Corie Ralston, Crysten Blaby-Haas
Protein engineering and genome sequencing have made significant advances in the last decade in both instrumentation and methods, and it is now possible to control pathways in organisms to produce novel biomaterials with deliberately designed characteristics. New synthetic nanoscale biomaterials represent an emerging and versatile solution to many of humanity’s current energy challenges, from carbon capture to water purification to bioplastics and biofuels. This symposium will bring together researchers who design new nanobiomaterials, as well as researchers who develop new methods for biomaterial creation and characterization, to showcase the state-of-the-art possibilities in this field, and to ignite new collaborations.
Symposium Location: B59 – 4102
Symposium Schedule:
8:30 – 9:00 am
Welcome & Introduction to New Biomaterials Workflows at Berkeley Lab
Crysten Blaby-Haas & Corie Ralston, Berkeley Lab
9:00 – 9:30 am
Diatom Frustules as Designer Bionanomaterial
Setsuko Wakao, UC Berkeley
9:30 – 10:00 am
Recombinant protein-based scaffolds: extracellular secretion, purification, and mineralization
Zahra Abdali, McGill University
10:00 – 10:30 am
Discussion and Break
10:30 – 11:00 am
On X-ray Scattering Interferometry: Analysis of Solution Small Angle X-ray Scattering Data for Structural Biology and Nanobiotechnology
Daniel Rosenberg, Berkeley Lab, MBIB
11:00 – 11:15 am
A Protein Corona-Based Design Strategy for Carbon Nanotube Optical Sensors
Rebecca Pinals, MIT Picower Institute
11:15 – 11:30 am
S Thiourea potentiates the antibacterial activity of peptoids against multidrug resistant ESKAPE pathogens
Annelise Barron, Stanford University
11:30 – 12:00 pm
Synthetic Biology for Biomaterials: Capabilities and Technologies at the Joint Genome Institute
Ian Blaby, Berkeley Lab, JGI