CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:
16th Annual Conference on
FOUNDATIONS OF NANOSCIENCE:
SELF-ASSEMBLED ARCHITECTURES AND DEVICES (FNANO19)

Monday, April 15 – Thursday, April 18, 2019

Snowbird Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, Utah

***SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT of STUDENT TRAVEL SUPPORT***

FNANO has applied for $12,000 from NSF for travel support (providing approx. $200/student) for US undergraduate and graduate students that are presenting posters or talks.

**Also, Co-Located Workshop for Early-Career Nanoscientists, Sunday April 14 (see below)***

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 14 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, FNANO16, FNANO17 and FNANO18).  The 16th Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO19) 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. (See Policy against Harassment of FNANO and sponsor ISNSCE.)

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 FNANO19 conference and be invited to give prize lectures at FNANO19.

We often include a special track on a topic of emerging interest to the community of nanoscience.

HISTORY: PRIOR FNANO CONFERENCES & SCHEDULES

OVERVIEW OF TRACK SCHEDULE (DETAILED PROGRAM)

FNANO19 WEBPAGE:  www.cs.duke.edu/FNANO19

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 20, 2019. To submit, upload on the FNANO submission websiteby February 20, 2019an abstract of one to two pages in PDF format (submission website to be opened January 5, 2019). Even if your talk is invited, you still need to submit an abstract by this date.
Acceptance/Rejection DECISIONS: by March 1, 2019.

REGISTRATION: Registation Website. Early Registration Deadline: March 15, 2019.

Also: Workshop for Early-Career Nanoscientists (Chaired by Philip Lukeman) Sunday April 14th, from 1-5pm in the Maybird room in the lobby of the Cliff Lodge (see below for details).

CONFERENCE VENUE: The Conference Venue is the Snowbird Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, Utah. Website for booking Snowbird Hotel Rooms with Reduced Rates: Snowbird Hotel Accomodations. CUT-OFF DATE for Snowbird Hotel Room Reduced Rates: March 21, 2019.

Sponsored by: ISNSCE. Jointly supported by:

                                           
NSF, ARMY Research Office, ONR, and AFSOR.

           
Guild BioSciences.        

Sponsored by: ISNSCE. Jointly supported by:

                                           
NSF, ARMY Research Office, ONR, and AFSOR.

           
Guild BioSciences.        

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: Semantomorphic Science	Nadrian Seeman     ned.seeman@nyu.edu	Dept of Chemistry, New York Univ, New York, NY
DNA Nanosytems: Programmed Function	Friedrich Simmel     simmel@tum.de	Dept of Physics, Technical University Munich, Germany
Protein & Viral Nanostructures	Nicole Steinmetz     nsteinmetz@eng.ucsd.edu	Dept. Nanoengineering, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA
Integrated Chemical Systems	Jeremiah Gassensmith        gassensmith@utdallas.edu	Dept of Chemistry, University of Texas, Dallas
Principles and Theory of Self-Assembly (Posters only in 2019)	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
Chemical Tools for DNA Nanotechnology	Andrew Ellington     ellingtonlab@gmail.com Floyd Romesberg    floyd@scripps.edu	Chemistry and Biochemistry Dept, Univ of Texas at Austin Scripps Research Institute, LaJolla, CA
Biomedical Nanotechnology	Thomas LaBean     thlabean@ncsu.edu	Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
Nanophotonics & Superresolution	Ralf Jungmann     jungmann@biochem.mpg.de	Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Molecular Machinery	Andrew Turberfield    a.turberfield@physics.ox.ac.uk	Dept of Physics, Oxford Univ, Oxford, UK

Workshop for Early-Career Nanoscientists (Chaired by Philip Lukeman) Sunday April 14th, from 1-5pm in the Maybird room in the lobby of the Cliff Lodge: This mini-conference will enable early-career scientists  to come together in a highly-stimulating and non-intimidating environment to discuss their current research, receive feedback on their presentation skills and build informal networks with their peers. If you are an advanced undergrad, graduate student, or postdoc coming to FNANO19 please consider coming to this session to network and practice your presentation skills. If you are a PI who is bringing an advanced undergrad, student or postdoc to FNANO, consider sending them to this session. In addition to the NSF funding that is mentioned on the website, we have up to $340 per FNANO-X attendee to help support either FNANO conference registration (mandatory!) or accommodation costs at Snowbird. Attendance will be limited, and prospective attendees will be required to submit an abstract of their  proposed 15-minute research presentation - which should be aimed at scientists who are not deeply familiar with their work. Eligible topics are ones that cover the same scientific breadth as the parent conference (FNANO). (Note: people who give posters can ALSO talk in the miniconference!) If you are interested in applying please send a maximum 200-word abstract to Phil Lukeman (lukemanp@stjohns.edu) by March 24th along with talk title, participant name and affiliation. Applicants will be notified by March 29th.