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Interagency Environmental Nanotechnology Grantees Workshop
Sheraton Tampa Riverwalk Hotel
200 N. Ashley Drive
Tampa, FL 33602
November 19 – 21, 2008
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| DAY 1, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 | |
| 7:30 – 8:15 a.m. | Registration |
| 8:15 – 8:20 a.m. | Welcome Nora Savage, National Center for Environmental Research (NCER), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
| 8:20 – 8:50 a.m. | EPA & Nanotechnology Christopher Zarba, Deputy Director, NCER, EPA |
| 8:50 – 9:10 a.m. | National Science Foundation (NSF) Mihail (Mike) Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, NSF |
| 9:10 – 9:30 a.m. | National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) William (Allen) Robison, NIOSH |
| 9:30 – 9:50 a.m. | National Institute of Environment Health Sciences (NIEHS) Srikanth Nadadur, Program Administrator, NIEHS |
| 9:50 – 10:20 a.m. | BREAK |
| 10:20 – 10:40 a.m. | U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Nanotechnology Characterization Facilities Neal D. Shinn, Sandia National Laboratories |
| 10:40 – 11:00 a.m. | Engineered Nanomaterials Fate & Transport Research Within the Office of Research and Development’s (ORD) National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) Michele Conlon, EPA, NERL |
| Metals, Metal Oxides Remediation and Exposure |
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| 11:00 – 11:20 a.m. | Novel Nanostructured Catalysts for Environmental Remediation of Chlorinated Compounds Yunfeng Lu, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 11:20 – 11:40 a.m. | Synthesis and Application of a New Class of Stabilized Nanoscale Iron Particles for Rapid Destruction of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in Soil and Groundwater Dongye Zhao, Auburn University |
| 11:40 – 1:00 p.m. | LUNCH (on your own) |
| 1:00 – 1:20 p.m. | Nanoparticle Stability in Natural Waters and its Implication for Metal Toxicity to Water Column and Benthic Organisms James Ranville, Colorado School of Mines |
| Metals, Metal Oxides Fate/Transport |
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| 1:20 – 1:40 p.m. | The Effect of Surface Coatings on the Environmental and Microbial Fate of Nano-Iron and Fe-Oxide Nanoparticles Greg Lowry, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 1:40 – 2:00 p.m. | The Fate and Effects of Nanosized Metal Particles Along a Simulated Terrestrial Food Chain Investigated Using Genomic and Microscopic Techniques Jason Unrine, University of Georgia |
| 2:00 – 2:20 p.m. | The Bioavailability, Toxicity, and Trophic Transfer of Manufactured ZnO2 Nanoparticles: A View from the Bottom Paul Bertsch, University of Georgia |
| 2:20 – 2:40 p.m. | Bioavailability and Fates of CdSe and TiO2 Nanoparticles in Eukaryotes and Bacteria Patricia Holden, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 2:40 – 3:00 p.m. | BREAK |
| Metals, Metal Oxides Toxicity |
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| 3:00 – 3:20 p.m. | Engineered Nanomaterial Health Effects Research Within ORD's National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory Kevin Dreher, NHEERL |
| 3:20 – 3:40 p.m. | Microbial Impacts of Engineered Nanoparticles Shaily Mahendra, William Marsh Rice University |
| 3:40 – 4:00 p.m. | Uptake and Toxicity of Metallic Nanoparticles in Freshwater Fish David Barber, University of Florida |
| 4:00 – 4:20 p.m. | Characterization of the Potential Toxicity of Metal Nanoparticles in Marine Ecosystems Using Oysters Amy Ringwood, University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| 4:20 – 4:40 p.m. | Chemical Fate, Biopersistence, and Toxicology of Inhaled Metal Oxide Nanoscale Materials Jacob McDonald, Lovelace Biomedical & Environmental Research Institute |
