Name: Sustainable Nanotechnology Conference 2015
Start: 2015-03-09T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2015-03-11T18:15:00+01:00
Location: NH Laguna Palace Hotel

Monday, March 9, 2015

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Foyer

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Plenary
9:15 AM
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Plenary
Contributions

9:15 AM Nanotechnology path to Sustainable Society - Mihail Roco (US National Science and Technology Council)
10:00 AM

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Plenary

11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Laguna Gallery 6
11:30 AM Parallel session
Parallel session
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Current state of knowledge when it comes to consumer exposure to nanomaterial embedded in a solid matrix - Aiga Mackevica (DTU Environment, Technical University of Denmark)

11:54 AM Can weathering and processing release a nanoscale transparent organic pigment from the polymer matrix of consumer products? - Nicole Neubauer (BASF SE)

12:18 PM Exposures to Nanoparticles and Fibers during Manufacturing and Recycling of Polycarbonate Carbon Nanotube composites - Dhimiter Bello (UMass Lowell, Dept. Work Environment)

12:42 PM Evaluation of nano exposure models - Wouter Fransman (TNO)

1:06 PM Inhalation exposure and dermal deposition of airborne particles during electrostatic spraying of liquid TiO2-based nanocoating - Antti J. Koivisto (National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark)
Parallel session
Parallel session
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Fish cell lines as in vitro models for ecotoxicology testing of engineered nanomaterials - Azucena Bermejo-Nogales (INIA)

11:54 AM Mechanisms underlying the enhancement of toxicity caused by coincubation of ZnO and Cu nanoparticles - Maria Luisa Frenandez-Cruz (INIA, Spain)

12:18 PM Copper nanoparticles or compounds impact agronomic and physiological parameters in cilantro (Coriandrum sativum) - Nubia Zuverza-Mena (UTEP)

12:42 PM Trophic Transfer Potential of Nanoparticles In Terrestrial Food Chains - Jason White (CT Agricultural Experiment Station)

1:06 PM The effects of nanomaterials of individual species and ecosystem service - Simon Little (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Contribution of nanotechnology and nanomaterials to increased sustainability of industrial products and processes - David G. Rickerby (European Commission Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability)

11:50 AM Brazilian scenario in sustainable nanotechnology - Rachel Horta Arduin (IPT, Brazil)

12:10 PM New framework accounting for a spatial differentiation in the calculation of characterisation factors for the toxicity potential of nanomaterials - Beatrice Salieri (EMPA)

12:30 PM Approach for Human Toxicity and Freshwater Ecotoxicity midpoints determination for their inclusion in Life Cycle Assessment of nanotechnology-based products - Socorro Vazquez-Campos (LEITAT Technological Center, Spain)

12:50 PM Precious metal recovery from nanowaste for sustainable nanotechnology: Current challenges and life cycle considerations - Peter Vikesland (Virginia Tech)

1:10 PM From laboratory to industrial scale: scale-up calculations of chemical processes for LCA - Fabio Piccinno (EMPA)
1:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Laguna Gallery 6
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: Plenary
Contributions

2:30 PM Benchmark nanomaterials and case studies to challenge the decision criteria of a ‘multiple perspective grouping framework - Wendel Wohlleben (BASF SE)
3:10 PM

3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Plenary

4:10 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Laguna Gallery 6
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Toxicity and biodistribution of surface chemically modified Ag nanoparticles - Chengfang Pang (Ca' Foscari Univeristy - Venice)

5:00 PM Nanotoxicology of cadmium sulfide quantum dots in different cellular models - Roberta Ruotolo (Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma)

5:30 PM Surface reactivity of CuO NPs is responsible for the early oxidative damages to A549 cells: a Trojan-horse independent mechanism - Elisa Moschini (University of Milano Bicocca)

