2003 Biotechnology Conference in collaboration with 2003 Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show February 23-27, 2003 Grand Hyatt San Francisco , California, U.S.A. Conference Technical Program

Topics and Application Areas

The major areas of activity in the development of biotechnology solicited and expected at this conference include but are not limited to:

• Drug Design and Molecular Medicine
• Proteomics and Protein Engineering
• Ion Channels
• Biomimetic Membranes
• Computational Biology
• Lab-On-Chips
• National Security
• Viral Engineering
• Target-Driven Chemistry

A technical digest and CD ROM, consisting of articles submitted by authors of both oral and poster papers will be distributed to participants at registration.

Biotechnology Chair

Biotechnology Committee

Technical Program Chairs

Biotechnology Highlights

• Phaedon Avouris
  IBM Research Division
  Title to be Announced
• David Awschalom
  UC Santa Barbara
  Manipulating Quantum Information with Semiconductor Spintronics
• Christian Joachim
  CEMES-CNRS
  Molecular Wires and Logic Circuit Integration in a Single Molecule
• Albert P. Pisano
  University of California at Berkeley
  The MEMS-Nano Connections: Accessing Nanotechnology through Microtechnology
• George Robillard
  Founder and Director of BioMade Corporation, Groningen, Netherlands
  NanoTech Devices: Towards Protein Control of Surface Activity and Permeability
• Sandeep Malhotra
  Vice President of Nanotechnology, Ardesta
  Joseph Schumpeter ... Meet Dr. Feynman
• Eiichi Maruyama
  RIKEN Frontier Research System, Japan
  Title to be announced
• Robert Rudd
  Lawrence, Livermore National Laboratory
  Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics for Nano-Design

• Computational Cell Biology
  Andrzej Przekwas
  CFD Research Corporation

Biological Cells are spatially organized into membranes, organelles, and cytoskeleton. Cellular physiological function is determined by myriad of biochemical reactions and biophysical processes coordinated in time and space by cellular control mechanisms. Historically cellular biology was mainly an empirical science and compact mathematical modeling theories were rare. Recent progress in computational biophysics and biochemistry as well as wealth of empirical bioinformatics data opened new opportunities in cellular biology. We believe that computational cell biology (CCB) will become the next "killer application" in the scientific computing arena. Read more.

• Modeling of Micro and Nano Fluidic Systems
  Narayan Aluru, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Steffen Hardt, Institute of Microtechnology, Mainz, Germany
• DNA- and Protein-Chip^© design and modeling
  Andreas Hieke, Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc.
• Converging Technologies at the Nanoscale to Improve Human Performance
  Mihail Roco, National Science Foundation
• Biomimetics: Emulating Biological Principles of Organization and Function at the Nanoscale
  Atul Parikh, UC-Davis
• Lab on a Chip; Fluidics to Proteomics
  Srinivas Iyer, Los Alamos National Lab
• Drug Design and Molecular Medicine
  Kurt Krause, University of Houston
• Nanoscale Bio-Molecular Analysis and Characterization
  Jose Olivares, Los Alamos National Lab
• Nanostructures; Biological Ion Channels to Thin Oxides
  Bob Eisenberg, Rush Medical Center
• The PEM Fuel Cell: Materials and Device Modeling
  Stephen J. Paddison
  Los Alamos National Laboratory

• Micro and Nano CAD Tool Panel
  Jacob White
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Opportunities in the Integration of Micro, Nano and Bio Technologies
  Venture Capital Panel

• Fundamentals and Applications of Micro/Nanofluidics
  Steve Wereley
  Purdue University
• Molecular Modeling for Nanotechnology
  Gerhard Goldbeck-Wood
  Accelrys