4th Annual Conference on
FOUNDATIONS OF NANOSCIENCE:
SELF-ASSEMBLED ARCHITECTURES AND DEVICES
(FNANO07)

DATES of FNANO07:April 18 – April 21, 2007
FNANO07
Announcement: [PDF]
[TXT] [HTML] http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/FNANO07/FNANO07.html
FNANO07 Webpage: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/FNANO07/
LOCATION: Snowbird Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, Utah
HOTEL
Accommodations: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/FNANO07/venue.html
FNANO07
Conference Registration pages (Registration will be open starting February 5,
2007)
http:
//fnano07.cs.duke.edu/registration/fnano-registration_2.php
į ONLY If you are a Track Chair, Track co-Chair,
Invited Speaker, Keynote Speaker, Conference Organizer, or Assistant: click
here: http: //fnano07.cs.duke.edu/registration/fnano-registration_1.php
SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS:
Air Force Office of
Scientific Research (AFOSR), Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA), and Nanorex, Inc.
SPONSORING SOCIETY: International Society For Nananoscale Science,
Computation and Engineering (ISNSCE).
FNANO Program Schedule:
LOCATION: Snowbird
Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, UT,
Dates of FNANO Conference: April 18 - April
21, 2007.
FNANO06 Program Chair: John H.
Reif <
>, Department of Computer
Science, Duke University, Durham, NC
FNANO06 Program CoChair:
į Paul
Weiss <stm@psu.edu>,
Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Conference
Reception Desk: Location: Outside
Ballroom
Talk
Durations:
Invited
Talks: (20 min.+ 5 min question period after
talk) = 25 min. total duration
Keynote
Talks: (30 min.+ 5 min question period after
talk) = 35 min. total duration
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Track on Viral Self-Assembly, Session A: 8:30
AM – 9:30 AM Wednesday, April 18
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Track
Chair: M.G
Finn
<mgfinn@scripps.edu>, Department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute
for Chemical Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Duration:
(1 Keynote Talk + 1 other talks)=
35+1*25 min. = 60 min
Location:
Ballroom 1
Keynote
Talk: RNA size and packageability:
Small-angle scattering studies of viral RNAs
Speaker:
Chuck Knobler
<knobler@chem.ucla.edu> (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of California,LA, CA)
Invited
Talk: Assembling viral
nanoparticles for vascular imaging and tumor-specific targeting
Speaker: Marianne
Manchester <marim@scripps.edu>
Authors:
Giuseppe Destito, John Lewis, Heidi Stuhlmann, M.G. Finn, Marianne Manchester
(The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA)
Refreshments & Poster Session 9:30 AM
– 10:20 AM Wends,
April 18
Location: Outside
Ballroom 1
Posters for Track on Viral Self-Assembly
10:20 AM – 9:55 AM Wends, April 18
Poster: Assembly models for Papovaviridae based
on Viral Tiling Theory
Presenter: Anne
Taormina <anne.taormina@durham.ac.uk>
Authors: Anne
Taormina (Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, Durham, UK),
Reidun Twarock, Thomas Keef (York University, York, UK)
Posters for Track on Molecular Electronic
Devices & Circuit Assembly 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM Wends, April 18
Poster: Pyrenecyclodextrin-Decorated
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Chemical Sensors
Presenter:
Yan-Li Zhao <ylzhao@chem.ucla.edu>
Authors: Yan-Li
Zhao, Liangbing Hu William Dichtel, George Graner, Fraser Stoddart (Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, LA, CA)
Track on Viral Self-Assembly, Session B:
10:20 AM – 10:45 AM Wednesday, April 18
Duration:
(1 talk)= 25 min
Location:
Ballroom 1
Invited Talk: Viral fusion elements for nanoparticle
assembly
Speaker:
David Wright <david.wright@vanderbilt.edu> (Vanderbilt University)
Authors: Ryan
Rutledge, Scott Miller, James Crowe, David Wright (Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN)
Track on Molecular Electronic Devices &
Circuit Assembly, Session A: 10:45 AM – 12:25 PM Wednesday, April 18
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Track Chairs:
James R.
