CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:
14th Annual Conference on
FOUNDATIONS OF NANOSCIENCE:
SELF-ASSEMBLED ARCHITECTURES AND DEVICES (FNANO17)
Monday, April 10 – Thursday, April 13, 2017
Snowbird Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, Utah
***SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT of STUDENT TRAVEL SUPPORT***
FNANO has just received $12,000 from NSF for student travel support (providing approx. $100/student).
FNANO Conference OVERVIEW:
This is a yearly conference on the foundations of nanoscience, maintaining the highest scientific standards and providing many opportunities for discussion and informal exchange of information and questions. Key topics include experimental and theoretical studies of self-assembled architectures and devices, at scales ranging from nano-scale to meso-scale. Self-assembly is a central but not exclusive theme: the conference covers a broad range of research into synthetic and natural nanoscale structures, devices and systems.
FNANO spans many traditional disciplines including chemistry, biochemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering. Information on the prior 13 years’ Conferences on Foundations of Nanoscience can be viewed at the archive web site (FNANO04, FNANO05, FNANO06, FNANO07, FNANO08, FNANO09, FNANO10, FNANO11, FNANO12, FNANO13, FNANO14, FNANO15 and FNANO16). The 14th Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO17) will have a mixture of invited talks by distinguished scientists as well as contributed posters and open discussion periods to enhance attendee interaction with the goal of creating vibrant intellectual community in the areas of nanoscience and self-assembly.
ANNUAL PRIZE AWARDS: The Nanoscience Prize recognizes life-long achievements by a researcher working in any area of nanoscience. Also, the Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize recognizes exceptional early-career achievement by a researcher working in any area of molecular programming. The winners of these prizes will be awarded during an evening session of the upcoming FNANO17 conference and be invited to give prize lectures at FNANO17.
We often include a special track on a topic of emerging interest to the community of nanoscience.
HISTORY: PRIOR FNANO CONFERENCES & SCHEDULES
DETAILED CONFERENCE PROGRAM (PDF download - to be uploaded March 15)
FNANO17 WEBPAGE: www.cs.duke.edu/FNANO17
Sponsored by: ISNSCE
Jointly supported by: NSF, ARMY Research Office, and ONR.
Also partial support from:
Guild BioSciences.
CONFERENCE FORMAT: A combination of:
- invited and contributed talks, and
- posters and open discussion periods.
PAPER and POSTER SUBMISSIONS: http://www.cs.duke.edu/FNANO/abstract_submission.html
SUBMISSIONS: EXTENDED DEADLINE: February 25, 2017. (submissions to be opened January 10, 2017) Upload by February 1, 2017 an abstract of one to two pages in PDF format. Even if your talk is invited, you still need to submit an abstract by this date.
Acceptance/Rejection DECISIONS: by March 1, 2017.
REGISTRATION: http://fnano.cs.duke.edu/registration/ (Registation Website to be opened January 15, 2017) Early Registration Deadline: March 15, 2017.
CONFERENCE VENUE: The Conference Venue is the Snowbird Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, Utah.
CUT-OFF DATE for Snowbird Hotel Room Reduced Rates: March 8, 2017.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
General Chair: John H. Reif 
, Dept of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC
Program Chair: Andrew Turberfield , Dept of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Descriptions of the program Tracks are provided on the Organization and Program Tracks website.
Track |
Chair |
Affiliation |
DNA Nanostructures |
Nadrian Seeman  
ned.seeman@nyu.edu |
Dept of Chemistry, New York Univ, New York, NY |
Protein & Viral Nanostructures |
Nicole Steinmetz  
nicole.steinmetz@case.edu |
Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve Univ., OH |
Integrated Chemical Systems |
Jeremiah Gassensmith  
gassensmith@utdallas.edu |
Dept of Chemistry, University of Texas, Dallas |
Principles and Theory of Self-Assembly |
Rebecca Schulman  
rschulm3@jhu.edu |
Chemical Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD |
Computational Tools for Self-Assembly |
William Shih  
William_Shih@dfci.harvard.edu |
Depts of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
Synthetic Biology |
Alex Deiters  
deiters@pitt.edu |
Dept. Chemistry, Univ. of Pittsburgh |
Nucleic Acid Nanostructures in Vivo |
Yamuna Krishnan  
yamuna@uchicago.edu |
Dept. Chemistry, Univ. of Chicago |
DNA & Analytical Methods |
Andrew Ellington  
ellingtonlab@gmail.com |
Chemistry and Biochemistry Dept, Univ of Texas at Austin |
Biomedical Nanotechnology |
Thomas LaBean  
thlabean@ncsu.edu |
Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC |
Modified DNA |
Floyd Romesberg  
floyd@scripps.edu |
Scripps Research Institute, LaJolla, CA |
Nanophotonics & Superresolution |
Tim Liedl  
tim.liedl@physik.lmu.de |
Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians Univ, Munich, Germany |
Molecular Motors |
Andrew Turberfield
a.turberfield@physics.ox.ac.uk |
Dept of Physics, Oxford Univ, Oxford, UK |
