2nd Kinneret Minerva Days

Ohalo, May 2005.

 

Program

Thu. 19/5/05

9:00 Bus departure from BGU Campus to Technion (light lunch en route)

13:00-15:00 B. Chmelka (UCSB): Mesostructured Inorganic-Organic and
Mesoporous Solids: Synthesis Chemistries and Physicochemical
Processes [David Wang Auditorium, 3rd floor, Dalia Maydan Bldg,
Department of Materials Engineering, Technion]

15:15 Bus departure from Technion to Ohalo

17:15 M. Gottlieb Opening remarks

17:30 Session I Chair: V. Abetz

M. Gottlieb (BGU), Polymer crystallization: a cooperative long-range
process?

R. Jelinek, (BGU), Thin chromatic films for chemical and
biotechnological applications

18:30 Dinner

20:00-23:00 Posters, Beer, and wine
[1st hour – odd numbered posters; 2nd hour – even numbered posters]

Fri. 20/5/05

7:00 Breakfast

8:30 Session II Chair: I. Szleifer
R. Granek, (BGU), Fractons in proteins: Can they lead to anomalously
decaying time-autocorrelations?

Y. Tsori, (BGU), Micelles on solid surfaces
A. Drozdov (BGU) Mechanical behavior of thermoplastic elastomers

10:15 Coffee break

11:00 Session III Chair: Y. Golan
I. Szleifer (Purdue) Polymers and nanotubes: dimensionality and
interactions

G. Frey (Technion) Conjugated polymer/layered compound guest/host
Nanocomposites

R. Tannenbaum, (Technion) Stabilization of metal nanoparticles via
polymer adsorption

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Session IV Chair: J. Frey
V. Abetz (GKSS), Morphology and thermal properties of semicrystalline
block copolymers

G.N. Lemkoff (BGU) Creation of rigid organonanoparticles by
intramolecular metathesis cross-links in dendrimers

M. Pitsikalis (U. Athens) Synthesis of well-defined homo- and block
copolymers

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Session V Chair: B. Chmelka
J. Frey Design and synthesis of semiconducting polymers for fieldeffect
transistors

Y. Golan (BGU) Nanomaterials at the air-water interface

A. Berman (BGU) Tuning polydiacetylene backbone conformation by
specific base-pair recognition

A.Bernheim-Groswasser and L. Haviv (BGU) Lamelipodia to filopodia
transition in a membrane free system

20:00 Dinner ["Al Hanahar" or Ohalo]

Sat 21/5/05

7:00 Breakfast

8:30 Bus Departure

Morning Outdoors activity

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Bus departure

Visit to Chateau Golan

19:00 Bus departure from Ohalo to Beer Sheva

Posters

19.5.05 Hermon Hall (20:00-23:00)

1. Somobrata Acharya
ZnS nanowire and nanorod arrays in two dimensions

2. Nataly Belman
Semiconductor nanocrystals on polydiacetylene Langmuir films

3. Frederic Backouche
In vitro active self-organisation of filaments-molecular motors systems

4. Gabi Cantea, Pierre Panine, Xavier Andre, Volker Abetz
Monitoring the induced shear alignment in block copolymer solutions by in situ rheo-
SAXS and rheo-optical birefringence

5. Spiros Christodoulou
Non-linear block copolymers based on single styrenic macromonomers

6. Paraskevi Driva
Non-linear homopolymers based on double styrenic macromonomers

7. Michal Gordon
Dynamic and Spatial Behavior of DPPC:POPG and Commercial Lung Surfactants
investigated in repeated Compression Expansion Cycles of Langmuir Trough

8. Nataly Groysman
A novel chromatic/fluorescence nano- sensor for studying cell membrane processes

9. Liron Israel and Itzhak Ben-Shlush
Detection of bacteria by color sensor

10. Jurgen Jopp
Recent SPM studies

11. Aviv Kahana
Active Trasport in Disordered Microtubule Networks

12. Mark Karpasas
MALDI-TOF and FTIR microspectroscopy evaluation of abnornal biological samples

13. Marina Katz
Investigation of membrane interactions of antimicrobial peptides and pharmacological
compounds by a novel biomimetic colorimetric sensor

14. Sofiya Kolusheva, and Zulfiya Orynbayeva
Visualization of membrane processes in living cells by surface-attached chromatic
polymer patches

15. Asit Baran Panda
Synthesis, assembly and optical properties of shape and phase controlled ZnSe
nanocrystals

16. Chih-Cheng Peng, Volker Abetz
Silica-rubber nanaocomposite - the effect of hydrogen bonding on dynamic mechanical
properties

17. Yariv Portnoy
Triblock copolymer in dispersed media

18. Inbal Preker
Block copolymers as surface active agents at the oil-water interface

19. Yogesh.M.Scindia
Polydiacetylene based biosensors

20. Michael Shandalov
Improved compatibility of nanocrystalline PbSe on Si(100) by SAM surface
modification
21. Tania Sheynis
Biomimetic supramolecular assemblies for studying of peptide-membrane interactions

22. Olga Shusterman
Electro-Optical properties of polydiacetylene Langmuir films

23. Ina Sigal
Hybridization of nucleotide derivatized polydiacetylene monolayer with its
complementary oligonucleotides
24. Roman Volinsky
Polydiacetylene based biosensor

25. Nir Zohar and Yaniv Abramovitch
Identification of metaloxide nanoparticles and MIC reduction of peptide antibiotics
using PDA vesicles