On-Site Meeting at Snowbird was Cancelled:
Online Proceedings provides web links to streamed talks and posters:
DOWNLOAD FNANO20 PROCEEDINGS
17th Annual Conference on
FOUNDATIONS OF NANOSCIENCE:
SELF-ASSEMBLED ARCHITECTURES AND DEVICES (FNANO20)
Originally Scheduled: Monday, April 6 – Thursday, April 9, 2020
Snowbird Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, Utah
Our VIRTUAL FNANO20:
We have created a virtual FNANO 2020 to allow us to continue to share our research despite the restrictions that are affecting us all. The format is simple: we are making available (universally) a programme of the conference and a ‘workbook’ containing all abstracts with embedded links to videos, slide shows and posters provided by the presenters (all abstracts not specifically withdrawn are included – not all have links) – see https://www2.cs.duke.edu/FNANO20/FNANO20Proceedings.pdf . We hope that you will take advantage of this informal ‘virtual conference’ to maintain communication and encourage progress in our research community.
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 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, FNANO18 and FNANO19). The 17th Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO20) 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 FNANO20 conference and be invited to give prize lectures at FNANO20. The Royal Society of Chemistry Journals will also sponser 2 student poster prizes: one £200 cash award sponsored by Nanoscale Horizons and another £100 cash award sponsored by Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances jointly.
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
DOWNLOAD FNANO20 PROCEEDINGS WITH LINKS TO STREAMED TALKS
FNANO20 WEBPAGE: www.cs.duke.edu/FNANO20
CONFERENCE FORMAT: A combination of:
- invited and contributed talks, and
- posters and open discussion periods.
Sponsored by: ISNSCE. Jointly supported by:
NSF, ARMY Research Office, ONR, and AFSOR and 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 (Posters only in 2020) |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Special Track on Protocells and Encapsulated Systems |
Jack Szostak
szostak@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu |
Dept. Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University |
