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

Sustainable Nanotechnology Conference 2015

from Monday, 9 March 2015 (08:30) to Wednesday, 11 March 2015 (18:15)

Monday, 9 March 2015

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: Foyer

09:00

09:00 - 09:15
Room: Plenary
09:15
09:15 - 10:00
Room: Plenary
Contributions

09:15 Nanotechnology path to Sustainable Society - Mihail Roco (US National Science and Technology Council)
10:00

10:00 - 11:00
Room: Plenary

11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Laguna Gallery 6
11:30 Parallel session
Parallel session
11:30 - 13:30
Contributions

11:30 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 Can weathering and processing release a nanoscale transparent organic pigment from the polymer matrix of consumer products? - Nicole Neubauer (BASF SE)

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

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

13:06 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 - 13:30
Contributions

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

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

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

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

13:06 The effects of nanomaterials of individual species and ecosystem service - Simon Little (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)
11:30 - 13:30
Contributions

11:30 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 Brazilian scenario in sustainable nanotechnology - Rachel Horta Arduin (IPT, Brazil)

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

12:30 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 Precious metal recovery from nanowaste for sustainable nanotechnology: Current challenges and life cycle considerations - Peter Vikesland (Virginia Tech)

13:10 From laboratory to industrial scale: scale-up calculations of chemical processes for LCA - Fabio Piccinno (EMPA)
13:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30
Room: Laguna Gallery 6
14:30
14:30 - 15:10
Room: Plenary
Contributions

14:30 Benchmark nanomaterials and case studies to challenge the decision criteria of a ‘multiple perspective grouping framework - Wendel Wohlleben (BASF SE)
15:10

15:10 - 16:10
Room: Plenary

16:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:10 - 16:30
Room: Laguna Gallery 6
16:30
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Toxicity and biodistribution of surface chemically modified Ag nanoparticles - Chengfang Pang (Ca' Foscari Univeristy - Venice)

17:00 Nanotoxicology of cadmium sulfide quantum dots in different cellular models - Roberta Ruotolo (Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma)

17:30 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)

18:00 Nanotechnologies and Sustainability in the fields of Architecture and Preservation of Cultural Heritage - Federica Fernandez (University of Palermo)
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Nanomaterial Fate and Exposure Research: Where we are now and where we need to be to model environmental exposure - Greg Lowry (Carnegie Mellon University)

16:50 Nanomaterials in a perspective of effects on ecosystem services and ecological risk - Janeck J. Scott-Fordsmand (Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University)

17:10 A Dynamic Probabilistic Material Flow Modeling Method for Environmental Exposure Assessment of Engineered Nanomaterials - Nikolaus A. Bornhoft (EMPA)

17:30 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)

17:50 Dynamic Probabilistic Modelling of Environmental Emissions of Engineered Nanomaterials - Tian Yin Sun (EMPA)

18:10 Implications of using inappropriate fate descriptors for engineered nanoparticles - Antonia Praetorius (University of Vienna)
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Conceptual framework for Sustainable Nanotechnologies Decision Support System (SUNDS) - Vrishali Subramanian (Ca' Foscari Univeristy, Venice)

16:54 LICARA - guidelines for sustainable competitiveness of nanoproducts - Claudia Som (EMPA)

17:18 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)

17:42 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)

18:06 Anticipatory Ethics and Governance [AEG]: a Jurisprudential approach - Karena Hester (University of Limerick)
19:30 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Room: Laguna Restaurant
Tuesday, 10 March 2015

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: Foyer
09:00
09:00 - 09:40
Room: Plenary
Contributions

09:00 Regulatory and Policy Initiatives in the US and EU - Lynn L. Bergeson (Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.)
09:40

09:40 - 10:40
Room: Plenary

10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:00
Room: Laguna Gallery 6
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Breakout 1
Contributions

11:00 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 Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Firms in Europe: A Typology - Martin Mullins (University of Limerick)

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

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 (University of Bologna)
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Breakout 2
Contributions

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

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

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

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

12:32 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 - 13:00
Room: Breakout 3
Contributions

11:00 Educational & curriculum in nanotechnology - Deb Newberry

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

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

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

12:36 Empowering citizens in international governance of nanotechnologies - Ineke Malsh (Malsch TechnoValuation)
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Laguna Gallery 6
14:00
14:00 - 14:40
Room: Plenary
Contributions

