Preliminary Program subject to change
04013 Meet the Faculty Candidate Poster Session
OverviewPosters from prospective faculty candidtates will be displayed at this session.
Primary SponsorEducation (04)

Chair

Sundararajan V. Madihally
Assistant Professor
School of Chemical Engineering
Oklahoma State University
423 Engineering North
Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone Number: 405-744-9115
Fax Number: 405-744-6338
Email: sundar.madihally@okstate.edu

CoChair

Dana E. Knox
Interim Associate Provost
New Jersey Institute of Technology
University Heights
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone Number: 973-596-5287
Fax Number: 973-642-4079
Email: knoxd@adm.njit.edu
Transdermal Drug/Vaccine Delivery Using Microneedles and Microdermabrasion
Harvinder S. Gill, Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 315 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0100 and Mark R. Prausnitz, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0100
Nanomechanical Motion from Microcantilevers as a Platform for Detecting Phase Changes of Macromolecules
Sibani Lisa Biswal, Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley, 6186 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
A Hierarchical Multiscale Approach for Predictive Microkinetic Modeling of Hydrogen Production
Ashish B. Mhadeshwar, University of Delaware, 351 Colburn Lab University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 and Dionisios G. Vlachos, University of Delaware, Department of Chemical Engineering, 150 Academy St., 325 Colubrn Lab, Newark, DE 19716
Distributed and Predictive Control of Distributed Process Systems
Stevan Dubljevic, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Chemical Engineering, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592
Self-Assembly of Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers – Microstructural Control of Functional Materials
Chinedum Osuji, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02138
Lung Surfactant Adsorption and Inhibition
Jonathan G. Fernsler, Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
First-Principles Screening of Alloys for Heterogeneous Catalysis
Jeff Greeley, Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics, Dept. of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Electrokinetic Mass Transport Control in Gels Via Immobilized Nanoparticle Pumps
Marvi Matos, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Bioengineering of Polypeptides and Nanoscale Assemblies for Cancer Cell Destruction
Kaushal Rege, The Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 51 Blossom St, Boston, MA 02114
Construction of Integrated Micro- and Nanofluidic Components by Photopolymerization
Brian Hutchison, Analytical Chemistry Division, Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Dr., Mail Stop 8394, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8394
A Multiscale Approach to Understanding and Designing Assembly Mechanisms
Michael F. Hagan, Chemistry, U.C. Berkeley, 37 Gilman Hall University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
Numerical Methods for Parametric Nonlinear Programming and Their Application to the Optimization of a Chemical Process
Elaine Hale, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, 6100 Main St. – MS 134, Houston, TX 77005-1892
Quantitative Simulation of Interface Properties in Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials
Hendrik Heinz, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Bldg 654, suite 341, 2977 P Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433
Modified Absorption Isotherm Model for Aqueous Electrolytes
William ONeal Rains, Chemical Engineering, University of Tennessee, 2201 Franklin Station Way #101, Knoxville, TN 37916
Global Optimization of Dynamic Systems
Yue Chen, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Los Angeles, 5531 Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Marangoni Effect Reverses Coffee-Ring Depositions
hua Hu, Polymer Devision, NIST, 100 Bureau Dr., Gaithersburg, MD 20899
Polymeric Biomaterials with Tailored Microstructures, Nanostructures, and Bioactive Surface Chemistries for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering
Matt J. Kipper, National Institutes of Health (NIDCR) and National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8543, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8543
Molecular Simulation of Nanostructured Materials and Their Use in Storage/Separation of Hydrogen, Hydrocarbons, Aromatics, and Biomolecules
C.G. Sonwane, Department of Chemical Engineering,, Worcester Institute of Technology, --, Worcester, MA 01609
Leveraging Large-Scale Transcriptional Analysis in Cell Culture Engineering
Peter G. Fuhrken, William M. Miller and Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 N. Sheridan Rd., Tech E136, Evanston, IL 60208
Protection Schemes for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (Euvl) Masks in Low Pressure Environments
