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Greater Washington-Baltimore Nanotechnology/Nanomedicine Poster Session

April 7 and 8, 2009

Cosponsored by NIH NANO Scientific Interest Group

Open to the Public

No Registration required

April 7, 2009. Natcher (Building 45) Atrium,

April 8, 2009: Natcher (Building 45) Room A, B, C1, C2, G1/G2.

Posters on Display: 9:00 am April 7 (Tuesday) - 3:00 pm April 8 (Wednesday)
Authors Present: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Tuesday April 7
Poster Size: 4' (H) x 6' (W)

A limited amount of poster space is still available. If you would like to submit a poster, please contact the persons listed to below.

Contact persons:
Jeffrey Forbes, NIAMS forbesj@mail.nih.gov
Kuan Wang, NIAMS wangk@mail.nih.gov

Table of Posters

  1. Quantitative Characterization of Nanomedicine Delivery Systems by Electron Microscopy
        Richard Leapman (NIBIB)
  2. Multifaceted Approaches to the Construction of Multifunctional Targeted Liposomes
        Kristin Loomis (NCI), Anu Puri (NCI), Amichai Yavlovich (NCI), Robert Blumenthal (NCI), Gabriela Kramaer-Marek (NCI), Jacek Capala (NCI),Xiaodong Xiao (NCI), Zhongyu Zhu (NCI), Yang Feng (NCI), Dimiter S. Dimitrov (NCI), Boopathy Ramakrishnan (NCI), Elizabeth Boeggeman (NCI) and Pradman Qasba (NCI)
  3. Computational Strategies for Designing Biomolecular Nanoparticles
        Eckart Bindewald (NCI), Wojciech Kasprzak (NCI), Bruce A. Shapiro (NCI), Buyong Ma (NCI), Chung-Jung Tsai (NCI), Ruth Nussinov (NCI)
  4. Characterization of Drosophila myosin 7a mechanics
        Verl B. Siththanandan (NHLBI), Yasuharu Takagi (NHLBI), Yi Yang (NHLBI), Davin K.T. Hong (Summit Computers), James R. Sellers (NHLBI)
  5. Single Molecule Kinetic Measurements of Non-muscle Myosin IIB Using Optical Tweezers
        Attila Nagy ( NHLBI), Yasuharu Takagi ( NHLBI), Earl E. Homsher (UCLA), Davin K.T. Hong (ABT Software), Mihaly Kovacs (Eotvas Univ.) and James R. Sellers ( NHLBI)
  6. Single-Molecule Studies on the Mechanism of Myosin V: A Molecular Motor
        James Sellers (NHLBI)
  7. From Nano-particles to Micofabrication for MRI of Cell Tracking
        Alan Koretsky (NINDS)
  8. Intrinsically Disordered Titin PEVK as a Molecular Velcro: Salt-Bridge Dynamics and Elasticity
        Jeffrey G. Forbes (NIAMS), Wanxia L. Tsai (NIAMS), Richard J. Wittebort (Univ. of Louisville), Kuan Wang (NIAMS)
  9. Analysis of traction stress variation across single focal adhesions
        Sergey V. Plotnikov (NHLBI), Benedikt Sabass (Univ. of Heidelberg), Ulrich S. Schwarz (Univ. of Heidelberg), Clare Waterman (NHLBI)
  10. Three Dimensional Superresolution Fluorescence Microscopy Reveals Protein Stratification in Focal Adhesions.
        P. Kanchanawong (NHLBI), G. Shtengel (HHMI), M. W. Davidson (HHMI), H. F. Hess (FSU), Clare Waterman (NHLBI)
  11. American Society for Nanomedicine
        Esther Chang (Georgetown Univ./ASNM)
  12. Size Measurement of Targeted Nanoparticle Delivery Systems
        Natalia Farkas (NIST), John A. Dagata (NIST), Kathleen F. Pirollo (Georgetown Univ.), Esther Chang (Georgetown Univ.)
  13. AFM Imaging and Force Spectroscopy of a Developing Malaria Vaccine Component: Plasmodium Falciparum Merozoite Surface Protein 3
        Svetlana Kotova (NIBIB), Darrell E. Hurt (NIAID), Jack Lebowitz (NIAID), Paul D. Smith (NIBIB), David L. Narum (NIAID), Albert J. Jin (NIBIB)
  14. Preclinical Characterization of Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnosis, Imaging and Therapy
        Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute at Frederick (Presented by: Denise N. Johnson)
  15. Biological and Morphological Evaluation of Fullerenol in Kidney Cells
        Denise N. Johnson (NCI), Jeffrey D. Clogston (NCI), Jiwen Zheng (NCI), Scott E. McNeil (NCI), and Stephan T. Stern (NCI)
  16. Agilent Technologies AFM and Digital Optical Microscopy
        Gilbert Min (Agilent), John Dow (Agilent) and Eric Rufe (Agilent)
  17. Atomic Force Microscope Applications in Biology
        Rob Cain (Asylum Research)
  18. BioScope Catalyst Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
        Jay Anderson (Veeco Metrology)
  19. Evaluation Of Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy (HRT) And Magnetic Nanoparticle Heating For Pancreatic Cancer
        Joesph Herman (JHMI), Rob Ivkov (JHMI), Zishan Mohammed (JHMI)
