Scientific Program
(Subject to changes, updated October. 7, 2009)
Sunday, October 11, 2009
| Time | Topic |
| 10:00-13:00 | Walking tour Old City I |
| 15:00-18:00 | Walking tour Old City II |
| 18:30-20:00 | Registration |
| 19:00-21:00 | Reception |
Monday, October 12, 2009
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Monday Morning Session (Plenary Lectures)
Zion Ballroom CD Chair: Jacob Klein |
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| 08:45-09:30 | Opening: representatives of ACS, IUPAC, JPS, EPF, ICS, IPPS, ICRS, Israel Academy of Sciences | |||
| 09:30-10:15 | Robert J. Aumann - PL_ Knots | |||
| 10:15-11:00 | Krzysztof Matyjaszewski - PL_ Polymers for Advanced Technologies by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization | |||
| 11:00-11:15 | Break | |||
| 11:15-11:50 | Andreas Lendlein - PL_ Shape-Memory Polymers For Biomedical Applications | |||
| 11:50-12:35 | Virgil Percec - PL_ Bioinspired Synthesis Of Complex Macromolecular Systems | |||
| 12:35-12:45 | Hebrew University Rector, Sarah Stroumsa - Welcome | |||
| 12:45-13:10 | Michael Jaffe: Menachem Lewin - Life in Science | |||
| 13:10-14:00 | Lunch Break | |||
Monday Afternoon Sessions |
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| 14:00-14:20 |
Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz, Minister of Science
Zion Ballroom CD |
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Session S1
(Nano) Chairs: Maria Wladyka-Przybylak & Yissay Manassen Zion Ballroom CD |
Session S2
(Tissue Engineering) Chairs: Gyorgy Marosi & Alexander Levitzki Zion Ballroom A |
Session S3
(Flame Retardation) Chairs: Charles Wilkie & Samuel Kenig Gallil Room |
Session S4
(Hydrogels) Chairs: Boris Rybtchinski & Hanna Dodiuk Zion Ballroom B |
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| 14:30-15:00 | Stefaan De Smedt - KN_ Coating of Nano- and Microcapsules with Poly-electrolytes: Opportunities in Pharmacy and Diagnostics? | Dietmar Hutmacher - KN_ Translation of Scaffold/Matrix Based Tissue Engineering Technology Platforms to Cancer Research | Giovanni Camino - KN_ Mechanistic Aspects Of The Nanocomposites Fire Retardant Behaviour | Ester Segal - KN_ Functional Porous Si/Hydrogel Hybrids |
| 15:00-15:30 | Andreas Greiner - KN_ Functional Hybrid Nanofiber-Based Nonwovens By Electrospinning For Novel Applications | Dror Seliktar - KN_ Hydrogel Biomaterials Made From Conjugates Of Biological And Synthetic Polymers For Tissue Regeneration, Repair, And Tissue Engineering | Serge Bourbigot - KN_ Polylactide Bionanocomposite: Processing, Characterization And Flame Retardancy | Boris Rybtchinski - KN_ Adaptive Supramolecular Polymeric Systems In Aqueous Medium |
| 15:30-16:00 | Michael Jaffe - KN_ Sugar Based Chemistries For The Polymer And Related Industries | Joseph Kennedy - KN_ A Novel Bioartificial Pancreas | Ewa Kicko-Walczak - AS_ Developments In Flame Retardancy Of Epoxy Resins By Using New Reactive, Halogen - Free Curing Agent | Michael Silverstein - KN_ Highly Porous Biodegradable And Hydrogel Polymers Through Emulsion Templating |
| 16:00-16:20 | Yissay Manassen - AS_ Nanostrcutres As Indicators Of Strain | Smadar Cohen - KN_ Instructive Biomaterials for Inducing Angiogenesis and Tissue Regeneration | David Alperstein - AS_ A Study Of Fire Retardant Blooming In Hips | Tamar Gitli - AS_ Bicontinuous Hydrogel - Hydrophobic Polymer Systems |
| 16:20-16:50 | Break | |||
| Energy, Electronics and photonics | ||||
| 16:50-17:10 | Joseph Frey - AS_ Rod-Coil Conjugated-Non-Conjugated Block Copolymers: From Self Assembly To CNT Dispersions | Rui Luìs Reis - KN_ Evolutions And Revolutions On The Engineering Of Skeletal Tissues | Alexander König - AS_ Flame Retardants For Flexible Polyurethane Foams | Anna Krzton-Maziopa - AS_ Synthesis And Electrorheological Effect Of Smart Fluids With Core-Shell Polymeric Microspheres |
