NanoBio Australia 2014

In 2014 ICBNI partnered with the International NanoBio Conference for a joint event called NanoBio Australia.

NanoBio Australia 2014 - Conference Co-chairs

Professor Matt Trau
Dr Keith McLean

Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Symposium

Professor Justin Cooper-White
Dr David Haylock
Dr Jerome Werkmeister
A/Professor Ernst Wolvetang

Theoretical and Computational Symposium

Professor Debra Bernhardt
Professor Amanda Barnard

Vaccines Symposium

Professor Anton Middelberg
Professor Mark Kendall

Industries of the Future Symposium

Professor Peter Halley
Dr Ian Nisbet
Dr Thilak Gunatillake

Nanomaterials Symposium

Professor Michael Yu
Dr Anita Hill

Polymer Symposium

Professor Michael Monteiro
Professor Andrew Whittaker
Dr San Thang

Synthetic Biology Symposium

Dr Claudia Vickers
Dr Colin Scott

Frontiers in NanoBio Symposium

Professor Matt Trau
Dr Keith McLean

Monday 7 July 2014
	Stream 1: Room 301	Stream 2: Auditorium	Stream 3: Room 502
8:00am	Conference Registrations
8:45am	Conference Opening: Professor Peter Gray, Director, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland
9:00am	Professor Peter Høj, Vice-Chancellor and President, The University of Queensland
9:10am	PLENARY: Professor Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, USA Systems Medicine and Proactive P4 Medicine: Transformation of the Healthcare System
	Chair: Professor Matt Trau
	Nanomaterials	Frontiers of NanoBio	Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine
10:05am	Chair: Professor Michael Yu	Chair: Dr Keith McLean	Chair: Professor Peter Gray
10:10am	Dr Anita Hill Science and Engineering CSIRO Materials, mining and minerals focus	Professor Marcus Textor ETH Zürich Switzerland Microfabricated patterns and arrays to study cell function and drug response in engineered 2D and 3D microenvironments	Professor Paul Simmons Mesoblast Ltd MPC: A platform technology for multiple cell therapies
10:30am	Dr Patrick Hartley Petroleum and Geothermal Research CSIRO Petroleum and Geothermal Research	Professor Kyung-Hwa Yoo Yonsei University Korea Drug-Loaded Gold Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Treatment of Cancer and Rheumatoid Arthritis	Professor Nadia Rosenthal Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute Monash University Immune regulation of regeneration
10:50am	MORNING TEA
	Chair: Dr Anita Hill	Chair: Dr Keith McLean	Chair: Professor David Haylock
11:20am	Professor Clive Prestidge Ian Wark Research Institute University of South Australia NanoBio Materials that Control Lipase Action and Offer Opportunities for Improved Drug Delivery	Professor Patrick Stayton Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute The University of Washington USA Dynamic Nanomaterials for Biologic Drug Delivery and Diagnostics	Professor Peter Gray AIBN The University of Queensland Enzyme and Inhibitor free sub-culturing of hES cells using thermo-responsive 'Nanobridges'
11:40am	Professor Freddy Kleitz Department of Chemistry Université Laval Canada Functionalization of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Cell Tracking and Drug Delivery Applications	Professor Matthew Brown Diamantina Institute The University of Queensland Genomics and The Future of Medicine	Professor Simon Cool Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) Singapore Glycotherapeutic agents for tissue regeneration
