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Wednesday, December 7

6:00 PM - Registration Regency Ballroom Foyer
7:00-7:45 PM Welcome Keynote: Infrastructure for a Connected World
Christian Lehinger (HealthQuest Alliance)
Regency Ballroom A
7:45 PM Reception and Poster/Exhibitor Session
Reception sponsored by NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
Regency Ballroom Foyer

Thursday, December 8

8:00 – 8:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast Regency Ballroom Foyer
8:30 – 8:35 AM Welcome
Mark Tuominen (National Nanomanufacturing Network)
Regency Ballroom A
8:35 – 8:45 AM Opening Remarks
Altaf Carim (White House Office of Science and Technology Policy)
Regency Ballroom A
8:45 – 9:30 AM Keynote: Mythbusting Scientific Knowledge Transfer: nanoHUB usage Scenarios and Impact
Gerhard Klimeck, (Purdue University, nanoHUB)
Regency Ballroom A
9:30 - 10:20 AM Pilot Status Reports Regency Ballroom A
9:30 - 9:40 AM Consortium for Coordinating Nanomaterials Research
Stacey Harper (Oregon State University)
 
9:40 - 9:50 AM Informatics and Standards for Nanomedicine Technology
Nathan Baker (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
 
9:50 - 10:20 AM

Knowledge Engineering for Nanoinformatics:

Architecture
Joe Glick (Expertool Software)
Ontology
Nathan Baker (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Quant Modeling Krishna Rajan (Iowa State University)

 
10:20 - 10:50 AM Break Regency Ballroom Foyer
  Q-SAR Theme
Theme chairs: Nathan Baker (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Yoram Cohen (UCLA), Krishna Rajan (Iowa State University)
Regency Ballroom A
10:50 - 11:20 AM Featured Talk
Yoram Cohen (University of California, Los Angeles)
 
11:20 - 11:45 AM QSAR Development for Toxic Chemical Sequestration
Krishna Rajan (Iowa State University)
 
11:45 - 12:45 PM Lunch
Vincent Caprio (NanoBusiness Commercialization Association)
Regency Ballroom B
  Q-SAR Theme (cont.) Regency Ballroom A
12:45 - 1:10 PM Informatics and Standards for Nanomedicine Technology
Nathan Baker (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
 
1:10 - 1:35 PM Quantitative Nanostructure-Activity Relationships (QNAR) modeling: Applications to Rational Design of Nanomaterials with the Desired Bioactivity Profile
Alexander Tropsha (UNC - Chapel Hill)
 
1:35 - 2:35 PM Government Panel Regency Ballroom A
2:35 - 3:00 PM Break Regency Ballroom Foyer
  MinChar Theme
Co-chairs: Stacey Harper (Oregon State University), Mark Hoover (NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center), Phil Lippel (Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies Consultant)
Regency Ballroom A
3:00 - 3:30 PM Featured Talk: Nanoinformatics Challenges for Occupational Exposure Limits, Medical Surveillance, Exposure Registries and Epidemiologic Research
Paul Schulte (NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center)
 
3:30 - 3:55 PM Development of Predicative Tools for Nanomaterials Risk Analysis
Amy E. W. Bednar (US Army Engineer Research and Development Center)
Jeffery A Steevens (US Army Engineer Research and Development Center)
 
3:55 - 4:20 PM Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Tool to Support Selection of Nanomaterial Studies: Development Update
Gretchen Bruce (Intertox)
 
4:20 - 5:00 PM Keynote: Data Intensive Computing for Science and Information Discovery
Deborah Gracio (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Regency Ballroom A
5:00 - 5:05 PM Closing Remarks
Vincent Caprio (NanoBusiness Commercialization Association)
Regency Ballroom A
5:05 PM Reception and Poster/Exhibitor Session
Reception sponsored by NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
Regency Ballroom Foyer

Friday, December 9

8:00 - 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast Regency Ballroom Foyer
8:30 - 8:40 AM Opening Remarks Regency Ballroom A
Sally Tinkle (National Nanotechnology Coordination Office)  
8:40 - 9:10 AM The Materials Genome Initiative: A Renaissance of American Manufacturing
Cyrus Wadia (White House Office of Science and Technology Policy)
Regency Ballroom A
9:10 - 10:10 AM LIGHTNING TALKS Regency Ballroom A
9:10 - 9:20
1: Nanoinformatics in Support of Defense Applications of Nanotechnology
Christopher Detzel (NanoSafe, Inc.)
 
9:20-9:30 2: An Integrated and Comprehensive Data Mining System for Studying Environmental Impact of Nanomaterials: NEIMiner
Kaizhi Tang (Intelligent Automation, Inc.)
 
9:30-9:40 3: A Predictive Model for Pulmonary Toxicity of Carbon Nanotubes – Implications for Nanomaterial Characterization Standards
Jeremy Gernand (Carnegie Mellon University)
 
9:40-9:50 4: Nanoinformatics: Current Challenges and Trends on Nanomedical Information Management
Diana De La Iglesia (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid)
 
9:50-10:00 5: Intellectual Property Aspects of the Nanoinformatics 2020 Roadmap
Francisco Castro (McAndrews, Held & Malloy Ltd.)
 
10:00-10:10 6: Using Informatics Tools to Survey the Nano Patent Landscape
Phil Lippel (Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies Consultant)
 
10:10 - 10:30 AM Break Regency Ballroom Foyer
10:30 - 11:30 PM Roadmapping Strategy for 2012 Regency Ballroom A
11:30 - 12:30 PM Nanoinformatics Governance Regency Ballroom A
12:30 - 1:15 PM Lunch Regency Ballroom B
1:15 - 1:45 PM General Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program Overview
George O. Strawn (Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program)
Regency Ballroom A
1:45 - Pilot Work Groups Regency Ballroom A and B