Programme

The Faraday Discussion 139 programme follows. For the programme that was delivered at the event including timings, please download the pdf from this page.

Introductory Lecture

L Mahadevan*
Harvard University, USA

Session 1: Cell Interactions

Session Chair: Athene Donald, University of Cambridge, UK

Phase separation of equilibrium polymers of proteins in living cells
Richard P Sear*
University of Surrey, UK

Internal friction of polypeptide chains at high stretch
B S Khatri, E Paci, I Neelov, N Crampton  and T C B McLeish*
University of Leeds, UK

Quantifying the relation between bond number and myoblast proliferation
Tanyarut Boontheekul, Hyun-Joon Kong, Susan X Hsiong, Yen-Chen Huang, L Mahadevan, Herman Vandenburgh and David J Mooney* 
Harvard University, USA

Thermo-reversible protein fibrillar hydrogels as cell scaffolds
Hui Yan, Julie E Gough, Alberto Saiani and Aline F Miller*
University of Manchester, UK

The polymer physics and chemistry of microbial cell attachment and adhesion
Mark Geoghegan*, Johanna Andrews, Catherine A Biggs, Kevin E Eboigbodin, Stephen Rolfe, Julie Scholes, Jesús Ojeda, Maria Romero González, David Brown, Robert Edyvean, Linda Swanson, Rasika Fernando, Yu Pen, Zhenyu Zhang and Steven A Banwart
University of Sheffield, UK

Session 2: Membranes and Walls

Session Chair: Kevin Shakesheff, University of Nottingham, UK

Leuko-polymersomes
Daniel A Hammer*
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Non-cytotoxic polymer vesicles for rapid and efficient intracellular delivery 
Giuseppe Battaglia*, Hannah Lomas, Marzia Massignani, Khairuddin A Abdullah, Miriam V Flores Merino, Irene Canton, Sheila MacNeil, Jianzhong Du, Adam Blanazs, Jeppe Madsen, Steven P Armes and Andrew L Lewis
University of Sheffield, UK

Mixed protein-polysaccharide interfacial layers: A self consistent field calculation study
R Ettelaie*, A Akinshina and E Dickinson
University of Leeds, UK

Calcium phosphate mineralization beneath monolayers of poly(n-butyl acrylate)-block-poly(acrylic acid) block copolymers
Olivier Casse, Olivier Colombani, Katarzyna Kita-Tokarczyk, Axel H E Müller, Wolfgang Meier* and Andreas Taubert
University of Bäsel, Switzerland

Probing (macro)molecular transport through cell walls
G Kilcher, C Duckhama and N Tirelli*
University of Manchester, UK

Session 3:Proteins and Polysaccharides

Session Chair: Richard Jones, University of Sheffield, UK

Fibronectin in aging extracellular matrix fibrils is progressively unfolded by cells and elicits an enhanced rigidity response
Meher Antia, Gretchen Baneyx, Kristopher E Kubow and Viola Vogel*
ETH-Zurich, Switzerland

Correlations between structure, material properties and bioproperties in self-assembled beta-hairpin peptide hydrogels
Rohan A Hule*, Radhika P Nagarkar, Boualem Hammouda, Joel P Schneider and Darrin J Pochan
University of Delaware, USA

Common motifs in protein self-assembly
Mark R H Krebs*, Kristin R Domike, Danielle Cannon and Athene M Donald
University of Cambridge, UK

Cellulose fibrils direct plant organ movements
Peter Fratzl*, Rivka Elbaum and Ingo Burgert
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Golm, Germany

Molecular and crystal deformation of cellulose: uniform strain or uniform stress?
K Kong, M A Wilding, R N Ibbett and S J Eichhorn*
University of Manchester, UK

Protein crystallization: universal thermodynamic vs specific aspects of PEG
F Pullara, A Emanuele*, M B Palma-Vittorelli and M U Palma
Università di Palermo, Italy

Session 4: Natural and Synthetic Polymers

Session Chair: Tony Ryan, University of Sheffield, UK

Incorporating stimulus-responsive character into filamentous virus assemblies 
Harry Bermudez* and Adam P Hathorne
University of Massachusetts, USA

The viscoelasticity of self-assembled proteoglycan combs
A Papagiannopoulos, T E Hardingham and T A Waigh*
University of Manchester, UK

Synthesis of well-defined glycopolymers and some studies of their aqueous solution behaviour
N R Cameron*, S G Spain, J A Kingham, S Weck, L Albertin, C A Barker, G Battaglia, T Smart and A Blanazs
Durham University, UK

Spontaneous flow of active polar gels in undulated channels
A Zumdieck, R Voituriez, J Prosta and Jean-François Joanny*
Institut Curie, Paris, France

Effect of confinement on properties of stiff biological macromolecules
Peter Cifra*, Zuzana Benková and Tomás Bleha
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia

Marine biopolymer self-assembly: implications for carbon cycling in the ocean  
Pedro Verdugo*, Monica V Orellana, Wei-Chun Chin, Timothy W Petersen, Ger van den Eng, Ronald Benner and John I Hedges
University of Washington Friday Harbor Labs, USA

Concluding Remarks

David Tirrell*
California Institute of Technology, USA

 

*Denotes presenting author to whom affiliation applies