Workshop on Membrane Science

August 17-18, 2004, APS, Argonne, Illinois

Workshop Presentations

The workshop presentations included plenary talks that highlighted overviews of the field and potential future in emerging areas of (A) Biomembranes and (B) Organic and Inorganic Membranes. All the talks addressed the objectives of the workshop relevant to specific topic, identifying newer needs for future capabilities at the APS.

Tuesday August 17 , 2004

Jin Wang (Argonne National Laboratory) - Introduction to the Workshop and Workshop Charge (Slides)

Plenary Session I

Sol Gruner (Cornell University) - Some Unanswered Questions in Membrane Science (Summary, Slides)

Peter Pintauro ( Case Western Reserve University) - Polymeric Membranes for Fuel Cells: Overview and Future Outlook (Summary, Slides)

Jeff Brinker ( University of New Mexico and Sandia Laboratory) - Self- Assembly of Biologically Inspired Complex Functional Materials (Summary, Slides)

Plenary Session II

Jin Wang (Argonne National Laboratory) - Grazing-Angle X-ray Techniques for Studying Membrane and Ultrathin Films (Slides)

Miriam Rafailovich (SUNY Stony Brook) - Producing Low Density , Porous Polymer Films Using Supercritical Fluids (Slides)

Michael Kent (Sandia) – Protein Adsorption to Lipid Membranes through Metal-Ion Chelation Studied by X-ray and Neutron Reflectivity, and Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction (Summary, Slides)

John Nagle (Carnegie Mellon) - Diffuse X-Ray Scattering Provides More and Better Information about Membranes than Traditional Diffraction Methods (Summary, Slides)

Plenary Session III

Huey W. Huang (Rice University) - Biomembrane Problems Studied by X-ray and Neutron Diffraction (Summary, Slides)

William J. Koros (Georgia Institute of Technology) - The Next Generation of Membrane Materials and Structures for Separation of Gas Mixtures with the Potential to Minimize Energy (Summary, Slides)

Deborah Leckband (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) - Molecular Design Rules for Biological Adhesion (Slides)

Michael Tsapatsis (University of Minnesota) - Molecular Sieve Membranes: Zeolite Films and Polymer-Selective-Flake Nanocomposites (Slides)

Mark Schlossman (University of Illinois Chicago) - New Methods to Study Biomolecules at Liquid Surfaces (Summary, Slides)

Wednesday August 18, 2004

Plenary Session IV

Lukas Tamm (University of Virginia) - Elastic Coupling of Membrane Protein Structure to Lipid Bilayer Forces (Slides)

Martin Caffrey (Ohio State University) - Membrane Structural Biology, Membrane Protein Structure (Slides)

Sue Pierce (NIH) - The Role of Membrane Microdomains in Immune Cell Signaling

Adam Hammond (Cornell University) - Are You In or Out: Biological Rafts and Biophysical Phases (Summary, Slides)

Plenary Session V

Robert MacDonald (Northwestern University) - X-ray diffraction in the Study of Cationic Phospholipid Derivatives: Lipoplexes, Lipid Mixtures and Bilayer Fusion (Slides)

Tobias Baumgart (Cornell University) - Coexisting Fluid Phases in Model Membranes and Biological Membranes (Summary, Slides)

KaYee Lee (University of Chicago) - Lipid Coralling and Poloxamer Squeeze-Out in Membranes (Summary, Slides)

Plenary Session: VI

Larry Scott (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago) - Lateral Organization in Lipid Bilayers: Atomistic and Coarse-Grained Simulations (Summary, Slides)

Gerard C. L. Wong (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) - Self-Assembled Complexes of Biopolymers and Charged Membranes (Summary, Slides)

Giselle Sandi-Tapia (Argonne National Laboratory) - In Situ SAXS and GISAXS Studies of Polymeric Membranes for Energy Applications (Summary, Slides)

Larry Lurio (Northern Illinois University) - Use of X-ray Coherence to Study Dynamics in Thin Films, Layered Systems and Membranes (Summary, Slides)

Plenary Session VII

Workshop Discussion and Summary - Leaders: Millie Firestone, Tom Irving, Randy Winans, Jin Wang