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Sunday August 14, 2005

  Welcome Reception
  Welcome and Introduction
Chairman: Lars Hagel, GE Healthcare Uppsala, Sweden
  Keynote Lecture
From system biology to molecular dynamics
William A. Goddard lll, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

Monday August 15, 2005
Session 1: Modelling of surface interactions
Session chair: Karin Caldwell, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

101 Plenary Lecture
Bacterial adhesion under flow: bonds that strengthen under force.
Viola Vogel, Biologisch-Orientierte Materialwissenschaften, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
102 A-priori prediction of protein affinity in chromatographic systems using state-of-the-art structure-property multi-scale modeling techniques,
Asif Ladiwala1, Qiong Luo2, Ting Yang1, Curt M Breneman2 and Steven M. Cramer1.
1 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA, 2 Department of Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
103 Size Distribution of Hydrophobic Patches Allows for the Selection of Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography (HIC) Media for Protein Purification.
Markus Laub, Kristin Zurlinden, Herbert P. Jennissen, Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Hufelandstr. 55, D-45122 Essen, Germany
104 On the Thermodynamics of Protein Chromatography
Jørgen M. Mollerup, Department of Chemical Engineering, DTU, Building 229, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark

Session 2: Characterisation of surface interactions
Session chair: Bo Mattiasson, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

201 Plenary Lecture
Design and characterization of novel sensing devices: From self-assembled monolayers to micro- and nanostructured hydrogels.
Bo Liedberg, Division of Molecular Physics, IFM, Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
202 Weak affinity cromatography using carbohydrate binding modules
Reine Johansson¹, Lavinia Cicortas Gunnarsson², Mats Ohlin², Sten Ohlson¹
¹ Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, University of Kalmar, Kalmar, Sweden,² Department of Immunotechnology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
203 Structure-Based Antagonism of the HIV-1 Envelope Host Cell Receptor Machine Through Conformational Entrapment by Dual Receptor Antagonists
Irwin Chaiken, Hosahudya Gopi, Karyn McFadden, Simon Cocklin and Sabine Baxter
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia PA 19102 USA
  Pierce Award Lecture
Large-scale affinity purification of protein complexes: getting functional and structural insights into cellular assemblies
Bertrand Seraphin, Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS, Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
  Discussion Forum: Weak and strong affinity interactions – pros and cons?
Chair: M.A. Vijayalakshmi, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, COMPIEGNE,
France

Tuesday August 16, 2005
Session 3: Design of affinity ligands
Session chair: Jan-Christer Janson, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

301 Plenary Lecture
Why is it so Difficult to Design Ligands that Bind to Proteins?
George M. Whiteside, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University Cambridge MA 02138, USA
302 Universal Method for Synthesis of Highly Selective Artificial Gel Antibodies against Proteins, Viruses and Cells; Some Techniques to Study the Selectivity; and Applications.
S. Hjertén1. N. Ghasemzadeh1, M.-C. Hjertén1, Á. Végvári1, I. Bacskay2, A. Kilár2, M. Rezeli2, A. Takátsy2, F. Kilár2, A. Ballagi3, A. Elfwing3, H. Cheng4, J. Sedzik4, T. Aastrup5, H. Andersson5
1Dept. of Biochemistry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; 2Inst. of Bioanalysis, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary; 3Center for Surface Biochemistry, Uppsala Univeristy, Uppsala, Sweden; 4Dept. of Biosciences at Novum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 5Attana AB, Stockholm, Sweden
303 Nano Imprint Biotechnology
Klaus Mosbach *, Lei Ye and Huiqi Zhang, Center for Molecular Imprinting Lund University, Sweden
  Young Investigator Award Presentations

Session 4: Combinatorial strategies for ligand discovery
Session chair: Mathias Uhlén, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

401 Plenary Lecture
Mimicking natural combinatorial strategies for the creation and selection of molecular diversity
Greg Winter, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge
402 Design of small organic molecule affi nity ligands
E. Carredano, A. Axén, H. Baumann, Oguz Ersoy, GE Healthcare , Uppsala, Sweden

