Programme
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January 10th, 2010 — Sunday |
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15:30 - 18:00 | Registration |
January 11th, 2010 — Monday |
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09:00 - 09:30 | Opening/Welcome Remarks |
İhsan Gürsel (Chair, Organizing Committee) Hasan Erten (Dean, Science Faculty) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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