Jung Hyeun Kim1, David Y. H. Pui1 and Heinz Fissan2, (1)Department of Mechanical Engineering, Particle Technology Lab, University of Minnesota, 111 Church Street, Minneapolis, MN 55455, (2)IUTA, Duisburg, Germany
Development of Corrosion Resistant Implant Materials Using Biocompatible Thin Films
Holly J. Martin, Mississippi State University, 330 Swalm President's Circle, Mississippi State, MS 39740 and Kirk H. Schulz, Bagley College of Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762
Optimization of Insitu Chemical Oxidation
John M. Harden, Mississippi State University, Box 9595, Mississippi State, MS 39762-9595
From Synthetic to Natural Colloidal Biomaterials
Harry Bermudez, SV-IBI-LMRP, Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 15, Bat. AAB, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
Slithering Polymers and Migrating Cells: Application of Computational Methods to Problems in Polymer Physics and Cell Organization
Sachin Shanbhag, Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2300 Hayward St., 3074 H.H. Dow Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Ac Electric Field Induced Forces on Colloidal Particles near a Planar Electrode
Jeffrey A. Fagan, Carnegie Mellon Universty, 3110 Doherty Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Next Generation Dynamic Optimization
Shivakumar Kameswaran, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Advanced Strategies for Large-Scale Optimization Problems: Applications in Homeland Security
Carl D. Laird, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Studying Single Proteins at Interfaces Towards the Development of Integrated Systems
Vamsi K. Yadavalli, Laboratory of Muscle Biology, NIH/NIAMS, Rm. 1144, Bldg. 50, Bethesda, MD 20892
An Integrated Approach to Catalytic Systems
Aditya Bhan, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 201 Gilman Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
Cirse: a Novel Solvation Energy Potential for Simulation and Design of Biomolecules
Tushar Jain, David Cerutti and J. Andrew McCammon, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-036
Protein Aggregation in the Pathogenesis of Amyloid Diseases
Eva Y. Chi, Department of Chemistry, The Institute of Biophysical Dynamics, and the James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, 5735 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637, Ka Yee C. Lee, Chemistry, University of Chicago, 5735 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637 and Theodore W. Randolph, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Colorado, ECCH 111, Campus Box 424, Boulder, CO 80309
Controlling the Motion of Cells along Compliant Polymeric Substrates
Rolf Verberg, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Room 1249 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Multi-Scale and Multi-Functional Microfabrication of Nanostructured Materials
Hae-Kwon Jeong1, Mark A. Shannon2 and Richard I. Masel1, (1)Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois, 600 S. Mathews St., Urbana, IL 61801, (2)Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, 600 S. Mathews St., Urbana, IL 61801
Density Functional Theory Studies of Acid Catalysis and Electrocatalysis
Michael J. Janik, Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia, 102 Engineers' Way, Charlottesville, VA 22904
Microfluidic Devices for Protein and Pharmaceutical Crystallization Applications
Venkateswarlu Bhamidi1, Paul J. A. Kenis2 and Charles F. Zukoski2, (1)Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign / ICES, Singapore, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, (2)Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
Functional Elastomeric Scaffold Development for Tissue Engineering
John J. Stankus, Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1249 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Molecular Modeling of Peptide Insertions, Enzyme Catalysis, and Fuel Cell Membranes
Shaji Chempath, UC Berkeley, 201 Gilman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
Synthesis and Controlled Clustering of Magnetic Nanoparticle Suspensions
Harpreet Singh, MIT, 25 Ames Street, 66-325, Cambridge, MA 02139, Paul E. Laibinis, Rice University, 6100 S. Main Street, Houston, TX 77005 and T.A. Hatton, Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139
Sustainable Technologies for Biomaterials from Renewable Resources
Christopher L. Kitchens, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech, 311 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0100
Molecular Dynamics Investigation into the Influence of Anionic and Zwitterionic Membrane Interfaces on Structure of Antimicrobial Peptides, and Implications on Antimicrobial Properties
Himanshu Khandelia, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, #112, 421, Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Thermodynamic and Kinetic Modeling of Protein Phase Transition Related to Diseases and Drug Development through Control of Protein-Protein Interactions
