INTRODUCTORY LECTURE
Self-assembly of biomolecular soft matter ....................... 9
Samuel I. Stupp, R. Helen Zha, Liam С. Palmer, Honggang Cui
and Ronit Bitton
PAPERS AND DISCUSSIONS
Ion specific effects in bundling and depolymerization of
taxol-stabilized microtubules .................................. 31
Daniel J. Needleman, Miguel A. Ojeda-Lopez, Uri Raviv,
Herbert P. Miller, Youli Li, Chaeyeon Song, Stuart
C. Feinstein, Leslie Wilson, Myung Chul Choi and Cyrus
R. Safinya
Phototriggered cargo release from virus-like assemblies ........ 47
Melanie Brasch, Ilja K. Voets, Melissa S.T. Koay and
Jeroen J.L.M. Cornelissen
Atomistic organization and characterization of tube-like
assemblies comprising peptide-polymer conjugates: computer
simulation studies ............................................. 59
Oscar Bertran, David Curcó, David Zanuy and Carlos
Alemán
Self-assembled core-shell micelles from peptide-b-polymer
molecular chimeras towards structure-activity relationships .... 83
Charlotte Drappier, Hugo Oliveira, Olivier Sandre,
Emmanuel Ibarboure, Sophie Combet, Elisabeth Garanger and
Sebastien
Lecommandoux
The influence of the kinetics of self-assembly on the
properties of dipeptide hydrogels ............................. 101
Andre Zamith Cardoso, Ana Estefania Alvarez Alvarez,
Beatrice N. Cattoz, Peter С. Griffiths, Stephen M. King,
William J. Frith and Dave J. Adams
General discussion ............................................ 117
Synthesis and self-assembly of branched glycopolypeptides:
effect of topology and conformation ........................... 137
Colin Bonduelle, Silvia Mazzaferro, Jin Huang, Olivier
Lambert, Andreas Heise and Sébastien Lecommandoux
Polymorphism in bovine serum albumin fibrils: morphology and
statistical analysis .......................................... 151
Ivan Usov, Jozef Adamcik and Raffaele Mezzenga
Lamination and spherulite-like compaction of a hormone's
native amyloid-like nanofibrils: spectroscopic insights into
key interactions .............................................. 163
Wilmar van Grondelle, Sophie Lecomte, Carmen Lopez-
lglesias, Jose-Maria Manero, Roland Cherif-Cheikh, Maite
Patemostre and Céline Valéry
Peptide nanofibres as molecular transporters: from self-
assembly to in vivo degradation ............................... 181
Mariarosa Mazza, Avnish Patel, Ramon Pons, Cyrill Bussy
and Kostas Kostarelos
From fibres to networks using self-assembling peptides ........ 195
Stephen Boothroyd, Aline F. Miller and Alberto Saiani
Electrospinning of peptide and protein fibres: approaching
the molecular scale ........................................... 209
Wiwat Nuansing, Daniela Frauchiger, Florian Huth, Amaia
Rebollo, Rainer Hillenbrand and Alexander M. Bittner
General discussion ............................................ 223
Self-assembling amphipathic alpha-helical peptides induce
the formation of active protein aggregates in vivo ............ 243
Zhanglin Lin, Bihong Zhou, Wei Wu, Lei Xing and Qing Zhao
Surface mediated L-phenylalanyl-L-phenylalanine assembly
into large dendritic structures ............................... 257
Vladimir V. Korolkov, Stephanie Allen, Clive J. Roberts
and Saul J.B. Tendler
Cell penetrating peptide amphiphile integrated liposomal
systems for enhanced delivery of anticancer drugs to tumor
cells ......................................................... 269
Melis Sardan, Murat Kilinc, Rukan Genc, Ayse B. Tekinay and
Mustafa O. Guler
Self-assembly of natural and synthetic drug amphiphiles
into discrete supramolecular nanostructures ................... 285
Lye Lin Lock, Michelle LaComb, Kelly Schwarz, Andrew
G. Cheetham, Yi-an Lin, Pengcheng Zhang and Honggang Cui
Block copolymers in giant unilamellar vesicles with proteins
or with phospholipids ......................................... 303
Regina Schöps, Elkin Amado, Sophie S. Müller, Holger
Frey and Jörg Kressler
Electrostatic interaction of heterogeneously charged
surfaces with semipermeable membranes ......................... 317
Salim R. Maduar, Vladimir Lobaskin and Olga I.
Vinogradova
General discussion ............................................ 331
Coiled-coil driven membrane fusion: zipper-like vs.
non-zipper-like peptide orientation ........................... 349
Frank Versluis, Juan Dominguez, Jens Voskuhl and
Alexander Kros
A structural study of the self-assembly of a palmitoyl
peptide amphiphile ............................................ 361
M. Nieuwland, L. Ruizendaal, A. Brinkmann, L. Kroon-
Batenburg, J.С.M. van Hest and D.W.P.M. Löwik
New RGD-peptide amphiphile mixtures containing a negatively
charged diluent ............................................... 381
Valeria Castelletto, Ricardo M. Gouveia, Che J. Connon
and Ian W. Hamley
α-Casein-PE6400 mixtures: a fluorescence study ................ 399
Anne Kessler, Orquidéa Menéndez-Aguirre, Jörg
Hinrichs, Cosima Stubenrauch and Jochen Weiss
Liposome and protein based stealth nanoparticles .............. 417
Eugénia Nogueira, Ana Loureiro, Patricia Nogueira,
Jaime Freitas, Catarina R. Almeida, Johan Härmark, Hans
Hebert, Alexandra Moreira, Alexandre M. Carmo, Ana Preto,
Andreia С. Gomes and Artur Cavaco-Paulo
General discussion ............................................ 431
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Self-assembly of biopolymers - recent progress and future
prospects ..................................................... 449
Cameron Alexander
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Poster titles ................................................. 453
List of participants .......................................... 457
Index of contributors ......................................... 459
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