1st Kinneret Minerva Days

Ohalo, May 2004.

Program

Thursday 13.5.04

17:00-17:35 Georg Krausch (Bayreuth) Complex Formation between Macromolecules: Structural, Kinetic, and Thermodynamic Data from Single Molecule Experiments

17:35-18:10 Sheynis Tatyana (BGU) Lipid/Polymer Colorimetric Biosensor for Studying of the Peptide-Membrane Interactions

18:10-18:45 Igal Szleifer (Purdue U.) Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Protein Adsorption

19:00 Dinner

20:30 Beer, wine, and posters

Friday 14.5.04

7:00 Breakfast

08:30-09:05 Yachin Cohen (Technion) Dispersion and Processing of Carbon Nanotubes in Aqueous Polymer Solutions

09:05-09:40 Rina Cohen (BGU) Behavior of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes in Polymeric Solutions

09:40-10:15 Oren Regev (BGU) Reinforced Polymers

Coffee

10:45-11:20 Yuval Golan (BGU) Chemical Deposition of IV-VI Semiconductor Nanomaterials

11:20-12:00 Amir Berman (BGU) Polydiacetylene Monolayers as Model Biomimetic Template, and Related Nanotechnology Applications

Lunch

13:30-14:05 Chaim Diamant (TAU) Confinement Effects on Colloidal Dynamics

14:05-14:40 Aleksey Drozdov (BGU) Numerical Simulation of the Viscoelastic Response Of Polymer Fluids

14:40-15:15 Yariv Portnoy (BGU) Triblocks in Dispersed Media

Coffee

15:45-16:20 Anne Bernheim-Groswasser (BGU) Active Self-Organization Processes in Actin Solutions

16:20-17:00 Michael Elbaum (WIS) Particle Tracking Studies of Microtubules and Motor Activities

17:30 Departure to Dinner at "Zel Tamar" (Ashdot Yaakov)

21:00 Dr. Haim Goren

Posters

1. Lior Haviv: Branching versus Bundling in cellular motility.

2. Frederic Backouche: Motor-filament dynamical assemblies

3. Tatyana Sheynis: A Novel Polydiacetylene-Based Colorimetric Biosensor for Investigation of Peptide-Membrane Interactions.

4. Nataly Groysman: Design of Novel Supramolecular Cellular Chromatic/Fluorescence Nano-Sensor.

5. Roman Volinsky: Investigation of Surface Processes of Polydiacetylene-Based Biosensor.

6. Marina Katz: Investigation of Membrane Interactions of Antimicrobial Peptides and Pharmacological Compounds by A Novel Biomimetic Colorimetric Sensor

7. Yelena Ignatgev: Investigation of membrane interactions of antimicrobial peptides and pharmacological compounds by a novel colorimetric PDA/Ghost-Cell assembly.

8. Kristin Schmidt: Orientation of the Microdomains in Concentrated Block Copolymer Solutions using Electric Fields: Confinement Effects and Mechanisms

9. Heiko Zettl: Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) experiments in polystyrene solutions

10. Michal Gordon: Lung surfactant monolayers: Langmuir monolayer studies

11. Nataly Belman: PDA film as template for directed nucleation of metal sulfide nanoparticles

12. Yevgeniy Lifshitz: Structural variations of PDA film Grazing Incidence X-ray Difffraction (GIXD) study

13. Inna Sigal: Nucleotide Basepair Recognition on Derivatized Diacetylene Films.

14. Yafa Yagen Effect of Molecular Structureon Gelation Of Methylcellulose

15. Mark Karpassas Determination of Methylation Distribution in Commercial Methyl-Cellulose

16. Haim Dvir Investigation of a Brominated-Acrylate Flame Retardant in Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene

17. Inbal Preker Block Copolymers as Surface Active Agents at the Oil-Water Interface

18. Celine Bounioax Electrical Properties of Nanocomposites

19. Yael Dror Dispersion and Processing of Carbon Nanotubes in Aqueous Polymer Solutions