NanoSustainability CNBSS Workshop

The CNBSS will hold its first NanoSustainability Workshop at the Centre d'Estudis i Recursos Culturals (CERC), in Barcelona, Spain, on October 26th, 2011. Some of the invited researchers and policy designers in the Nanotoxicology field are: Prof. Günter Oberdörster, Dr. David Lundberg, Prof. Robert Rallo, Dr. Margrethe Winther-Nielsen, Dr. Andrew Nelson, Dr. Damià Barceló and Dr. Nico van den Brink. 

In its aim of providing expertise within the safety and sustainability of products containing Nanotechnology, CNBSS has offered to support talented future experts by training them with guest speakers that are currently influencing the world of NanoSustainability in Europe and USA. They will cover topics such as the impact of Nanoparticles on human health (from the cellular level to the physical pathology), as well as their impact on the environment.

Topics

• Dosimetry and effects of inhaled nanomaterials
• Hazard assessment of nanoparticles in soils, including exposure assessment
• Environmental fate and effect of nanomaterials
• Electrochemical modelling of biomembrane/nanoparticle interactions
• Fate and global risk of carbon based nanomaterials in the environment
• Nanoinformatics for nanosafety assessment
• The Californian initiative on science and innovation: CNSI-CEIN

Programme

Invited

• Prof. Dr. Günter Oberdörster, Medical Center of the University of Rochester, Rochester NY, USA.
• Dr. Nico van den Brink, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands.
• Dr. Margrethe Winther-Nielsen, Product Safety & Environment at the DHI Group, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Dr. Andrew Nelson, Centre of Molecular Nanoscience of the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
• Dr. Damià Barcel, Institute of Environmental Diagnosis and Water Studies (IDAEA), Girona, Spain.
• Dr. Robert Rallo, University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.
• Dr. David Lundberg, California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), Los Angeles, USA.