Programme Day 1
Thursday 17th of September
Please note, times are UK (GMT+1)
Please attend the full session - In case of technical issues the order or speakers may be changed to allow trouble shooting, therefore we cannot guarantee the exact start time of each speaker.
| 10:00 |
Annela Seddon BCFN Director |
Introduction |
| Session 1 - 10:00-11:00 - Chair: Annela Seddon | ||
| 10:15 |
Michael Thomas UCL Lecturer BCFN Alumni |
Nanoparticle Empowered Disease Diagnostics
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| 10:45 |
Ella Carter BCFN student |
DNA-Based Diagnostics and Delivery of Therapeutics for the Treatment of Gonorrhoea |
11:00-11:30 Coffee
| Session 2 - 11:30-12:15 - Chair: Ian Lindsay | ||
| 11:30 |
Irina Plesco NCMST student |
Application of 2D and 3D semiconductor nano-architectures for organic dye photodegradation |
| 11:45 |
Fergus Moore BCFN student |
Active Matter in Porous Materials |
| 12:00 |
Matthew Skeats BCFN student |
Chlorhexidine Polyphosphate: An Alternative to Antibiotics in Orthopaedic Bone Cements? |
12:15-13:30 Lunch and Posters
| Session 3 - 13:30 - 14:30 - Chair: Henkjan Gersen | ||
| 13:30 |
Birgit Andree MHH researcher |
Cardiovascular tissue engineering based on natural matrices |
| 14:00 |
William Macalester BCFN student |
3D Bioprinting: Building a Human Bone-Dentin Interface |
| 14:15 |
Rafael Moreno BCFN student |
Conciliating bottom-up and top-down approaches: Molecularly engineering silk fibroin for biomaterials fabrication |
14:30-15:00 Coffee
| Session 4 - 15:30 - 16:15 - Andrei Sarua | ||
| 15:30 |
Cloe Desmet JRC postdoctoral researcher |
Characterization of nanomaterials hydrophobicity: from research to harmonized testing |
| 16:00 |
Fabiola Cardoso Delgado BCFN student |
Investigating blue leaf iridescence of Phyllagathis rotundifolia |
| 16:15 |
Posters
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BCFN – Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials
UoB – University of Bristol
NCMST – National Centre for Materials Study and Testing, Technical University of Moldova
MHH – Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
JCR - Joint Research Centre European Commission
UCL – University College London
RIT - Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden)