2006 – SPEAKERS

Clegg, Jim

Affiliation

Univ. of Calif., Davis Bodega Marine Lab

Tentative Title of Talk

Life without water: anhydrobiosis

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Vaida, Veronica

Affiliation

Univ. of Colorado
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Tentative Title of Talk

Water aggregates in the Earth’s contemporary and prebiotic atmosphere

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Ling, Gilbert

Affiliation

Damadian Foundation for Basic & Cancer Research

New York

Tentative Title of Talk

“Is Cell Water Merely a Solvent or an Integral Part of Cell Protoplasm?”

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Collins, Kim

Affiliation

Univ. of Maryland

Biotechnology Inst.

Tentative Title of Talk

Ions in water: Lessons from the Hofmeister series

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Voracek, Pavel

Affiliation

Univ. of Hradec Kralove, Czech Rep.

Dept. of Physics

Tentative Title of Talk

Autothixotropy of water: A new phenomenon

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Pollack, Gerald

Affiliation

Univ. of Washington

Dept.of Bioengineer.

Tentative Title of Talk

Long-range water structuring at interfaces

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Schmidt, Diedrich

Affiliation

Natl.Inst. for Materials Science

Intl. Ctr. for Young

Scientists

Tentative Title of Talk

Vibrational modes of water near surfaces

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Havenith, Martina

Affiliation

Ruhr Univ. Bochum

Germany

Tentative Title of Talk

Solute-induced retardation of water dynamics probed directly by terahertz spectroscopy

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Heuberger, Manfred

Affiliation

Empa/ETH

Switzerlalnd

Tentative Title of Talk

Pushing the limits of direct force measurement in aqueous media: New insights from the extended surface-force apparatus.

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Thomas, Yolene

Affiliation

CNRS

Tentative Title of Talk

The physical nature of the biological signal: a puzzling phenomenon

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Spanier, Jonathan

Affiliation

Drexel University

Dept. of Materials

Science & Eng.

Tentative Title of Talk

Molecular adsorbates and ferroelectric nanostructures: a ‘memorable’ combination

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Ayrapetyan, Sinerik

Affiliation

UNESCO Chair

Life Sciences Intl.

Postgrad Educ. Ctr.

Tentative Title of Talk

The messenger role of water-dissociation products in realization of biological effects of weak physical and chemical signals

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Lobyshev, Valentin

Affiliation

Moscow State Univ.

Faculty of Physics

Tentative Title of Talk

Aqueous systems are non-equilibrium self-organizing systems sensitive to weak external forces.

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Khijniak, Eugene

Affiliation

Russian Academy of Science, Institute of Cell Biophysics

Tentative Title of Talk

Water-surface patterns during evaporation

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Bruni, Fabio

Affiliation

Univ. of Rome 3

Dept. of Physics

Tentative Title of Talk

Electrostriction at the microscopic level: Hofmeister’ series unveiled?

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Nilsson, Anders

Affiliation

Stanford Synchrotron

Radiation Lab

Tentative Title of Talk

Hydrogen bonding configurations in water and aqueous solutions from X-ray spectroscopy.

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Granick, Steve

Affiliation

Univ. of Illinois

Tentative Title of Talk

How water meets solid surfaces

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Allen, Heather

Affiliation

Ohio State Univ.

Dept. of Chemistry

Tentative Title of Talk

Water structure at air-aqueous salt and lipid interfaces

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Hemminger, John

Affiliation

Univ. of Calif. Irvine

Dept. of Chemistry

Tentative Title of Talk

Composition of the liquid/vapor interface of aqueous salt solutions and the impact of organic surfactant layers

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Voeikov, Vladimir

Affiliation

Moscow State Univ.

Dept. Bioorganic Chemistry

Tentative Title of Talk

Fundamental role of water in bioenergetics

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Edwards, Glenn

Affiliation

Duke University

Tentative Title of Talk

Taking advantage of relaxation processes in water near biological surfaces

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Dyer, Nigel

Affiliation

Warwick Univ. UK

Tentative Title of Talk

Resonant vibrations in HEAT repeats: the tune for the mitotic dance

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Tirosh, Reuven

Affiliation

Bar-Ilan University

Israel

Tentative Title of Talk

A model for active streaming: novel implications for the physics, chemistry and biology of water

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Cameron, Ivan

Affiliation

U of Texas Health Ctr at San Antonio

Dept. of Cellular &

Structural Biology

Tentative Title of Talk

A new centrifugal dehydration force method to characterize water compartments in biological and non-biological systems

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Fuxreiter, Monika

Affiliation

Institute of

Enzymology

Tentative Title of Talk

Hydration fingerprint in DNA recognition

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Roderick, Michael

Affiliation

Australian Natl Univ

Research School of

Biological Sciences

Tentative Title of Talk

Water in wood: getting the simple things right

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Urry, Dan

Affiliation

Univ. of Minnesota

BioTechnology Inst.

Tentative Title of Talk

Apolar-polar competition for hydration in function of gated K-channels

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Ho, Mae-wan

Affiliation

Institute of Science in

Society

Tentative Title of Talk

Water structures and phases in biological functions

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