TUESDAY 14th OCTOBER
Oral presentations: 15 min (10 + 5min discussion)

Session 3 
Chairman:
Dr. M.L.Gonzalez-Martin, Departamento de Física, Universidad de Extremadura, SPAIN

9:00

Plenary Talk:

Professor Dr. Buddy D. Ratner
Director, University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB), Washington Research Foundation Endowed Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, USA.

10:00

BISTABLE ADSORBED STATES OF MOLECULES ON SOLIDS
 A.A.TSYGANENKO V.A.Fock Institute of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, 198504 St.Petersburg, RUSSIA E-mail: tsyg@photonics.phys.spbu.ru C.OTERO AREÁN Departamento de Química, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, SPAIN. E-mail: dqueep0@clust.uib.es

10:15

MOLECULAR FORCES AND MORPHOLOGY OF ADSORBED POLY(L-LYSINE)-POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOLE) COPOLYMER
 T. DROBEK, M. HEUBERGER, N. D. SPENCER Laboratory for surface science and technology, ETH Zürich, Sonneggstr.5, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland. E-mail: tanja.drobek@mat.ethz.ch

10:30

EFFECTS OF ELECTRIC FIELDS AND VOLUME FRACTION ON THE RHEOLOGY OF HEMATITE/SILICONE OIL SUSPENSIONS
 M. J. ESPIN AND A. V. DELGADO Department of Applied Physics, University of Granada, Avda. de Fuentenueva s/n, 18071 Granada, SPAIN. E-mail: avdelgado@ugr.es J. E. MARTIN Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New México. 87185-1421. USA E-mail: jmartin@samdia.gov

10:45

ADSORPTION AND POLYMER FILM FORMATION ON METAL NANOCLUSTERS
 ERICA TADD, ASTRA ZENO, MELISSA ZUBRIS, AND RINA TANNENBAUM School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, U.S.A. E-mail: rina.tannenbaum@mse.gatech.edu NILY DAN Department of Chemical Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A.

11:00

NOVEL PEEK-WC MEMBRANES WITH LOW PLASMA PROTEIN AFFINITY RELATED TO SURFACE FREE ENERGY PARAMETERS
 L. DE BARTOLO, A. GUGLIUZZA, S. MORELLI, B. CIRILLO, A. GORDANO AND E. DRIOLI Research Institute on Membrane Technology, Research National Council, ITM-CNR, c/o University of Calabria, via P. Bucci cubo 17/C, 87030 Rende (CS) ITALY E-mail:l.debartolo@itm.cnr.it

11:15

HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC SILICA INTERPARTICLE ACTION IN ALCOHOLS
 WIESLAW WÓJCIK, BRONISLAW JANCZUK AND ANNA ZDZIENNICKA Department of Interfacial Phenomena, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Maria Curie-Sklodowska Sq. 3, 20-031 Lublin, Poland Wiesiek@hermes.umcs.lublin.pl

11:30

POSTER SESSION, COFFE BREAK AND COMMERCIAL EXHIBITION

13:00
A NEW IMAGE PROCESSING APPROACH FOR AXISYMMETRIC DROP SHAPE ANALYSIS
 M. G. CABEZAS AND J.M. MONTANERO
Department of Electronic and Electro-mechanical Engineering, University of Extremadura, Avda. de Elvas s/n, 06071 Badajoz, SPAIN.
A. BATENI AND A.W. NEUMANN
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King’s College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8, CANADA.
E-mail: neumann@mie.utoronto.ca
 

13:15
INTERACTION OF S-HISTIDINE, AN AMINO ACID, WITH COPPER AND GOLD SURFACES, A COMBINED EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL APPROACH.
 E. MATEO MARTI, CH. METHIVIER, P. DUBOT AND C.M. PRADIER. Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Surfaces, CNRS (UMR 7045) – Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France. e-mail : claire-marie-pradier@enscp.jussieu.fr
13:30
MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS OF GROWING SURFACES
 AJAY CHAUDHARI, CHING-CHER SANDERS YAN and SHYI-LONG LEE* Department of Chemistry National Chung-Cheng University Ming-Hsiung, Chia-Yi – 621, Taiwan E-mail : CHESLL@CCUNIX.CCU.EDU.TW
13:45
STRUCTURAL COEFFICIENT AND INTERACTION ENERGY IN AGGREGATES OF PROTEIN COATED COLLOIDAL PARTICLES
 MARÍA TIRADO-MIRANDA Department of Physics, University of Extremadura, Escuela Universitaria Politécnica, E-10080 Cáceres, SPAIN ARTUR SCHMITT AND JOSÉ CALLEJAS-FERNÁNDEZ Department of Applied Physics, University of Granada, E-18071 Granada, SPAIN E-mail: jcalleja@ugr.es ANTONIO FERNÁNDEZ-BARBERO Department of Applied Physics, University of Almería, E-04120 Almería, SPAIN
14:00

