Frontiers of Nanotechnology & Biotechnology:
Integration and Invention

21th Annual International Symposium
Center for Study of Gene Structure & Function
Hunter College, City University of New York

Friday - January 18th, 2008
Room 714 Hunter West Building,
68th Street & Lexington Avenue, New York City

Morning Session 9:00am

Hiroshi Matsui
City University of New York, Hunter College
Integrating Biotechnology and Nanotechnology to Lead the Frontiers of Sciences and Engineering

Christine Ortiz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nanomechanics of Musculoskeletal and Exoskeletal Tissues

Tejal Desai
University of California,San Francisco
Nanostructured Interfaces for Therapeutic Delivery

Chad Mirkin
Keynote Speaker
Northwestern University
The Oligonucleotide Nanoparticle Conjugate and the “Antisense Nanoparticle”

Afternoon Session 2:00pm

Tadashi Matsunaga
Keynote Speaker
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Novel Nano-Biomaterial via Biomineralization

Jeffrey Schloss
The National Human Genome Research Institute
Nanotechnology Research at the National Institutes of Health
 
Derek Lovley
University of Massachusetts
Contribution of Microbial Nanowires and Nano-Capacitors to Microbial Electricity Generation

Morley Stone
Air Force Research Lab /DARPA
Bionanotechnology: an Air Force and DoD Perspective

This event is free and open to the public.
Online registration is strongly recommended.
Enter student poster session contest – cash prizes for the 3 best posters.
Submit abstracts on the symposium website:
http://genecenter.hunter.cuny.edu/GS2008

Deadline to register posters is 12/31/2007

 

Supported by the Research Centers in Minority Institutions Program of the National Center
for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health, grant number G12 RR-03037.
The Center for Study of Gene Structure and Function, Hunter College, CUNY
is a major partner with the Clinical Translational Science Center (CTSC).

Contact:

symposium08@genectr.hunter.cuny.edu

Tel.: 212-772-4204    Fax.: 212-772-4109