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Interagency Workshop on the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology
Hotel Monaco
700 F Street, NW
Washington, DC
Wednesday, September 5 - Friday, September 7, 2007
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| DAY 1, Wednesday, September 5, 2007 | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 a.m. | Registration |
| 8:30 - 8:50 a.m. | Welcome Marcus Peacock (tentative), Deputy Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
| 8:50 - 9:10 a.m. | Nanotechnology Environmental and Health Implications (NEHI), National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Research Needs Clayton Teague (tentative), Director, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology Subcommittee, NEHI, NNI |
| 9:10 - 9:30 a.m. | Department of Energy
(DOE) Research User Facilities Altaf Carim, DOE |
| 9:30 - 9:50 a.m. | National Science Foundation (NSF) Cynthia J. Ekstein (tentative), Bioengineering and Environmental Systems Division, NSF |
| 9:50 - 10:05 a.m. | National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
W. Allen Robison, Office of Extramural Programs, NIOSH |
| 10:05 - 10:20 a.m. | National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Nigel Walker, National Toxicology Program (NTP), NIEHS |
| 10:20 - 10:40 a.m. | BREAK |
| 10:40 - 11:10 a.m. | Office of Research and
Development (ORD) Introduction George M. Gray, Assistant Administrator, ORD, EPA |
| 11:10 - 11:30 a.m. | ORD Research Strategy
Nora Savage, ORD, EPA |
| 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. | LUNCH |
| Metals, Metal Oxides | |
| 1:00 - 1:20 p.m. | The Fate, Transport,
Transformation, and Toxicity of Manufactured
Nanomaterials in Drinking Water Paul Westerhoff, Arizona State University |
| 1:20 - 1:40 p.m. | Pulmonary and Systemic Inhalation Toxicity of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Jacob McDonald, Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute |
| 1:40 - 2:00 p.m. | Biodistribution of Nanomaterials in Skin Nancy Monteiro-Riviere, North Carolina State University |
| 2:00 - 2:20 p.m. | Health Effects of Inhaled
Nanomaterials Kent Pinkerton, University of California |
| 2:20 - 2:40 p.m. | BREAK |
| Metals, Metal Oxides (continued) | |
| 2:40 - 3:00 p.m. | Metal Nanoparticle Tissue Distribution following In Vivo Exposures Alison Elder, University of Rochester |
| 3:00 - 3:20 p.m. | The Bioavailability,
Toxicity, and Trophic Transfer of
Manufactured ZnO Nanoparticles:
A View From the Bottom Jason Unrine, University of Georgia |
| 3:20 - 3:40 p.m. | Uptake and Toxicity of
Metallic Nanoparticles in Freshwater Fish David Barber, University of Florida |
| 3:40 - 4:00 p.m. | Acute and Developmental
Toxicity of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles to
Fish and Frogs George Cobb, Texas Tech University |
| 4:00 - 4:20 p.m. | Mechanistic Dosimetry
Models of Nanomaterial Deposition in the
Respiratory Tract Bahman Asgharian, CIIT Centers for Health Research |
| 4:20 - 4:40 p.m. | Short-Term Chronic
Toxicity of Photocatalytic Nanoparticles to
Bacteria, Algae, and Zooplankton C.P. Huang, University of Delaware |
| 4:40 p.m. | ADJOURN – DAY 1 |
| DAY 2, Thursday, September 6, 2007 | |
| 8:30 - 8:40 a.m. | Welcome |
| Metals, Metal Oxides (continued) | |
| 8:40 - 9:00 a.m. | Novel Nanostructured Catalysts for Environmental Remediation of Chlorinated Compounds Yunfeng Lu/Vijay John, |
| 9:00 - 9:20 a.m. | Responses of Lung Cells to Metals in Manufactured Nanoparticles John Veranth, University of Utah |
