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  • Monday, 14 October 2013
    • 08:30 - 09:30 Registration and Administrative formalities
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 08:30 Registration and Administrative formalities 1h0'
    • 09:30 - 09:40 Welcome address
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Welcome address 10'
        Speaker: J. Niemela (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
    • 09:40 - 09:50 Opening and Introduction to Nano-Bio-Med
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:40 Opening and Introduction to Nano-Bio-Med 10'
        Speaker: S. Kale (DIAT, Pune, India) & S. Iqbal (U. Arlington, USA)
    • 09:50 - 10:50 The Use of Supercritical Fluids for the Manufacture of Nano and Biomedical Materials
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:50 The Use of Supercritical Fluids for the Manufacture of Nano and Biomedical Materials 1h0'
        Speaker: J. Darr (University College London, UK)
    • 10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:50 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:20 - 12:05 Materials for regenerative medicine, naturally inspired nanocomposites
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:20 Materials for regenerative medicine, naturally inspired nanocomposites 45'
        Speaker: F. Valle (CNR ISMN Bologna, Italy)
    • 12:05 - 12:50 New magnetic nanostructured materials: focus on biomedical applications
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:05 New magnetic nanostructured materials: focus on biomedical applications 45'
        Speaker: G. Kurlyandskaya (Basque Country University, Spain & Ural University)
        Material: Presentation
    • 12:50 - 13:00 Wrap-up Morning Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:50 Wrap-up Morning Session 10'
    • 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 13:00 Lunch break 1h30'
    • 14:30 - 15:20 Molecular interactions at the surface of colloidal biological objects: beta-Amyloids, proteins, and living cells
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Molecular interactions at the surface of colloidal biological objects: beta-Amyloids, proteins, and living cells 50'
        Speaker: H.L. Dai (Temple University, Philadelphia, USA)
    • 15:20 - 16:10 BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology: from Lab on Chip to Soft Robotics
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:20 BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology: from Lab on Chip to Soft Robotics 50'
        Speaker: G. Damhorst (University of Ilinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
    • 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 16:10 Coffee break 30'
    • 16:40 - 17:00 Contributed talk: Comparative study of label-free electrochemical immunoassay on various gold nanostructured electrode
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 16:40 Contributed talk: Comparative study of label-free electrochemical immunoassay on various gold nanostructured electrode 20'
        Speaker: S. Rafique (COMSATS, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: abstract
    • 17:00 - 17:20 Contributed talk: Synthesis of intensity visible photoemission ZnO nanoparticles for biomedical applications
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 17:00 Contributed talk: Synthesis of intensity visible photoemission ZnO nanoparticles for biomedical applications 20'
        Speaker: S. Thongmee (Kasetsart University, Thailand)
        Material: abstract
    • 17:20 - 17:40 Contributed talk: Malemide functionalized magnetites for H2O2 sensing
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 17:20 Contributed talk: Malemide functionalized magnetites for H2O2 sensing 20'
        Speaker: A. Kale (Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Girinagar, India)
        Material: abstract
    • 17:40 - 18:00 Contributed talk: The influences of spheres and rod-like shape gold nanoparticles on the fluorescence emission of bio-molecules
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 17:40 Contributed talk: The influences of spheres and rod-like shape gold nanoparticles on the fluorescence emission of bio-molecules 20'
        Speaker: S. Garabagiu (National Institute for R&D of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Romania)
        Material: abstract
    • 18:30 - 20:30 Welcome Reception
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 18:30 Welcome Reception 2h0'
  • Tuesday, 15 October 2013
    • 10:00 - 10:50 Nanomedicine Applications of Carbon Nanomaterials
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Nanomedicine Applications of Carbon Nanomaterials 50'
        Speaker: Maurizio Prato (University of Trieste, Italy)
    • 10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:50 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:20 - 12:10 Cell focal stimulation and probing by optical tweezers microscopy
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:20 Cell focal stimulation and probing by optical tweezers microscopy 50'
        Speaker: D. Cojoc (CNR-IOM, Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Presentation
    • 12:10 - 12:50 Hybrid metal-semiconductor nanomaterials for energy and bioapplications
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:10 Hybrid metal-semiconductor nanomaterials for energy and bioapplications 40'
        Speaker: V. Lughi (University of Trieste, Italy)
    • 12:50 - 13:00 Wrap-up Morning Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:50 Wrap-up Morning Session 10'
    • 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 13:00 Lunch break 1h30'
    • 14:30 - 15:20 Structure and thermodynamics of proteins from NMR-guided metadynamics
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Structure and thermodynamics of proteins from NMR-guided metadynamics 50'
        Speaker: A. Laio (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
    • 15:20 - 16:10 ICTP-CNR-IOM collaborative project: experiments in the optical manipulation of single cells
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:20 ICTP-CNR-IOM collaborative project: experiments in the optical manipulation of single cells 50'
        Speaker: J. Niemela (ICTP Trieste, Italy) (& D. Cojoc (CNR-IOM, Trieste, Italy))
    • 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 16:10 Coffee break 30'
    • 16:40 - 18:00 POSTER SESSION I
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 16:40 POSTER SESSION I 1h20'
  • Wednesday, 16 October 2013
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Engineering, Biology, & Medicine: The Abiotic-Biotic Interface at the Nanoscale
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Engineering, Biology, & Medicine: The Abiotic-Biotic Interface at the Nanoscale 1h0'
        Speaker: A. Madhukar (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
    • 10:00 - 10:50 Hybrid (complexes of natural organic extracts and inorganic materials) conjugate assemblies for drug release and therapeutics
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Hybrid (complexes of natural organic extracts and inorganic materials) conjugate assemblies for drug release and therapeutics 50'
        Speaker: S. Kale (DIAT, Pune, India)
    • 10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:50 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:20 - 11:45 Sponsored talk: In vitro and in vivo monitoring of oxygen release from decafluoropentane-containing oxygen- loaded nanobubble gel formulations: a photoacoustic approach
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:20 Sponsored talk: In vitro and in vivo monitoring of oxygen release from decafluoropentane-containing oxygen- loaded nanobubble gel formulations: a photoacoustic approach 25'
        Speaker: Mauro Prato (University of Turin, Italy)
        Material: abstract
    • 11:45 - 12:10 Sponsored talk: In vitro and in vivo monitoring of oxygen release from ultrasonophorated chitosan-shelled oxygen-loaded nanobubbles
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:45 Sponsored talk: In vitro and in vivo monitoring of oxygen release from ultrasonophorated chitosan-shelled oxygen-loaded nanobubbles 25'
        Speaker: C. Magnetto (INRIM, Torino, Italy)
        Material: abstract
    • 12:10 - 12:50 Functionalized metal nanoparticles: Synthesis, self-assembly and applications in chemical and biomedical sciences
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:10 Functionalized metal nanoparticles: Synthesis, self-assembly and applications in chemical and biomedical sciences 40'
        Speaker: I. Hussain (LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan)
    • 12:50 - 13:00 Wrap-up Morning Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:50 Wrap-up Morning Session 10'
    • 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 13:00 Lunch break 1h30'
    • 14:30 - 14:50 Contributed talk: Vanadium Oxide Nanoparticle-Based Cysteine Optical Sensor
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Contributed talk: Vanadium Oxide Nanoparticle-Based Cysteine Optical Sensor 20'
        Speaker: A.G. Bezerra-Jr (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil)
        Material: abstract
    • 14:50 - 15:10 Contributed talk: Novel antibiofilm and antileishmanial activity of AgNPs synthesized by Dioscorea Bulbifera
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:50 Contributed talk: Novel antibiofilm and antileishmanial activity of AgNPs synthesized by Dioscorea Bulbifera 20'
        Speaker: S. Ghosh (University of Pune, India)
        Material: abstract
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
    • 16:00 - 17:30 Hands-On Workshop and Lab Tours
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 16:00 Hands-On Workshop and Lab Tours 1h30'
  • Thursday, 17 October 2013
    • 09:00 - 09:50 Understanding Cancer to Cure it or Cure Cancer to Understand it?
