Draft Agenda (as of May 23, 2006)

Fourth Annual Nanomedicine Workshop
June 19-20, 2006
University of Alberta, Edmonton

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Monday, June 19, 2006
08:00 - 08:45	Registration & Continental Breakfast
08:45 - 09:00	Welcome - Opening Remarks Rémi Quirion, Scientific Director, CIHR - INMHA
Session #1:	Rehabilitation Sciences: Need for Integration with Nano Chairs: Bin Hu (University of Calgary) & Serge Rossignol (Université de Montreal)
09:00 - 09:30	Bin Hu (University of Calgary) - Neural Network Rehabilitation and Parkinson's Disease
09:30 - 10:00	Ian Whishaw (Lethbridge University) - A molar structure of skilled movement: Implications for restitution of function after brain injury
10:00 - 10:30	Taylor Chomiak (University of Calgary) - Synaptic Basis of Neural Rehabilitation
10:30 - 11:15	Coffee / Health Break
11:15 - 11:45	Serge Rossignol (Université de Montreal) - New technologies to promote locomotor recovery after CNS lesions
11:45 - 12:15	Rick Hoge (Harvard/Université de Montreal) - Manipulation of magnetic resonance image contrast using iron oxide nanoparticles
12:15 - 13:30	Lunch & Poster Viewing
Session #2:	Functional Imaging & Diagnostics: Nano from Bench to Clinic Chairs: Boguslaw Tomanek (NRC, Calgary) & John Pezacki (NRC, Ottawa)
13:30 - 14:00	Garnette Sutherland (University of Calgary)
14:00 - 14:30	Phil Barber (University of Calgary)
14:30 - 15:00	John Valliant (McMaster University) - Radioimaging in Drug Discovery and Development – The development, validation and uses of new molecular imaging agents
15:00 - 15:45	Coffee / Health Break
15:45 - 16:15	Matthew Noestheden (University of Ottawa) - Novel Contrast Agents for Raman and Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy
16:15 - 16:45	Robert Ben (University of Ottawa) - C-Linked Antifreeze Glycoproteins as Potent Inhibitors of Recrystallization
16:45 - 17:15	Poster Session & Break for Dinner (not supplied)

Tuesday, June 20, 2006
08:00 - 08:30	Continental Breakfast
Session #3:	Nanoscale Assembly, Multifunctional Nanosystems, and their Integration with MicrotechnologiesChairs: Warren Chan (University of Toronto), Christopher Yip (University of Toronto) & Maryam Tabrizian (McGill University)
08:30 - 09:00	Gang Zheng (University of Pennsylvania) - Building Multifunctional Nanosystems Using Nature's Nanoassembly
09:00 - 09:30	Wolfgang Parak (University of Munich) - nanoparticle modified polymer capsules as drug delivery systems
09:30 - 10:00	Annette Hollmann (McGill University) - Visualization of quantum dot-electron donor conjugate uptake and processing by living cells
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee / Health Break
10:30 - 11:00	Jeremy Mogridge (University of Toronto) - Liposome-based inhibitors of bacterial toxins
11:00 - 11:30	David Junker (McGill University) - Flushing, writing, and printing biomolecules at micro- and nanoscales
11:30 - 13:00	Nanomedicine Group Discussion & Lunch
Session #4:	Joint Nanomedicine/Nanoforum Session
13:00 - 13:10	NanoForum Committee Opening and Introductions
13:10 - 13:30	Arthur Carty (National Science Advisor to the PM) Opening Remarks
13:30 - 13:50	Stefania Polizu (University of Western Ontario) - Shaping Carbon Nanotube Fibers Processing of Nanoscale Biomaterials and Biocompatibility
13:50 - 14:10	Claire M McCague (University of Western Ontario) - Spatially Controlled Cell Adhesion via Micropatterned Surface Roughening of Poly(dimethylsiloxane)
14:10 - 14:30	Robert Scott (University of Saskatchewan) - Towards Understanding Association and Transport of Nanoparticles in Biological Systems
14:30 - 15:30	Coffee / Poster Session
15:30 - 15:50	Keynote Speaker - TBD
15:50 - 16:10	Devika B.Chithrani (University of Toronto) - Determining the Size and Shape Dependence of Nanoparticle-Uptake into Mammalian cells
16:10 - 16:30	Lorraine Sheremeta (University of Alberta) - Responsible Stewardship of Nanotechnology in Canada: A Formula to Integrate NE3LS Issues with Nanotechnology Research and Development
16:30 - 16:50	Jocelyn Lauzon (NanoQuebec) - Nanotechnology research infrastructures in Quebec; report on their shared use by researchers and industry personnel
16:50 - 17:10	Hans Yu (Health Canada)
17:10 - 17:30	Emmanuelle Trottier (Quebec Ethics Commission) - Responsible development of nanotechnology: a perspective from Québec Commission de l éthique de la science et de la technologie
17:30 -	Wine & Cheese Reception