It’s the last week to register for the big event about little things, a national conference on Emerging Nanoscience Applications in Technology and Biomedicine (ENATBIO), which will take place on October 15 and 16 at WSU’s McGregor Conference Center.  WSU faculty can pre-register at the discounted rate of $100 and WSU students can pre-register at the discounted rate of $50.

The event will draw participants from academia, industry and government, with the goals of learning about how nanoscience discoveries can lead to applications in technology and biomedicine; understanding how interdisciplinary collaborations involving nanoscience can lead to unexpected but scientifically fruitful advances; and enhancing greater scientific knowledge in the emerging fields of nanotechnology and nanobiomedicine. 

Registration includes five meals and access to plenary sessions headed by four internationally regarded speakers.  Sessions will bookend the event with addressing crucial areas of nanoscience including: supramolecular assemblies; nanoparticles and nanomaterials; biomaterials and tissue engineering; and translational nanomedicine.  During and after each of the plenary sessions, oral and poster abstracts will be presented by individuals from around the country. On Monday evening there will be keynote address dinner with renowned physicist, Prof. Dr. Helmuth Mohwald, of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids located in Germany. 

The agenda includes:

Monday, October 15:

• Plenary Session I: Supramolecular Assemblies:  Guest Speaker: Dennis Discher, University of Pennsylvania, “Polymersomes and Filomicelles: Imitation of Viral Shapes for Controlled Release Drug Delivery”
• Plenary Sesesion II: Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials: Guest Speaker: Mark Saltzman, Yale University, “Nanoparticles for Delivery of Drugs, Peptides and siRNA”
• Keynote Address: Colloids and Interfaces: Guest Speaker:  Prof. Dr. Helmuth Mohwald, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, “From Interfaces to Nanoparticle/Polyelectrolyte Hybrid Capsules and Back”

 Tuesday, October 16:

• Plenary Session III: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering: Guest Speaker: Lonnie Shea, Northwestern University, “Microenvironments for Regenerative Medicine”
• Plenary Session IV: Translational Nanomedicine: Guest Speaker: Chiming Wei, Johns Hopkins University, “New Advances in Nanomedicine: From Bench to Bedside”

To register or for more information, visit http://www.research.wayne.edu/enatbio