Second Annual Nanomedicine Workshop - Preliminary Agenda

February 26-27, 2004
The Metropolitan Hotel, Toronto (108 Chestnut Street)

Thursday, February 26, 2004
08:00 - 09:00 Continental Breakfast
Registration
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome – Opening Remarks
09:15 - 10:00 Keynote Address: “An Overview of Biophotonics Applications in Living Cells”
Dr. Nils Petersen, University of Western Ontario
10:00 - 10:30 Health Break and Poster Set-Up
Plenary Session
10:30 -11:00 “Watching proteins function with 150-picosecond time-resolved X-ray crystallography”
Dr. Philip A. Anfinrud, National Institutes of Health
11:00 - 11:30 “Nonlinear Biophotonics”
Dr. David Cramb, University of Calgary
11:30 - 12:00 “Molecular Switching”
Dr. Neil Branda, Simon Fraser University
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch and Poster Set-up
13:00 -13:30 Poster Session / Networking
Plenary Session
13:30 - 14:00 “Mapping protein interactions, diffusion and flux in living cells by image correlation methods”
Dr. Paul Wiseman, McGill University
14:00 - 14:30 “Technology for the future: Microsystems and nanoscience for health and the environment”
Dr. Linda Pilarski, University of Alberta
14:30 - 15:00 “Photons, Neurons, Action! Getting Microcomponents Made for Your Research” (tbc)
Dr. Dan Deptuck, Canadian Microelectronics Corporation
15:00 - 15:30 Health Break
15:30 - 16:15 Round-Table Discussion / Session Recap
16:15 Poster Session / Networking


Friday, February 27, 2004
08:00 - 09:00 Continental Breakfast
Plenary Session
09:00 -09:30 “Correlated functional imaging approaches to mapping protein-protein interactions at membrane interfaces”
Dr. Chris Yip, University of Toronto
09:30 - 10:00 “Watching enzymes move along DNA one at a time”
Dr. Thomas Perkins, JILA / University of Colorado at Boulder
10:00 - 10:30 “Quantum Dot-Bioconjugates as Efficient Energy Donors in Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Based Assays”
Dr. Hedi Mattoussi, US Naval Research Laboratory
10:30 - 10:45 Health Break
10:45 - 11:30 Round-Table Discussion / Session Recap
11:30 - 11:45 Concluding Remarks
11:45 Lunch

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