Wayne State University is hosting the big event about little things, a national conference on Emerging Nanoscience Applications in Technology and Biomedicine, which will take place from October 15 to 16 at Wayne State's McGregor Conference Center. Those who register before September 1 receive a $50 discount off the regular registration price of $250.

The event will draw participants from academia, industry and government, with the goals of learning about how nanoscience discoveries can lead to applications in technology and biomedicine; understanding how interdisciplinary collaborations involving nanoscience can lead to unexpected but scientifically fruitful advances; and enhancing greater scientific knowledge in the emerging fields of nanotechnology and nanobiomedicine.

Registration includes five meals and access to plenary sessions headed by four internationally regarded speakers. These sessions will bookend the event with addressing crucial areas of nanoscience including: supramolecular assemblies; nanoparticles and nanomaterials; biomaterials and tissue engineering; and translational nanomedicine. During and after each of the plenary sessions, oral and poster abstracts will be presented by individuals from around the country. On Monday evening, there will be a keynote address dinner with renowned physicist, Dr. Helmuth Möhwald of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, in Germany.

The agenda includes:
Monday, Oct. 15:

• Plenary session I.
  Supramolecular Assemblies

  Speaker: Dennis Discher, University of Pennsylvania, "Polymersomes and Filomicelles: Imitation of Viral Shapes for Controlled Release Drug Delivery"
  
  

• Plenary session II.
  Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials

  Speaker: Mark Saltzman, Yale University, "Nanoparticles for Delivery of Drugs, Peptides and siRNA"
  Keynote Address: Colloids and Interfaces

  Speaker: Prof. Dr. Helmuth Möhwald, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, "From Interfaces to Nanoparticle / Polyelectrolyte Hybrid Capsules and Back"

Tuesday, Oct. 16:

• Plenary session III.
  Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

  Speaker: Lonnie Shea, Northwestern University, "Microenvironments for Regenerative Medicine"

• Plenary session IV.
  Translational Nanomedicine

  Speaker: Chiming Wei, Johns Hopkins University, "New Advances in Nanomedicine: from Bench to Bedside"

For more information about registration for ENATBIO, please visit http://www.research.wayne.edu/enatbio or contact Dr. Freda Giblin at fgiblin@med.wayne.edu.