Program

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM, last updated on 3 August 2017

Wednesday, 11 October 2017
08:00 – 09:30 Registration
• Opening Words
Session 1: Environmental Exposure Pathways
• “Evaluating the Environmental Health and Safety Implications of Engineered Nanomaterials”
  William K. Boyes, United States Environmental Protection Agency, USA
• “Modeled Engineered Nanomaterial (CeO2, SiO2, Ag) Releases and Concentrations in Germany”
  Fadri Gottschalk, Institute of Safety and Risk Sciences (ISR), BOKU, Vienna, Austria
• Poster session 1
• Lunch
Session 2: Safe by Design
• “High-Throughput for Toxicology and Material Discovery with Particle Technology”
  Lutz Mädler, Foundation Institute of Materials Science (IWT) and University of Bremen, Germany
• “The Safe-By-Design Concept and a Corresponding Platform for Nanomaterials, Driven by the Requirements of Regulations and Other Needs”
  Blanca Suárez Merino, TEMAS AG, Switzerland
• “Lab-on-a-Chip-Based High-Throughput Screening of the Engineered Nanomaterial Toxicity”
  Nicolas Voelcker, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Australia
• Coffee break
Session 3: Regulatory Issues and Long Term Effects
• “Risk, Regulation and Responsible Innovation”
  Maurice Brennan, University of Birmingham, UK
• “European Standardization in Nanotechnologies and Relation with International Work. How Standardization Can Help Industry and Regulators in Developing Safe Products?”
  Patrice Conner, AFNOR, France
• “NanoValid: Developing Reference Methods for Risk Assessment of Engineered Nanomaterials”
  Rudolf Reuther, NordMiljö AB, Sweden
• “Tuball ™ Single wall Carbon Nanotubes: Health, Safety & Environmental issues”
  Gunther van Kerckhove, OCSiAl Europe Sarl, Luxembourg
• Dinner
Thursday, 12 October 2017
Session 4.1: Quantification and Detection of Nanoobjects
• “Cryo Electron Tomography: Imaging Cells at the Nanoscale”
  Wolfgang Baumeister, Max Planck Insitute of Biochemistry, Germany
• “Uptake Monitoring and Quantification of Nanomaterials at Single Cell Level by Means of Element- and Molecule Based Imaging and Dosimetric Techniques”
  I. Estrela-Lopis, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University Leipzig, Germany
• “Ultrasensitive Detection, Quantification and Identification of Engineered and Natural Nanoparticles Using Wide-Field Surface Plasmon Microscopy”
  Vladimir Mirsky, Inst. of Biotechnology / Nanobiotechnology, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
• Coffee break
Session 4.2: Quantification and Detection of Nanoobjects
• “Labelled SiO2 Nanoparticles as Markers of Contamination during Nanomaterial Handling Operations”
  Jesús Santamaría, Nanoscience Institute of Aragon, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• “Synthesis and Functionalization of Silica Nanoparticles as Probes for Bioimaging”
  Isabella Tavernaro, INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany
• “Single Cell Level Quantification of Nanoparticle-Cell Interactions Using Mass Cytometry”
  Angela Ivask, Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology, Nat. Inst. of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Estonia
• “Characterization of Unlabeled Nanomaterials in Complex Environments”
  Melinda Bartok, Schaefer Technologie GmbH, Germany
• Lunch
Session 5: Neurotoxicity
• To be announced
  Michelle L. Block, The Stark Neuroscience Research Institute, USA
• “Investigation of Neurotoxic Effects of Manganese Nanoparticles in 3D Neural Microtissue”
  Christoph van Thriel, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo), Germany
• “Development of an In Vitro Model of NanoNeurotoxicity Using Human 3D Neural Tissues”
  Luc Stoppini, Hepia/HES-SO, Univ. of Appl. Sciences Western Switzerland
• Coffee break
• “A Daily Exposure of Rabbit Dams to Diesel Exhaust Nanoparticles during Gestation Impairs the Brain and Olfactory Dopaminergic Pathways of Offspring”
  Bernal-Meléndez, URAFPA, INRA UC340, University of Lorraine, France
• “Effects of Nanoparticles in the 5xFAD Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease”
  Catrin Albrecht, IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Germany
• Poster Session 2
• Workshops
Friday, 13 October 2017
Session 6.1: Nanomaterials: Effects and Mechanisms
• “The Effect of Gold Nanoparticles in Asthma Mouse Model”
  Thai Dinh, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Germany
• “The Impact of CuO and TiO2 Nanoparticles on Gene Expression Following Air-Liquid Interface Exposure”
  Matthias Hufnagel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• “How the Protein Corona Evolves on a Nanoparticle”
  Giancarlo Franzese, Departament de Física de la Matèria Cond., Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
• “Low-Dose Carbon Black Nanoparticles Exposure of the Lung Does Not Aggravate Allergic Airway Inflammation in Mice”
  H. Fehrenbach, Priority Area Asthma & Allergy, Research Centre Borstel, Germany
• Coffee break
Session 6.2: Nanomaterials: Effects and Mechanisms
• “Understanding Nanosafety – The Importance of Assay Performance In Vitro”
  Cordula Hirsch, Empa, Switzerland
• “Exposure to Nanoparticles Specifically Extends Neutrophilic Life Span: A Toxicologically Relevant Endpoint for Nanoparticle Safety”
  Tamara Hornstein, IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Germany
• Workshop Presentation and final discussion
• Poster award
• Closing remarks
• Light meal
  
• INM guided tour (optional)