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Interagency Nanotechnology Implications Grantees Workshop – EPA, NSF, NIH/NIEHS, NIOSH and DOE

Embassy Suites Hotel
4315 Swenson Street
Las Vegas, NV 89119

November 9 – 10, 2009

AGENDA (Other Nanomaterials)

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Draft Agenda (Metals and Carbon-Based)

Day 1:  Monday, November 9, 2009
   
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Registration
   
8:30 a.m. – 8:35 a.m. Welcome
Nora Savage, National Center for Environmental Research (NCER), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
   
8:35 a.m. – 8:40 a.m. Introduction                              
Gail Bentkover, Director, Technology and Engineering Division (TED), NCER, EPA
   
8:40 a.m. – 8:50 a.m. Opening Remarks
William Sanders III, Director, NCER, EPA
   
8:50 a.m. – 9:20 a.m. EPA Las Vegas Research Overview
   
Session 1A:         Other Nanomaterials Sensor
   
9:20 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Nanocavity Sensor Array for the Isolation, Detection, and Quantitation of Engineered Nanoparticles      
Omowunmi Sadik, SUNY at Binghamton
   
                             Other Nanomaterials Life-Cycle Analysis
   
9:45 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. Comparative Life-Cycle Analysis of Nano- and Bulk-Materials in Photovoltaic Energy Generation               
Vasilis Fthenakis, Columbia University
   
10:10 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. The Life-Cycle of Nanomanufacturing Technologies         
Thomas Theis, University of Illinois
   
10:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Break
   
Session 2A:         Other Nanomaterials Exposure
   
10:50 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Bioavailability, Environmental Transformation, and Detoxification of Core/Shell Nanomaterials  
Robert H. Hurt, Brown University
   
11:15 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. Impact of Physiochemical Properties on Skin Absorption of Manufactured Nanomaterials
Xin-Rui Xia, North Carolina State University
   
11:40 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. Penetration and Translocation of Nanoparticles Through Skin    
Lisa deLouise, National Science Foundation (NSF), University of Rochester
   
12:05 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
   
1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)   
William (Allen) Robison, NIOSH (tent.)
   
1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Srikanth Nadadur, Program Administrator, NIEHS

   
Session 3A:         Other Nanomaterials Toxicity
   
2:00 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. Safety/Toxicity Assessment of Ceria (A Model Engineered NP) to the Brain         
Robert A. Yokel, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville
   
2:25 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. Innate Immune Response of an Aquatic Vertebrate Model to Manufactured Nanoparticles Assessed Using Genomic Markers
Rebecca Klaper, University of Wisconsin
   
2:50 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Genomics-Based Determination of Nanoparticle Toxicity:  Structure-Function Analysis
Alan T. Bakalinsky, Oregon State University, Rice University
   
3:15 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. Aquatic Toxicity of Waste Stream Nanoparticles               
Terry Gordon, New York University
   
3:40 p.m. – 4:05 p.m. Effects of Ingested Nanoparticles on Gene Regulation in the Colon         
Philip J. Moos, University of Utah
   
4:05 p.m. – 4:20 p.m. Break
   
Session 4A:         Other Nanomaterials Toxicity (cont.)
   
4:20 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Nanoparticle Toxicity in Zebrafish            
Gregory D. Mayer, University of Maine, McGill University
   
4:45 p.m. – 5:10 p.m. A Rapid In Vivo System for Determining Toxicity of Manufactured Nanomaterials
Robert L. Tanguay, Oregon State University
   
5:10 p.m. – 5:35 p.m. Determination of Manufactured Nanoparticle Toxicity Using Novel Rapid Screening Methods    
John Rowe (NSF), University of Dayton
   
5:35 p.m. Adjourn
   
Dinner Lawry’s The Prime Rib (Time TBA)
4043 Howard Hughes Parkway
Las Vegas, NV  89169
(702) 893-2223
   
Day 2:  Tuesday, November 10, 2009
   
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Registration
   
8:30 a.m. – 8:35 a.m. Welcome and Announcements
   
8:35 a.m. – 8:50 a.m. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)      
Srikanth Nadadur, Program Administrator, NIEHS
   
Session 1A:         Other Nanomaterials Toxicity (cont.)
   
8:50 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Nanoparticle Effects on Epithelial Cell Protein Expression and Function  
Frank Witzmann (NIH), Indiana University
   
9:15 a.m. – 9:40 a.m. Neurotoxicity of Nanomaterials:  Evaluation of Subcellular Redox State 
Gary Miller (NIEHS), Emory University
   
9:40 a.m. – 10:05 a.m. Systems Analysis of Nanoparticle Biocompatibility           
Brian Thrall (NIEHS), Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Division
   
10:05 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Nanoparticle Disruption of Cell Function
Andrij Holian (NIEHS), University of Montana
   
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Break
   
Session 2A:         Other Nanomaterials Toxicity (cont.)
   
10:45 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.     Long Deposition of Highly Agglomerated Nanoparticles
Peter McMurray (NSF), University of Minnesota
   
11:10 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. Long-Term Cardiovascular Effects of Inhaled Nanoparticles
Lung Chi Chen (NIEHS), New York University
   
11:35 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. TBD
   
                             Other Nanomaterials Fate and Transport
   
12:00 p.m. – 12:25 p.m. Partitioning of Nanoparticles Into Organic Phases and Model Cells
Jonathan Posner, Department of Energy (DOE), Arizona State University
   
12:25 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
   
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ORD Labs Presentation
   
Session 3A:         Other Nanomaterials Fate and Transport
   
2:30 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. Development of an In Vitro Test and a Prototype Model To Predict Cellular Penetration of Nanoparticles             
Yongsheng Chen, Arizona State University–Main Campus, Technische Universität at Dresden, University of Georgia
   
2:55 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. Agglomeration, Retention, and Transport Behavior of Manufactured Nanoparticles in Variably Saturated Porous Media
Yan Jin, University of Delaware
   
3:20 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Internalization and Fate of Individual Manufactured Nanomaterial Within Living Cells     
Galya Orr, Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Division
   
3:45 p.m. – 4:10 p.m. TBD
   
4:10 p.m. – 4:25 p.m. Break
   
Session 4A:         Other Nanomaterials Fate and Transport (cont.)
   
4:25 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. Experimental and Numerical Simulation of the Fate of Airborne Nanoparticles From Lead in a Manufacturing Process To Assess Worker Exposure
Nick Stanley (NSF), University of Minnesota
   
4:50 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Experimentally Validated Numerical Models of Nanomaterial Transport and Deposition in Replicas of Human Respiratory Systems      
Zhe Zhang (NSF), North Carolina State University
   
5:15 p.m. – 5:40 p.m. Methodology Development for Manufactured Nanomaterial Bioaccumulation Test        
Yongsheng Chen, Arizona State University–Main Campus, University of Delaware
   
5:40 p.m. – 6:05 p.m. Biological Fate and Electron Microscopy Detection of Nanoparticles During Wastewater Treatment         
Paul Westerhoff, Arizona State University–Main Campus
   
6:05 p.m. Adjourn

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