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US/Japan Workshop

October 24th, 2012

Rackham Graduate School
West Conference Room on the Fourth Floor

Committee is Anish Tuteja and Kenichi Kuroda
Featuring rising stars in research

Young talented professors from NAIST and U-M will be presenting.

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Macro/NAIST Joint Workshop for Emerging Researchers, October 24, 2012

8:30-9:00 On Site Registration West Conference Room Rackham Graduate School, Fourth Floor

9:00-9:15 Opening by Macro Director, Richard M. Laine and By Organizer Professor Anish Tuteja University of Michigan

9:15-10:00 Associate Professor Tsuyoshi Ando

Graduate School of Materials Science Nara Institute of Science and Technology

"Postpolymerization Derivation of Poly(Pentafluorophenyl Methacrylate) toward Polymer Library"

10:00-10:45 Professor Anish Tuteja Materials Science and Engineering

Macromolecular Science and Engineering University of Michigan

"TBA"

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:00 Associate Professor Takuya Nakashima

Graduate School of Materials Science Nara Institute of Science and Technology

"Highly Efficient Photochromic Molecular Materials"

12:00-1:25 p.m. Lunch Buffet, East Conference Room, Rackham Graduate School Take Lunch to Student Lectures, West Conference Room

12:25-12:45 Norie Inukai, Graduate Student Nara Institute of Science and Technology "Two different binding state of DNA and carbazole ligand in a multistep assembly"

12:45-1:05 Macro Graduate Student University of Michigan

1:05-1:25 Masayasu Totani, Graduate Student Nara Institute of Science and Technology

"Inhibition of Biofilm Formation by Heteroarm Star Polymer Coatings"

1:25-1:30 Opening Afternoon Session by Organizer Nara Institute of Science and Technology Assistant Professor Kazuma Yasuhara

1:30-2:15 Assistant Professor Anne McNeil

Chemistry Department

Macromolecular Science and Engineering University of Michigan

"Synthesizing Pi-conjugated copolymers with sequence control using Ni catalysis"

2:15-2:30 Coffee Break

2:30-3:15 Assistant Professor Kazuma Yasuhara

Graduate School of Materials Science Nara Institute of Science and Technology

"Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Vesicle as Semipermeable Nano-capsule"

3:15-4:00 Assistant Professor Brandon T. Ruotolo

Department of Chemistry University of Michigan

"Developing Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry Approaches for Structural Proteomics"

4:00 Closing and Sayonara Assistant Professor Kazuma Yasuhara

Graduate School of Materials Science Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Macromolecular Science & Engineering 36^th Annual Symposium

October 25th, 2012
Rackham Graduate School, Amphitheater

Committee is Timothy F. Scott and Joerg Lahann
With usual banquet on 25th at Michigan League

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NO fees for lectures for any faculty or students from any Universities. $500 fee for lectures for non-university guests.

NO fees for evening banquet for only Macro faculty and Macro students and other students presenting posters at Symposium. $50 fee for others.

"Synthesis and Structure: Synthesis, Assembly, Informational Polymers"

Macromolecular Science and Engineering

University of Michigan
Rackham Graduate School 4th Floor

8:30 a.m. On Site Registration 4th Floor Rackham

9:00 to 9:15 Opening by Director Richard M. Laine and College of Engineering Representative

9:15 -10:00 Professor Dan Luo
Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering
Cornell University
"Engineering DNA as an Innovative Macromolecule/Polymer"

10:00-10:30 Poster Session and Coffee Break

10:30-11:15 Professor Ronald Zuckermann
The Molecular Foundry
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Faculty Director, Biological Nanostructures Facility
"Protein Mimicry with Bioinspired Peptoid Polymers"

11:15-12:00 Professor Jean-Francois Lutz
Research Director, Precision Macromolecular Chemistry
Campus of Cronenbourg, France
Institut Charles Sadron
"Sequence-controlled Polymers: Where do we stand? Where do we go?"

12:00-1:30 Lunch (Speakers and Committee to Sava on State St.)

1:30-2:15 Professor M. Reza Ghadiri
The Scripps Research Institute
Department of Chemistry
"Designer Lipoprotein-Mimetic Nanoparticles as Potential Anti-Atherosclerotic Therapeutics"

2:15-3:00 Professor Insung S. Choi
Director, Center for Cell-Encapsulation Research (Creative Research Initiative)
Department of Chemistry, KAIST
Affiliated Professor, Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
"Artificial Spores: Cytocompatible Encapsulation of Individual Living-Cells"

3:00-4:00 Poster Session and Coffee Break

4:00-4:45 Professor Zhan Chen
University of Michigan
Chemistry Department and Macromolecular Science and Engineering
"Molecular Structures of Polymers and Biological Molecules at Buried Interfaces"

Committee: Professors Tim F. Scott and Joerg Lahann
Director: Professor Richard M. Laine
734-763-2316, nonna@umich.edu

Previous Events

Macro's Annual Picnic Noon, Sep. 8, 2012

[May 16-18, 2012]

US-JapanWorkshop on Advances in Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials

A bilateral workshop to discuss advances in the design, synthesis, development, implementation, and characterization of hybrid materials