12:00pm	Professor Zhuo Wang National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, NCNST (CAS) China Nanotechnology in Heavy Metal Ions Monitoring and Further Application	Professor Kirill Alexandrov IMB/AIBN The University of Queensland Synthetic sensing and signal transduction cascades based on artificial autoinhibited proteases	A/Professor Ernst Wolvetang AIBN, The University of Queensland Human induced pluripotent cells is tools to study neurological diseases
12:20pm	LUNCH (1 hour 15 minutes)
	Chair:	Chair: Professor Kirill Alexandrov	Chair: Dr Jerome Werkmeister
1:35pm	Professor Nam-Trung Nguyen Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre Micro Magnetofluidics –Magnetic Nanoparticles for Wireless Control in Microfluidics	Professor Justin Gooding The Australian Centre for NanoMedicine University of New South Wales Porous silicon for monitoring the levels of matrix metalloproteases released from just a few cells and in vivo	Dr Andrew Laslett CSIRO Novel tools for human pluripotent stem cell biology
1:55pm	Professor Colin Raston Flinders University Vortex fluidics organisation of materials	Professor Paul Haddad The University of Tasmania Charge heterogeneity profiling of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies using monolithic columns and external pH gradient cation-exchange chromatography	A/Professor Christine Wells AIBN The University of Queensland & University of Glasgow Scotland
2:15pm	Professor Yiqing Wang Nanjing University China	Dr Conor Hogon Institute for Molecular Science La Trobe University Mobile phone based electrochemiluminescence detection with paper microfluidic sensors	Dr Jose Polo Monash University Unveiling the reprogramming process
2:35pm	AFTERNOON TEA
	Chair:	Chair: Dr Muhammad Shiddiky	Chair: A/Professor Ernst Wolvetang
3:05pm	Professor Patrick Perlmutter Monash University Supramolecular Self-Assembly of N-Acetyl-Capped Beta-Peptides Leads to Nano-to Macroscale Fibre Formation	Professor Sebastian Schlücker University of Duisburg-Essen Germany Immuno-SERS microscopy: Immunohistochemistry for cancer diagnostics using rationally designed metal nanoparticles	Professor David Haylock CSIRO Challenges in bio-manufacure of blood cells for transfusion
3:25pm	Professor Yong-Gang Yang Soochow University Chiral polybissilsesquioxanes prepared through supramolecular templating approaches	Professor Yoon-Bo Shim Institute of Innovative Biophysio Sensor Technology and Department of Chemistry, Pusan National University, South Korea Introduction to Electrochemical Nanobiosensors for Biomedical Applications	Associate Professor Stephen Wood Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies Griffith University Cytological Profiling: a tool to study Parkinson's (and other complex) disease
3:45pm	Professor Peer Schenk School of Agriculture and Food Sciences QAAFI The University of Queensland Low-cost filtration technology for water purification and separation of oil-in-water emulsions using metal hydroxide hydrate gels	Professor Rik Thompson Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation IHBI Queensland University of Technology Future Horizons for Circulating Tumour Cell Research	Professor Jerome Werkmeister CSIRO New developments in the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse – evaluation of new synthetic-biological meshes with endometrial mesenchymal stem cells
4:05pm	Dr Charlie Huang Anteo Diagnostics Generation of multi-functional nanoparticles using nano-linkers	Professor Chris Lowe The University of Cambridge UK Sensor Technologies for Mobile Healthcare	Professor Martin Lavin UQCCR The University of Queensland
	Chair: Dr Keith McLean
4:25pm	PLENARY: Professor Molly Stevens, Imperial College London, UK Designing materials for regenerative medicine and ultrasensitive biosensing
5:15pm	CLOSING

