8:00 | Continental Breakfast/Poster Setup |
9:00 | Introduction and Welcome |
9:15 | Session A: Protein Engineering (Chiar: Jason Smith)
Presenter: Brian G. Lefebvre (University of Delaware, Advisor: Anne Robinson) Title: "Engineering Approaches to Reversing Protein Aggregation" Presenter: C. Sehgal Amitabh (North Carolina State Univ., Advisor: Robert Kelly) Title: "Biochemical Characterization of a Carboxylesterase from the Extreme Thermoacidophile Sulfolobus solfataricus P1" |
10:05 | Break/Poster |
10:35 | Session B: Biocatalysis (Chair: Jessica Sinacola)
Presenter: Wook Chang (Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Advisor: Tracey Holoman) Title: "Anaerobic degradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons" Presenter: Jonathan P. Meissner (Univ. of Virginia, Advisor: Giorgio Carta) Title: "Adsorptive Reactors for Enhanced Enzymatic Esterification in Organic Media" |
11:25 | Keynote Address
Presenter: Isle Blumentals (Life Technologies) Title: "Process Development: Defining the Target" |
12:10 | Lunch |
1:10 | Poster Session |
2:10 | Session C: Biosensors (Chair: Brian Lefebvre)
Presenter: Peter Harms (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Advisor: Govind Rao) Title: "Fluorescence Lifetime Based Sensing" Presenter: Catherine Branch (Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Advisor: Anthony Guiseppi-Elie) Title: "A Gene Chip for Expression Profiling in Brain Tumors" |
3:00 | Break/Poster |
3:30 | Session D: Advances in Cell Culture (Chair: Brenda Danek)
Presenter: Tina M. Sauerwald (Johns Hopkins Univ., Advisor: Michael Betenbaugh) Title: "Control of Apoptosis in Mammalian Cell Culture" Presenter: Todd Muccilli (Rutgers Univ., Advisor: Henrik Pedersen) Title: "In situ Extraction from California Poppy" |
4:20 | Awards and Concluding Comments |
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