  20. Nanoparticle-mediated heating of prostate cancer cells: Does the method of heating matter?
        M. Hedayati (JHMI), H. Zhou (JHMI), Y. Zhang (JHMI), T. L. DeWeese(JHMI), R. Ivkov (JHMI)
  21. Monitoring Local Nanoparticle Heating by Fluorescence Microscopy
        Matthew L. Clarke (NIST), Jeeseong Hwang (NIST)
  22. Targeted Delivery Via Nanocapsules Improves the Efficacy of Small Molecules Currently in Use as Anticancer Therapeutics
        Sung Hee Hwang (Georgetown Univ), Antonia Rait (Georgetown Univ.), Kathleen F. Pirollo (Georgetown Univ.), Qi Zhou (Georgetown Univ.), Venkata M. Yenugonda (Georgetown Univ.), Milton L. Brown (Georgetown Univ.), Esther H. Chang (Georgetown Univ.)
  23. Development of Alternative Magnetic Field (AMF) induction coils for Temperature Enhanced Metastatic Therapy involving Magnetic Nanoparticles
        Ananda Kumar (Lambda Z Technologies), Theodore L. DeWees (JHMI) and Robert Ivkov(JHMI)
  24. Nanoimmunoliposome Delivery of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Markedly Enhances Targeting and Uptake in Human Cancer Cells In Vitro and In Vivo
        Chengli Yang (Georgetown Univ.), Antonia Rait (Georgetown Univ.), Kathleen F. Pirollo (Georgetown Univ.), John A. Dagata (NIST), Natalia Farkas (NIST), Esther H. Chang (Georgetown Univ.)
  25. TBD
        Wolfgang Losert (UMD)
  26. Visualizing Cell Migration One Molecule at a Time
        Cathy Galbraith (NIDCR), James A. Galbraith (NINDS)
  27. Intervertebral disc tissue engineering using a novel composite nanofibrous scaffold
        Leon J. Nesti (NIAMS/WRAMC), Wan-Ju Li (NIAMS), Wesley M. Jackson (NIAMS) and Rocky S. Tuan (NIAMS)
  28. Neurotrophic enhancement of a nanofibrous peripheral nerve conduit
        Wesley M. Jackson (NIAMS), Jamie D. Bulken-Hoover (NIAMS/WRAMC), Leon J. Nesti (NIAMS/WRAMC) and Rocky S. Tuan (NIAMS)
  29. Structure and Polymorphism of Clathrin-Coated Vesicles
        J. Bernard Heymann (NIAMS), Dennis C. Winkler (NIAMS), Yang-In Yim (NHLBI), Evan Eisenberg (NHLBI), Lois E. Greene (NHLBI), Alasdair C. Steven (NIAMS)
  30. Cryo-Electron Tomography of Influenza Virus: Pleiomorphic Virus Structure in Three Dimensions.
        Audray Harris (NIAMS), Giovanni Cardone (NIAMS), Dennis C. Winkler (NIAMS), Bernard Heymann (NIAMS), Matthew Brecher (UVA), Judith M. White (UVA), Alasdair C. Steven (NIAMS)
  31. The NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
        Eileen Sparks (NIST), Peter Carmichael (NIST), Andrew Berglund (NIST)
  32. TBD
        Silvia Lacerda (FDA)
  33. Miniaturization of the LIPS assay: Towards a point-of-care device
        Nicole Y. Morgan, Adnan Zubair, Peter Burbelo, Ludovic Vincent, Michael Iadarola and Paul D. Smith (NIBIB)
  34. Nanoparticle Engineering, Production, Assembly, and Characterization
        Guangjun Cheng(NIST), Emren Nalbant-Esenturkt (NIST), Yonglin Liu (NIST), Michael McDonald (NIST), A.R. Hight Walker (NIST)
  35. Quantitative Magnetic Characterization of Colloidal Cobalt Nanoparticles
        C.L. Dennis (NIST), G. Cheng (NIST), K. Baler (NIST), B.B. Maranville (NIST), J. Davies1, K. Liu (Univ. CA Davis), A.R. Hight Walker (NIST), R.D. Shull (NIST)
  36. Nebulin Elasticity Pre-loads Thin Filaments of Skeletal Muscle: Unfolding of Transient a-helices
        Jeffrey Forbes (NIAMS), Vamsi K. Yadavali (NIAMS-VCU), Wanxia L. Tsai (NIAMS), Kuan Wang (NIAMS)
  37. Single-molecule DNA topology and topoisomerases studied with magnetic tweezers: How does topoisomerase IV distinguish left from right?
        Keir Neuman (NHLBI)
  38. Development of a Tri-Imageable Superparamagnetic Nanoparticle for Diagnostics
        A Bumb (NCI), PJ Dobson (NCI), Lars Fugger (NCI), P Choyke (NCI) and MW Brechbiel (NCI)
  39. Targeting angiogenesis using NGR-targeted temperature sensitive liposome
        Ayele H. Negussie (CC), Jenna L. Miller (CC), Goutham Reddy (CC), Bradford J. Wood (CC), Matthew R. Dreher (CC)
  40. Tailoring nanoscale drug-delivery vehicles (liposomes) with microfluidic sheath-flow
        A. Jahn (NIST), S.M. Stavis (NIST), J.E. Reiner (NIST), W.N. Vreeland (NIST), J.S. Hong (NIST), D.L. DeVoe (NIST), L.E. Locascio(NIST), M. Gaitan (NIST)
  41. Super-resolution fluorescence imaging to track polymerized actin molecules over nanometer distances in living neurons
        Nicholas A. Frost (UMD), Hari Shroff (HHMI), Huihui Kong (UMD), Eric Betzig (HHMI), Thomas A. Blanpied (UMD)