Wednesday, October 7th 2009
15:00 Start of Registration  
19:00 Welcome Reception  
20:00 Opening Session
Chairperson: Pavel Hozak
 
  Awarding the Robert Feulgen Prize 2009
to Pierre-Françoise Lenne, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France

Awarding of the The Young Scientists's Travel Awards
with presentation of their scientific career
     
Thursday, October 8th 2009
09:00 Robert Feulgen Lecture 2009:
Cellular organelles as nanomachines

Peter J. Peters, Netherlands Cancer Institute,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
09:45 Cell and Tissue Nanostructures I – Electron Microscopy
Chairperson: Paul Debbage

Ribosomes in action
   Roland Beckmann, Munich, Germany
Gene transcription: nanomechanics
   Patrick Schultz, Strasbourg, France
Characterization of endocytic compartments after
holo-DL particle internalization by means of correlative
microscopy and electron tomography

   Clemens Röhrl, Vienna, Austria
One selected talk from submitted abstracts (nyd)
 
  Coffee break  
11:30 Cell and Tissue Nanostructures II – Light Microscopy
Chairperson: Axel Walch

Imaging genetic structures by spatially modulated
illumination microscopy

   Michael Hausmann, Heidelberg, Germany
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
   Peter Hemmerich, Jena, Germany
Molecular motors, myosin as a nanomechanism
   Gregory Mashanov, London, UK
MALDI imaging
   Deininger Sören-Oliver, Bremen (Bruker), Germany
 
  Lunch break  
14:00 Functional Imaging of Nanostructures
Chairperson: Marco Biggiogera

Imaging mass spectrometry at the nanoscale
   Axel Walch, Neuherberg, Germany
AFM of endothelial cell membrane
   Hans Oberleithner, Münster, Germany
Title to be announced
   Ron Van Noorden, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Imaging of the accumulation and infiltration/permeation
of superparamagnetic nanoparticles influenced by a strong
external magnetic field in an ex vivo bovine artery mode
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   Rainer Tietze, Erlangen, Germany
One selected talk from submitted abstracts (nyd)
 
15:30 Poster session with refreshments  
17:00 Workshop I (to be announced)  
     
Friday, October 9th 2009
     
09:00 Nanotools in Biomedicine I – Imaging
Chairperson: Ron van Noorden

Infrared optical imaging of nanoprobes
   Patrick Boisseau, Grenoble, France
Opto-acoustic imaging of nanoprobes
   Robert Lemor, St. Ingbert, Germany
Multispectral MRI of nanoprobes
   Silvio Aime, Turin, Italy
Translational iterative development of albuminbased
nanoparticles for clinical application: some ultrastructural
approaches to the analysis of biodistribution

   Evelyn Wallnoefer, Innsbruck, Austria
Radiolabelled pegylated liposomes for active tumour
targeting and angiogenesis imaging

   Anna Helbok, Innsbruck, Austria
 
  Coffee break  
11:00 Nanotools in Biomedicine II – Therapies
Chairperson: Patrick Boisseau

Antibody therapies
   Mike Eaton, London, UK
Title to be announced
   Heinz Zwierzina, Innsbruck, Austria
Inhibition of proliferation at different breast carcinoma cell lines
by the monoclonal anti-Mucin-1 antibody PankoMab

   Udo Jeschke, Munich, Germany
Cancer therapy with magnetic nanoparticles
   Christoph Alexiou, Erlangen, Germany
Effects of the folic acid and folic acid/polymer ratio on
cellular uptake and toxicity of folate-PEG-epirubicin conjugates

   Fabiana Canal, Valencia, Spain
One selected talk from submitted abstracts (nyd)
 
  Lunch break  
14:00 Nanotools in Biomedicine III – Stem cells
Chairperson: Dirk Strunk

Tracking of mesenchymal stem cells by nanoprobes
   Dirk Strunk, Graz, Austria
High resolution tomography to monitor regeneration
in vivo

   Frauke Alves, Göttingen, Germany
Biomaterials and nanoparticles in stem cell-based tissue
engineering

   Martin Zenke, Aachen, Germany
Automated high content imaging and screening
applications

   Yuri Volkov, Dublin, Ireland
One selected talk from submitted abstracts (nyd)
 
15:30 Poster session with refreshments  
17:00 Workshop II (to be announced)  
     
Saturday, October 10th 2009
     
09:00 Free Communications
Chairperson: Wolfgang Kummer

Comparison of her2/neu expression on the primary
tumor and on isolated tumor cells in the bone marrow
of breast cancer patients

   Brigitte Rack, Munich, Germany
Chitosan nanoparticles can enter the cell nucleus to
release a peptide inducing reversible hypometablic state
in HeLA cells

   Marco Biggiogera, Pavia, Italy
Albumin based nanoparticles for molecular imaging:
quality management on the way to good laboratory
practice (GLP) production

   Gudrun Thurner, Innsbruck, Austria,
Sterilisation of nanoparticles matters
   Angela Franca, Vigo, Spain
One selected talk from submitted abstracts (nyd)
 
  Coffee brake