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Understanding Cancer to Cure it or Cure Cancer to Understand it? 50'
        Speaker: G. Scoles (Princeton, USA)
    • 10:00 - 10:50 Hybrid organic-gold nanoparticles for therapy and imaging
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Hybrid organic-gold nanoparticles for therapy and imaging 50'
        Speaker: L. Pasquato (University of Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Presentation
    • 10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:50 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:20 - 12:05 Behind Enemy Lines: Learning from Cancer towards Early Diagnostics
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:20 Behind Enemy Lines: Learning from Cancer towards Early Diagnostics 45'
        Speaker: S. Iqbal (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
    • 12:05 - 12:50 Harnessing nanomaterials for biological applications
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:05 Harnessing nanomaterials for biological applications 45'
        Speaker: U. Shaheen (University of Liverpool, UK)
    • 12:50 - 13:00 Wrap-up Morning Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:50 Wrap-up Morning Session 10'
    • 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 13:00 Lunch break 1h30'
    • 14:30 - 15:10 Molecular assembly of sophorolipids: some interesting findings
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Molecular assembly of sophorolipids: some interesting findings 40'
        Speaker: A. Prabhune (National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India)
    • 15:10 - 15:30 Contributed talk: Nanotechnology: Implications in Cancer theranostics
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:10 Contributed talk: Nanotechnology: Implications in Cancer theranostics 20'
        Speaker: R. Kaul-Ghanekar (IRSHA, Bharatividyapeeth University, Pune, India)
        Material: abstract
    • 15:30 - 15:50 Contributed talk: Microfluidic devices for HCV detection and sorting of Bioparticles
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 Contributed talk: Microfluidic devices for HCV detection and sorting of Bioparticles 20'
        Speaker: M. Chaudhry (COMSATS, Islamabad, Pakistan)
    • 15:50 - 16:10 Contributed talk: Design and characterization of a conductive polymer composite based on PEDOT:PSS/PVA/EG and its use for electrogenic cells stimulation
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:50 Contributed talk: Design and characterization of a conductive polymer composite based on PEDOT:PSS/PVA/EG and its use for electrogenic cells stimulation 20'
        Speaker: J.J. Suarez (IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela)
    • 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 16:10 Coffee break 30'
    • 16:40 - 18:00 POSTER SESSION II
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 16:40 POSTER SESSION II 1h20'
  • Friday, 18 October 2013
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Role of mechanical force in health and disease: examples from synaptogenesis to cancer metastasis
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Role of mechanical force in health and disease: examples from synaptogenesis to cancer metastasis 1h0'
        Speaker: T. Saif (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
    • 10:00 - 10:50 Single cell force spectroscopy
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Single cell force spectroscopy 50'
        Speaker: M. Lazzarino (Laboratorio Nazionale T.A.S.C. - IOM-CNR, Trieste, Italy)
    • 10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:50 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:20 - 12:10 Functional DNA nanostructures on gold surfaces
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:20 Functional DNA nanostructures on gold surfaces 50'
        Speaker: L. Casalis (Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
    • 12:10 - 12:30 Contributed talk: Effect of Carbon Nanotubes on Shape memory properties of poly (L-lactide)/poly (E-caprolactone) blends
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:10 Contributed talk: Effect of Carbon Nanotubes on Shape memory properties of poly (L-lactide)/poly (E-caprolactone) blends 20'
        Speaker: M.C. Amirian (Teachers University Tehran, Iran)
        Material: abstract
    • 12:30 - 12:50 Contributed talk: Subacute toxicity of cadmium on hepatocytes and nephrocytes in the rat could be considered as a green biosynthesis of nanoparticles
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Contributed talk: Subacute toxicity of cadmium on hepatocytes and nephrocytes in the rat could be considered as a green biosynthesis of nanoparticles 20'
        Speaker: H. Abdelmelek (Carthage University, Tunisia)
        Material: abstract
    • 12:50 - 13:10 Contributed talk: Gold-­gold sulfide nanostructures for hyperthermal therapeutics
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:50 Contributed talk: Gold-­gold sulfide nanostructures for hyperthermal therapeutics 20'
        Speaker: M.A. Huergo (University of La Plata, Argentina)
        Material: abstract
    • 13:10 - 13:30 Conclusions and Remarks
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 13:10 Conclusions and Remarks 20'