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Call for Papers / MRS Symposium Y
Nanostructured
Probes for Molecular Bio-Imaging
Session
Topics | Invited Speakers | Organizers | Abstract
Submission
The integration of biomolecular engineering, nanotechnology, and biology is expected
to produce major breakthroughs in molecular biology, bioengineering, biotechnology,
medical diagnostics, and therapeutics. Due to the size compatibility of nanoscale
structures with proteins and nucleic acids, the creation and use of nanoprobes
provides unprecedented opportunities in achieving a fundamental understanding
of biological processes and drastic improvements in disease detection, therapy,
and prevention. This symposium will bring together biologists, biochemists, bioengineers,
and biophysicists to showcase the recent development of nanostructured probes
for, and their applications in, molecular bio-imaging.
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Session
Topics
Specific
topics include, but are not limited to:
- Quantum-dot
bioconjugates for cellular and biomolecular imaging
- Metal
nanoshells and metal nanoparticles for biomolecular
imaging
- Molecular
beacons for living-cell gene detection
- Magnetic
nanoparticle probes for cellular and tissue bio-imaging
- Peptide-based
cellular delivery of probes
- Nanostructured
probes for molecular targeting and bio-imaging
- Application
of nanostructured probes to disease studies
- Development
of advanced imaging methods
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Invited
Speakers
The
symposium will consist of both invited and contributed
talks.
Invited speakers include: J.
Frangioni (Harvard Univ.), R. Dickson (Georgia
Inst. of Technology), S. Gambhir (Stanford
Univ.), D. Hammer (Univ. of Pennsylvania), S.
Hell (Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany), T.
Jovin ( Max-Planck-Inst., Göttingen, Germany), F.
Kramer (PHRI), N. Nitin (Georgia
Inst. of Technology), P. Selvin (Univ.
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), A. Smith (Emory
Univ.), D. Spector (Cold Spring Harbor
Lab), V. Torchilin (Northeastern Univ.), S.
Weiss (Univ. of California-Los Angeles), and R.
Weissleder and S. Xie (Harvard
Univ.).
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Symposium
Organizers
Gang
Bao
Georgia
Institute of Technology (and Emory University)
Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering
Atlanta, GA 30332
Tel 404-385-0373
Fax 404-894-4243
gang.bao@bme.gatech.edu
Jennifer West
Rice
University
Dept. of Bioengineering
Houston, TX 77251
Tel 713-348-5955
Fax 713-348-5478
jwest@rice.edu
Shuming Nie
Emory
University (and Georgia Institute of Technology)
Dept.
of Biomedical Engineering
Atlanta, GA 30322
Tel 404-712-8595
Fax 404-727-9873
snie@emory.edu
Andrew Tsourkas
University
of Pennsylvania
Dept. of Bioengineering
Philadelphia,
PA 19104
Tel 215-898-8167
Fax 215-573-2071
atsourk@seas.upenn.edu
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