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Thursday
October 26
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TIME
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SPEAKER
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TITLE
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Session
TH-I
Water:
Global Considerations
Chairs:
Mae Wan Ho and Michael Roderick
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14:00
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G.
Pollack/ T. Lowell
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Welcome
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14:15
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Clegg,
Jim
Univ.
of Calif., Davis
Bodega
Marine Lab
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Life
without water: anhydrobiosis
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14:50
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Vaida,
Veronica
Univ.
of Colorado
Dept.
of Chemistry & Biochemistry
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Water
aggregates in the Earth's contemporary and prebiotic atmosphere
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15:25
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Ling,
Gilbert
Damadian
Foundation for Basic & Cancer Research
New
York
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"Is Cell Water Merely a Solvent or an Integral Part
of Cell Protoplasm?"
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16:00
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REFRESHMENTS
ADJACENT TO MEETING ROOM
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TH-II:
Water and Ions
Chairs:
Fabio Bruni & Anders Nilsson
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16:30
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Collins,
Kim
Univ.
of Maryland
Biotechnology
Inst.
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Ions
in water: Lessons from the Hofmeister series
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17:40
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Voracek,
Pavel
Univ.
of Hradec Kralove, Czech Rep.
Dept.
of Physics
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Autothixotropy
of water: A new phenomenon
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18:15
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Reception ADJACENT TO THE MEETING ROOM
(hearty hors dčoeuvres and
beverages served)
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Friday
October 27
Session F-I
Long-range
Interactions I
Chairs:
Yolene Thomas & Vladimir Voiekov
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10:10
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Pollack,
Gerald
Univ.
of Washington
Dept.of Bioengineer.
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Long-range
water structuring at interfaces
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10:45
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REFRESHMENTS
ADJACENT TO MEETING ROOM
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11:15
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Schmidt,
Diedrich
Natl.Inst.
for Materials Science
Intl.
Ctr. for Young
Scientists
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Vibrational
modes of water near surfaces
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11:50
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Havenith,
Martina
Ruhr
Univ. Bochum
Germany
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Solute-induced
retardation of water dynamics probed directly by terahertz
spectroscopy
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12:25
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Heuberger,
Manfred
Empa/ETH
Switzerlalnd |
Pushing
the limits of direct force measurement in aqueous media:
New insights from the extended surface-force apparatus. |
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13:00
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Lunch
TOGETHER
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Session
F-II
Subtle
Interactions
Chairs:
Ivan Cameron & Igor Vodyanoy
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14:15
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Thomas,
Yolene
CNRS
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The
physical nature of the biological signal: a puzzling phenomenon
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14:50
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Spanier,
Jonathan
Drexel
University
Dept.
of Materials
Science & Eng.
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Molecular
adsorbates and ferroelectric nanostructures: a 'memorable'
combination
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15:25
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Ayrapetyan,
Sinerik
UNESCO
Chair
Life
Sciences Intl.
Postgrad
Educ. Ctr.
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The
messenger role of water-dissociation products in realization
of biological effects of weak physical and chemical signals
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| 16:00 |
REFRESHMENTS
ADJACENT TO MEETING ROOM |
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16:20
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Lobyshev,
Valentin
Moscow
State Univ.
Faculty
of Physics
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Aqueous
systems are non-equilibrium self-organizing systems sensitive
to weak external forces.
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16:55
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Khijniak,
Eugene
Russian
Academy of Science, Institute of Cell Biophysics
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Water-surface
patterns during evaporation
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DINNER
(on your own)
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19:30-
21:30
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POSTER
SESSION AT THE CONFERENCE SITE
Beverages
and Wine Served
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Saturday
October 28
Session
Sa-I
Long-range
Interactions II
Chairs:
Sinerik Ayrapetyan & Kim Collins
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09:00
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Bruni,
Fabio
Univ.
of Rome 3
Dept.
of Physics
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Electrostriction
at the microscopic level: Hofmeister' series unveiled?
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09:35
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Nilsson,
Anders
Stanford
Synchrotron
Radiation
Lab
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Hydrogen
bonding configurations in water and aqueous solutions from
X-ray spectroscopy.
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10:10
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Granick,
Steve
Univ.
of Illinois
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How
water meets solid surfaces
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10:45
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REFRESHMENTS
ADJACENT TO MEETING ROOM
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11:15
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Allen,
Heather
Ohio
State Univ.
Dept.
of Chemistry
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Water
structure at air-aqueous salt and lipid interfaces
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11:50
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Hemminger,
John
Univ.
of Calif. Irvine
Dept.
of Chemistry
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Composition
of the liquid/vapor interface of aqueous salt solutions
and the impact of organic surfactant layers
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12:25
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Lunch
together
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13:30
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Free
Time until 16:00
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Sa-II: Biology
of Water - 1 Chairs:
Jim Clegg & Dan Urry
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16:00
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Voeikov,
Vladimir
Moscow
State Univ.
Dept.
Bioorganic Chemistry
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Fundamental
role of water in bioenergetics
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16:35
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Edwards,
Glenn
Duke
University
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Taking
advantage of relaxation processes in water near biological
surfaces
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17:10
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Dyer,
Nigel
Warwick
Univ. UK
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Resonant
vibrations in HEAT repeats: the tune for the mitotic
dance
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17:45
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Tirosh,
Reuven
Bar-Ilan
University
Israel
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A
model for active streaming: novel implications for the
physics, chemistry and biology of water
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19:00
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Dinner
and Entertainment, Dalem's Chalet, West Brattleboro
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Sunday October 29
Session Su-I
Biology
of Water - 2
Chairs:
Gilbert Ling & Eugene Khijniak
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09:00
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Cameron,
Ivan
U
of Texas Health Ctr at San Antonio
Dept.
of Cellular &
Structural
Biology
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A
new centrifugal dehydration force method to characterize
water compartments in biological and non-biological systems
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09:35
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Fuxreiter,
Monika
Institute
of
Enzymology
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Hydration
fingerprint in DNA recognition
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10:10
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Roderick,
Michael
Australian
Natl Univ
Research
School of
Biological
Sciences
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Water
in wood: getting the simple things right
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10:45
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REFRESHMENTS
ADJACENT TO MEETING ROOM
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11:15
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Urry,
Dan
Univ.
of Minnesota
BioTechnology
Inst.
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Apolar-polar
competition for hydration in function of gated K-channels
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11:50
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Ho,
Mae-wan
Institute
of Science in
Society
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Water
structures and phases in biological functions
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