Heath <heath@caltech.edu>, Department
of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Los
Angeles, CA
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coChair:
Pat Collier
<collier@caltech.edu>, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Duration:
(1 Keynote Talk+3 other talks)=
35+3*25 min=110 min
Location:
Ballroom 1
Keynote
Talk: Reticular Chemistry and the
design of new materials
Speaker:
Omar Yaghi <yaghi@chem.ucla.edu> (Department
of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA, LA, CA)
Invited
Talk: Biochemical Reaction Dynamics
in Nanoscale Environments
Speaker:
Pat Collier <collier@caltech.edu> (California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA)
Invited Talk: Effects of catalyst and
dopant atoms on the electronic properties of self-assembled semiconductor
nanowires
Speaker:
Lincoln Lauhon <lauhon@northwestern.edu>
(Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)
Invited Talk: Scanning-Probe Microscopy
of Organic Semiconductor Interfaces and Nanostructured Photovoltaics
Speaker: David Ginger <ginger@chem.washington.edu> (Department of
Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle WA)
Lunch Break: 12:25 PM –
1:25 PM Wednesday, April 18
Track on Molecular Electronic Devices &
Circuit Assembly, Session B: 1:25 PM – 2:15 PM Wednesday, April 18
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Track
Chairs: James R.
Heath <heath@caltech.edu>, Department
of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Los
Angeles, CA
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coChair:
Pat Collier
<collier@caltech.edu>, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Duration:
(2 talks)= 2*25 min. = 50 min
Location: Ballroom 1
Invited
Talk: Multiparameter Disease
Diagnostics: Chemical Challenges and Analytical Opportunities
Speaker: Ryan Bailey
<rbailey@scs.uiuc.edu> (Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, IL)
Contributed
Talk: Orbital-Mediated Tunneling
(OMT) in a Unimolecular Rectifier
Speaker: Robert Metzger
<rmetzger@ua.edu>
(Department
of Chemistry, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL)
Track on Self-Assembled DNA Nanostructures:
Session A: 2:15 PM – 2:50 PM Wednesday, April 18
Track on Self-Assembled DNA Nanostructures: Session A
Track Chair: Nadrian Seeman <ned.seeman@nyu.edu> (Department
of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY)
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coChair:
Chengde
Mao <mao@purdue.edu> (Department of Chemistry, Purdue University,
West Lafayette, IN)
Duration:
(1 Keynote Talk)= 35 min
Location:
Ballroom 1
Keynote
Talk: Parallel, Chip-based
Integration of DNA and DNA-Nanoparticle-Conjugate Structures
Speaker:
Wolfgang Fritzsche <fritzsche@ipht-jena.de>, Institute
of Physical High Technology Jena, Germany
Refreshments & Poster Session 2:50 PM
– 3:50 PM Wednesday, April 18
Location: Outside
Ballroom 1
Posters for Track on
Self-Assembled DNA Nanostructures
Poster: Proofreading in DNA Crystals that Copy
Information
Presenter: Sung
Ha Park<spark@centrosome.dna.caltech.edu>
Authors: Sung Ha
Park, Paul W. K. Rothemund, and Erik Winfree (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)
Poster: Activatable DNA tiles for compact
Error-resilient Directional Assembly
Presenter: Urmi Majumder <urmim@cs.duke.edu>
Authors: Urmi
Majumder, Thomas Labean, and John H.