6:00 PM Nanotechnologies and Sustainability in the fields of Architecture and Preservation of Cultural Heritage - Federica Fernandez (University of Palermo)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Nanomaterial Fate and Exposure Research: Where we are now and where we need to be to model environmental exposure - Greg Lowry (Carnegie Mellon University)

4:50 PM Nanomaterials in a perspective of effects on ecosystem services and ecological risk - Janeck J. Scott-Fordsmand (Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University)

5:10 PM A Dynamic Probabilistic Material Flow Modeling Method for Environmental Exposure Assessment of Engineered Nanomaterials - Nikolaus A. Bornhoft (EMPA)

5:30 PM Fate of fullerenes (C60) during peracetic acid (PAA) post disinfection of treated alum-enhanced combined sewer overflow (CSO) primary treatment - Haitam Elnakar (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering- University of Alberta)

5:50 PM Dynamic Probabilistic Modelling of Environmental Emissions of Engineered Nanomaterials - Tian Yin Sun (EMPA)

6:10 PM Implications of using inappropriate fate descriptors for engineered nanoparticles - Antonia Praetorius (University of Vienna)
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Conceptual framework for Sustainable Nanotechnologies Decision Support System (SUNDS) - Vrishali Subramanian (Ca' Foscari Univeristy, Venice)

4:54 PM LICARA - guidelines for sustainable competitiveness of nanoproducts - Claudia Som (EMPA)

5:18 PM Processing Nanoparticles in Suspension of High Solid Concentration: On-line Characterisation and Process Modelling - Ceyda Oksel (Institute of Particle Science and Engineering, School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds)

5:42 PM Broadening our view on nanomaterials: highlighting potentials to contribute to a sustainable materials management in preliminary assessments - Henning Wigger (Department of Technological Design and Development, Faculty of Production Engineering, University of Bremen)

6:06 PM Anticipatory Ethics and Governance [AEG]: a Jurisprudential approach - Karena Hester (University of Limerick)
7:30 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: Laguna Restaurant
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Foyer
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Room: Plenary
Contributions

9:00 AM Regulatory and Policy Initiatives in the US and EU - Lynn L. Bergeson (Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.)
9:40 AM

9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Plenary

10:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Laguna Gallery 6
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Breakout 1
Contributions

11:00 AM Sustainable Nanocatalysts for Fuel Cells and Splitting Water: MetalFree, HeteroatomDoped Carbons and Noble Metal Free Oxides - Tewodros Asefa (Rutgers University at New Brunswick)

11:30 AM Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Firms in Europe: A Typology - Martin Mullins (University of Limerick)

12:00 PM SANOWORK: towards a "Safety by Design" management of nanomaterials - Simona Ortelli (ISTEC-CNR, Italy)

12:30 PM Assessing the potential risks of silver nanoparticles in antimicrobial applications, using miniaturized flow field-flow fractionation and multi-angle light scattering - Valentina Marassi (University of Bologna)
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Breakout 2
Contributions

11:00 AM Ecotoxicological effects of multi walled carbon nanotubes - Yehuda Benayahu (Tel Aviv University)

11:24 AM The GUIDEnano strategy for nanomaterial environmental hazard assessment along the life cycle - Maria Diez-Ortiz (LEITAT, Spain)

11:48 AM Phytotoxicity of carbon nanotubes in soybean is associated with disturbances of zinc homeostasis - Olga Zaytseva (University of Hohenheim)

12:12 PM Accumulation of engineered nanoparticles in plant foods: Nutritional bioaccessibility and dietary exposure risks - Jason White (Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station)

12:32 PM Mechanisms of response to NMs in soil invertebrates – integrating from gene expression to organism effect and AOPs - Monica J. B. Amorim (Univeristy of Aveiro)
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Breakout 3
Contributions

11:00 AM Educational & curriculum in nanotechnology - Deb Newberry

11:24 AM The Virginia Tech Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program - Peter Vikesland (Virginia Tech)

