Thursday 26 March
18:00 - 20:00 Arrival & registration
Friday 27 March
| 8:00 - 8:55 | Registration |
| 8:55 | Opening |
1st Session: Synthesis
chairman: Donna Arndt-Jovin
| 9:00 | Susan M. Kauzlarich
Synthesis and Characterization of Manganese Doped Silicon Nanoparticles. |
| 9:45 | Wolfgang J. Parak
Biological Applications of Colloidal Nanoparticles |
| 10:30 | M. Arturo López‐Quintela
Metal clusters: Synthesis, Properties and Potential Biological Applications |
| 11:00 | Verónica Salgueiriño‐Maceira
Magnetic nanoparticles: synthesis, characterization and manipulation |
| 11:15 | Rosaria D’Amato
Recent Progress on the Preparation of Luminescent Silicon Nanoparticles for Bio‐Imaging |
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break
2nd session: Magnetic particles, bimodal particles
chairman: Thomas Jovin
| 12:00 | Bing Xu
Multifunctional Magnetic Nanoparticles: Design, Synthesis, and Biomedical Applications |
| 12:45 | Toon Evers
Magnetic biosensors : flexible and fast diagnostic technology |
| 13:30 | Enrique Carbó‐Argibay
Tuning the Shape of Gold Nanorods in Organic Media |
| 13:45 | Sabino Veintemillas‐Verdaguer
Recent Progress on the Preparation of Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Bio‐ImagingApplications |
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
3rd session: Toxicity
chairman: Ali Selman
| 15:00 | Carlos Vázquez‐Vázquez
Synthesis and characterization of nanoferrites for biomedical applications |
| 15:15 | Marcel P. Bruchez
Quantifying the long(er) term fates of quantum dots in live cells and animals |
| 16:00 | Vinod Subramaniam
Minimizing cell‐toxicity of gold nanorods using polymer treatment |
| 16:15 | Victor F. Puntes
Distribution of Engineered Inorganic Nanoparticles and Carbon Nanostructures in BiologicalSystems and Their Potential Toxicity. |
17:00 – 19:00 Posters and coffee
21:00 Official Symposium Dinner
Saturday 28 March
4th session: Multiplexing and instrumentation
chairman: Vinod Subramaniam
| 9:00 | Tatiana López del Río
Commerical nanoparticles |
| 9:15 | Paulo Peixeiro de Freitas
Spintronic biochips for biomolecular recognition detection |
| 10:00 | Thomas M. Jovin
The Programmable Array Microscope |
| 10:30 | Wouter Caarls
Arbitrary and Dynamic Patterning in a Programmable Array Microscope |
| 10:45 | Quentin S. Hanley
Nanoparticles, Quantum Dots, Fluorescing Proteins, Dyes, bDNA, and Confocal Sorbant Assays |
| 11:15 | Homanaz Ghafari
Development and optimization of confocal sandwich immunoassays |
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
5th session: Biosensors
chairman: Arturo López
| 12:00 | Brian A. Korgel
Multifunctional Nanoparticles as Contrast Agents for Biological Imaging |
| 12:45 | Roger Ekins
Miniaturised microarray‐based ligand assay: origins, concepts, theory and applications |
| 13:30 | Johannes S. Kanger
Intracellular manipulation and sensing using functionalized magnetic and gold particles |
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 17:00 Posters and coffee
6th session: Diagnostics
chairman: José Rivas
| 17:00 | Robert S. Marks
Development of immunosensors for diagnostics and environmental monitoring |
| 18:00 | Donna Arndt‐Jovin
Growth factor receptor‐Quantum Dot staining of living tumor tissue ‐ a novel approach for intraoperative identification of glioma cells |
| 18:30 | Christian Hobler
Biohybridal drug carrier systems labelled by CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots |
| 18:45 | Virginia Bouzas
First approaches for in vivo optical detection of Au nanorods |
19:00 Closing
