| Monday - January 20, 2014 |
| 11:00-14:00 |
Gathering and Registration |
| 13:00-14:00 |
Welcome Reception |
| 14:00-14:15 |
Opening Remarks |
| Session 1 |
Chair - Sam Safran - Weizmann Institute |
| 14:15-15:00 |
Adrian Parsegian |
Poly-electrrrrolyte: What did we do right? |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Paul Janmey |
Polyelectrolyte properties of filamentous biopolymers and their consequences in biological fluids |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Rudi Podgornik |
A continuum description of polymer nematics |
| 16:00-16:15 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 2 |
Chair - Cecilia Leal - University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign |
| 16:15-16:30 |
Wim Bras |
Macromolecular tubulin assemblies in external fields |
| 16:30-16:45 |
Plamper Felix |
Polyelectrolyte - interaction with redox-active counterions |
| 16.45-17.00 |
Renko de Vries |
A minimal artificial viral coat protein |
| Session 3 |
Chair - Uri Raviv - HUJI |
| 17:00-18:45 |
Poster Presentation |
Flash session - 2 minutes per poster presenter |
| 20:00-21:00 |
Dinner |
| 21:00-23:00 |
Poster session |
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| Tuesday - January 21, 2014 |
| 07:00-09:00 |
Breakfast |
| Session 4 |
Chair - Roy Beck - TAU |
| 09:00-09:30 |
Philip Pincus |
A polyelectrolyte brush in an electric field |
| 09:30-10:00 |
Andras R. Bausch |
Cytoskeletal pattern formation: Self organization of driven filaments |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Elinor Josef |
Conformation of a Natural Polyelectrolyte in Semidilute Solutions with no Added Salt |
| 10:15-10:30 |
Patrick Guenoun |
Emulsions and microemulsions stabilized by polyelectrolytes |
| 10:30-10:45 |
Adar Sonn-Segev |
Response of actin networks at intermediate distance |
| 10:45-11:15 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 5 |
Chair - David Andelman - TAU |
| 11:15-11:45 |
Murugappan Muthukumar |
Virus assembly and genome translocation: organizing principles from polyelectrolyte physics |
| 11:45-12:15 |
Fred Mackintosh |
Elasticity and dynamics of biopolymer hydrogels |
| 12:15-12:45 |
Sarah Köster |
Self-assembly of intermediate filaments in the presence of counter-ions |
| 12:45-14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-16:00 |
Poster session |
| Session 6 |
Chair - Yitzhak Rabin - BIU |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Uri Sivan |
The governing role of surface hydration - AFM studies of the interaction between protic surfaces |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Alexander Grosberg |
Examples of electrohydrodynamic coupling Electrophoresis in a non-uniform field and DNA capture into a nanopore |
| 17:00-17:30 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 7 |
Chair - Omar A. Saleh - UCSB |
| 17:30-18:00 |
Roland Netz |
Dielectric Spectroscopy of Polyelectrolyte Solutions: Single and Multi-Chain Effects |
| 18:00-18:30 |
Cecilia Leal |
Lipoplex Topology as Modulated by Sirna Electrostatic Pinning |
| 18:30-18:45 |
Federico Bordi |
Aggregation and stability of polyelectrolyte-decorated liposome complexes in water–salt media: the effect of surface charge density |
| 18:45-19:00 |
Christian Holm |
Hydrogels under pressure - a combined analytical and simulational approach |
| 19:00-19:15 |
Klaus Huber |
Specific Binding of Cations to Poylacrylates in Dilute Solution – a Combined SAXS add ASAXS Study |
| 19:15-19:45 |
Katya Zhulina |
Ionizable Polymer Brushes |
| 19:45-21:15 |
Dinner |
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| Wednesday - January 22, 2014 |
| 07:00-08:00 |
Breakfast |
| 08:30-09:00 |
Departure for a half-day trip to Masada |
| Half-day excursion |
| 12:00-13:00 |
Lunch |
| 13:00-14:00 |
Poster session |
| Session 8 |
Chair - Renko de. Vires - Wageningen University |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Tim Deming |
Synthetic multifunctional polypeptide polyelectrolytes for biomedical applications |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Kurt Kremer |
(Bio-)Polymers for Hydrogels in Mixed Solvents |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Katharina Ribbeck |
Spatial configuration and composition of charge modulates transport into a mucin hydrogel barrier |
| 15:30-15:45 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 9 |
Chair - Avinoam Ben-Shaul - HUJI |
| 15:45-16.15 |
Dan Needleman |
Physical Aspects of Spindle |
| 16:15-16:45 |
Cyrus Safinya |
Tau Protein Directed Assembly in Neuronal Systems |
| 16:45-17:00 |
Rachel Yerushalmi - Rozen |
Polyelectrolyte - Induced orientational ordering of dispersed single-wall carbon nantubes |
| 17:00-17:15 |
Roland Winkler |
Inhomogeneous Structure of Swollen Microgels |
| 17:15-17:45 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 10 |
Chair - Paul Dubin - UMASS |
| 17:45-18:15 |
Michael Rubinstein |
Friction between polyelectrolyte brushes |
| 18:15-18:45 |
Igal Szleifer |
pH Responsive Polymers at Curved Surfaces |
| 20:00-22:30 |
Gala Dinner in honor of Aharon (Katzir) Katchalsky’s 100th anniversary |
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| Thursday - January 23, 2014 |
| 07:00-09:00 |
Breakfast |
| Session 11 |
Chair - Philip Pincus - UCSB |
| 09:00-09:30 |
Jacob Klein |
Surface forces with charged macromolecules: Disentangling steric from electrostatic effects |
| 09:30-10:00 |
Loic Auvray |
Confined polyelectrolytes. Experiments |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Lennart Piculell |
Responsive and internally structured surface coatings of water-insouble polyion-surfactant ion complex salts |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 12 |
Chair - Haim Diamant - TAU |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Niels Gronbech Jensen |
Improved Sampling of Boltzmann Statistics in Discrete-Time Molecular Dynamics; A New Set of Practical Thermostat and Barostat Verlet-Type Algorithms |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Omar Saleh |
The elastic response of charged biopolymers |
| 12:00-12:15 |
Paul Dubin |
Screened electrostatic & condensation effects drive growth factor & oligolysine heparin-binding |
| 12:15-14:00 |
Lunch and Check Out |
| Session 13 |
Chair - Paul Janmey - UPEN |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Harrald Hermann |
Principles of intermediate filament assembly: integrators of cellular space but also sensors and modulators of ionic strength and pH |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Yosef Greuenbaum |
Lamin assembly |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Xavier Darzacq |
Single particle tracking reveals guided target search mechanisms in the nucleus |
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Concluding remarks and best poster award ceremony
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