| 4:40 – 5:00 p.m. | Acute and Developmental Toxicity of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles to Fish and Frogs Chris Theodorakis, Southern Illinois University |
| 5:00 p.m. | ADJOURN – DAY 1 |
| DAY 2, Thursday, November 20, 2008 | |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. | Registration |
| 8:30 – 8:40 a.m. | Welcome and Announcements |
| Carbon-Based Sensors and Exposure |
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| 8:40 – 9:00 a.m. | Conducting-Polymer Nanowire Immunosensor Arrays for Microbial Pathogens Ashok Mulchandani, University of California, Riverside |
| Carbon-Based Fate/Transport |
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| 9:00 – 9:20 a.m. | Carbon Nanotubes: Environmental Dispersion States, Transport, Fate, and Bioavailability Elijah Petersen, University of Michigan |
| 9:20 – 9:40 a.m. | Aggregation and Deposition Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes in Aquatic Environments Manachem Elimelech, Yale University |
| 9:40 – 10:00 a.m. | Cross-Media Environmental Transport, Transformation, and Fate of Manufactured Carbonaceous Nanomaterials Peter Vikesland, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| 10:00 – 10:20 a.m. | Fate and Transport of C60 Nanomaterials in Unsaturated and Saturated Soils Kurt Pennell, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 10:20 – 10:40 a.m. | BREAK |
| 10:40 – 11:00 a.m. | Photochemical Fate of Manufactured Carbon Nanomaterials in the Aquatic Environment Chad Jafvert, Purdue University |
| 11:00 – 11:20 a.m. | Fate and Transformation of C60 Nanoparticles in Water Treatment Processes Jaehong Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Carbon-Based Toxicity |
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| 11:20 – 11:40 a.m. | Role of Particle Agglomeration in Nanoparticle Toxicity Terry Gordon, New York University School of Medicine |
| 11:40 – 12:00 p.m. | Assessment of the Environmental Impacts of Nanotechnology on Organisms and Ecosystems Jean-Claude Bonzongo, University of Florida |
| 12:00 – 12:20 p.m. | Structure-Function Relationships in Engineered Nanomaterial Toxicity Vicki Colvin, William Marsh Rice University |
| 12:20 – 1:40 p.m. | LUNCH (on your own) |
| 1:40 – 2:00 p.m. | Gene Expression Profiling of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: A Unique Safety Assessment Approach Mary Jane Cunningham, Houston Advanced Research Center |
| 2:00 – 2:20 p.m. | Long-Term Cardiovascular Effects of Inhaled Nanoparticles Lung-Chi Chen, New York University |
| 2:20 – 3:40 p.m. | Aquatic Toxicity of Carbon-Based Nanomaterials at Sediment-Water Interfaces Baolin Deng, University of Missouri–Columbia |
| 2:40 – 3:00 p.m. | Aquatic Toxicity of Waste Stream Nanoparticles Terry Gordon, New York University School of Medicine |
| 3:00 – 3:20 p.m. | BREAK |
| 3:20 – 3:40 p.m. | Ecotoxicology of Underivatized Fullerenes (C60) in Fish Theodore Henry, University of Tennessee |
| 3:40 – 4:00 p.m. | Development of Methods and Models for Nanoparticle Toxicity Screening: Application to Fullerenes and Comparative Nanoscale Particles Tian Xia, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 4:00 – 4:20 p.m. | Effects of Nanomaterials on Human Blood Coagulation Peter Perrotta, West Virginia University |
| 4:20 – 4:40 p.m. | Engineered Nanomaterial Ecological Effects Research Within ORD's National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory Steve Diamond, NHEERL |
| 4:40 – 5:00 p.m. | Innate Immune Responses of an Aquatic Vertebrate Model to Manufactured Nanoparticles Assessed Using Genomic Markers Rebecca Klaper, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| 5:00 p.m. | ADJOURN – DAY 2 |
