BioNano 2012
The 1st International Conference on BioNano Innovation (ICBNI) was held in Australia at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on Grey Street on Wednesday 18 July through to Friday 20 July 2012.
The conference featured an exciting list of International leaders and experts at the intersection of Biology with Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. As well as Plenary and Keynote sessions, the conference hosted five parallel symposia on: Nanostructured Polymers, Vaccines, Nanomaterials, Regenerative Medicine, and Synthesis of Biological Systems.
We are pleased to highlight that the following assembly of international and Australian keynote speakers participated at ICBNI 2012.
Plenary
Professor Chunli Bai - President, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China- Professor Peter Zandstra - University of Toronto, Canada
- Professor Kenneth Chien - Harvard University, USA
- Travis Earles - Lockheed Martin
- Dr Ezio Rizzardo - CSIRO
Polymer Nanostructures
- Associate Professor Wenlong Cheng - Monash University
- Professor Michelle Coote - Australian National University
- Dr Paul Dalton - Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Associate Professor John Forsythe - Monash University
- Professor Peter Halley - The University of Queensland
- Dr Stephen Holt - Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
- Professor Dietmar Hutmacher - Queensland University of Technology
- Dr Angus Johnson - The University of Melbourne
- Professor Darren Martin - The University of Queensland
- Professor Michael Monteiro - The University of Queensland
- Professor Greg Qiao - The University of Melbourne
- Dr San Thang - CSIRO
- Professor Andrew Whittaker - The University of Queensland
- Associate Professor Yin Xiao - Queensland University of Technology
Vaccines
- Dr Adriana Baz Morelli - CSL
- Dr Jingxiu Bi - The University of Adelaide
- Professor Robert Booy - The University of Sydney
- Dr Van Cao - Pasteur Institute, Vietnam
- Professor Matthew Cooper - The University of Queensland
- Dr Robert K. Evans - Merck & Co, USA
- Professor Michael Good - Griffith University
- Dr Lizhong He - Monash University
- Professor Mark Kendall - The University of Queensland
- Professor Anton Middelberg - The University of Queensland
- Dr Neena Mitter - The University of Queensland
- Dr Frank Sainsbury - Université Laval, Canada
- Dr Yan Sun - Tianjin University, China
- Professor Mark Walker - The University of Queensland
Nanomaterials
- Professor Debra Bernhardt - The University of Queensland
- Associate Professor Ben Boyd - Monash University
Dr Liliana de Campo - Australian National University- Associate Professor Rachel Caruso - The University of Melbourne/CSIRO
- Dr Simon Corrie - The University of Queensland
- Dr Anette Dexter - The University of Queensland
- Professor John Drennan - The University of Queensland
- Professor Xingyu Jiang - National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
- Professor Pingchou Han - Peking University, China
- Dr Anita Hill - CSIRO
- Professor Joel Moreau - Ecole ingénieur Chimie Montpellier (ENSCM), France
- Professor Colin Raston - The University of Western Australia
- Dr Chenghua Sun - The University of Queensland
- Professor Jianlin Shi - Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, China
- Professor Matt Trau - The University of Queensland
- Assistant Professor David Lou XW - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Professor Huijun Zhao - Griffith University
Regenerative Medicine
- Professor Simon Cool - Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
- Professor Justin Cooper-White - The University of Queensland
- Professor Nicholas Fisk - The University of Queensland
- Professor Zhihua Gan - Institute of Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Professor Noo Li Jeon - Seoul National University, South Korea
- Professor David Kaye - Baker ID Institute
- Associate Professor Ali Khademhosseini - MIT, USA
- Dr Keith McLean - CSIRO
- Professor Martin Pera - Stem Cells Australia
- Dr Jose Polo - Monash University
- Professor Ed Stanley - Monash University
- Associate Professor Christine Wells - The University of Queensland
- Associate Professor Ernst Wolvetang - The University of Queensland
Design and Synthesis of Biological Systems
- Dr Tim Adams - CSIRO
- Dr Ashley Connolly - The University of Queensland
- Dr Yann Gambin - The University of Queensland
- Mr Ben Hughes - DSM Biologics
- Dr Colin Jackson - Australian National University
- Dr Amine Kamen - National Research Council, Canada
Professor Chris Lowe - University of Cambridge, UK- Associate Professor Stephen Mahler - The University of Queensland
- Dr Lake-Ee Quek - The University of Queensland
- Dr Keith Shearwin - The University of Adelaide
- Dr Viktor Stein - The University of Queensland
- Professor Anthony Weiss - The University of Sydney
Early Career Researcher Symposium Keynote and Plenary
- Dr Cyrille Boyer - The University of New South Wales
- Dr Cara Doherty - CSIRO
- Dr Dominic Glover - University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Dr Jian Liu - The University of Queensland
- Patrick Maschmeyer - Harvard Medical School, USA
- Dr Joshua McCarroll - Children’s Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research
- Dr David Paramelle - Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
- Dr Stuart Thickett - The University of New South Wales
