NanoImpact Conference

The overall goal of the planned conference will be to integrate the scientific knowledge available about nanomaterial exposure, fate, effects and risks in the environment. The core topic of all presentations should address whether nanomaterials have novel fate routes and effects and pose new and unknown threats under environmentally relevant conditions that are caused by their special properties and that cannot be scaled from larger particles.

Specific objectives of the conference will be:

• Discuss environmental exposure of nanomaterials including their release from products and their detection in complex matrices.
• Outline transport and transformation pathways of nanomaterials
• Discuss uptake and effects in organisms and food-chains
• Present the progress towards environmental risk assessment of nanomaterials
• Identify nano-specific issues in exposure, fate, effects and risks
• Discuss the relevance of engineered nanomaterials compared to natural nanoscale particles
  
  

  Date and Place :

  The conference will take place at the Conference Centre Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, the venue of choice for Congressi Stefano Franscini, the international conference platform of ETH Zurich. The center is located on a beautiful hill on top of the lake town of Ascona, in Southern Switzerland.

Important Deadine :

Deadline for registration: February 26th, 2017

Key note speakers :

Pedro Alvarez (Rice University, USA), Geert Cornelis (University of Gothenburgh, Sweden), Amy Dale (MIT, USA), Phil Demokritou (Harvard University, USA), Steffen Foss Hansen (DTU, Denmark), Christine Hendren (Duke University, USA), Arturo Keller (University of California, USA), Enzo Lombi (University of South Australia), Jamie Lead (University of South Carolina, USA), Greg Lowry (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Elijah Petersen (NIST, USA), Jim Ranville (Colorado School of Mines, USA), et.al.

For more information, go to : https://www.empa.ch/web/s506/nanoimpact

by Desy Maulina