California NanoSystems Institute

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Recent advances have made cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) an important imaging tool for major applications in both medicine and nano-biological research. Researchers can use cryoEM to visualize a broad range of assemblies or nanometer-scale structures at near-atomic resolution and in three dimensions. This imaging method covers a scale range from tens of micrometers to angstroms and provides valuable structural information for numerous scientific disciplines including cell biology, microbiology, medical, biomolecular, molecular, pharmaceutical and materials sciences.

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Neurosurgeons, Radiologists, Neurologists, Biotechnologists, Neuroscientists, Engineers, Physicists, Oncologists, Molecular Biologists are invited to participate in the 5th annual World Congress of IBMISPS.

Key Note Speakers:

Ron Kikinis
Founding Director of Surgical Planning Laboratory and Director of the National Center for Image Guided Therapy at the Harvard Medical School
The Role of Software in Image Guided Therapy

Ron Von Jako
Chief Medical officer and Surgical Development Leader, GE Healthcare Surgery
Application of electromagnetic image guidance in spine surgery

Lectures:

• Basic Science
• Clinical Trials
• Governmental Regulation
• Patient Advocacy
• Cutting Edge Research and Development in Brain Mapping and Intraoperative Surgical Planning

Visit the official website of the IBMISPS for information about the 5th Annual World Congress of IBMISPS http://www.ibmisps.org/ including conference schedule, speakers, registration, etc.

The association is also intended for the purpose of promoting the public welfare through the advancement of Intra-operative Surgical Planning and Brain Mapping, by a commitment to excellence in education, and by dedication to research and scientific discovery.

• theoretical and experimental investigations of electrowetting and related phenomena, such as contact angle saturation
• electric field-driven physical and chemical processes at the liquid-solid interface
• fundamentals and applications of droplet-based microfluidics in chemistry, biology and medicine
• applications of electrowetting in optics and optoelectronics

The Frontiers in Microrheology Workshop will bring together many of the users and developers of microrheological techniques- both theorists and experimentalists to review the principal successes of microrheology, share exciting recent advances, and make plans for carrying this field forward into its second decade. The workshop will provide participants the opportunity to help the microrheology community define and achieve its new goals.

Sponsored by the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in conjunction with the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA, the three-day workshop will include:

• Lectures and Panel Discussions
• Conference Dinner
• Cultural Outing
• Poster Session for participating Graduate Students and Postdocs

Travel assistance will be available to a limited number of graduate students, postdocs and senior researchers. Details to come.

For Registration, a Speaker List, and More Information, please Visit the Frontiers in Microrheology Main Page.

Co-hosted by the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA and the Center for NanoBio Integration at the University of Tokyo

NanoBiotechnology Themes:

• NanoMaterials
• Nano Detection
• NanoTherapy
• NanoMedicine

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September 9 - 11, 2007

The critical need for a better understanding of both bio-compatible and (potentially) incompatible interactions of nanoparticles in biological systems is now being discussed the mainstream media. In order to address this emerging biotechnology industry need, this technical workshop will focus on identifying known and unknown bio-physicochemical interactions of engineered nanomaterials and how such interactions can be used to define biocompatible and bio-adverse interactions at the cellular and molecular levels.

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Symposium Description:

The scientific focus of the workshop is to identify and fill knowledge gaps related to nano-colloidal forces, the bio-nano interface, and nanoparticle toxicology. A key motivation for the workshop is to help prioritize selection of nanomaterials for future study and to help identify unique features of the bio-nano interface that require development of new analytical methods. Further, the knowledge gaps identified and new science to emerge from the proposed workshop will help lay the foundation for safe development and application of nanotechnology in the biotechnology industry and beyond.

Some of the foremost experts in these emerging fields will discuss Nanoparticle interfacial interactions; cellular uptake and bioavailability of nanoparticles; Nanoparticle reactions leading to toxicity; and New methods for probing the bio-nano interface.

Sponsored by CNSI, UC TSR&TP Lead Campus on Nanotoxicology

The foremost experts in the emerging field of "super-resolution optical imaging" will discuss the most recent breakthroughs and their potential to impact life sciences and medicine. Nanoscopy is set to answer some of the most fundamental questions in biology that require molecular-level imaging resolution.

The Symposium is open to the public, however seating is limited.

Symposium Description:

Fluorescence microscopy has become the most popular imaging tool in cell biology. It is non-invasive and allows probing cellular functions and structures in the 3-dimensional space at the submicron scale. Fluorescent light microscopy is however limited in spatial resolution because the smallest possible spot size of light is intrinsically dictated by diffraction (known as Abbe's law). Exciting proof-of-principal experimental breakthroughs are now emerging to beat this diffraction barrier. They are yielding high-resolution images of intracellular structures to obtain ever-better resolution well within 15 nm.

Pioneering new concepts in light microscopy are paving the way towards nanoscale microscopy and are ripe to tackle outstanding fundamental questions in biology that lie somewhere at nanometer spatial resolution.

This CNSI symposium will address such state-of-the-art "super-resolution" methods as Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED), Structured illumination (I⁵M), Photoactive localization microscopy (PALM), Stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) and 4Pi microscopy by bringing to UCLA the foremost experts in the field.

The foremost experts in the emerging field of "super-resolution optical imaging" will discuss the most recent breakthroughs and their potential to impact life sciences and medicine. Nanoscopy is set to answer some of the most fundamental questions in biology that require molecular-level imaging resolution.

Speakers

Sponsored by the CNSI with special thanks to the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter

2nd Annual Frontiers in Nanosystems

• Advances in NanoScale Metrology
• Biomimetic NanoSystems
• Challenges to NanoManufacturing
• Functional Architectonics
• Quantum and Low Dimensional
Computing
• Societal and Economic Impacts

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