11:48 AM Learning from nature: biomimicry in nanotechnology education - Mehlika Ayla Kiser (Catalan Institute for Water Research)

12:12 PM Nanotechnology education for secondary schools and university students: The employers perspective - Albert Duschl (University of Salzburg)

12:36 PM Empowering citizens in international governance of nanotechnologies - Ineke Malsh (Malsch TechnoValuation)
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Laguna Gallery 6
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Plenary
Contributions

2:00 PM The quest for generating robust regulatory relevant data - Tom van Teunenbroek (Tom van Teunenbroek, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, NL)
2:40 PM
2:40 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Breakout 1
Contributions

2:40 PM Waste management of ENM-containing solid waste in Europe - Laura Heggelund (Technical University of Denmark)

3:10 PM Flows of engineered nanomaterials through the recycling process in Switzerland - Alejandro Caballero Guzman (EMPA)

3:30 PM Nanoproducts: What is Actually Available to European Consumers? - Steffen Foss Hansen (Technical University of Denmark)

4:00 PM Stochastic fate analysis of engineered nanoparticles during release processes e.g. in an incineration plant - Fadri Gottschalk (ETSS. Switzerland)
2:40 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Breakout 2
Contributions

2:40 PM NanoSAR: Structure Activity Model for the Toxicity of Nanoparticles - Ceyda Oksel (University of Leeds)

3:04 PM Contribution to nanomaterials safety assessment: the need of integrating in vitro, in vivo and in silico strategies - Maria Joao Silva (National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge)

3:28 PM Development of a robust method for measuring engineered nanomaterial toxicity and uptake using Caenorhabditis elegans - Elijiah Petersen (NIST)

3:52 PM Design and Development of Surface Modification and Synthesis Strategies to Reduce Toxicity of Nanoparticles - Seda Keleştemur (Yeditepe University)

4:16 PM Development of an initial Risk Assessment strategy within the GUIDEnano project - Susan Wijnhoven (RIVM)
2:40 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Breakout 3
Contributions

2:40 PM Evaluation of titanium dioxide nanoparticle fate and heteroaggregation in natural surface waters - Danielle Slomberg (CEREGE)

3:04 PM Kinetics of Nanoparticles Release from Nanocomposites Exposed to Environmental Stresses - Li-Piin Sung (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST))

3:28 PM Environmental fate of nanopesticides and exposure assessment - Melanie Kah (University of Vienna)

3:52 PM Insights from a spatially and temporally resolved nanoparticle fate model - Gregory Lowry (Carnegie Mellon University)

4:16 PM Thermal decomposition of nano-enabled products at their end of life and EHS implications - Phil Demokritou (Harvard University)
4:40 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Laguna Gallery 6

5:00 PM

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Laguna Gallery
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Foyer
9:15 AM
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM
Contributions

9:15 AM Surface affinity: Applications of a functional assay for quantifying nanoparticle transport, aggregation, transformation and bioüptake in complex systems - Mark Wiesner (Duke University)
9:40 AM

9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Plenary

10:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Foyer
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Breakout 1
Contributions

11:00 AM Preparing Nanostructured Membranes fron Benign and Naturally-occurring Reagents - Idris Yazgan (SUNY-Binghamton)

11:30 AM NANoREG's Safe-by-Design Concept - Christian Micheletti (Venetonanotech)

12:00 PM Research in Sustainable Synthesis of Nanomaterials: An overview - Barbara Karn (SNO/ George Washington University)

12:30 PM Safer by molecular design applied to industrial case studies - Anna Luisa Costa (ISTEC - CNR)
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Breakout 2
Contributions

11:00 AM Detection of engineered cerium oxide nanoparticles in soil - Frank von der Kammer (University of Vienna)

11:20 AM Plasmonic imaging of single nanoparticles: project NANODETECTOR - Vladimir Mirsky (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg)

11:40 AM Sensors and Emerging Technologies for Tracking Nanomaterials in Complex matrices - Omowunmi Sadik (SUNY-Binghamton)

