Programme

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January 10th, 2010 — Sunday

15:30 - 18:00 Registration
 

January 11th, 2010 — Monday

09:00 - 09:30 Opening/Welcome Remarks
  İhsan Gürsel (Chair, Organizing Committee)
Hasan Erten (Dean, Science Faculty)
 
MORNING SESSION (Chair: Cevayir Çoban)
09:30 - 10:30 Clotilde Thery (Paris, France)
  Exosomes in health and disease (Plenary Lecture)
 
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break
 
10:50 - 11:40 Cevayir Çoban (Osaka, Japan)
  Innate immune system receptors and malaria
 
11:40 - 12:30 Ijeoma Uchegbu (London, UK)
  Engineering nanomedicines for the delivery of drugs and genes
 
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
 
AFTERNOON SESSION (Chair: Ken J. Ishii)
14:00 - 14:50 Ken J. Ishii (Osaka, Japan)
  DNA sensors: opportunities to develop novel DNA vaccines
 
14:50 - 15:40 Saadi Khochbin (Grenoble, France)
  From sequence to function in the age of genomics
 
15:40 - 16:00 Coffee Break
 
16:00 - 16:50 Hilmi Özçelik (Toronto, Canada)
  Discovery of genetic profiles using genome-wide technologies
 
17:30 - 19:00 Welcome Cocktail
 

January 12th, 2010 — Tuesday

 
MORNING SESSION (Chair: Mehmet Özsöz)
09:40 - 10:30 Olga Mykhaylyk (Munich, Germany)
  Magnetofection: recent advances with magnetically guided nucleic acid delivery
 
10:30 - 11:20 Mehmet Özsöz (İzmir, Turkey)
  Applications of DNA nanosensors
 
11:20 - 11:40 Coffee Break
 
11:40 - 12:30 Vasıf Hasırcı (Ankara, Turkey)
  Applications of nanobiomaterials in cell and tissue engineering
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
 
AFTERNOON SESSION (Chair: Hasan Bayram/Uygar Tazebay)
14:00 - 14:50 Hasan Bayram (Gaziantep, Turkey)
  Health risks associated with nanoparticle inhalation
 
14:50 - 16:10 Selected Short Communications(15 min. each)
  Yekbun Adıgüzel: Lipids as potential building blocks of the new era smart materials
  Emine Şalva: Comparison of silencing effect of chitosan/shRNA complexes in different cell lines
  Suna Özbaş Turan: Skin gene therapy using chitosan coated liposomes
  Behnaz Shokouhi: Biomaterials cause dendritic cell malfunction by impinging on TLR-MyD88 signaling pathways: implications for in vivo implant failure
  Metiner Tosun: A therapeutic target validation in vascular aging: Gene silencing and functional consequences
 
16:10 - 16:30 Coffee Break
 
16:10 - 17:00 Engin U. Akkaya (Ankara, Turkey)
  Requirements for photo dynamic cancer therapy
 

January 13th, 2010 — Wednesday

 
MORNING SESSION (Chair: Mayda Gürsel)
09:40 - 10:30 Batu Erman (İstanbul, Turkey)
  TCRs: Co-receptor tuning
 
10:30 - 11:20 Can Akçalı (Ankara, Turkey)
  Application of biomaterials in stem cell research
 
11:20 - 12:00 İhsan Gürsel (Ankara, Turkey)
  Liposomes: Versatile lipid vesicles for nanomedical applications
 
12:00 Closing Remarks
 
Afternoon-Social Program

Topics

  • Carbon Nanotubes
  • DNA Sensors
  • Epigenetics and Nanomedicine
  • Exosomes
  • Molecular Imaging
  • Nanoimmunotherapy
  • Nucleic Acid Delivery
  • Nanofluidics
  • Stem Cell Technologies
  • Theranostics
  • Viral and Nonviral Delivery