Sungmun Lee, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250
Reaction Engineering, Process Design, and Catalyst and Material Development Research on the Utilization of Biorenewable Resources for Bioenergy and Bioproducts
Justinus A. Satrio, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Iowa State University, 2114 Sweeney Hall, Ames, IA 50011-2230
Crystal Nucleation in Levitated Polyethylene Oxide
Adam P. Olsen, Richard C. Flagan and Julia A. Kornfield, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125
Flow-Induced Microstructure of Nanoparticles in Multiphase Systems: Processing, Characterization, and Applications
Caroline H. Nam, Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, 150 Academy Street, Colburn Laboratory 042, Newark, DE 19711
High-Throughput Time-Series Metabolomic Analysis of a Systematically Perturbed Plant System
Harin H. Kanani and Maria I. Klapa, University of Maryland, 2113 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building, College Park, MD 20742-2111
Advanced Sulfonated Polyarylenethioethersulfone Polymer and Copolymer Membranes for Fuel Cell Application
Mitra Yoonessi, Materials Directorate, Wright Patterson Air Force Research Laboratory, 2941 Hobson way, Bldg 654, WPAFB, OH 45433
Strategies for Overcoming Drug Resistance
Grace F. Liou, Microbiologie fondamentale et médicale, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du Docteur Roux, Paris, 75724, France
Dry Powder Aerosols for Therapeutic Drug Delivery
Jennifer Fiegel, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 40 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Mechanistic Study and Engineering of Biological Networks: a Systems Biology & Synthetic Biology Approach
Xiaoxia (Nina) Lin, Harvard Molecular Technology Group & Lipper Center for Computational Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur, NRB-238, Boston, MA 02115
Development and Application of Novel Pattern Discovery Techniques for Problems in Biochemical Engineering
Kyle L. Jensen, MIT, 66-264 MIT 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 and Gregory Stephanopoulos, Chemical Engineering, MIT, 66-264 MIT 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
Customized Bioengineering in Inhomogeneous Environments
Thomas A. Knotts, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706
Directed Evolution of Proteins for Biomedical Application
Zhilei Chen, Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, 221 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 and Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois, 215 Roger Adams Lab, Box C3, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
Interfacial Effects and Properties of Ultrathin Polymer Films: from Nanofabrication to Large-Area Displays
Bryan D. Vogt, Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Dr Stop 8541, Gaithersburg, MD 20899
High-Throughput Time-Series Transcriptional Profiling Analysis of a Biological System Subjected to Multiple Perturbations: a Case Study in Systems Biology
Bhaskar Dutta and Maria I. Klapa, University of Maryland, 2113 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building, College Park, MD 20742-2111
Simulations of Materials Systems with Multiple Coordination States Using a Reactive Force Field
Liping Huang and John Kieffer, University of Michigan, 2300 Hayward St., Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers on Nanopatterned Surfaces
Mark P. Stoykovich, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
Nanocarriers for Controlled Delivery of Therapeutic Agents
M. Laird Forrest1, Daniel W. Pack2 and Glen S. Kwon1, (1)School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, 777 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53705, (2)University of Illinois, MC-712, Box C-3, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, United States
Double Sided Thin Film Membranes
Tracy Q. Gardner1, John L. Falconer2 and Richard D. Noble2, (1)Chemical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, (2)Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, 1111 Engineering Drive, Boulder, CO 80309-0424
Solution-Phase Growth of Nanostructures
Timothy O. Drews, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 151 Amundson Hall, 421 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Enantioselectivity on Naturally Chiral Copper Surfaces
David M. Rampulla, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Systematic Approaches to the Protein Engineering of Highly Specific Receptor-Ligand Pairs
Karuppiah Chockalingam, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois, 221 Roger Adams Lab, Box C-3, 600 S. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 and Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois, 215 Roger Adams Lab, Box C3, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
