Bionanotechnology: from self-assembly to cell biology
Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK
3 - 5 January 2007
A Biochemical Society Focused Meeting
Proceedings (invited
speakers) will be published in Biochemical
Society Transactions.
Abstract
submission deadline: 15 October 2006
Abstract submission
is now open.
Early registration deadline: 20 November
2006
After this date, an additional ?0 will be added to the
registration fees.
Student
Travel Grants are available for this
meeting.
Nanotechnology has been widely touted as the basis
of 憈he next industrial revolution? A particular aspect of
nanotechnology is its interface with the biological sciences, which
has been dubbed 慴ionanotechnology? This emerging discipline draws on
biological inspiration and provides new tools to investigate
biological systems with unprecedented resolution and input. Despite
its impact on the biological sciences, nanotechnology has been
largely driven by the physical science and engineering and we feel
it抯 now timely to engage life scientists in this exciting and
rapidly developing area.
Scientific Programme
- Organizers
- Dek Woolfson (University of Bristol, UK)
- Tony Cass (Imperial College London, UK)
- Sponsors
- Biochemical Society Transactions
- Portland Press Limited
Self-assembly: peptides, lipids and nucleic acids
Wednesday 3 January 2007
- Cait MacPhee (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Title to be confirmed
- Christof M Niemeyer (Universitaet Dortmund, Germany)
- Semisynthetic DNA-protein conjugates: applications in Life
sciences and nanobiotechnology
- Maxim Ryadnov (University of Bristol, UK)
- Peptide helices for synthetic nanostructures
- Richard Templer (Imperial College London, UK)
- Title to be confirmed
Protein assemblies
Wednesday 3 January 2007
- Todd Yeates (Molecular Biology Institute, USA)
- Title to be confirmed
Functional materials
Thursday 4 January 2007
- Andrew Tuberfield (University of Oxford, UK)
- Title to be confirmed
- Rajesh Naik (U.S. Air Force Research Lab, USA)
- Bio-directed synthesis and assembly of nanomaterials
- Stephen Mann (University of Bristol, UK)
- Title to be confirmed
Biosensors, diagnostics and nanotoxicology
Thursday 4 January 2007
- Jeremy Lakey (University of Newcastle, UK)
- Membrane protein monolayers for self-assembling bionano
interfaces
- Teresa D Tetley (Imperial College London, UK)
- Title to be confirmed
The interface between cells and materials
Friday 5 January 2007
- Joel Schneider (University of Delaware, USA)
- Design of peptide-based materials for biomedical applications
- Jonathan W Aylott (University of Nottingham, UK)
- Delivery of nanosensors to measure the intracellular
environment
- Molly Stevens (Imperial College, London, UK)
- Title to be confirmed
- Samuel I. Stupp (Northwestern University, USA)
- Biomimetic extracellular matrices for regeneration
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