| 17:10-17:30 | Luz Sánchez - AS_ Development Of Thermo-Regulating Textiles Using Paraffin Wax Microcapsules | Philippe Guegan - AS_ Synthesis Of Poly(Ethylene Oxide)-Based Star Polymers As Synthetic Pores | Yaniv Hirschsohn - AS_ Low Antimony Trioxide Flame Retardant Plastics For Electrical And Electronic Applications | Fozia Zia Haque - AS_ Chitosan Based Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (Pem) For Fuel Cell |
| 17:30-17:50 | Roy Shenhar - AS_ Hierarchical Co-Assembly Of Nanorods And Block Copolymers In Thin Films | Udi Sarig - AS_ Porcine Heart Extracellular Matrix (phECM) Exhibits Low Immunogeneicity And Supports Rat Mesenchymal Stem Cells (rMSCs) Proliferation | Pierre Georlette - AS_ New Trends And Developments In Commercial Flame Retardants | Ourida Ourahmoun - AS_ Dependence Of Fill Factor On Cathode Polymer Interface In Organic Solar Cell |
| 17:50-18:10 | Inna Gurevitch - AS_ Porous Nanocomposites From Silica Nanoparticle Pickering Emulsions | Alina Shapira - AS_ Beta-Casein Micelles As Nano-Vehicles For Oral Delivery Of Hydrophobic Chemotherapeutic Drugs | Ira Farber - AS_ Bioactive polycations | |
| 18:10-20:00 | Poster Session | |||
KN - Keynote Lecture
AS - Attending Speaker
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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Tuesday Morning Session A (Plenary Lectures)
Zion Ballroom CD Chair: Ann Christine Albertsson |
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| 08:30-09:15 | Jacob Israelachvili - PL_ Adhesion And Friction Of Smooth, Rough And Patterned Polymer Surfaces | ||||
| 09:15-10:00 | David A. Tirrell - PL_ Reprogramming Protein Translation for the Synthesis of Functional Macromolecules | ||||
| 10:00-10:20 | Break | ||||
Tuesday Morning Sessions B |
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Session S1
(Nano) Chairs: Chapal K. Das & Doron Shabat Zion Ballroom CD |
Session S2
(Biomaterials) Chairs: David A. Tirrell & Daniel Cohn Zion Ballroom A |
Session S3
(Polymer Structurs) Chairs: Seema Agarwal & Serge Bourbigot Gallil Room |
Session S4
(Fibers) Chairs: Michael Jaffe & David Ohayon Gilboa room |
Session S5
(Drug Delivery) Co: Ravi Kumar & Rosa Azhari Zion Ballroom B |
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| 10:20-10:50 | Maria Wladyka-Przybylak - KN_ Functionalisation Effect Of The Physical-Mechanical Properties Of Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotube/Epoxy | Adi Eisenberg - KN_ "Breathing" Vesicles | Ullrich Steiner - KN_ Copolymer Derived Structure Formation In Inorganic Materials | Yasuhiro Koike - KN_ Fiber-to-the-Display | Avri Rubinstein - KN_ Mucosal Targeting In The Gi Tract: From Drug Delivery To Biomedical Photonics |
| 10:50-11:20 | Stéphane Bruzaud - AS_ Elaboration Of Poly(Caprolactone)-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes By In Situ Polymerization Leading To Nanocomposite Materials For Sensing Application | Gyorgy Marosi - KN_ Biocomposites For Extrusion Technology Of Pharmaceuticals | Rigoberto Advincula - KN_ Electropolymerizable Organic And Hybrid Dendrimers: Packaging Of Nanoparticles And Electro-Optical Materials | Ryszard Kozlowski - KN_ Latest State -Of -Art In Natural Fibres Production, Processing And Applications | Dan Peer - KN_ Induction Of Therapeutic Gene Silencing In Leukocyte-Implicated Diseases By Targeted And Stabilized Nanoparticles |
| 11:20-11:30 | Break | ||||
