A neutron session at the next American Vacuum Society meeting in Boston October 30 to November 4.

The symposium was held on Monday, Oct 31.

Presentations from the BioMaN 2005 Symposium are provided on the ORNL site

Leaflet:
Pages 1 - 4: (PDF, 1.095 MB)
Pages 2 - 3: (PDF, 0.246 MB)

Scope: BioMaN is aimed at introducing neutron scattering to the Biomaterials community.

Symposium Chair: Michael Grunze, University of Heidelberg.

Organizers:
Michael Grunze Universität Heilderberg.
Ian Anderson Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
J.K. Zhao Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Helmut Schober - NMI3 and Institute Laue-Langevin.

TIME	TITLE	SPEAKER	ADDRESSE	ABSTRACT
8:00-8:20	Neutron Scattering Tutorial	J.K. Zhao	Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.	(PDF 56KB)
8:20-9:00	Compositional Depth Profiles of Biomaterial Interfaces by Specular Neutron Reflection	Chuck Majkrzak	National Institute of Standards and Technology.	(PDF 71KB)
9:00-9:20	Towards a Deeper Understanding of Protein Resistance: Characterizing Water/Surface and Protein/Surface Interactions by In Situ Neutron Reflectometry	Rainer Dahint	Heidelberg University, Germany	(PDF 77KB)
9:20-10:00	Soft Interfaces on the Nanometer Scale - how neutrons contribute to a deeper understanding on the supramolecular level	Roland Steitz	Hahn Meitner Institut	(PDF 79KB)
10:00-10:20	Break
10:20-11:00	Design & Structural Characterization of Amphiphilic 4-Helix Bundle Peptides Vectorially-Oriented at Soft Interfaces	J. Kent Blasie	University of Pennsylvania, USA	(PDF 74KB)
11:00-11:40	Neutron scattering and diffraction for molecular-scale characterization of biomimetic membranes	Mathias Lösche	Johns Hopkins University.	(PDF 66KB)
11:40-1:20	Lunch
1:20-2:00	Structural Analysis of Phospholipid Membranes and Toxin Assault	Tonya Kuhl	University of California, Davis.	(PDF 64KB)
2:00-2:40	Effective Protein-Protein Interaction and Clustering Phenomenon in Solution Studied by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering	Sow-Hsin Chen	Massachusetts Institute of Technology.	(PDF 84KB)
2:40-3:20	Small-angle neutron scattering: a high resolution, non-destructive probe of biomacromolecular structure	Olwyn Byron	University of Glasgow, UK.	(PDF 59 KB)
3:20-3:40	Break
3:40-4:20	Determining the Structures of Peptides in Membranes Using Diffraction and MD Simulations.	Steve White	University of California, Irvine.	(PDF 71KB)
4:20-5:00	Exploring the collective dynamics of lipid membranes with inelastic neutron scattering	Maikel Rheinstaedter	Institute Laue-Langevin, France.	(PDF 78KB)
5:00-5:40	Meeting the future challenges in Bio-Materials Research using neutrons	Ian Anderson	Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.	(PDF 59KB)

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Integrated Infrastructure Initiative for Neutron Scattering and Muon Spectroscopy .

Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences (JINS), founded by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee (UT) to serve as intellectual centre for the neutron sciences and gateway for users of ORNL’s neutron beam facilities. 

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is an accelerator-based neutron source being built in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, by the U.S. Department of Energy.