Session: Engineering Biomolecules (2008 Annual Meeting)

Friday, November 21, 2008: 8:00 AM

307-A (Pennsylvania Convention Center)

Description:

This session invites contributions on novel methods for engineering biomolecules and the applications of these in therapeutics, diagnostics, sensors, and other engineering applications. Fundamental experimental and computational studies on the structure and structure-function properties of engineered biomolecules are also welcome.

Sponsor:

Engineering Fundamentals in Life Science

Chair:

S. Patrick Walton
Email: spwalton@egr.msu.edu

CoChair:

Kaushal Rege
Email: kaushal.rege@asu.edu

8:00 AM

(729a) Petrobactin Biosynthesis: A Target for Antibiotics and a Platform for Producing Specialty Chemicals
Brian Pfleger, David Sherman, Tyler Nusca, Jaime Scaglione and Jung-Yeop Lee

8:20 AM

(729b) A Polyketide Macrolactone Synthase from the Filamentous Fungus Gibberella Zeae
Hui Zhou and Yi Tang

8:40 AM

(729c) Studying the Structural Properties of Nesprin-1α By Using Engineered Protein Fragments
Zhixia Zhong, Siwei Chang, Katherine Wilson and Kris Noel Dahl

9:00 AM

(729d) Characterization and Engineering of Peptide Binding to Class II Mhc by Yeast Co-Expression
Wei Jiang and Eric T. Boder

9:20 AM

Break

9:30 AM

(729e) Prediction of siRNA Functionality Using Sequence and Thermodynamic Properties
Charles M. Roth, Pratik Sheth, Anik Jain, Vinit Shah and Stanley M. Dunn

9:50 AM

(729f) Engineering Vectors for Dual Gene Expression from Independent Promoters for High Throughput Studies
Jun Tian and Stelios T. Andreadis

10:10 AM

(729g) Molecular Barcode-Labeled Aptamers for Biosensor Applications
Shengnan Xie and S. Patrick Walton

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