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

¤   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

¤   Track Chairs: James R. Heath <heath@caltech.edu>, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Los Angeles, CA

¤   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

¤   Track Chairs: James R. Heath <heath@caltech.edu>, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Los Angeles, CA

¤   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)

¤   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

¤   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