| 9:20 - 9:40 a.m. | A Toxicogenomics Approach for Assessing the Safety of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Human Skin and Lung Cells Mary Jane Cunningham, Houston Advanced Research Center |
| 9:40 - 10:00 a.m. | Microbial Impacts of Engineered Nanoparticles Delina Lyon, Rice University |
| 10:00 - 10:20 a.m. | An Integrated Approach Toward Understanding the Inflammatory Response of Mice to Commercially Manufactured CuO/Cu,
Fe2O3/Fe and TiO2 Nanoparticles Vicki Grassian, University of Iowa |
| 10:20 - 10:40 a.m. | BREAK |
| Metals, Metal Oxides (continued) | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 a.m. | Hysteretic Accumulation and Release of Nanomaterials in the Vadose Zone Tohren Kibbey, University of Oklahoma |
| Carbon-Based | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. |
Role of Particle Agglomeration in Nanoparticle Toxicity Terry Gordon, New York University School of Medicine |
| 11:20 - 11:40 a.m. |
Chemical and Biological Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes in Estuarine Sedimentary Systems Lee Ferguson, University of South Carolina |
| 11:40 - 12:00 p.m. | Fate and Transformation of C60 Nanoparticles in Water Treatment Processes Jaehong Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 12:00 - 1:20 p.m. | LUNCH |
| Carbon-Based (Continued) | |
| 1:20 - 1:40 p.m. |
Cross-Media Environmental Transport, Transformation, and Fate of Manufactured Carbonaceous Nanomaterials Peter Vikesland, Virginia Tech |
| 1:40 - 2:00 p.m. | Transport and Retention of Nanoscale Fullerene Aggregates in Water-Saturated Soils Kurt Pennell, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 2:00 - 2:20 p.m. | Repercussion of Carbon-Based Manufactured Nanoparticles on Microbial Processes in Environmental Systems Ronald Turco, Purdue University |
| 2:20 - 2:50 p.m. | BREAK |
| Carbon-Based (continued) | |
| 2:50 - 3:10 p.m. | Monitoring and Characterizing Airborne Carbon Nanotube Particles Judy Xiong, New York University School of Medicine |
| 3:10 - 3:30 p.m. | Physical and Chemical Determinants of Carbon Nanotube Toxicity Robert Hurt, Brown University |
| 3:30 - 3:50 p.m. | Assessment of the Environmental Impacts of Nanotechnology on Organisms and Ecosystems Dmitry Kopelevich, University of Florida |
| 3:50 - 4:10 p.m. | Structure-Function Relationships in Engineered Nanomaterial Toxicity Vicki Colvin, Rice University |
| 4:10 - 4:30 p.m. | Interactions of Pure and Hybrid Polymer Nanofibers With Cells Perena Gouma, State University of New York |
| Other Nanomaterials | |
| 4:30 - 4:50 p.m. | Cellular Uptake and Toxicity of Dendritic Nanomaterials: An Integrated Physicochemical and Toxicogenomics Study Mamadou Diallo, California Institute of Technology |
| 4:50 p.m. | ADJOURN - DAY 2 |
| DAY 3, Friday, September 7, 2007 | |
| 8:30 - 8:40 a.m. | Welcome |
| Other Nanomaterials (continued) | |
| 8:40 - 9:00 a.m. | Assessment Methods for Nanoparticles in the Workplace Patrick O'Shaughnessy, University of Iowa |
| 9:00 - 9:20 a.m. | Development of Nanosensors for the Detection of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins (PSTs) Robert Gawley, University of Arkansas |
| 9:20 - 9:40 a.m. | Transformations of Biologically Conjugated CdSe Quantum Dots Released Into Water and Biofilms Pat Holden, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 9:40 - 10:00 a.m. | Nanotechnology: A Novel Approach to Prevent Biocide Leaching Patricia Heiden, Michigan Technological University |
| 10:00 - 10:20 a.m. | Evaluating the Impacts of Nanomanufacturing via Thermodynamic and Life Cycle Analysis Bhavik Bakshi, The Ohio State University |
| 10:20 - 10:40 a.m. | TBD |
| 10:40 a.m. | MEETING ADJOURNMENT |