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| 11:30-12:00 | Daniel Mandler - KN_ Nanocomposites Coatings By Electrochemical Deposition | Stanislaw Slomkowski - KN_ Functional Core-Shell Microspheres - Synthesis, Properties And Applications | Hanna Dodiuk - KN_ The Relationship Between Water Wetting And Ice Adhesion - Surface Nanostructuring For Ice Repellency | Dick Horrocks - KN_ Nanoparticle, Plasma-Activated Surface Treatments For Improving Flash Fire Resistance Of Textiles | Marcelle Machluf - KN_ Cell Derived Liposomes As A Targeted Drug-Delivery System For Cellular Pathologies |
| 12:00-12:20 | Yarden Weber - AS_ The Characterization Of A Smart Composite For Stress And Strain Sensing Based On Magnetostrictive Fillers | Roy Bar-Ziv - AS_ A DNA Brush On A Chip As A Membrane-Free Synthetic Cell | Dganit David - AS_ Porous Biodegradable Polyurethanes Through Step-Growth Polymerization Within An Emulsion | David Ohayon - AS_ The Integration Of Antimicrobials In Melt Blown Fibers | Nissim Garti - KN_ New Conjugated Hybrids Of Proteins And Hydrocolloids As Emulsifiers For Stabilization Of W/O/W Double Emulsions As Delivery Vehicles |
| 12:20-12:40 | Ran Suckeveriene - AS_ Investigation Of Hybrid Polyaniline/Cnt Nano-Composites Using An Inverse Emulsion Polymerization Technique | Gadi Sarfati - AS_ Targeting Of Melanoma Cancer With Ligand Specific Nanoparticles | Marina Sokolsky - AS_ Polyesters derived from fatty acids and their applications | Peter Schwartz - AS_ Modeling Penetration And Flow Through Fibrous Barriers | Emil Ruvinov - AS_ Affinity Binding Alginate Biomaterial For The Controlled Delivery Of Cardiovascular-Protective Factors |
| 12:50-14:00 | Lunch Break | ||||
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Tuesday Afternoon Session C (Plenary Lectures)
Zion Ballroom CD Chair: Rigoberto Advincula |
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| 14:00-14:35 | Stanislaw Penczek - PL_ Star Polymers From Oligoalcohols And Dicyclic Compounds: One Pot With Full Conversion Of Substrates | ||||
| 14:35-15:20 | Yen Wei - PL_ Electroactive Polymers And Nanostructured Materials For Biotechnology | ||||
| 15:20-16:05 | Hiroyuki Nishide - PL_ Electroactive Polymers Beyond Pai-Conjugated Molecules | ||||
| 16:05-16:20 | Break | ||||
| Tuesday Afternoon Session D | |||||
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Session S1
(Nano) Chairs: Walter Kaminsky & Sophie Duquesne Zion Ballroom CD |
Session S2
(Biopolymers) Chairs: Stanislaw Penczek & Joseph Kost Zion Ballroom A |
Session S3
(Opto - and Electro-active) Chairs: Yasuhiro Koike & Renata Reisfeld Gallil Room |
Session S4
(Drug Delivery) Chairs: Joseph Kennedy & Avri Rubinstien Zion Ballroom B |
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| 16:20-16:50 | Walter Kaminsky - KN_ Polypropylene Nanocomposites By Metallocene Catalysis | Seema Agarwal - KN_ Main Chain Polyester Based Degradable New Class Of Materials (Poly(Vinyl-Co-Ester)S By Free-Radical Polymerization | Renata Reisfeld - KN_ Interaction Of Luminescent Dyes With Nobel Metal Nanoparticles In Organic-Inorganic Glasses For Future Luminescent Materials | Yoav Livney - KN_ A Novel Arabinogalactan-Folate-Drug Conjugate For Targeted Delivery Of Anticancer Drugs To Folate-Receptor- -Overexpressing Cancer Cells | |
| 16:50-17:20 | Sixun Zheng - KN_ Nanostructured Thermosets: Preparation, Structure And Properties | Daniel Cohn - KN_ Nano And Macro-Sized "Smart" Biomedical Structures: Design And Performance | Michael Bendikov - KN_ Polyselenophenes | Ronit Satchi-Fainaro - KN_ Multivalency Of Polymer Therapeutics Used For The Integration Of Anti-Angiogenic Therapy With Chemotherapy And Targeting Moieties | |
