MacroBEGE - Belgian-German (Macro)Molecular Meeting
03/12/2012
09:00Registration and Welcome Coffee
10:30Welcome of the participants
Session 1
Session Chairman
Dr Raphael RIVA
(ULG, Liège, Belgium)
10:40Functional Responsive Nanoreactors
Prof. Dr Rachel O'REILLY
(THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, Warwick, United Kingdom)
11:20New Coppertunities: Autocatalyzed Crosslinking for Next-Generation Oled-Design
Mr Daniel VOLZ
(KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Karlsruhe, Germany)
11:40A Thiolactone Approach to Extend the Realm of Thiol-Click Chemistries in Polymer Science
Ms Fabienne GOETHALS
(UGENT, Gent, Belgium)
12:00Continuous-Flow Microreactor Technology for the Synthesis of Functional Polymers
Dr Joke VANDENBERGH
(UHASSELT, Diepenbeek, Belgium)
12:30Lunch and Exhibition
Session 2
Session Chairman
Dr Pieter ESPEEL
(GHENT UNIVERSITY, Ghent, Belgium)
13:20Furan Moieties as Trojan Horses for Crosslinking, Labeling and Conjugation of Biomacromolecules
Prof. Dr Annemieke MADDER
(GHENT UNIVERSITY, Ghent, Belgium)
14:00Self-Folding of Single-Chain Polymers: Towards Synthetic Biomacromolecule Design
Dr Ozcan ALTINTAS
(KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Karlsruhe, Germany)
14:20Single-Chain Polymeric Nanoparticles: From Design to Function
Mr Patrick STALS
(EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
14:40Water-Soluble Polypeptoids
Mr Joshua ROBINSON
(MAX-PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES, Potsdam, Germany)
15:00Precision Polypeptides Derived From Native Proteins for Biomedical Applications
Ms Wu YUZHOU
(UNIVERSITY OF ULM, Ulm, Germany)
15:20Coffee Break, Poster Session I and Exhibition
Session 3
Session Chairman
Dr Hatice MUTLU
(KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany)
17:20Tailor-Made Degradable Copolymers for the Design of Advanced Drug Delivery Systems
Dr Raphael RIVA
(ULG, Liège, Belgium)
17:40Castor Oil as Starting Material for the Synthesis of Renewable Semi-Crystalline Polysters and Poly(ester-Amide)s
Mr Thomas LEBARBÉ
(UNIVERSITY BORDEAUX 1, Pessac, France)
18:00Switchable Polymer Systems for Emerging Applications
Dr Friedrich Georg SCHMIDT
(EVONIK INDUSTRIES AG, Marl, Germany)
18:30Round table discussion (guided by moderator) with selection of academics and industrials, in close interaction with all participants
20:00Conference Dinner
21:30MacroBeGe Party
The bar will be open (charged drinks) and a DJ will be playing music until late!
04/12/2012
Session 4
Session Chairman
Dr Laetitia MESPOUILLE
(UMONS, Mons, Belgium)
09:00Combating Diseases with Peptide – Synthetic Polymer Conjugates
Prof. Dr Harm-Anton KLOK
(ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE, Lausanne, Switzerland)
09:40Poly(Lactic Acid)-Graft-Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Copolymers for Bone-Grafting Applications
Ms Dorothee BORCHMANN
(NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York, NY, United States)
10:00Two Efficient Polymer-Polymer Conjugation Tools for the Post-Polymerization Modification of Acrylate Terminated Polymers
Mr Matthias WINKLER
(KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Karlsruhe, Germany)
10:20Thiol-Yne Chemistry Enabling the Preparation of Structurally Perfect Linear and Hyperbranched Polyvinylsulfides
Mr Robert PÖTZSCH
(LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FÜR POLYMERFORSCHUNG DRESDEN E.V., Dresden, Germany)
10:40Alkyne-Functionalized Wood Cellulose Fibers as Versatile Environment Friendly Precursors Toward Novel Functional Biomaterials
Mr Gino MANGIANTE
(IMP@INSA, VILLEURBANNE, France)
11:00Design of pH-Responsive Polymers and Polymersomes as Potential Cancer Vaccine Delivery Systems
Dr Anja CAR
(UNIVERSITY BASEL, Basel, Switzerland)
11:20Coffee Break, Poster Session II and Exhibition
12:10Lunch
Session 5
Session Chairman
Dr Guillaume DELAITTRE
(KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany)
13:00Robust, Efficient and Orthogonal Chemistries for the Synthesis and Functionalization of Bio-based Polymers
Prof. Dr Eric DROCKENMULLER
(UNIVERSITÉ CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1, Villeurbanne, France)
13:40Photocleabable Block Copolymers as Precursors of Responsive Nanocapsules
Dr Olivier BERTRAND
(UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
14:00Preparation of Amphiphilic Polymer Networks with Tuneable Swelling and Mechanical Properties by the Mean of efficient Coupling Reactions
Dr Laetitia MESPOUILLE
(UMONS, Mons, Belgium)
14:20Smart Polymer Surfaces by External Stimulated Responsive Switching of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers
Mrs. Daniela HELD
(PSS, Mainz, Germany)
14:40Functional Polymersomes Via Kinetic Control and Modular Approaches
Prof. Dr Jan C.M. VAN HEST
(RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
15:20Awards for Oral and Poster Presentations and Closing Ceremony
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