Tuesday 8 July 2014
	Stream 1: Room 301	Stream 2: Auditorium	Stream 3: Room 502
9:10am	PLENARY: Professor Pam Silver, Harvard University, USA Designing Biological Systems
	Chair: Professor Lars Nielsen
10:00am	Polymers	Industries of the Future
	Chair: Dr San Thang, CSIRO	Entrepreneurship Chair: Dr Ian Nisbet
10:05am	Professor Jan H van Esch Delft University of Technology The Netherlands Out-of-Equilibrium Biomimetic systems by dynamic and dissipative self-assembly	Industries of the Future: Opening Keynote: Professor Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology Seattle USA A Personal View of Biological Complexity, Paradigm Changes, Systems Biology and Innovation/Company Creation
10:25am	Dr Matthew Hill CSIRO Control of Physical Aging in Super Glassy Polymer Membranes Without Permeability Loss
10:45am	MORNING TEA
	Chair: Professor Michael Monteiro	Translation of research into high value outcomes - US examples Chair: Dr Thilak Gunatillake
11:15am	Professor Alan Rowan University of Nijmegen The Netherlands	Dr Steve Turner, Founder and CSO of Pacific Biosciences, USA The PacBio Story: From Cornell to Silicon Valley
11:35am	Professor Nathan Gianneschi The University of California USA Biomolecule-Polymer-Amphiphiles for Programming Nanomaterials and Targeting Tissues
11:35am		Dr Piotr Grodzinski Director, NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH) USA US NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer - Translational Pipeline for Nanotechnology-based Diagnostics and Therapeutics - from Academic Research to Clinical and Commercial Outcomes
11:55am	Professor Bert Klumperman Stellenbosch University South Africa Hetero Bi-Functional Polymer-polypeptide Conjugates
12:15pm	LUNCH
	Chair: Professor Andrew Whittaker	Creating and building technology-based companies in Australia Chair: Professor Peter Halley
1:15pm	Professor Brian Amsden Department of Chemical Engineering Queen's University Canada Influence of Decellularized Adipose Tissue Particle Size Within Chondroitin Sulphate Hydrogels on Adipose-Derived Stem Cells	Associate Professor Jim Patrick Senior Vice President and the Chief Scientist for Cochlear Ltd The Cochlear Implant: From Contentious Research to Global Clinical Treatment	ANFF Advanced Fabrication Workshop
1:35pm	Dr Laurence Meagher CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering Chemically defined surface coatings for cell growth
1:35pm		Professor Darren Martin AIBN The University of Queensland (30 minute)
1:55pm	Professor Dietmar Hutmacher Queensland University of Technology
2:15pm	Professor Michael Monteiro AIBN The University of Queensland siRNA Delivery using Polymers Nanoparticles	Professor David Lewis Flinders University
2:35pm	AFTERNOON TEA
	Polymers	Industries of the Future	Frontiers in NanoBio
	Chair: A/Professor Idriss Blakey	Technologies of the future: academia to industry Chair:	Chair: Professor Russel Crawford
3:05pm	Professor Kazunori Kataoka University of Tokyo Japan Targeted Chemo- and Molecular-Therapy by Self-Assembled Supramolecular Nanosystems from Functionalized Block Copolymers	Professor Chris Lowe The University of Cambridge UK Encouraging Entrepreneurship from an Academic Environment	Professor Joe Shapter Flinders University Probing Lipid Membrane Responses to Interactions
3:25pm	Professor Andrew Whittaker AIBN, The University of Queensland Molecular Imaging Agents Responsive to Biological Signals	A/Professor Bronwyn Fox Deakin University Carbon Nexus: Stimulating Activity in the Carbon Fibre and Composite Industry through Targeted Research	Dr Jeff Way Harvard University USA Borrowing and Stealing from Nature: Engineering Proteins and Cells for Therapy
3:45pm	Associate Professor Idriss Blakey AIBN, The University of Queensland Polymer - gold nanoparticle assemblies as potential biomedical imaging agents	Professor Eric McFarland Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation The University of Queensland Creating technologies relevant to a sustainable future: bottom-up or top-down?	Professor Gang Ruan Department of Biomedical Engineering Nanjing University China Development of a Nano-conveyor Belt Technology Platform for Manipulation and Tracking of Single Cells and Molecules
4:05pm	Associate Professor Lisbeth Grondahl School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences The University of Queensland Heparin-modified nano-hydroxyapatite particles for controlled release of BMP-2 and incorporation in PCL scaffolds	Panel Discussssion	A/ ProfessorWenlong Cheng Department of Chemical Engineering Monash University From soft metal-atoms to wearable electronic skin sensors
4:25pm	Dr San Thang CSIRO	Panel Discussssion	Professor James Lai The University of Washington USA Enabling Clinical Diagnostic Assays via Stimuli-Responsive Reagents
4:45pm	PLENARY: Dr Steve Turner, Founder and CSO of Pacific Biosciences USA Single Molecule Sequencing of DNA
	Chair: Professor Matthew Brown
5:40pm	CLOSING
7:30pm	CONFERENCE DINNER: BCEC GREY STREET, SOUTH BANK

