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Phantoms Foundation
  International congress & exhibition on nanobiotechnology     Programme

Tentative Program - NanoBioEurope2008
 
Week Schedule
Monday, 09/05
Tuesday, 10/05
Wednesday, 11/05
Thursday, 12/05
Friday, 13/05

Monday - June 09, 2008
11h00-13h00
Registration
 
14h30-14h45
Opening Ceremony
 
14h45-15h30
Opening Lecture
Renzo Tomellini (EU / NMP, Belgium)
"Opportunities in FP7 and the European Technology Platform NanoMedicine"
Chairman:
15h30-16h00
Albert Folch (University of Washington (Dept. of Bioengineering), USA)
"Neurobiology on a chip"
16h00-16h30
Francois Rossi (European Commission JRC, Italy)
"Role of interface engineering in NanoBiotechnologies"
16h30-17h00
Jaume Veciana (ICMAB / CSIC, Spain)
"Nanostructuring molecular materials as particles and vesicles using dense gas technologies for drug delivery"
17h00-17h30
Costas Kiparissides (CERTH, Greece)
"Nanotechnology Advances in Controlled Drug Delivery Systems"
17h30-18h00
Coffee Break – Poster Session & Instrument Exhibition
Chairman:
18h00-18h30
M.-Pilar Marco (IIQAB-CSIC, Spain)
"Immunosensors: Novel Diagnostic Tools based on Bio-Hybrid Materials"
18h30-18h45
Daniel Ramos (CSIC/Bionanomechanics, Spain)
"Biological detection based on the thermomechanical noise of a nanomechanical resonator: origin of the response and detection limits"
18h45-19h00
Xavier Fernandez-Busquets (IBEC, Spain)
"Application of single molecule force spectroscopy to the study of proteoglycan structure-function relationship"
19h00-19h30
Lars Montelius (Lund University, Sweden)
"Nanomechanics at work : Biosensing, molecular motors and life science applications"
 
20h30
Welcome Reception

Tuesday - June 10, 2008
 
Chairman:
09h00-09h30
Fernando Palacio (ICMA-CSIC, Spain)

"Magnetic bioferrofluids with tailored properties for biomedical applications"

09h30-09h45
Isabel Garcia Martin (CICbiomaGUNE & CIBER-BBN, Spain)
"Biofunctional Magnetic Nanoparticles for labelling stem cells"
09h45-10h15
Carles Arus (UAB/CIBER-BBN, Spain)
"Endogenous contrast approach for MRS-based molecular imaging of brain tumours"
10h15-10h30
Manuel Perez Perez (Atos Origin, Spain)
"Lab-on-chip based protein profiling for Cancer Diagnosis"
10h30-11h00
Yukio Nagasaki (Tsukuba University, Japan)
"pH-responsive Nanogel for Biomaging, Diagnostics and Therapy"
11h00-12h00
Coffee Break – Poster Session & Instrument Exhibition
Chairman:
12h00-12h30
Dietmar Pum (Center for Nanobiotechnology - BOKU, Austria)
"Biological Functionalization of Surfaces with S-layer Protein Lattices"
12h30-13h00
Kostas Kostarelos (University of London - Nanomedicine Lab, UK)
"Carbon Nanotube Cellular Interaction, Binding & Internalization: A Case of ‘Nanosyringe’?" 
13h00-13h15
Hong Xie (Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore)
"Non-Fouling PEDOT for Controlled Cell Adhesion"
13h15-13h30
Marco Marradi (CIC biomaGUNE/CIBER-BBN, Spain)
"Gold Glyconanoparticles as Potential Microbicides and as Contrast Agents in MRI"
13h30-15h00
Lunch
15h00-17h00
Parallel Session 1: PhD students (more info)
Parallel Session 2: Nanobio and Nanomedicine Initiatives (more info)
17h30-20h00
Poster Session / Coffee Break & Instrument Exhibition

Wednesday - June 11, 2008
 
Chairman:
09h00-09h30
Tomonubo Nakayama (Japan)

"Nanoscale physical and chemical probes for cell odyssey"

09h30-10h00
Maria Garcia-Parajo (IBEC, Spain)
"Optical nanotools to investigate the spatio-temporal organization of the cell membrane at the nm scale"
10h00-10h15
Nuria Forns (Universidad de Barcelona, Spain)
"Force kinetics of designed dna hairpins with intermediate and misfolded states investigated using optical tweezers"
10h15-10h30
Ricardo Arias (IMDEA Nanociencia, Spain)
"Mechanical stability of ethanol-induced A-DNA"
10h30-11h00
Coffee Break – Poster Session & Instrument Exhibition
Parallel Sessions
11h00-13h30
Parallel Session 1: CIBER-BBN (more info)
Parallel Session 2: EU projects + CENIT (more info)
FREE AFTERNOON
 