Nanoporous and Nanostructured Materials for Biomimetic Sensor and Hydrogen Storage Applications
Vijay I. Raman, ISIS - groupe BASF, 8, allée Gaspard Monge, Strasbourg, F-67083, France
Multi-Scale Modeling of the Actin Filament: from Allostery to the Elasticity of Cytoskeleton
Jhih-Wei Chu, Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation and the Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Room 2020, 315 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Exploring Physiological Landscapes for Cell and Metabolic Engineering
Hal S. Alper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 56-422, Cambridge, MA 02139 and Gregory Stephanopoulos, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 56-422, Cambridge, MA 02139
Regulon Prediction and Coregulation Patterns in Clostridium Acetobutylicum
Carlos J. Paredes, Keith V. Alsaker and Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL 60208
Automatic Design of Biofluidic Microcircuits
Anton J. Pfeiffer, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15217
Assembly and Investigation of Biomimetic Colloids
Kevin D. Hermanson, Biophysics (E22), Technical University of Munich, James-Franck-Strasse, Garching, D85747, Germany
Morphology and Structure in Polymer Nanocomposites and Compound Droplets
Kurt A. Smith, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1249 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Highly Responsive Gels Via Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers in Liquid Crystal Solvent
Neal Scruggs, Rafael Verduzco and Julia Kornfield, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1200 California Blvd., Mail Code 210-41, Pasadena, CA 91125
Engineering Colloids – from Interparticle Interactions to Advanced Materials Assembly
Ali Mohraz, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 201 Materials Science and Engineering Building, MC-246, 1304 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801
Monte Carlo Simulations to Study Polymorphism and Relative Polymorph Stability in Solids
Divesh Bhatt, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, P190 Kolthoff Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Optimization as a Tool for Predictive Modeling of Biological Systems and Mining of Large-Scale Data Sets
Mano R. Maurya, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0505, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505 and Shankar Subramaniam, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Department of Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Giman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505
Computer Simulation Studies of Pattern Recognition in Biomimetic Polymers
Arthi Jayaraman, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , North Carolina State University, College of Engineering 1 Box 7905, 911 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC 27695, Carol K. Hall, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, College of Engineering 1, Box 7905, 911 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC 27695 and Jan Genzer, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, 911 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC 27695
Hydrogen-Induced Crystallization of Diamond-Cubic Semiconducting Materials
Radhika C. Mani, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080
Polyolefin-Organoclay Nanocomposites: Morphology, Properties and Applications
Rhutesh K. Shah and Donald R. Paul, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Drive, C0400, Austin, TX 78712
Smart Nanotechnology in Biomaterials, Sensors, Actuators and Textiles
Hong Chen, Drexel University, Dept of Chemical and Biological Engineering, 3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Engineering Combustion for Gas Release: Emergency Oxygen Generators for Aircraft and Hydrogen Generation for Fuel Cells
Victor Diakov, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907
Combinatorial Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition for Polymer Thin Film Discovery
Tyler P. Martin, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, Kelvin Chan, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave Rm 66-419, Cambridge, MA 02139 and Karen K. Gleason, MIT, 66-466, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
Effects of Yeast Elicitor on Secondary Metabolism and in-Vitro-Translated Protein Pattern of Eschscholtzia Californica Cell Culture
Jeong Jin Park, Dep. Chem. Eng., POSTECH, Pohang, 790-784, South Korea
Micro Fuel Cells for Portable Applications
Ranga S. Jayashree, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Av. C3, Urbana, IL 61801 and Paul J. A. Kenis, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
Synthesis and Applications of Nanostructured Materials
Bing Tan, University of Kentucky, Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, Lexington, KY 40506
Modeling, Analysis, and Design in Biological Systems Using Engineering Approaches
