Bionanotechnology: from self-assembly to cell biology
Homerton College, Cambridge
3 - 5 January 2007

Nanotechnology has been widely touted as the basis of the next industrial revolution. A particular aspect of nanotechnology is its interface with the biological sciences, which has been dubbed bionanotechnology. This emerging discipline draws on biological inspiration and provides new tools to investigate biological systems with unprecedented resolution and input. Despite its impact on the biological sciences, nanotechnology has been largely driven by the physical science and engineering and we feel its now timely to engage life scientists in this exciting and rapidly developing area.

Proceedings of invited speakers will be published in Biochemical Society Transactions.

Organizers
Dek Woolfson (University of Bristol, UK)
Tony Cass (Imperial College London, UK)

Abstract deadline: 15 October 2006
Early registration deadline: 20 November 2006

Speakers:
Andrew Tuberfield (Oxford University)
Christof M Niemeyer (Universitaet Dortmund, Germany) Semisynthetic DNA-protein conjugates: applications in Life sciences and nanobiotechnology
Jeremy Lakey (University of Newcastle) Membrane protein monolayers for self-assembling bionano interfaces
Joel Schneider (University of Delaware, USA) Design of peptide-based materials for biomedical applications
Jonathan W Aylott (University of Nottingham, UK)
Maxim Ryadnov (University of Bristol) Peptide helices for synthetic nanostructures
Molly Stevens (Imperial College, London, UK)
Rajesh Naik (U.S. Air Force Research Lab, USA) From proteins to materials
Richard Templar (Imperial College of Science & Technology, UK)
Samuel I. Stupp (Northwestern University, USA) Biomimetic Extracellular Matrices for Regeneration
Stephen Mann (University of Bristol, UK)
Teresa D Tetley (Imperial College, London, UK)
Todd Yeates (Molecular Biology Institute, USA)