END OF SESSION

 

Session 4 
Chairman:
Dr. BRONISLAW JANCZUK, Department of Interfacial Phenomena, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, , POLAND

16:00
USING LOCAL SURFACE CHARGES FOR THE FABRICATION OF PROTEIN PATTERNS
 N. NAUJOKS AND A. STEMMER Nanotechnology Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Tannenstrasse 3, CH-8092 Zurich, SWITZERLAND. E-mail: naujoks@nano.mavt.ethz.ch
16:15
Immobilisation of proteins onto reactive polypyrrole-coated polystyrene latex particles
 Smain BOUSALEM1, Mohamed M. CHEHIMI1*, Claire MANGENEY1, Teresa BASINSKA2 and Stanislaw SLOMKOWSKI2 1Interfaces, Traitements, Organisation et Dynamique des Systèmes (ITODYS), Université Paris 7, CNRS (UMR 7086), 1 rue Guy de la Brosse, 75005 Paris (France) 2Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, 90-363 Lódz (Poland) correspondence : chehimi@paris7.jussieu.fr
16:30
BIOPHYSICAL DEVICE FOR THE TREATMENT OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES
 IGNACIO MONTIEL Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Departamento de equipos y sistemas. Ctra. de Ajalvir Km. 4, Torrejón 28850 , Madrid, SPAIN. e-mail: montielsi@inta.es JOSÉ LUIS BARDASANO Universidad de Alcalá (UA), Medical Specialities Department, Alcalá de Henares, 28871, Madrid, SPAIN, e-mail: Joseluis.Bardasano@uah.es JOSÉ LUIS RAMOS Fundación Europea de Bioelectromagnetismo (FEB). C. / Maldonado 13. 28006 Madrid. SPAIN.
16:45
RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION ON HEART-EQUIVALENT PHANTOM. FUNCTIONALITY TESTING OF PERCUTANEOUS SINGLE-USE CATHETER.
 FRANCESCO TESSAROLO, PAOLO FERRARI, RENZO ANTOLINI, GIANDOMENICO NOLLO Department of Physics, University of Trento, 38050 Povo, Trento, ITALY. E-mail: tessaro@science.unitn.it
17:00
 EFFECTS OF STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS ON PRIMARY CORTICAL NEURONS
 A. PRINA MELLO A,B, P.J. PRENDERGAST A, J.M.D. COEY B, E. FARREL A, V. CAMPBELL A,C A Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, Trinity College, Dublin 2, IRELAND. B SFI Trinity Nanoscience Laboratory, Trinity College, Dublin 2, IRELAND C Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin 2, IRELAND E-mail: prinamea@tcd.ie
17:15
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY IN STUDIES ON SOLID-STATE PROTEIN DENATURATION
 L.KUBISZ Department of Biophysics, University of Medical Sciences in Poznan, Fredry 10, 61-701 Poznan, Poland E-mail: kubisz@main.amu.edu.pl
17:30

POSTER SESSION  AND COMMERCIAL EXHIBITION

19:00
BIOCOLLOIDAL PROPERTIES OF MICROBIAL CELLS IN CYANIDE SOLUTIONS
 ZOYA ULBERG, VALENTINA PODOLSKA AND LYUDMILA YAKUBENKO F. Ovcharenko Institute for Biocolloidal Chemistry NAS of Ukraine, 42 Vernadsky blvd., 03142 Kyiv, UKRAINE. E-mail: zulberg@bioco.kiev.ua NIKOLAI PERTSOV Russian Research Centre for Molecular Diagnostics and Therapy, 8 Simpheropolsky blvd., 113149 Moscow, RUSSIA
19:15
MODELING THE GROWTH OF MULTICELLULAR TUMOR SPHEROIDS: ROLE OF STIFFNESS, CELLULAR ADHESION AND PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH
 MICHELE GRIFFA AND MARCO SCALERANDI National Institute for the Physics of Matter(INFM), Research Unity of Turin-Polytechnic Department of Physics, Polytechnic of Turin Duca degli Abruzzi avenue, 24, 10129 Turin (Italy) E – mail: michele.griffa@poste.it marco.scalerandi@infm.polito.it
19:30

PREVENTING THE BACTERIAL COLONISATION OF SURFACES: THE LOW-SURFACE-ENERGY APPROACH
JOHN TSIBOUKLIS AND THOMAS G. NEVELL, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2DT, United Kingdom.

19:45
MECHANICAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE FOUR CHAMBERS IN THE INTACT HEART: MODEL ANALYSIS
 M. GUERRISI Medical Physics Unit, Department of Biopathology and Diagnostic Imaging, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, via Montpellier 1, 00133 Rome, ITALY. E-mail: guerrisi@med.uniroma2.it G. BUNKHEILA Department of Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, P.le A. Moro, 00100 Rome, ITALY.
20:00 END OF SESSION
 

POSTERS SESSION 3+4