Symposium D:
Nanobioscience and Nanobiotechnology
Chair
- William BIRCH (IMRE, Singapore)
- Mingyong HAN (IMRE, Singapore)
- Andrew WAN (IBN, Singapore)
Correspondence
- Andrew WAN
Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
31 Biopolis Way, The Nanos, #04-01, Singapore 138669
Tel: (65) 6824 7134
Scope of Symposium
Advances in nanotechnology have resulted in the development of new tools to probe biological systems. These include bioimaging tools such as quantum dots, mRNA probes, fluorescence tags, FRET and AFM. In nanobioscience, the provision and patterning of ligands at molecular and nanometer dimensions allow the development of interfaces that probe and regulate cell behaviour by either biochemical or mechanotransduction processes. Nanomaterials provide specific surface textures and geometry that dictate protein adsorption, cell adhesion and other biological responses while nanoparticles have been used for the therapeutic delivery of drugs and growth factors in the form of proteins or genes. Nanobiotechnology is also generating new systems to accelerate progress in the fields of high throughput drug discovery, genomics, proteomics and personalized medicine.
Invited Speakers
- Jeong-Woo CHOI, Sogang University, South Korea
- Tim DUBROVSKY, BD Biosciences, USA
- Xiaohu GAO, University of Washington, USA
- Kuniharu IJIRO, Hokkaido University, Japan
- Jiang LEI, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
- Kam W. LEONG, Duke University, USA
- Kaoru TAMADA, Tohoku University, Japan
- G. Julius VANCSO, University of Twente, The Netherland
- Wensheng YANG, Jilin University, China
- Jackie YING, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
- Zhongping ZHANG, Chinese Academy of Science, China