| 17:20-17:50 | Sophie Duquesne - NK_ Reinforcing Mechanisms In Polycarbonate/CaCO3 Nano-Composites - A Molecular Dynamics Study | Samuel Kenig - KN_ Thermal Stabilization, Enhanced Processability And Properties Of Biodegradable Polymers | Fahrettin Yakuphanoglu - AS_ Electrical Characterization With Atomic Force Microscopy And Low Temperature Transport Of The Boric Acid Doped Semiconductor Polyaniline | Ravi Kumar - KN_ Nanomedicines: The Potential Of Biodegradable Nanoparticles For Peroral Delivery Of Poorly Soluble Drugs | |
| 17:50-18:10 | Maya Davidovich-Pinhas - AS_ Evaluating The Mucoadhesive Properties Of Drug Delivery Systems Based On Hydrated Thiolated Alginate | Avi Domb - AS_ Biodegradable polymers derived from amino acids | Fahrettin Yakuphanoglu - AS_ Polymer Organic Semiconductors In Modern Electronic Device Applications | Wahid Khan - AS_ Preparation, Characterization, In Vitro And In Vivo Evaluation Of Paromomycin Sulphate Loaded Albumin Microspheres For Visceral Leishmaniasis | |
| Tuesday Evening Event | |||||
| 20:00 |
Gala Dinner (including Hora Jerusalem ensemble performing Israeli folk dances)
Zion Ballroom CD |
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KN - Keynote Lecture
AS - Attending Speaker
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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Morning Session A (Plenary Lectures)
Zion Ballroom CD Chair: Hiroyuki Nishide |
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| 08:30-09:15 | Jang-Kyo Kim - PL_ Dispersion And Functionalization Of Carbon Materials For Polymer Nanocomposites | |||
| 09:15-10:00 | Jacob Klein - PL_ Polyzwitterionic Brushes: The Limits Of Lubrication | |||
| 10:00-10:20 | Break | |||
| Wednesday Morning Session B | ||||
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Session S1
(Nano) Chairs: Jang-Kyo Kim & Miriam Rafailovich Zion Ballroom CD |
Session S2
(Composites) Chairs: Adi Eisenberg & Gad Marom Zion Ballroom A |
Session S3
(Patents) Chairs: Eyal Bressler Gallil Room |
Session S4
(Sensors) Chairs: Bill Daly & Jo Demeester Zion Ballroom B |
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| 10:20-10:50 | Miriam Rafailovich - KN_ Nanocomposites--Surface And Interfacial Phenomena | Chapal K. Das - KN_ Hi-Tech Polymeric Composites | Eyal Bressler - KN_ The Current Role Of Polymers In Medical Devices: An Ip Perspective | Yoav Eichen - KN_ Electrical And Optical Detection Of Nucleophiles And Electrophiles |
| 10:50-11:20 | Karl I. Jacob - KN_ Influence Of Interface On Mechanical Properties Of Nanocomposites | Jianming Zhang - AS_ Disorder-To-Order Phase Transition And Multiple Melting Behavior Of Poly(L-Lactide) And Its Copolymer | Paul Fenster - KN_ Patents 2009 | Ehud Keinan - KN_ Switchable Fluorescent Cucurbituril Beacons As Quantitative Chemical Sensors |
| 11:20-11:30 | Break | |||
| Applications | Instrumentation and Characterization
Chair: Yaron Paz |
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| 11:30-12:00 | Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen - KN_ Interfacial Engineering Of Carbon Nanotubes Using Block Copolymers | Edward Bormashenkoo - AS_ Switchable Reversible Wetting Of Poyarylsulfone Films Exposed To UV Irradiation | Yaron Paz - KN_ Blind Source Separation Techniques And Their Application In Separating The Signatures Of Materials From Their Mixtures | Levi A. Gheber - AS_ Molecularly Imprinted Polymers As Arrayed Nanosensors |
| 12:00-12:20 | Estelle Kalfon-Cohen - AS_ Drawn Monofilaments Of Liquid Crystalline Polymer-Carbon Nanoparticles Composites | Jalindar Totre - AS_ Cyanoacrylate Polymers | Adrian Hill - AS_ Understanding The Link Between Rheology, Particle Size & Zeta Potential | Nava Shpaisman - AS_ Anomalous Polymer Particles Of Narrow Size Distribution Prepared By Insertion And Evaporation Of Fe(Co)5 From Uniform Polystyrene Template Microspheres |