21h00
Conference Dinner

Thursday - June 12, 2008
 
Chairman:
11h15-11h45
Emilio Artacho (Cambridge University, UK)
"On the description of wet, bio and nano systems with linear-scaling density-functional theory"
11h45-12h15
Juan Jose Saenz (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
"Energy Dissipation due to Capillary Interactions:Hydrophobicity Maps in Force Microscopy"
12h15-12h30
Montserrat Calleja (CSIC/Bionanomechanics, Spain)
"Label-free detection of DNA hybridization based on hydration induced tension in nucleic acid films"
12h30-12h45
Monica Luna (IMM / CSIC, Spain)
"Non-contact dynamic AFM and opto-magnetic detection of intermolecular interactions"
12h45-13h00
Pedro J. de Pablo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
"Action of capillary forces of water confined at the nano-scale during desiccation of viruses"
13h00-13h30
Kenneth Dawson (School of Chemistry / UCD, Ireland)
"BionanoInteractions-A Rational Approach to the Interaction Between Nanoscale Materials and Living Matter?"
13h30-15h00
Lunch
Chairman:
15h00-15h30
Soledad Penades (CIC biomaGUNE, Spain)
"Glyconanoparticles: multifunctional nanomaterials for biomedical applications"
15h30-15h45
Nadia Jessel (INSERM, France)
"Nanostructured active biomaterials for tissue engineering applications"
15h45-16h00
Celine Desvaux (NRC, Canada)
"Gold coated FeCo nanoparticles with tailored functionalized surface for biological applications."
16h00-16h15
Philippe Lavalle (INSERM UMR-S 595, Biomaterials, France)
"Mechanically responding functionalized polyelectrolyte multilayer films"
16h15-16h30
Kefeng Ren (University Montpellier II, France)
"Skeletal muscle cells adhesion and differentiation on polyelectrolyte multilayer films of controlled stiffness"
16h30-16h45
Audrey Hertz(University of Kent, United Kingdom)
"Control of ordered/disordered porous structures in SiO2 monoliths and SiO2/TiO2 composites for applications in bone tissue engineering"
16h45-17h00
Junko Takahashi (National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science & Techn, Japan)
"Effect of a Porphyrin Compound on Cultured Cells under X-ray Exposure"
17h00-17h30
Katharina Fromm (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
"New Anti-Microbial Coatings for Biomaterials"
17h30-19h00
Poster Session / Refreshments & Instrument Exhibition
 
19h00-21h00
Reception – Poster Session & Instrument Exhibition

Friday - June 13, 2008
Chairman:
09h00-09h30
Christophe Vieu (LAAS / CNRS, France)
"Soft lithography a useful method for biology and medicine?"
09h30-09h45
Ana Ruiz (Joint Research Center. European Commission, Italy)
"Fabrication of nanostructured micro arrays by combining nanoimprint-assisted microcontact stripping and colloidal lithography techniques"
09h45-10h00
Alvaro Mata (Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine, United States)
"Integrating Bottom-up and Top-down Fabrication: A Hierarchical Approach to Biomimetic Environments for Stem Cell Manipulation"
10h00-10h15
Eric Defrancq (University J. Fourier Grenoble 1, France)
"Novel Inorganic Hybrid Nanostructures of Controlled Dimensionality by Self-Assembling of DNA Functionalized Metal Complexes"
10h15-10h30
Simone Herth (Bielefeld University, Germany)
"Manipulation of biological filaments with electric fields"
10h30-11h30
Coffee Break – Poster Session & Instrument Exhibition
Chairman:
11h30-12h00
Martin Bennink (University of Twente, Netherlands)
"Micromechanical bending and stretching of single collagen fibrils using AFM"
12h00-12h15
Gerald Kada (Agilent Technologies, Austria)
"Advances of atomic force microscopy in bio-nanotechnology"
12h15-12h30
Ben Lich (FEI electron Optics BV, Netherlands)
"Advances in Serial block face DualBeam electron microscopy for the exploration of cortical circuits"
12h30-12h45
Jani Kivioja (VTT, Finland)
"Electrical Transport Through Self Assembled Hydrophobin Protein Monolayer"
12h45-13h00
Tzvetelina Tzvetkova-Chevolleau (LTM-CNRS, France)
"Control of cell morphodynamic and displacement orientation by precise tuning between substrate nanopatterning and rigidity"
13h00-13h30
Federico Rosei (INRS-EMT / Univ. du Quebec, Canada)
"Surface Nanopatterning to Control Cell Growth"
13h30-13h45
Concluding Remarks / NanoBioEurope2009 announcement

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