Workshop: Proton Solvation and Transport in Chemistry,
Biology,
and
Materials Science: 200 Years After Grotthuss
Location: Hilton Washington Dulles Airport Hotel, 13869 Park Center Road, Herndon, Virginia
Sunday, June 25
Opening Remarks: Greg Voth (University of Utah)
Dinner Lecture: Historical Perspectives on Grotthuss
Sam Cukierman (Loyola Medical Center)
On Proton Transfer, Waters, Biomolecules, or, Et Tu, Grotthuss!
Monday AM, June 26
Opening Remarks: Eric Rohlfing, Acting Director, Chemical Sciences Division, DOE-BES
Lectures: Fundamental Issues
Noam Agmon (Hebrew University, Protons in Aqueous Systems)
HB Statistics and Proton Mobility
Mark Johnson (Yale, Protonated Water Clusters)
Fundamental Aspects of Proton Accommodation by Water
Ken Jordan (Pittsburgh, Protonated Water Clusters)
Rich Saykally (U. C. Berkeley, Protons at Interfaces)
Protons - at the Liquid Water Surface
Monday PM, June 26
Lectures: Protons in Complex Materials
Tom Zawodzinski (Case Western Reserve, Proton Conducting Membranes)
Michel Dupuis (PNNL, Polymer Electrolyte Membranes)
Proton Transfer and Transport in Complex Molecular Systems: Polymer Electrolyte Membranes
Steve Creager (Clemson, Proton Conducting Membranes)
Proton Transport in Fluorosulfonimide and Fluoroalkylphosphonic Ionomer Electrolytes
David Keffer (Tennessee, Proton Conducting Membranes)
Michael Fayer (Stanford, Proton Dissociation and Water Dynamics)
Nanoscopic Water and Proton Transfer
Tuesday AM, June 27
Lectures: Protons in Bulk Phase and Biomolecules
Lawrence Pratt (LANL, Solvation of Protons)
Quasi-chemical Theory and AIMD for H+(aq), and Issues for the Physical Chemistry of H+(aq)
Jim Cowin (PNNL, Proton Transport Experiments)
Protons in Water Ice – New Tricks
Sam Cukierman (Loyola Medical Center, Biomimetic Proton Channels)
Biomimetic Proton Channels: Selectivity and Modulation of H+ Transfer by Specific Groups in a Protein and Membrane
David Silverman (Florida, PT in Enzymes)
Proton Transfer through Intervening Water in Catalysis by Carbonic Anhydrase
Greg Voth (Utah, PT in Aqueous and Biomolecular Systems)
Solvation and Transport of Excess Protons in Aqueous, Biomolecular, and Materials Systems
Tuesday PM, June 27
Lectures: Proton Transport in Biology
Tom DeCoursey (Rush Med Center, PT in Biological Proton Channels)
Biological Proton Channels with Special Emphasis on Voltage-gated Proton Channels
Lawrence Pinto (Northwestern, PT in Viral Proton Channels)
Influenza A Virus A/M2 and Influenza B Virus BM2 Proteins
Colin Wraight (UIUC, PT in Photosynthesis)
Getting Protons in – Keeping Electrons Out
Robert Gennis (UIUC, Biological Proton Pumps and Bioenergetics)
The Proton Pump of Cytochrome c Oxidase
Shelagh Ferguson-Miller (Michigan State, Biological Proton Pumps)
Proton and Water Pathways in Cytochrome c Oxidase – Role of conserved Water and Conserved Lipid
Wednesday AM, June 28
Lectures: Protons in Complex Materials (Continued)
Klaus-Dieter
Kreuer (MPI Stuttgart, Proton Conducting Materials)
From
Elementary Reactions to New Proton Conducting Materials
Lutgard
De Jonghe (UC Berkeley and LBNL, Proton Conducting Membranes)
Applied
and Basic Research for Fuel Cells for Automotive Applications
Stephen
Paddison (U. of Alabama, Proton Conducting Membranes)
Protons
in Polymer Electrolyte Membranes: Complexity, Cooperativity, and Connectivity