2015 PROGRAM

SUN-SNO-GUIDENANO Sustainable Nanotechnology Conference 2015

Wednesday, March 11, 2015
9:15 Plenary Lecture 5: Surface affinity: Applications of a functional assay for quantifying nanoparticle transport, aggregation, transformation and bioüptake in complex systems Speaker: Mark Wiesner
9:40 Discussion Panel 4: Role of Green Nanotechnology in Sustainable Nanotechnology Chair: Terry Wilkins 
10:40 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 Parallel session 5A: Safer by design products, production and processes Chair: Anna Costa
11:00 3-D Self-supported Photocatalytic Nanomats Clean Up Hydrocarbons In Water Pelagia-Irene (Perena) Gouma
11:24 Preparing Nanostructured Membranes from Benign and Naturally-occurring Reagents Idris Yazgan
11:48 NANoREG's Safe-by-Design Concept Christian Micheletti
12:12 Research in Sustainable Synthesis of Nanomaterials: An overview Barbara Karn
12:36 Safer by molecular design applied to industrial case studies Anna Costa
11:00 Parallel session 5B: Tracking NM in complex matrices Chairs: Ken Dawson, Omowunmi Sadik
11:00 Detection of engineered cerium oxide nanoparticles in soil Frank von der Kammer
11:20 Plasmonic imaging of single nanoparticles: project NANODETECTOR Vladimir Mirsky
11:40 Sensors and Nanotrackers in Complex matrices Omowunmi Sadik
12:00 Tracing and Quantitative Measurements of Inorganic Nanoparticles Amounts in Biological Tissues by Nuclear-Physical Methods Anna A. Antsiferova
12:20 the Meaning of Characterization, and Bilogical Identity Kenneth Dawson
12:36 European standardization project on detection and identification of nano-objects in complex matrices Michael Stintz
11:00 Parallel session 5C: Life cycle thinking & LCA Chair: Socorro Vázquez-Campos
11:00 Sustainable Nanoproducts through Life Cycle Thinking and Life-Cycle Assessment Michael Steinfeldt
11:30 Nanomaterials release from product´s life cycle: the GUIDEnano project Alejandro Vilchez
12:00 Probabilistic modelling of prospective environmental concentrations of Gold nanoparticles from medical applications as a basis for risk assessment Indrani Mahapatra
12:30 Silver nanoparticles biokinetics study by mathematical modelling of their transport in living organism Vyacheslav A. Demin
13:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 Plenary Lecture 6: Entropic control, Sustainable Nanotechnology at the molecular level Speaker: John Warner
14:40 Discussion Panel 5: Agriculture & Food Chair Jason White;  Melanie Kah
15:40 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 Parallel session 6A: Toxicology and human health risks Chair: Enrico Bergamaschi
16:00 Distribution and Biological Effects of Fullerene C60, Titanium Dioxide and Silver Nanoparticles after Single and Multiple Intragastrical Administrations to Rats Olga D. Hendrickson
16:24 Role of Biological Monitoring in Nano-Safety Enrico Bergamaschi
16:48 Synergistic TLR4-dependent effects of titanium dioxide nanoparticles and LPS on the activation of murine macrophages Massimiliano Bianchi
17:12 Feasibility of using in vitro toxicity studies for human risk assesment of nanomaterials Joan Cabellos
17:36 The relationship between the biological effects of Titanium Dioxide nanofibers and their aspect ratio Manfredi Allegri
16:00 Parallel session 6B: Occupational and consumer exposure Chairs: Derk Brower, Phil Demokritou
16:00 Comparing workers measured dust exposure with predicted exposures using a NF/FF model, NanoSafer, and the ART exposure assessment tools Antti J. Koivisto
16:30 Ranges in respirable and inhalable dustiness and dustiness kinetics of nanomaterial powders as determined with the prototype small rotating drum – priority parameters for exposure assessment
Keld Astrup Jensen
17:00 Nanoparticle Surface Activity: Understanding, Measuring and Integrating it into Inhalation Dosimetry Dhimiter Bello
17:30 Assessment of dermal exposure to nano-objects, and their agglomerates and aggregates (NOAA); Results from a pre-normative research project Derk Brouwer
16:00 Parallel session 6C: Environmental exposure, release & fate Chair: Geert Cornelis
16:00 Single particle ICPMS based methods for tracking environmental leaching of nanoparticles from consumer products Frank von der Kammer
16:24
Novel method to address the environmental impact of nanomaterials in the use phase: the SUN approach
Lorette Scifo
16:48 Interactive spICP-MS data treatment using Nanocount Geert Cornelis
17:12 Nanotechnology : the missing piece of the life puzzle Gilbert M. Rios
17:36 Speciation and mechanisms of nanomaterial release from nano-enabled products during their life cycle: Self-cleaning cement as building material case study Nathan Bossa