Wednesday 9 July 2014
	Stream 1: Room 301	Stream 2: Auditorium	Stream 3: Room 502
9:00am	PLENARY: Professor Virgil Percec University of Pennsylvania USA
9:50am	Frontiers in NanoBio	Vaccines	Theoretical and Computational
	Chair: Professor Magnus Nyden	Chair: Professor Mark Kendall	Chair: Professor Debra Bernhardt
9:55am	A/Professor Michelle Gee The University of Melbourne	Professor Ian Frazer AC Translational Research Institute Brisbane Queensland	A/Professor Jorge H Rodríguez Purdue University USA Post-SDFT and Semiempirical Studies of Metalloprotein Catalytic Cycles and ATP-Protein Interactions in the Extremophilic Bacterium Deinococcus Radiodurans
10:15am	Professor Russell Crawford Swinbourne University of Technology New Antibacterial Surfaces: Biomimetic Black-silicon with Dragonfly Wing Nanostructures	Dr Indresh Srivastava Protein Sciences Corporation USA	A/Professor Tiffany Walsh Deakin University Strategies for generating versatile peptide-mediated nanoparticle assemblies in 3-D: Combining Modelling and Experiment
10:35am	Dr Yan Yan The University of Melbourne A Cellular Journey of Nanoporous Polymer Particles	Professor Istvan Toth SCMB The University of Queensland Dendrites for peptide vaccine delivery	Professor Alan Mark SCMB The University of Queensland Activation of cytokine receptors: Turning on micromachines
10:55am	MORNING TEA
	Chair: Professor Tanya Munro	Chair: Professor Istvan Toth	Chair: A/Professor Jorge H Rodríguez
11:25am	Professor Magnus Nyden Ian Wark Research Institute University of South Australia	Dr Phil Kearney Director Licensing and External Research MSD	Professor Sean Smith School of Chemical Engineering, The University of New South Wales Atomistic Simulations of Polymer, Water and Counter-ion structure and dynamics within Dendritic Vectors and Vector-siRNA Complexes
11:45pm	Professor Michael Breadmore The University of Tasmania Microfluidic devices with integrated nanochannels rapid detection of drugs in body fluids	Professor Robert Booy The University of Sydney Infectious disease threats: new and old!	Professor Mark Biggs The University of Adelaide Nanoporous layered graphene hydrogels with controlled pore sizes: Design, synthesis, characterization and applications
12:05pm	Professor Gerard Cangelosi Global Health The University of Washington USA Do what comes naturally: Exploiting microbial selection to improve molecular diagnosis	Professor Mark Kendall AIBN The University of Queensland	Dr Marlies Hankel AIBN The University of Queensland 2D carbon membranes for application in gas separation and lithium ion batteries
12:25pm	LUNCH
	Chair: Professor David Williams	Chair: A/Professor Neena Mitter	Chair: Professor Debra Bernhardt and Dr Amanda Barnard
1:25pm	Professor Kate McGrath MacDiarmid Institute Victoria University Strategies for fabrication of next generation bone implant materials	Professor Michael Butler University of Manitoba Canada Control of Glycosylation in Cell Bioprocesses for protein or virus production	Experimental-Computational Network Session Experimentalists are welcome to come along with a problem that might be able to be solved using theory/computation. A panel of modelers will discuss how/what could be done – and what kind of modelers might make good collaborators for that problem.
1:45pm	Professorr Geoff Willmott The University of Auckland New Zealand Bionano Applications for Tunable Resistive Pulse Sensing	Professor Nikolai Petrovsky Flinders University Deciphering the structure-function relationship of delta inulin polysaccharide semicrystalline vaccine adjuvant
2:05pm	Professor Tanya Monro Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS) University of Adelaide	Dr Rodney Carbis International Vaccine Institute Korea Development of a Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine: a presentation platform for protein antigens
2:25pm	AFTERNOON TEA
	Chair: Professor Kate McGrath	Chair: Professor Michael (Chengzhong) Yu India-Australia "Vaccines for Development"	Chair: Dr Amanda Barnard
2:55pm	Professor Simon Biggs Executive Dean Faculty of Engineering, Architecture & Information Technology The University of Queensland Size Controlled Colloidosomes for the Delivery of Insecticides	A/Professor Neena Mitter QAAFI The University of Queensland	Professor Irene Yarovsky RMIT University Interactions of nanomaterials with biomolecules: insights from simulations
3:15pm	Professor David Williams University of Auckland Nano-structured conducting polymers for high-sensitivity DNA measurement	Dr Mariusz Skwarczynski School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences The University of Queensland Nano and microparticle-based vaccine candidates to induce humoral and cellular immune responses.	Professor Debra Bernhardt AIBN The University of Queensland Non-Equilibrium Simulations: Property Predictions using Novel Computational Approaches
3:35pm	Professor Hossein Hosseinkhani National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Taiwan Following Three in One Nanomaterials: Stealth, Targeting, Tracking and Imaging for Cancer Treatment	A/Professor Subhash Verma CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University India Status of Veterinary Vaccines in India: Nano-Boost for Mega Outcomes	Dr. Herbert Treutlein Co-Founder and CEO Computist Bio-Nanotech Computational Molecular Design and Research by a Commercial Contract Research Organisation
3:55pm	Professor Matt Trau AIBN The University of Queensland Nanoscaled Molecular Transducers: Some new ideas for capturing rare molecules and cells	Professor Vandana Patravale, Pharmaceutics Institute of Chemical Technology India Nanostructured Lipid Carriers: Potential as a Vaccine Adjuvant	Professor Dave Winkler CSIRO Integrated, high throughput methods for discovering bioactive polymers
4:15pm	CLOSING

