Program

last updated on 6 October 2017

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08:00 Registration and coffee

09:30 Opening Words

Chair: Christoph van Thriel

10:00
Keynote: “Evaluating the Environmental Health and Safety Implications of Engineered Nanomaterials”
William K. Boyes, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington D.C., USA
10:45
“Modeled Engineered Nanomaterial (CeO2, SiO2, Ag) Releases and Concentrations in Germany”
Fadri Gottschalk, Institute of Safety and Risk Sciences (ISR), BOKU, Vienna, Austria

Chair: Annette Kraegeloh

11:25
Keynote: “High-Throughput for Toxicology and Material Discovery with Particle Technology”
Lutz Mädler, Foundation Institute of Materials Science (IWT) and University of Bremen, Germany
12:10
“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, Zurich, Switzerland
12:30
“Lab-on-a-Chip-Based High-Throughput Screening of the Engineered Nanomaterial Toxicity”
Tommy Tong, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia

Chair: Heinz Fehrenbach

14:00
“Risk, Regulation and Responsible Innovation”
Maurice Brennan, University of Birmingham, UK
14:20
“European Standardization in Nanotechnologies and Relation with International Work. How Standardization Can Help Industry and Regulators in Developing Safe Products?”
Patrice Conner, AFNOR, La Plaine Saint-Denis, France
14:40
“NanoValid: Developing Reference Methods for Risk Assessment of Engineered Nanomaterials”
Rudolf Reuther, NordMiljö AB, Arvika, Sweden
15:00
“Tuball ™ Single wall Carbon Nanotubes: Health, Safety & Environmental issues”
Gunther van Kerckhove, OCSiAl Europe Sarl, Luxembourg15:00
15:20
Coffee break
15:40
Poster Session 1

Chair: Annette Kraegeloh

16:45 – 17:20
Invited: “Labelled SiO₂ Nanoparticles as Markers of Contamination during Nanomaterial Handling Operations”
Jesús Santamaría, Nanoscience Institute of Aragon, University of Zaragoza, Spain
19:15
Conference Dinner
“Luminanz”, Quartier Eurobahnhof, Europaallee 21, 66113 Saarbrücken

Chair: Eduard Arzt

09:00
Keynote: “Cryo Electron Tomography: Imaging Cells at the Nanoscale”
Wolfgang Baumeister, Max Planck Insitute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
09:45
“Uptake Monitoring and Quantification of Nanomaterials at Single Cell Level by Means of Element- and Molecule Based Imaging and Dosimetric Techniques”
Irina Estrela-Lopis, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University Leipzig, Germany
10:05
“Ultrasensitive Detection, Quantification and Identification of Engineered and Natural Nanoparticles Using Wide-Field Surface Plasmon Microscopy”
Vladimir Mirsky, Institute of Biotechnology/Nanobiotechnology, Brandenburg University of Technology, Senftenberg, Germany
10:25
“Synthesis and Functionalisation of Bright Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticle Probes for High-Resolution STED and Confocal Microscopy”
Isabella Tavernaro, INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken, Germany

Chair: Annette Kraegeloh

11:05
Invited: “Radiolabeling – an Appropriate Tool to Study the Environmental Fate of Engineered Nanoparticles”
Karsten Franke, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
11:40
“Single Cell Level Quantification of Nanoparticle-Cell Interactions Using Mass Cytometry”
Angela Ivask, Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology, Nat. Inst. of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia
12:00
“Characterization of Unlabeled Nanomaterials in Complex Environments”
Melinda Bartok, Schaefer Technologie GmbH, Langen, Germany

Chair: Klaus Unfried

13:20
Invited: “Air Pollution, Microglia, and the Lung-Brain Axis”
Michelle L. Block, The Stark Neuroscience Research Institute, Indianapolis, USA
13:55
“Investigation of Neurotoxic Effects of Manganese Nanoparticles in 3D Neural Microtissue”
Christoph van Thriel, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo), Dortmund, Germany
14:15
“Development of an In Vitro Model of NanoNeurotoxicity Using Human 3D Neural Tissues”
Luc Stoppini, Hepia/HES-SO, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Geneva

Chair: Christoph van Thriel

14:55
“A Daily Exposure of Rabbit Dams to Diesel Exhaust Nanoparticles during Gestation Impairs the Brain and Olfactory Dopaminergic Pathways of Offspring”
Estefania Bernal-Meléndez, University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
15:15
“Effects of Nanoparticles in the 5xFAD Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease”
Catrin Albrecht, IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany

15:35
“DaNa2.0 – Reliable Information on Manufactured Nanomaterials”
Christoph Steinbach, DECHEMA e.V., Frankfurt a.M., Germany

Chair: Heinz Fehrenbach

09:00
invited: “The Effect of Gold Nanoparticles in Asthma Mouse Model”
Thai Dinh, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Homburg, Germany
09:35
“The Impact of CuO and TiO2 Nanoparticles on Gene Expression Following Air-Liquid Interface Exposure”
Matthias Hufnagel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
09:55
“How the Protein Corona Evolves on a Nanoparticle”
Giancarlo Franzese, Departament de Física de la Matèria Condensada, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
10:15
“Low-Dose Carbon Black Nanoparticles Exposure of the Lung Does Not Aggravate Allergic Airway Inflammation in Mice”
Heinz Fehrenbach, Priority Area Asthma & Allergy, Research Centre Borstel, Germany

Chair: Klaus Unfried

10:55
Invited: “Understanding Nanosafety – The Importance of Assay Performance In Vitro”
Cordula Hirsch, Empa, St. Gallen, Switzerland
11:15
“Exposure to Nanoparticles Specifically Extends Neutrophilic Life Span: A Toxicologically Relevant Endpoint for Nanoparticle Safety”
Tamara Hornstein, IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
11:35
Workshop presentation and final discussion
Poster award
Closing remarks
12:30
Brown bag lunch
14:00
INM guided tour (optional, registration on-site)