14:00 The quest for generating robust regulatory relevant data - Tom van Teunenbroek (Tom van Teunenbroek, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, NL)
14:40
14:40 - 16:40
Room: Breakout 1
Contributions

14:40 Waste management of ENM-containing solid waste in Europe - Laura Heggelund (Technical University of Denmark)

15:10 Flows of engineered nanomaterials through the recycling process in Switzerland - Alejandro Caballero Guzman (EMPA)

15:30 Nanoproducts: What is Actually Available to European Consumers? - Steffen Foss Hansen (Technical University of Denmark)

16:00 Stochastic fate analysis of engineered nanoparticles during release processes e.g. in an incineration plant - Fadri Gottschalk (ETSS. Switzerland)
14:40 - 16:40
Room: Breakout 2
Contributions

14:40 NanoSAR: Structure Activity Model for the Toxicity of Nanoparticles - Ceyda Oksel (University of Leeds)

15:04 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)

15:28 Development of a robust method for measuring engineered nanomaterial toxicity and uptake using Caenorhabditis elegans - Elijiah Petersen (NIST)

15:52 Design and Development of Surface Modification and Synthesis Strategies to Reduce Toxicity of Nanoparticles - Seda Keleştemur (Yeditepe University)

16:16 Development of an initial Risk Assessment strategy within the GUIDEnano project - Susan Wijnhoven (RIVM)
14:40 - 16:40
Room: Breakout 3
Contributions

14:40 Evaluation of titanium dioxide nanoparticle fate and heteroaggregation in natural surface waters - Danielle Slomberg (CEREGE)

15:04 Kinetics of Nanoparticles Release from Nanocomposites Exposed to Environmental Stresses - Li-Piin Sung (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST))

15:28 Environmental fate of nanopesticides and exposure assessment - Melanie Kah (University of Vienna)

15:52 Insights from a spatially and temporally resolved nanoparticle fate model - Gregory Lowry (Carnegie Mellon University)

16:16 Thermal decomposition of nano-enabled products at their end of life and EHS implications - Phil Demokritou (Harvard University)
16:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:40 - 17:00
Room: Laguna Gallery 6

17:00

17:00 - 18:30
Room: Laguna Gallery
Wednesday, 11 March 2015

08:30

08:30 - 09:15
Room: Foyer
09:15
09:15 - 09:40
Contributions

09:15 Surface affinity: Applications of a functional assay for quantifying nanoparticle transport, aggregation, transformation and bioüptake in complex systems - Mark Wiesner (Duke University)
09:40

09:40 - 10:40
Room: Plenary

10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:00
Room: Foyer
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Breakout 1
Contributions

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

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

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

12:30 Safer by molecular design applied to industrial case studies - Anna Luisa Costa (ISTEC - CNR)
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Breakout 2
Contributions

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

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

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

12:00 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 The meaning of Characterization, and Biological Identity - Kenneth Dawson (Centre for BioNano Interactions, University College Dublin)

12:40 European standardization project on detection and identification of nano-objects in complex matrices - Michael Stintz (TU Dresden, Institute of Chemical Engineering)
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

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

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

12:00 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 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)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Foyer

14:00

14:00 - 14:40

14:40

14:40 - 15:40
Room: Plenary

15:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:00
Room: Foyer
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Breakout 1
Contributions

16:00 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)

16:24 Role of Biological Monitoring in Nano-Safety - Enrico Bergamaschi (University of Parma)

16:48 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)

17:12 Feasibility of using in vitro toxicity studies for human risk assessment of nanomaterials - Joan Cabellos (LEITAT Technological Center)

17:36 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)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Breakout 2
Contributions

16:00 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)

16:30 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 ")

17:00 Nanoparticle Surface Activity: Understanding, Measuring and Integrating it into Inhalation Dosimetry - Dhimiter Bello (UMass Lowell)

17:30 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)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Breakout 3
Contributions

16:00 Single particle ICPMS based methods for tracking environmental leaching of nanoparticles from consumer products - Frank von der Kammer (University of Vienna)

16:24 Novel method to address the environmental impact of nanomaterials in the use phase: the SUN approach - Lorette Scifo (CEREGE)

16:48 Interactive spICP-MS data treatment using Nanocount - Geert Cornelis (Gothenburg University)

17:12 Nanotechnology : the missing piece of the life puzzle - Gilbert M. Rios (European Memrane House (EMH))

17:36 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)
18:00

18:00 - 18:15
Room: Plenary