Thursday 10 July 2014
	Stream 1: Room 301	Stream 2: Auditorium	Stream 3: Room 502	Stream 4: Room 313A
8:30am	Conference Registrations
8:45am	PLENARY: Professor Tom Healy AO University of Melbourne The Interfacial Science of Bio-Nano Systems.. Something old, new, borrowed and blue
	Chair: Professor Matt Trau
	Synthetic Biology	Early-Career Researcher Session
	Chair: Dr Colin Scott and Dr Claudia Vickers
9:45am	Dr Lawrence Lee, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Artificial synthesis of complex biological nanomachines with DNA origami nanostructure scaffolds	Dr Rob Ameloot University of Leuven, Belgium Metal-organic frameworks: defect visualization, photodeposition and matrices for microfabrication (Invited)	Dr Kang Liang CSIRO Australia Nanoengineered Switchable, Multi-Responsive Carriers for Controlled Drug Delivery (Invited)	Dr Luigi Sasso University of Canterbury, New Zealand Amyloid protein nanofibrils: conquering the challenges of nanocharacterization (Invited)
10:05am	Professor Ian Small The University of Western Australia The potential for engineering organelle gene expression with synthetic RNA binding proteins	Dr Akihiro Kishimura University of Tokyo, Japan Development of novel therapeutic nano-devices based on polyion complex vesicles (PICsomes)	Dr Thi Xuan Le Murdoch University, Perth Anodic aluminium oxide membranes and composites in tissue engineering applications (Invited)	Mr Siddarth Jambhrunkar AIBN The University of Queensland Influence of Surface functionality of Silica Nanoparticles on Cytotoxicity and Cell Uptake
10:25am	Professor Julian Eaton-Rye University of Otago, New Zealand Solar energy conversion by cyanobacteria: opportunities and challenges	Mr Stefano Meliga AIBN The University of Queensland A validated computational approach to study skin mechanical interaction with dynamically-applied microneedle and microprojection arrays	Dr Amanda Pearce AIBN The University of Queensland Functional Hyperbranched Polymers for Prostate Cancer Theranostics	Professor Xirong Huang Shandong University, China Fabrication of nanoporous metal materials for biosensing applications (Invited)
10:45am	Dr Thomas Vanhercke CSIRO Oilseed triacylglycerol yields from plant leaves	Dr Roey Elnathan University of South Australia Engineering silicon nanowire arrays for delivering biomolecular cargos to mammalian cells (Invited)	Dr Veeran Chauhan University of Nottingham, UK The Acid Test for 'Nature's Gift to Science' – Application of pH-Sensitive Nanosensors to Map the Intestinal pH of Caenorhabditis elegans	Mr Tim McCubbin AIBN The University of Queensland Using Systems Biology to Model and Understand Weak Acid and pH Stress Responses
11:05am	MORNING TEA
11:35am	Professor Lars Nielsen AIBN, The University of Queensland Metabolic and Regulatory Models for Synthetic Biology Design	Dr Peter Roth University of New South Wales Well-defined Stimulus-responsive (Co)Polymers though Postpolymerization Modification: Novel Hydrophobically Modified Zwitterionic Copolymers (Invited)	Dr Luke Connal University of Melbourne Enzyme inspired catalysts (Invited)	Dr Majid Ebrahimi Warkiani Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Clinical validation of a novel microfluidic chip for enrichment and characterization of circulating tumour cells
