Programme

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January 13th, 2010 — Wednesday

15:30 - 18:00 Registration
 
19:00 - 22:00 Conference Banquet

January 14th, 2010 — Thursday

09:15 - 09:30 Opening/Welcome Remarks
  İhsan Gürsel (Chair, Organizing Committee)
 
MORNING SESSION (Chair: Clotilde Thery)
09:30 - 10:30 Mehmet Toner, (Harvard, USA)
  Lab on a Chip: New horizons in nanobiosciences (Plenary Lecture)
 
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break
 
10:50 - 11:40 Steffen Gay (Zurich, Switzerland)
  Contribution of type and source of micro particles in systemic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases
 
11:40 - 12:30 Clotilde Thery (Paris, France)
  Exosomes in immunotherapy
 
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
 
AFTERNOON SESSION I (Chair: Ken J. Ishii)
14:00 - 14:50 Jean Luc Coll (Grenoble, France)
  Targeted cancer drug delivery using nanoparticles
 
14:50 - 15:40 Ken J. Ishii (Osaka, Japan)
  Innate Immune mechanism of flu vaccine
 
15:40 - 16-00 Coffee Break
 
AFTERNOON SESSION II (Chair: Hasan Bayram)
16:00 - 16:50 Olga Mykhaylyk (Munich, Germany)
  Magnetofection: applications in nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology
 
16:50 - 17:40 Hasan Bayram (Gaziantep, Turkey)
  Nanotoxicology: assessing the risks induced by nanotechnology
 

January 15th, 2010 — Friday

 
MORNING SESSION (Chair: Hilmi Özçelik)
09:40 - 10:30 Batu Erman (İstanbul, Turkey)
  Assembling the multi-subunit T cell receptor in T lymphocytes
 
10:30 - 11:20 Nesrin Hasırcı (Ankara, Turkey)
  Nano modifications of macro systems in medicinal applications
 
11:20 - 11:40 Coffee Break
 
11:40 - 12:30 Hilmi Özçelik (Toronto, Canada)
  High-throughput genome analyses and application to personalized medicine
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
 
AFTERNOON SESSION (Chair: İhsan Gürsel/Can Akçalı)
14:00 - 16:00 Selected Short Communications(15 min. each)
  Neşe Akis: Oligomer design for the atheroprotective gene products
  Tamer Kahraman: Contribution of exosomes to the severity of allergy and autoimmune diseases
  Necati Vardar: Band gap modification of single wall carbon nanotubes
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break
  Deniz Şenyay: Are proteins really going supercritical?
  Fuat Cem Yağcı: Applications of immunosuppressive nanoparticle forming DNA to treat autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases
  Dilek Tiyekli: Neutrophil polarization and chemotaxis
 
16:00 - 16:50 Cevayir Coban (Osaka, Japan)
  Hemozoin, a malaria parasite nanocrystal: from malaria infection to vaccine adjuvant
 

January 16th, 2010 — Saturday

 
MORNING SESSION (Chair: Engin U. Akkaya)
09:40 - 10:30 Engin U. Akkaya (Ankara, Turkey)
  BODIPY functionalized single walled carbon nanotubes
 
10:30 - 11:00 Yakup Arıca (Ankara, Turkey)
  Use of magnetic nanoparticles for the separation of therapeutic proteins
 
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
 
11:20 - 12:00 İhsan Gürsel (Ankara, Turkey)
  Strategies to enhance nucleic acid delivery to immune cells
 
12:00 Closing Remarks

Topics

  • Biodegradable Polymers
  • Bioimaging
  • Cell Therapies
  • DNA Nanoparticles
  • DNA Vaccines
  • High Throughput Screening Technologies
  • Lab on a Chip
  • Magnetofection
  • Nano/Microparticles for Nanomedicine
  • Nanovesicles/Exosomes
  • Viral and Nonviral Delivery