Reif (Department of Computer Science, Duke University,
Durham. NC)
Poster: Disentangling Kinetics and Energetics in
DNA Nanostructure Assembly: Forming Parallel Double Crossover Molecules
Presenter: William Sherman <wsherman@bnl.gov> (Brookhaven
National Laboratory, Upton, NY)
Poster: A Self-Assembled DNA Bipyramid
Presenter: Christoph Erben <christoph.erben@magd.ox.ac.uk>
Christoph Erben,
Russell Goodman, and Andrew Turberfield (Department of Physics, Clarendon
Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
Poster: A Multiple microRNA Detection System
Based on Computational Self-Assembly of DNA-Gold Nanoparticles
Presenter: Kyung Ae Yang <kayang@bi.snu.ac.kr>
Authors: Kyung
Ae Yang, Ji-Hoon Lee, In-Hee Lee, Byoung-Tak Zhang (Seoul National University,
Kwanak-gu, Seoul, Korea)
Poster: Title DNA directed Self-assembly of
Multi-component Nanoarchitectures
Presenter: Hao Yan <hao.yan@asu.edu> (Center for Single Molecule
Biophysics, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ)
Poster: Heat-resistant DNA arrays constructed by
self-assembly
Presenter: Miho Tagawa <tagawa@genta.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Authors: Miho
Tagawa, Koh-ichiroh Shohda (Department of Life Sciences and Institute of
Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan), Kenzo Fujimoto (School of Material
Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), Akira
Suyama (University of Tokyo)
Poster: Single Strand DNA Tiles and Molecular
Tubes with Precisely Programmable Circumferences
Presenter: Peng Yin <py@caltech.edu>
Authors: Peng
Yin, Rizal Hariadi (Caltech, Pasadena, CA), Sudheer Sahu (Duke University,
Durham, NC), Harry Choi, Sung Ha Park, Bethany Walters (Caltech, Pasadena, CA),
Thom Labean, John Reif (Duke University, Durham, NC)
Poster: FRET Detection of DNA on
Superparamagnetic Silica Nanoparticles
Presenter: Sophie Tan <sophie.tan@hotmail.com>
Authors: Sophie
Tan, Benoit Simard, (Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National
Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), Sˇbastien Dubus, Isabelle
Charlebois, Mario Leclerc (Universitˇ Laval, Quˇbec, Quebec)
Poster: A Designed Two-Dimensional DNA Array: The
Three-Layer Logpile
Presenter: Jonathan Malo <jonathan.malo@physics.ox.ac.uk>
Authors:
Jonathan Malo, James Mitchell (University of Oxford), Robin Harris (University
of Mainz), Andrew Turberfield (Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory,
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
Track on Self-Assembled DNA Nanostructures:
Session B: 3:50 PM – 5:20 PM Wednesday, April 18
Duration:
(4 talks)= 4*25 min. = 100 min
Location:
Ballroom 1
Contributed
Talk: 2D DNA Arrays Used
to Organize DNA-Based Devices, DNAzymes and Metallic Nanoparticles
Speaker: Nadrian Seeman <ned.seeman@nyu.edu>
Authors: Baoquan
Ding, Alejandra Garibotti, Jiwen Zheng, Pamela Constantinou, and Nadrian Seeman
(Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY)
Contributed
Talk: DNA-nanotube-enabled
alignment of membrane proteins for NMR structure determination
Speaker: William Shih <William_Shih@dfci.harvard.edu>
Authors: William
Shih, Shawn Douglas, and James Chou (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA)
Contributed
Talk: Sculpting addressable
and responsive nano-architectures using a three-dimensional structure syntax of
RNA
Speaker: Luc Jaeger <jaeger@chem.ucsb.edu>
Authors: Cody
Geary, Isil Severcan, Erik Verzemnieks, Arkadiusz Chworos, Luc Jaeger,
(Chemistry and Biochemistry Dept., PSBN4649A, University of California, Santa
Barbara, CA)
Contributed
Talk: Quadruplex-based
DNA nanostructures and nanodevices
Speaker: Jean-Louis Mergny <mergny@mnhn.fr>
Authors:
Jean-Louis Mergny, Peng Yang, Julien Gros, Anne De Cian, Patrizia Alberti, Laurent
Lacroix (Laboratoire de Biophysique Regulation et Dynamique des Genomes, Musˇum
National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France)
Combined Poster Session for All Posters of
Day & Reception: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Wednesday, April 18
Location: Golden
Cliff Room
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Track on Nanoplasmonics & Nanotovoltaics:
8:30 AM – 10:20 AM Thursday, April 19
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Track
Chair: Rick Kiehl
<kiehl@ece.umn.edu>, Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Duration:
(Keynote+3 talks)= 35+3*25. =110 min
Location:
Ballroom 1
Keynote
Talk: Plasmonics: an Enabling
Technology for Nanoscience and Defense Applications
Speaker:
Naomi J. Halas <halas@ece.rice.edu> (Laboratory for
Nanophotonics, Rice University, Houston, TX)
Invited Talk: Ultrafast Processes in Molecular and Plasmonic Hybrid
Nanostructures
Speaker: Gary Wiederrecht <wiederrecht@anl.gov>
(Center for Nanoscale
Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne,
IL)
Invited
Talk: Plasmonic Nanostructures:
Arrays of Holes and Particles