INVITED SPEAKERS:
Angela Belcher, MIT
Sam Stupp, Northwestern
*Akif Tezcan, UC San Diego
*Joel Schneider, NIH
David Baker, U of Washington
*Todd Yeates, UCLA
*Art Ramirez, UC Santa Cruz
Ron Zuckermann, LBL
*Caroline Ajo-Franklin, LBL
*Wenbin Zhang, Beijing U
*Tuomas Knowles, Cambridge U
*Ned Seeman, New York U
*Paul Chaikin, New York U
*Alan Mark , U of Queensland
*Maria Peralta, UC Davis
*Mark Chapman, U of Michigan
*Timothy Lu, MIT
*Roya Zandi, UC Riverside
*David Eisenberg, UCLA
*Carol Hall, NC State U
*Anant Paravastu, FAMU/FSU
Derek Woolfson, U of Bristol
*Confirmed speakers
Modified Viral Assemblies
Protein Assemblies for Energy and Tissue Applications
Strategies for Linking Protein Assemblies
Tissue Engineering and Healing Strategies with Protein Assemblies
Designed Viral Capsid Materials
Protein Origami
The MAP Initiative
Peptoid Assemblies
Bacterial S-Layers
Spy Tag/Spy Catcher Protein Assemblies
Physical Properties of Amyloid Assemblies
DNA Origami and Templating
Self Replicating Biomolecule Based Materials
Twist in Amyloids
Self Assembly of Beta Solenoid Proteins
Bacterial Biofilm Amyloid Fundamentals
Engineered E. Coli Assemblies for Nanoparticle Templating
Principles of Viral Capsid Organization
Designed Amyloid Assemblies from Small Peptides
Simulations of Large Protein Assemblies
Designer Peptide Assemblies
Designer Alpha Helical Assemblies
ORGANIZERS:
Daniel Cox, University of California, Davis | Mogus Mochena, Florida A&M University | Gang-yu Liu, University of
California, Davis | Michael Toney, University of California, Davis
SPONSORS:
Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
FAMU Division of Research
FAMU College of Science and Technology
FAMU Sustainability Institute
UC Davis Division of Research
NSF
LOCAL ORGANIZERS:
Lekan Latinwo
Nelly Mateeva
Abena Ojetayo
Keerthi Senevirathne
Financial support is available to attend the conference for graduate students and junior scientists.
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