Nicholas Hernjak, Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Ave. MC1507, Farmington, CT 06030
Regulatory Networks in Escherichia Coli: Chemogenomic-Based Identification of the Nitrogen Oxide Response and Stochastic Modeling of Pap Operon Regulation
Laura R. Jarboe, Department of Chemical Engineering, UCLA, 5805 Boelter Hall, 420 Westwood Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Low Temperature Polymer Nanofabrication Using Carbon Dioxide and Its Applications to Tissue Engineering
Yong Yang, Chemical and biomolecular engineering, The Ohio State University, Room 125A, Koffolt Labs., 140W. 19th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
Monte Carlo Simulation Study of Binary Hard Sphere Crystallization
Sudeep Punnathanam, Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Massachusetts, Dept. of Chem. Engineering, 159 Goessmann Lab., Amherst, MA 01003-9303
Self-Assembly of Functional Structures and Devices for Electronic and Biomedical Applications
Zhiyong Gu, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 221 Maryland Hall, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 and David H. Gracias, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 125 Maryland Hall, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Multiscale Elucidation of Structure-Properties Relations for Molecular Transport in Polycrystalline Thin Films
Mark A. Snyder, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 and Dionisios G. Vlachos, University of Delaware, Department of Chemical Engineering, 150 Academy St., 325 Colubrn Lab, Newark, DE 19716
Self-Assembly of Anisotropic Tethered Nano Building Blocks
Mark A. Horsch, University of Michigan, Department of Chemical Engineering, 2300 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136
Development of Composite Membrane Electrode Assemblies (Cmeas) for Higher Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
Nikhil Jalani, Department of Chemical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Goddard Hall, Worcester, MA 01609 and Ravindra Datta, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester,, MA 01609-2280
Crystal Morphology Considerations in Processing of Pharmaceutical Drugs: a Computer Aided Molecular Design (Camd) Approach
Arunprakash T. Karunanithi1, Luke E. K. Achenie1 and Rafiqul Gani2, (1)Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut, 191 Auditorium Road, U-3222, Storrs, CT 06269, (2)Department of Chemical Engineering, Denmark Technical University, Room no. 240, Bldg. 227,, Søltoft Plads, kgs. Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
Studies in Reaction Kinetics, Density Functional Theory, and Catalysis
Thomas A. Manz1, Kendall T. Thomson1, James M. Caruthers1, W. Nicholas Delgass1 and Mahdi Abu-Omar2, (1)School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2100, (2)Chemistry Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907
Novel Polymeric Networks for on-Chip Electrophoretic DNA Purification from Cell Lysate and High-Performance DNA Separations
Thomas N. Chiesl and Annelise E. Barron, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208
Analysis and Optimization of Cellular Networks: a Systems Approach
Rudiyanto Gunawan, University of California Santa Barbara, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080
Surface Engineering of Micro and Nanoparticles
Kenneth K. S. Lau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
Mass Transport through Polymer: from Theoretic to Experimental
Quan Liu, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Ave SE, 151 Amundson Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Composite Nanostructures: Protein and Nanoparticle Arrays Templated in Block-Copolymer Mesophases
Danilo C. Pozzo, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15123 and Lynn M. Walker, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15123
Beyond Hydrogen and Methanol - Development of Direct Ethanol PEM Fuel-Cell Systems
Kenneth W. Lux, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, 3115 Engineering Centers Building, 1550 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI 53706 and Elton J. Cairns, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 111 Gilman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
Microfluidic Systems for Colloidal Materials Processing
Saif A. Khan, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 25 Ames Street, 66-125, Cambridge, MA 02139 and Klavs F. Jensen, Chemical Engineering, MIT, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02143
Epidermal Growth Factor-Mediated Proliferation Requires Tcf/Lef Signaling
Nicholas A. Graham, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd, MC 210-41, Pasadena, CA 91125 and Anand R. Asthagiri, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd, MC 210-41, Pasadena, CA 91125
Protein Engineering by Single or Multiple Site-Specific Incorporation of Nonnatural Amino Acids in Vivo
Inchan Kwon and David A. Tirrell, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125