| DAY 3, Friday, November 21, 2008 | |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. | Registration |
| 8:30 – 8:40 a.m. | Welcome and Announcements |
| Other Nanomaterials Life Cycle Analysis and Remediation |
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| 8:40 – 9:00 p.m. | Nanostructured Membranes for Filtration, Disinfection, and Remediation of Aqueous and Gaseous Systems Kevin Kit, University of Tennessee |
| 9:00 – 9:20 a.m. | Comparative Life Cycle Analysis of Nano and Bulk Materials in Photovoltaic Energy Generation Vasilis Fthenakis, Columbia University |
| 9:20 – 9:40 a.m. | The Life Cycle of Nanomanufacturing Technologies Thomas Theis, University of Illinois |
| 9:40 – 10:00 a.m. | Evaluating the Impacts of Nanomanufacturing Via Thermodynamic and Life Cycle Analysis Bhavik Bakshi, Ohio State University |
| 10:00 – 10:20 a.m. | BREAK |
| Other Nanomaterials Exposure |
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| 10:20 – 10:40 a.m. | Impact of Physiochemical Properties on Skin Absorption of Manufactured Nanomaterials Xia Xin-Rui, North Carolina State University |
| 10:40 – 11:00 a.m. | Safety/Toxicity Assessment of Ceria (A Model Engineered NP) to the Brain Robert Yokel, University of Kentucky |
| Other Nanomaterials Fate/Transport |
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| 11:00 – 11:20 a.m. | Internalization and Fate of Individual Manufactured Nanomaterial Within Living Cells Galya Orr, Battelle Memorial Institute–Pacific Northwest Division |
| 11:20 – 11:40 a.m. | Methodology Development for Manufactured Nanomaterial Bioaccumulation Test Yongsheng Chen, Arizona State University |
| 11:40 – 12:00 p.m. | Experimental and Numerical Simulation of the Fate of Airborne Nanoparticles from a Leak in a Manufacturing Process To Assess Worker Exposure David Pui, University of Minnesota |
| 12:00 – 12:20 p.m. | Nanoparticle Disruption of Cell Function Andrij Holian, University of Montana |
| 12:20 – 12:40 p.m. | Agglomeration, Retention, and Transport Behavior of Manufactured Nanoparticles in Variably-Saturated Porous Media Yan Jin, University of Delaware |
| 12:40 – 1:00 p.m. | Biological Fate and Electron Microscopy Detection of Nps During Wastewater Treatment Paul Westerhoff, Arizona State University |
| 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. | LUNCH (on your own) |
| Other Nanomaterials Toxicity |
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| 2:20 – 2:40 p.m. | Genomics-Based Determination of Nanoparticle Toxicity: Structure-Function Analysis Alan Bakalinsky, Oregon State University |
| 2:40 – 3:00 p.m. | Role of Surface Chemistry in the Toxicological Properties of Manufactured Nanoparticles Prabir Dutta, Ohio State University |
| 3:00 – 3:20 p.m. | A Rapid in Vivo System for Determining Toxicity of Manufactured Nanomaterials Robert Tanguay, Oregon State University |
| 3:20 – 3:40 p.m. | Cellular Uptake and Toxicity of Dendritic Nanomaterials: An Integrated Physicochemical and Toxicogenomics Study Mamadou Diallo, California Institute of Technology |
| 3:40 – 4:00 p.m. | BREAK |
| 4:00 – 4:20 p.m. | Nanoparticle Toxicity in Zebrafish Gregory Mayer, Texas Tech University |
| 4:20 – 4:40 p.m. | Effects of Ingested Nanoparticles on Gene Regulation in the Colon John Veranth, University of Utah |
| 4:40 – 5:00 p.m. | Lung Deposition of Highly Agglomerated Nanoparticles Peter McMurry, University of Minnesota |
| Other Nanomaterials Sensors and Treatment |
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| 5:00 – 5:20 p.m. | A Novel Approach to Prevent Biocide Leaching Patricia Heiden, Michigan Technological University |
| 5:20 p.m. | ADJOURN |