11:55am	Dr Keith Shearwin The University of Adelaide Quantitation of interactions between two DNA loops in E. coli confirms the loop-domain model of insulator action	Ms Prarthana Rewatkar The University of Queensland Are caveolae a cellular entry route for peptide based therapeutics delivery systems?	Dr Orane Guillaume-Gentil ETH Zürich, Switzerland Single-Cell Manipulation by Fluidic Force Microscopy	Dr Frances Pearson AIBN The University of Queensland Rapid and transient inflammatory cell infiltration of skin in response to microtrauma and antigen deposition following Nanopatch immunisation
12:15pm	Dr Claudia Vickers AIBN, The University of Queensland From biology to industry: metabolic engineering for isoprenoid production	Dr Jacky Loo The Chinese University of Hong Kong Use of a Tunable Resistive Pulse Sensing System to Detect Drug Response from the Mitochondria at Organelle Level	Mr Karan Gulati University of Adelaide "In-bone therapeutic implants": concept, fabrication and drug release	Mr Dominic Ho The University of Western Australia Nanoparticle Arrays via Capillary Force Lithography as Potential Biochip Platforms
12:35pm	A/Professor Oliver Rackham The University of Western Australia Artificial protein scaffolds for programmable RNA recognition	Mr Ganesh Kokil The University of Queensland A Modified siRNA-Based Therapeutic Platform against the Hepatic PTPN1 Gene and its Potential Application in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM)	Dr Dmitry Ovchinnikov AIBN The University of Queensland A novel portable reporter allowing for efficacious isolation of functional human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes	Miss Camila Orellana AIBN The University of Queensland A systems biology approach to improve host cells for biopharmaceutical production
12:55pm	LUNCH
1:55pm	A/Professor David Ackerley Victoria University, New Zealand Biosynthesis and biodiscovery of novel peptides using engineered non-ribosomal peptide synthetase enzymes	Dr Margaret Hardy IMB The University of Queensland Insecticidal peptides: discovery, activity, and potential for nanoformulation (Invited)	Dr Anthony Granville University of New South Wales Expanding the Polydopamine Self-Polymerisation System to New Quinone Structures for the Synthesis of "Green" Polymer Coatings (Invited)	Dr Muhammed Shiddiky AIBN The University of Queensland Tunable "Nanoshearing": A Physical Mechanism to Displace Non-specifically Adsorbed Biological Species (Invited)
2:15pm	Dr Monica Gerth University of Otago, New Zealand New parts for synthetic biology: discovery and design of novel chemoreceptors	Dr Sharath Siriam RMIT University, Melbourne Functional oxide and nanomaterials for electronics and sensing (Invited)	Dr Amir Popat AIBN The University of Queensland Programmable nanoparticles for site-specific oral drug delivery (Invited)	Mr Calum Kinnear Adolphe Merkle Institute, Switzerland Nanoparticle-Cell interaction: Isolating the "shape" factor
2:35pm	Dr Colin Scott CSIRO Synthetic Polymers from Synthetic Biology	Dr Nick Reynolds CSIRO ILQINS Hexapeptide, Identified in Lysozyme Left-Handed Helical Ribbons and Nanotubes, Forms Right-Handed Helical Ribbons and Crystals	Dr Peggy Chan RMIT University, Melbourne Injectable Hydrogel Scaffold with Tailorable Porosity Post-Implantation for Tissue Engineering	Dr Yan Jiao University of Adelaide Toward the Design of Metal-free Electrocatalyst for Clean Energy Conversion: DFT Studies