New Fabrication Methods of Micro/Nanodevices: Use of Wet Stamping Techniques
Christopher J. Campbell, Dept of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd/TechE136, Evanston, IL 60208
Molecularly Designed Mucoadhesive pH Responsive Tethered Biomaterials and Their Use in Spatially Controlled Therapeutic Delivery
Joshua B. Thomas, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, MC C0400, Austin, TX 78712, James W. McGinity, Division of Pharmaceutics, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, Stop A1902, Austin, TX 78712 and Nicholas A. Peppas, Department of Chemical Engineering, CPE 3.466, 1 University Station, Code C0400, Austin, TX 78712
Lipid Assemblies in Bioengineering: Model Systems to Examine Bioaccumulation, Solvent Toxicity, and Membrane Compartmentalization
Geoffrey D. Bothun, NSF-STC Environmentally Responsible Solvents & Processes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 120 Berkshire Street, Greensboro, NC 27403
Comprehensive Analysis of Metabolic Pathways through the Use of Multiple Isotopic Tracers
Maciek R. Antoniewicz, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, room 56-439, Cambridge, MA 02139, Joanne K. Kelleher, MIT, 77 Mass Ave, Room 66-401, Cambridge, MA 02139 and Gregory Stephanopoulos, Chemical Engineering, MIT, 66-264 MIT 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
Effect of Site-Isolation on the Preparation and Performance of Silica-Immobilized Cgc-Inspired Olefin Polymerization Catalysts
Michael W. McKittrick, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, ECH 111, Boulder, CO 80309-0424
Collision between a DNA Replication Fork and an RNA Polymerase Ternary Complex
Charles M. Schroeder and X. Sunney Xie, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Microfluidics for Biomolecular Studies
Michael W. Toepke, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 and Paul J. A. Kenis, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
Functionalization and Transport of Nanoparticles
Ying-Chih Liao, Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Study and Utilization of Microscale Phenomena for Operation of Microscale Devices and High-Temperature Microreactors
Michael Mitchell, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Av. C3, Urbana, IL 61801 and Paul Kenis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Av. C3, Urbana, IL 61801
Biodegradable Scaffolds in Tissue Engineering
Eric Maase, School of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, 423 Engineering North, Stillwater, OK 74078
Nanostructured Composites for Energy Generation from Renewable Hydrocarbons
Vaidyanathan Ravi Subramanian, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 600 S Mathews Street, Champaign, IL 61081, Edmund G. Seebauer, University of Illinois, Department of Chemical Engineering, 600 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61802 and Richard I. Masel, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois, 600 S. Mathews St., Urbana, IL 61801
Biomolecular Engineering from Stem Cells to Neurons
In Hong Yang, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle ECS Bldg Rm 314, Baltimore, MD 21250
Computational Studies of Activated Processes in Complex Systems
Baron Peters, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Mass. Ave. 66-021, Cambridge, MA 02139
Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Functional Polymers, Surfaces, and Interfaces
Brandon M. Vogel, Polymers Division, NIST, 100 Bureau Dr., MS 8541, Rm B314, Gaithersburg, MD 20899
Chemical Separations Based on Spatially Controlled Phase Transformations in Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Materials
Stephen M. Martin and T. Alan Hatton, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, 66-321, Cambridge, MA 02139
Systems Engineering Approaches to the Study of Nano-Scale Devices and Biological Systems
Jin Wang, Advanced Process Control, Advanced Micro Devices, 5204 E. Ben White Blvd, MS 613, Austin, TX 78741
Electrically Induced Pillar Arrays Formed Using Photocurable Materials
Michael D. Dickey and C. Grant Willson, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, 1 University Station C0400, Austin, TX 78712
Density Functional Theory Studies of Acid Catalysis & Electrocatalysis
Michael J. Janik, Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia, 102 Engineers' Way, Charlottesville, VA 22904
Advanced Integrative Approaches for Designing and Constructing Control Circuits in Synthetic Biology
Jason K. Suen, Chemical Engineering, UCLA, 5531 Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Controlled Radical Polymerization on a Chip
Tao Wu, Polymers Division, Polymers Building (224), Room B228, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8542, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 and Kathryn L. Beers, Polymers Division, NIST, 100 Bureau Dr., STOP 8542, Gaithersburg, MD 20899

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