Dental School

Soft Matter Physics

IEI Meeting, Friday, January 31st, 2014

8:30 8:45 Light breakfast 8:45 9:00 Opening Remarks 9:00-9:45 Plenary Lecture George M. Whitesides (Department of Chemistry, Harvard) Session I: Organic/Inorganic Interfaces Free Registration RSVP @ IEI.Poly.edu

Molecular Design

POLY IEI
Medical School

10:00 10:30 Emanuel P. Giannelis (Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell) Nanostructured hybrids for energy and environmental applications 10:30 11:00 Jack Ricci (College of Dentistry, NYU) Using Controlled Micro- and Nano-Structure to Control Bone and Soft Tissue Response to Titanium Surfaces: Basic Science and Clinical Data from Laser Micro-Machined Dental Implants. 11:00 11:30 Christina Teixeira (College of Dentistry, NYU) Engineering endochondral bone 11:30 12:00 Nikhil Gupta (Mechanical Engineering, NYU, Polytechnic School of Engineering) Vapor grown carbon nanofiber reinforced nanocomposites: tailoring of mechanical, thermal and electrical properties 12:00 1:00 Lunch Session II: Sensors and Diagnostics 1:00 1:30 Sherman Fan (Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan) Bio-inspired optofluidic lasers: bridging photonics, nanotechnology, and biology 1:30 2:00 Steve Arnold (Applied Physics and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NYUPolytechnic School of Engineering) Taking label-free bio-sensing to the single molecule limit through Optical Alchemy 2:00 2:30 Daniel Malamud (College of Dentistry, NYU) Developing Point-of-Care microfluidic devices for detection of infectious diseases 2:30 3:00 Rasti Levicky (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NYU-Polytechnic School of Engineering) DNA melting on surfaces: analysis of ligand/DNA interactions 3:00 3:30 Coffee Break Session III: Colloids and Membranes 3:30 4:00 Michael Grunze (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Nanostructured surfaces to prevent bacterial attachment and biofouling: beyond the Lotus effect 4:00 4:30 Lara Mahal (Chemistry, NYU) Sweet Patterns: Revelations from Glycomic Technology 4:30 5:00 David Grier (Physics, NYU) Holographic control and characterization of colloids and colloidal surface probes 5:00 5:30 Lea Laetitia Pontani (Physics, NYU) Biomimetic emulsions present novel routes to self-assemble materials 5:30 End of Conference