| 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 |