Dr. Robert Marks- (BGU, Israel)

18:00-21:00 Poster Session & Dinner

Monday, March 7, 2005

08:00-16:00 Symposium excursion – Jerusalem

16:30-18:00

Fifth Session – Nanoscale Measurements
Chair: Prof. Peter Fratzl

16:30-17:00

Lecture 16 - Atomic Force Microscopy: A Routine Tool or Emerging Technique?
Prof. Hans-Jürgen Butt - (MPIP Mainz, Germany)

17:00-17:20

Lecture 17 – Determination of The Deformation of Teeth Compressed Under Water by Automated Image Analysis of Laser Speckle Interferometry
Dr. Paul Zaslansky – (WIS, Israel)

17:20-17:40

Lecture 18 - Synthesis and copper intercalation studies of Nanostructured MQ2 (where M = W, Mo, V; Q = S, Se )
Helen A. Therese – (Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany)

17:40-18:00

Lecture 19 - Nanoscale Measurements of Transport Phenomena in Molecular Thin Film Transistor
Oren Tal – (TAU, Israel)

18:30-19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, March 8, 2005

09:00-10:40 Sixth Session – Electronic Properties of Organic Materials
Chair: Prof. Hans-Jürgen Butt

09:00-09:40

Keynote 3 - Studying Charge Transport in Organic Polymers From the Device Point of View
Prof. Nir Tessler - (Technion, Israel)

09:40-10:00

Lecture 20 - Supramolecular Structure and Processing of Organic Semiconductors based on Alkyl substituted Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Wojciech Pisula – (MPIP Mainz, Germany)

10:00-10:20

Lecture 21 - Plasma Surface Modification of Polymers for Biomedical Use
Michael Müller – (Fraunhofer IGB Stuttgart, Germany)

10:20-10:40

Lecture 22 - Formation of Monolayer-Based Memory Elements
Dr. Milko van der Boom – (WIS, Israel)

10:40-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Seventh Session – Nanostructured materials
Chair: Prof. Reshef Tenne

11:00-11:30

Lecture 23 - Template-Directed Nucleation, Growth and Shape Formation of Inorganic Materials
Prof. Wolfgang Tremel - (Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany)

11:30-11:50

Lecture 24 - Electric Transport Properties of the Fullerene-Like WS2 Nanoparticles
Frieda Kopnov – (WIS, Israel)

11:50-12:10

Lecture 25 - Functionalization and Affinity Separation of Gold
Nanoparticles Using Boronic Acid Chemistry
Ovadia Abed – (WIS, Israel)

12:10-12:30

Lecture 26 - All-Benzenoid Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons-From Molecules to Materials
Jishan Wu – (MPIP Mainz, Germany)