Volunteer to Organize a Symposium for COLL !

The Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry (COLL) encourages you to organize a symposium on any theme relevant to surface and colloid chemistry, at one of the future ACS national meetings.

If you want to organize a symposium, please send a short proposal to the Program Chair (R. Nagarajan, rxn@psu.edu). The Program Committee of the Division will act quickly to decide on the suitability of the symposium and the best meeting to schedule it.

The proposal should contain the following information (see a sample below):

Tentative title of the symposium

Proposed organizers, with complete contact information

(At least two organizers are recommended and some symposia have had three or more).

Proposed national meeting to schedule the symposium

(See list of future meetings below)

Number of half-day sessions planned

(Each session is approximately 210 minutes long and can accommodate anywhere between 6 to 10 papers depending upon the time duration assigned for presentations. The default time is 20 minutes for a talk).

Tentative listing of specific topics that would be covered by the symposium

Tentative list of possible speakers

(Include at least 20 names to ensure that a three-session symposium will be possible. Keep in mind that there will also be unsolicited contributions which will increase the size of the symposium).

Future ACS National Meetings

· 230th - Washington, DC, August 28 - September 1, 2005

· 231st - Atlanta, GA, March 26-30, 2006

· 232nd - San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006

· 233rd - Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007

· 234th - Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007

· 235th - New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008 (pending approval)

· 236th - Philadelphia, PA, August 17-21, 2008

Sample proposal

Symposium Title

“Surface Chemistry, Self Assembly and Cell Biology”

Organizers

Prof. Samuel Safran, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 76100

Tel: 972-8-934-3951; Fax: 972-8-934-4100; E-mail: sam.safran@weizmann.ac.il

Prof. Ramanathan Nagarajan, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802

Tel: (814) 863-1973; Fax: (814) 865-7846; E-mail: rxn@psu.edu

Preferred Meeting

230^th ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC, August 28 – September 1, 2005.

Number of half-day sessions planned

4 to 6

Tentative listing of topics to be covered

Actin elasticity and microrheology

Applications of surface chemical techniques to cell biology

Cell shape and adhesion

Cytoskeletal self-assembly and elasticity

DNA self-assembly and organization

DNA-membrane interactions

Giant vesicles, proteoliposomes

Elasticity and microrheology of actin networks

Membrane organization, protein-lipid interactions

Membrane rafts and phase separation in mixed membranes

Membrane fusion

Membrane-macromolecular interactions

Membrane-drug interactions

Membrane structure and solute transport

Tissue formation and cell self-assembly

List of possible speakers

Prof. Erich Sackmann, Technical University Munich, Germany

Prof. Patricia Bassereau, Institute Curie, France

Prof. Misha Kozlov, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Prof. J. Spatz, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Prof. Daan Frenkel, AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Prof. C. Safinya, UCSB (Santa Barbara

Prof. E. Kaler, U. Delaware

Prof. J. Zsadazinsky, UCSB (Santa Barbara)

Prof. W. Gelbart, UCLA

Prof. P. Janmey, U. Penn

Prof. Tonya Kuhl, UC Davis

Prof. Sarah Keller, U. Washington

Prof. Rafi Kornstein, Tel Aviv U.

Prof. D. Discher, U. Penn

Prof. M. Elbaum, Weizmann Institute

Prof. D. Weitz, Harvard

Prof. F. Macintosh, Amsterdam

Dr. L.Chernomordik (NIH)

Prof. Barry Lentz (Chapel Hill)

Prof. Huey Huang (Houston)

Prof. Dave Siegel (Ohio)

Prof. Alice P. Gast, MIT

Prof. Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University

Prof. George Whitesides, Harvard University

Prof. Doug Hammer, University of Pennsylvania

Prof. David Tirrell, Cal Tech

Prof. Milan Mirksich, University of Chicago

Prof. Paula Hammond, MIT

Prof. Andre Garcia, Georgia Tech

Prof. Charles Martin, University of Florida

Prof. Paras Prasad, SUNY Buffalo

Prof. Jennifer Hovis, Purdue University