| 12:20-12:40 | Grady Nunnery - AS_ Adsorption Of Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) To Concave Alumina Nanostructures | Alisa Buchman - AS_ Development Of Self-Healing Epoxy Adhesives | Mark Pothercary - AS_ Quadruple Detector Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC) for Advanced Characterization of Biopharmaceutical Macromolecules | Basudam Adhikari - AS_ Development Of Novel Polymeric Sensors For Taste Sensing |
| 12:40-14:00 | Lunch Break | |||
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Wednesday Afternoon Session C (Plenary Lectures)
Zion Ballroom CD Chair: Ehud Keinan |
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| 14:00-14:45 | Charles Wilkie - PL_ The Utility Of Nanocomposites In Fire Retardancy | |||
| 14:45-15:15 | Ann Christine Albertsson - PL_ Covalent Immobilization On The Surface Of Resorbable Biomaterials | |||
| 15:15-15:45 | Alexander Levitzki - PL_ Targeting The Innate Immune System To Cancer Cells | |||
| 15:45-16:10 | Break | |||
| Wednesday Afternoon Sessions D | ||||
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Session S1
(Nano) Chairs: Karl I. Jacob & Shlomo Margel Zion Ballroom CD |
Session S2
(Drug Delivery) Chairs: Neeraj Kumar & Yehezkel Barenholz Zion Ballroom A |
Session S3
(Composites) Chairs: Witold Brostow & Michael Gozin Zion Ballroom B |
Session S4
(Polymer Synthesis) Chairs: Stanislaw Slomkowski & Jean Paul Lellouche Gallil Room |
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| 16:10-16:40 | Gaetano Guerra - KN_ Polymer Co-Crystalline And Nanoporous Phases | Yechezkel Barenholz - KN_ Combination Of Use Of Lipopolymers And Novel Drug Loading Methods Open New Avenues In Liposomes Medical Applications | Witold Brostow - KN_ Brittleness Of Materials: From Mechanics To Tribology | Bill Daly - KN_ Synthesis And Solution Organization Of Polyamides From Ethyl Acetalated Aldarates |
| 16:40-17:10 | Efrat Lifshitz - KN_ Semiconductor Nanoparticles And Their Composites For Opto-Electronics And Biological Applications | Neeraj Kumar - KN_ Polymersomes As Drug Delivery Systems | Aleksei Pozdnyakov - AS_ Thermal And Decomposition Studies Of Polymers And Their Composites | Melani Omer-Mizrahi - AS_ Spherical and Hemispherical Polyepoxide Micrometer-Sized Particles of Narrow Size Distribution: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications |
| 17:10-17:30 | Roland Weidisch - AS_ Tensile Properties And Deformation Behaviour Of Superleastic Polymers | Gershon Golomb - KN_ Modulation Of The Innate Immunity By Nanoparticles | Noa Cohen - AS_ Sulfonated Porous Polymer Nanocomposites Containing Carbon Nanotubes | Evgenia Vaganova - AS_ Control Of The Long-Lived Triplet State Formation In Poly (4-Vinyl Pyridine)/Pyridine Gel |
| 17:30-17:50 | Roberta Sulcis - AS_ PET Nanocomposites Films and Bottles for Packaging Applications: Process and Characterization | Akhilesh Vikram Singh - AS_ Synthesis And Application Of Carboxymethyl Moth Bean Starch As Novel Biomaterial In Pharmaceuticals | Maria Omastova - AS_ Electrical Properties Of Polypropylene/Carbon Nanotubes Nanocomposites | Yuval Vidavsky - AS_ A Latent S-Chelated Ruthenium Benzylidene Initiator For Romp |
| 17:50-18:10 | Michael Gozin - AS_ Mucins' Complexes with PAHs and Nanomaterials | Ayelet David - AS_ Polymer-Peptide-Drug Conjugates For Targeting Tumor Vascular Endothelium | Vivek Patel - AS_ Mechanical Properties And Thermal Degradation Study Of Lldpe/ Starch Blend Nanocomposites | Moshe Kol - AS_ Heterotactic Polymerization Of Rac-Lactide By Group 4 Complexes Of Phenylene Diamine Bis(Phenolate) Ligands: A New Facet Of An Old Ligand |
| 18:15 | Closing remarks - Avi Domb Zion Ballroom CD | |||
KN - Keynote Lecture
AS - Attending Speaker