2015 PROGRAM

SUN-SNO-GUIDENANO Sustainable Nanotechnology Conference 2015

Tuesday, March 10, 2015  
9:00 Plenary Lecture 3: Regulatory and Policy Initiatives in the US and EU Speaker: Lynn L. Bergeson
9:40 Discussion Panel 3: Testing strategies to evaluate nanomaterials safety Teresa Fernandes, Janeck Scott
Fordsmand, Lang Tran, Danail Hristozov
10:40 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 3A Safer by design products, production and processes Chair: Carlos Fito
11:00 Sustainable Nanocatalysts for Fuel Cells and Splitting  Water: Metal­Free, Heteroatom­Doped Carbons and Noble Metal­Free  Oxides Tewodros  (Teddy)  Asefa
11:30 Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Firms in Europe: A Typology Anthony Carroll
12:00 SANOWORK: towards a "Safety by Design" management of nanomaterials Simona Ortelli
12:30 Assessing the potential risks of silver nanoparticles in antimicrobial applications, using miniaturized flow field-flow fractionation and multi-angle light scattering Valentina Marassi
11:00 Parallel session 3B: Ecotoxicology, effects on ecosystem services & ecological risks Chairs: Janeck Scott-Fordsmand, Elijah Petersen
11:00 Ecotoxicological effects of multi walled carbon nanotubes Yehuda Benayahu
11:24 The GUIDEnano strategy for nanomaterial environmental hazard assessment along the life cycle María Diez
11:48 Phytotoxicity of carbon nanotubes in soybean is associated with disturbances of zinc homeostasis Olga Zaytseva
12:12 Accumulation of engineered nanoparticles in plant foods: Nutritional bioaccessibility and dietary exposure risks Stephen D. Ebbs
12:36 Mechanisms of response to NMs in soil invertebrates – integrating from gene expression to organism effect and AOPs Mónica J.B. Amorim
11:00 Parallel session 3C: Educational & curriculum in nanotechnology Chairs: Victor Puntes, Peter Vikesland 
11:00 Educational & curriculum in nanotechnology Deb Newberry
11:24 The Virginia Tech Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program Peter Vikesland
11:48 Learning from nature: biomimicry in nanotechnology education


Mehlika Ayla Kiser
12:12 Nanotechnology education for secondary schools and university students: The employers perspective Albert Duschl
12:36 Empowering citizens in international governance of nanotechnologies Ineke Malsch
13:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 Plenary Lecture 4: Benchmark nanomaterials and case studies to challenge the decision criteria of a ‘multiple perspective grouping framework’ Speaker: Wendel Wohlleben
14:40 Parallel session 4A: Recycling & Waste Management Chair: Steffen Foss Hansen
14:40 Waste management of ENM-containing solid waste in Europe Laura Heggelund
15:10 Flows of engineered nanomaterials through the recycling process in Switzerland Alejandro Caballero Guzman
15:40 Nanoproducts: What is Actually Available to European Consumers? Steffen Foss Hansen
16:10 Stochastic fate analysis of engineered nanoparticles during release processes, e.g. in an incineration plant Fadri Gottschalk
14:40 Parallel session 4B: Toxicology and human health risks Chair: Flemming Cassee
14:40 NanoSAR: Structure Activity Model for the Toxicity of Nanoparticles Ceyda Oksel
15:04 Contribution to nanomaterials safety assessment: the need of integrating in vitro, in vivo and in silico strategies Maria João Silva
15:28 Development of a robust method for measuring engineered nanomaterial toxicity and uptake using Caenorhabditis elegans
Elijah Petersen
15:52 Design and Development of Surface Modification and Synthesis Strategies to Reduce Toxicity of Nanoparticles Seda Keleştemur
16:16 Development of an initial Risk Assessment strategy within the GUIDEnano project Susan Wijnhoven
14:40 Parallel session  4C: Environmental Release, Fate and Exposure Chair: Socorro Vazquez-Campos
14:40 Evaluation of titanium dioxide nanoparticle fate and heteroaggregation in natural surface waters Danielle Slomberg
15:04 Kinetics of Nanoparticles Release from Nanocomposites Exposed to Environmental Stresses Li-Piin Sung
15:28 Environmental fate of nanopesticides and exposure assessment Melanie Kah
15:52 Insights from a spatially and temporally resolved nanoparticle fate model Greg Lowry
16:16 Thermal decomposition of nano-enabled products at their end of life and EHS implications Phil Demokritou
16:40 COFFEE BREAK
17:00 Reception and Posters