12:00 PM Tracing and Quantitative Measurements of Inorganic Nanoparticles Amounts in Biological Tissues by Nuclear-Physical Methods - Anna A. Antsiferova (National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, 123182 Russia, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technologies, Moscow, Russia)

12:20 PM The meaning of Characterization, and Biological Identity - Kenneth Dawson (Centre for BioNano Interactions, University College Dublin)

12:40 PM European standardization project on detection and identification of nano-objects in complex matrices - Michael Stintz (TU Dresden, Institute of Chemical Engineering)
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Sustainable Nanoproducts through Life Cycle Thinking and Life-Cycle Assessment - Michael Steinfeldt (Universität Bremen)

11:30 AM Nanomaterials release from product´s life cycle: the GUIDEnano project - Alejandro Vilchez (LEITAT Technological Center)

12:00 PM Probabilistic modelling of prospective environmental concentrations of Gold nanoparticles from medical applications as a basis for risk assessment - Indrani Mahapatra (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham)

12:30 PM Silver nanoparticles biokinetics study by mathematical modelling of their transport in living organism - Vyacheslav A. Demin (National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, 123182 Russia, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technologies, Moscow Russia)
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Foyer

2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 2:40 PM

2:40 PM

2:40 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Plenary

3:40 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Foyer
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Breakout 1
Contributions

4:00 PM Distribution and Biological Effects of Fullerene C60, Titanium Dioxide and Silver Nanoparticles after Single and Multiple Intragastrical Administrations to Rats - Olga D. Hendrickson (A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences)

4:24 PM Role of Biological Monitoring in Nano-Safety - Enrico Bergamaschi (University of Parma)

4:48 PM Synergistic TLR4-dependent effects of titanium dioxide nanoparticles and LPS on the activation of murine macrophages - Massimiliano Bianchi (Department of Biomedical Biotechnological and Translational Sciences, University of Parma, Italy)

5:12 PM Feasibility of using in vitro toxicity studies for human risk assessment of nanomaterials - Joan Cabellos (LEITAT Technological Center)

5:36 PM The relationship between the biological effects of Titanium Dioxide nanofibers and their aspect ratio - Manfredi Allegri (Dept. of Biomedical, Biotechnological and Translational Sciences (SBiBiT), University of Parma)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Breakout 2
Contributions

4:00 PM Comparing workers measured dust exposure with predicted exposures using a NF/FF model, NanoSafer, and the ART exposure assessment tools - Antti J. Koivisto (National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark)

4:30 PM Ranges in respirable and inhalable dustiness and dustiness kinetics of nanomaterial powders as determined with the prototype small rotating drum – priority parameters for exposure assessment - Keld A. Jensen ("National Research Centre for the Working Environment ")

5:00 PM Nanoparticle Surface Activity: Understanding, Measuring and Integrating it into Inhalation Dosimetry - Dhimiter Bello (UMass Lowell)

5:30 PM Assessment of dermal exposure to nano-objects, and their agglomerates and aggregates (NOAA); Results from a pre-normative research project - Derk Brouwer (TNO Innovation for Life)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Breakout 3
Contributions

4:00 PM Single particle ICPMS based methods for tracking environmental leaching of nanoparticles from consumer products - Frank von der Kammer (University of Vienna)

4:24 PM Novel method to address the environmental impact of nanomaterials in the use phase: the SUN approach - Lorette Scifo (CEREGE)

4:48 PM Interactive spICP-MS data treatment using Nanocount - Geert Cornelis (Gothenburg University)

5:12 PM Nanotechnology : the missing piece of the life puzzle - Gilbert M. Rios (European Memrane House (EMH))

5:36 PM Speciation and mechanisms of nanomaterial release from nano-enabled products during their life cycle: Self-cleaning cement as building material case study - Nathan Bossa (CEREGE-INERIS)
6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Plenary