2nd Nanoforum Summer School

Molecular Self-Assembly: Biomimetics as a Route to Novel Products and Processes

University of Cambridge Nanoscience Centre, Sunday 5th Sept. - Friday 10th
Sept., 2004

A rare opportunity to learn from world-class scientists about using nature
as model for, and provider of, nano scale-up technology.

Biomimetics and molecular self-assembly are rightly attracting interest from
many industries, with applications in electronics, energy, material sciences
and medicine to name but a few. Learning from nature we can improve
biocompatability, produce more complex electronic circuits, engineer
material surfaces to have many different properties, efficiently harvest
energy from natural light and provide locomotion and motility to nanoscale
objects and mechanisms.

This five-day school is essential for any post-graduate or post-doctoral
researcher who wants to learn about cutting edge developments and techniques
in molecular self-assembly and biomimetics. The school has been designed to
have a blend of seminars and practical classes (which will be held in the
laboratories of the Nanoscience Centre) with ample opportunity for
participants to discuss and learn from world-class scientists.



SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Dr Jon Preece, University of Birmingham
Introduction to top-down and bottom-up fabrication and Nanoscale surface
modifications

Dr Cait MacPhee, University of Cambridge
Amyloid fibril self-assembly

Prof Tony Ryan, University of Sheffield
Introducing soft-nanotechnology: directed and self-assembled polymer
systems

Prof Peter Laggner, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Membranes self-assembly in natural and artificial systems

Dr Dek Woolfson, University of Sussex
The self-assembly of natural peptides and proteins and Designing peptide-based nanostructures from the bottom up

Prof Graham Leggett, University of Sheffield
Self-assembled monolayers: versatile templates for molecular nanostructures

Dr Teodor Silviu Balaban, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Natural and artificial light-harvesting nanostructures

Dr Richard Berry, University of Oxford
"The bacterial flagellar motor, a (nearly) self-assembled nano-machine"

Dr Brian More, University of Coventry
Intellectual property rights and patenting



SUMMER SCHOOL COSTS:

Summer School and Full-Board Accommodation
Industry Rate - Ł1200/€1680
Academic Rate - Ł850/€1190

Summer School Only
Industry Rate - Ł950/€1330
Academic Rate - Ł600/€840

Please note that VAT @ 17.5% is applicable to the above rates.
Early-bird registration (before 1st June 2004) – 10% discount on above
prices.
IoN Corporate Members – 10% discount on above prices.

Rates include full-board at Robinson College (5 mins. walk from the
Nanoscience Centre), Sunday afternoon until Friday afternoon.

For further details contact: Dr Mark Morrison, mark@nano.org.uk, t +
44(0)141 330 2145

To register contact: Caroline Russell, caroline@nano.org.uk, t + 44 (0)1786
447520





Caroline Russell
Conference Organizer
Institute of Nanotechnology
http://www.nano.org.uk
t +44 (0)1786 447520
f +44 (0)1786 447530



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