 

403 An Artificial Protein L (PpL) for the Purification of Immunoglobulins and Fab Fragments by Affinity Chromatography
Jonathan M. Haigh1, Xiaoping Yang1, Erik Gimble2, Christopher R. Lowe1, 1Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QT, UK,
2Bioniqs Ltd. Heslington Hall, University of York, Heslington, York, UK. YO10 5DD, UK
404 Reducing protein concentration range of biological samples using combinatorial ligand libraries
E. Boschetti, L. Lomas, Ciphergen Biosystems Inc. Fremont CA, USA
  Discussion Forum: Design of affinity ligands – are there any new approaches?
Chair: Mathias Uhlén, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Wednesday August 17, 2005
Session 5: Strategies for industrial affinity purifi cations
Session chair: Lars Hagel, GE Healthcare, Uppsala, Sweden

501 Plenary Lecture
Industrial Protein Purification Process Design: Integrating the Steps from Raw Source to Final Product
Conan J. Fee, Department of Materials & Process Engineering, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand.
502 Novel high capacity and high alkaline stable protein A affinity chromatography media: characterization and engineering considerations
Rainer Hahn, Philipp Bauerhansl and Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
503 Affinity adsorption processes for food industries: need or dream?
Karin Merck, Agrotechnology and Food Innovations B.V., Bornsesteeg 59, 6708 PD, Wageningen, The Netherlands
504 Selective and specific capturing of target molecules
E. Houtzager, G. de Roo, I. Vijn, K.J. Francoijs, P. Sijmons, CatchMabs BV, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Session 6: Molecular interactions for medical applications.
Session chair: Sten Ohlson, University of Kalmar, Kalmar, Sweden

601 Plenary Lecture
Applications of Smart Polymers as protein Conjugates
Allan S. Hoff man and Patrick Stayton (and many coworkers), Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
602 Human Proteome Resource – strategies for protein discovery.
Sophia Hober, Department of Biotechnlogy, AlbaNova University Center, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
  Young Investigator Award Presentations
  Gala Dinner at Uppsala Castle

Thursday August 18, 2005
Session 6: Molecular interactions for medical applications, continued
Session chair: Sten Ohlson, University of Kalmar, Kalmar, Sweden

603 Plenary Lecture
PET, a tracer technology with many applications
B. Långström, G. Antoni, T. Kihlberg, F. Karimi, O. Rahman ,S. Estrada, O. Lindhe, H. Engler, G. Blomqvist, O. Itsenko*, J. Barletta*, I. Velikyan*,J. Eriksson, Uppsala Imanet AB, S-751 09 Uppsala, Sweden, *Dep. Org. Chem., University of Uppsala
604 Affinity Purification and Characterization of an Anti-PEG IgM
George K Ehrlich,
Hoff mann-La Roche, 340 Kingsland Street , Nutley, NJ 07110
  Jerker Porath Award Lecture

Session 7: Molecular interactions in the nano-format
Session Chair: Richard Willson, University of Huston, Huston, TX, USA

701 Plenary Lecture
Molecular assembly platform to direct bio-specifi c responses in biomaterials, biosensors and targeted drug delivery
Marcus Textor, BioInterfaceGroup, Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
702 Reversible and Directional Self-Assembly of Bio-Molecular Templates
for Nanotechnology Interconnects

Lian Wang*, Chelsea Benally*, Roberto Guzman*, Ye Yang‡, Pierre Deymier‡, Heather McLaughlin+ Ian Jongeward+ and James Hoying**.
*Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering. ‡Department of Material Science and Engineering. +Department of Pediatrics. **Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA.
703 Multi-Ligand Decorated Nanoparticles as Diagnostic Platforms
K. Fromell, A. Sahlholm, M. Andersson and K.D. Caldwell, Department of Surface Biotechnology Uppsala University, 75123 Uppsala, Sweden
  Concluding remarks
Meeting chairman
Announcement of Affinity 2007

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