ICRS | The Israeli Chapter of the Controlled Release Society

09:00 – 11:05

PAT – Session 8: Polymers for agriculture

Chair: Maya Kleiman, Volcani Institute

Guy Mechrez
Institute for Postharvest and Food Science, Rishon LeZion, Israel
Pickering emulsions and janus particles for food and agriculture

Roy Posmanik¹, Ran Darzi^1,2, Yael Dubowski²
¹Newe Ya’ar Research Center, Volcani Institute, Ramat Yishai, Israel
²Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Polymer degredadation of polyethylene-terephthalate and nylon-6 in subcritical water as a novel startegy for upcycling of plastic waste

Avi Shpigelman
Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
High pressure homogenization: Principles and potential applications for the manipulation of proteins and polysaccharides

Evgeni Eltzov^1,2, Noam Alkan1
¹Department of Postharvest Science, Volcani Institute, Rishon Lezion, Israel
²Agro-Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Research Center, Volcani Institute, Rishon Lezion, Israel
Reduce food losses by developing DNA-based biosensor for a shelf-life prediction of the stored agriculture produce

Lihi Adler-Abramovich
Department of Oral Biology, The Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Designing new bioinspired 3D-nanostructure for biological applications

11:05 – 12:50

Coffee Break

11:20 – 12:50

PAT – Session 9: Natural polymers

Chair: Avi Shpigelman, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Joshua Grolman
Materials Science and Engienering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Extracellular matrix mechanics and disease states

Miriam Amiram
Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Expanding the functions and properties of protein-based polymers via unnatural amino acid incorporation

Gabriel A. Frank
Dept. of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Folding of an intrinsically disordered iron-binding peptide in response to sedimentation revealed by Cryo-EM

Neta Cohen¹, Yael Levi-Kalisman², Ronit Bitton^1,3, Rachel Yerushalmi – Rozen^1,3
¹Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
²The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and the Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
³The Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscience and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Emergent hybrid mesophases in ternary mixtures of cellulose nanocrystals – pluronic micelles -water

12:50 – 13:45

Lunch

13:45 – 13:55

ICRS – Opening Session

Marcelle Machluf, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, ICRS President

13:55 – 16:45

ICRS & PAT – Session 10: Polymers in medicine

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE 8400 HEALTH NETWORK, AND THE ISRAEL INNOVATION AUTHORITY
Chair: Avi Domb, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Robert Langer
., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Chemistry in support of human health: From the discovery of the first angiogenesis inhibitors to the development of controlled drug delivery systems and the foundation of tissue engineering (VIRTUAL)

Marcelle Machluf
Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Nano Ghost- Just a delivery system? or a therapy as well

Abraham Domb
Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Antimicrobial nanoparticles

Joseph Kost
Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Quaternized starch-based carrier for RNAi delivery applications

Nikhil Biswas¹, Meital Naim², Marina Frušić-Zlotkin1, Julie Asfour², Amit Badihi², Taher Nassar¹, Simon Benita^1,2
¹The Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
²BNS Ltd., Bionanosim (Bns), Jerusalem, Israel
How to improve safety and antitumoral activity of a new platinum (IV) compound.

Alejandro Sosnik
Materials Science and Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
New insights to target nano-drug delivery systems to the central nervous system

16:45 – 17:00

Coffee Break

17:00 – 19:05

ICRS & PAT – Session 11: Polymers in medicine #2 (Virtual)

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE 8400 HEALTH NETWORK, AND THE ISRAEL INNOVATION AUTHORITY
Chair: Joseph Kost, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Molly Stevens
Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
Designing nanomaterials for therapeutics and biosensing (VIRTUAL)

Klaus D. Jandt¹, Karl Scheuer¹, Ulrich S. Schubert²
¹Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research (OSIM), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
²Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
Stereocomplexation to tune the crystallinity of polyester nanoparticles (VIRTUAL)

Stanislaw Slomkowski¹, Damian Mickiewicz¹, Mariusz Gadzinowski1, Maciej Kasprów², Teresa Basinska¹, Barbara Trzebicka²
¹Polymer Division, Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz, Poland
²N/A, Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials, Polish Academy of Sciences, Zabrze, Poland
Polystyrene/polyglycidol copolymers and particles synthesis and properties – does the shape matter? (VIRTUAL)

Buddy Ratner
Dept. of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
The intersection between advanced polymers and kidney dialysis (VIRTUAL)

Andrea Pucci
., University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Luminescent solar concentrators from waterborne polymer films

19:00 – 20:30

Dinner

21:00 – 23:00

POSTER SESSION 2 – ICRS & PAT (beers & snacks)

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