2:55pm	Dr Victoria Haritos CSIRO Re-designing a mesophilic enzyme into an extreme halotolerant biocatalyst	Mr Ali Malekizadeh Algae Biotechnology Laboratory The University of Queensland Hydrate filtration for concentration of natural extracts and separation of hydrophobic compounds	Dr Eugene Wee AIBN The University of Queensland Detecting DNA methylation at CpG resolution without sequencing	Dr Darren Korbie AIBN The University of Queensland 'Less is more' in clinical cancer pathology: Quality assessment of benchtop sequencing as a tool for rapid molecular profiling of breast cancer patients
3:15pm	AFTERNOON TEA
3:45pm	A/Professor Stephen Mahler AIBN The University of Queensland Molecular engineering and synthesis of targeted nanoparticles for cancer therapy	Dr Nani Wibowo AIBN The University of Queensland Engineering rapid-response low-cost nanovaccines (Invited)	Dr Zhongfan Jia AIBN The University of Queensland Thermoresponsive Copolymer Nanostructures: Preparation through Emulsion Polymerization and Temperature Directed Morphology Transformation (TDMT) (Invited)	Dr Dominic Glover University of California, USA Geometrical assembly of ultrastable protein templates for nanomaterials
4:05pm	Professor Elizabeth Gillam SCMB The University of Queensland Evolving promiscuous drug-metabolising cytochrome P450 enzymes for use as biocatalysts	Ms Yusilawati Ahmad Nor AIBN The University of Queensland Hollow mesoporous silica for the delivery of antibiotics	Dr Mariusz Skwarczynski The University of Queensland Nano and microparticle-based vaccine candidates to induce humoral and cellular immune responses	Mr Nathan Boase AIBN The University of Queensland Development of a Multimodal Hyperbranched Polymer Imaging Agent
4:25pm	Professor Kirill Alexandrov IMB/AIBN The University of Queensland In vitro reconstitution and analysis of protein interaction networks	Ms Martina Abrigo Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Development of Nanofibrous Meshes as Smart Dressings for the Healing of Chronic Wounds	Ms Morteza Aramesh University of Melbourne Enhanced Detection of DNA Hybridization using Nanoporous Diamond-like Carbon Membrane	Mr Chenghung Chang The University of Queensland Potent immunogenicity of lipopeptide-based anti-ganodotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) vaccine candidates
4:45pm	Professor Sakkie Pretorius Macquarie University Designing and building a synthetic yeast genome	Special Keynote: Professor Leslie Yeo Chemical Engineering, RMIT University Microfluidic Nebulisation of Nanoaerosols and Nanoparticles for Inhaled Gene Delivery
5.15pm	AWARD CEREMONY
	CLOSING

Co-chairs

Professor Matt Trau - AIBN, The University of Queensland
Dr Keith McLean - CSIRO

Members of the International Advisory Committee

Previous Chairs of the International NanoBio Conferences:
Professor Kazunori Kataoka
Professor Kyung-Hwa Yoo
Professor Pat Stayton
Professor Marcus Textor
Professor Matt Trau
Dr Keith McLean

Scientific Advisory Committee

Current & Previous Chairs of the International NanoBio Conferences:

Professor Kazunori Kataoka
Professor Kyung-Hwa Yoo
Professor Pat Stayton
Professor Marcus Textor
Professor Matt Trau
Dr Keith McLean