National and international biophysicists will gather at the University of Waterloo for the first Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Canada.
Biophysical techniques and discoveries have revolutionized research and technological developments, allowing for the advancement of materials research, bio- and nano-technologies, biosensing, medicine and pharmaceutical research.
“Without biophysics, nanotechnology can’t be applied to biology or medicine,” said Zoya Leonenko, a physics professor at Waterloo and chair of the conference organizing committee.
Organized by the Faculty of Science, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology, the three-day conference will bring industry and researchers together.
A keynote lecture on the history of biophysics in Canada will kick off the event. Over the next two days researchers will give talks on molecular biophysics, new developments in biophysical methods, experimental biophysics and instrument development, biophysics and nanotechnology, theoretical, molecular and structural biophysics and molecular biophysics and biotechnology.
The conference will feature several University of Waterloo experts, including:
- Zoya Leonenko – molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease at the nanoscale
- Shirley Tang – bio-inspired structures from 1D /2D nanomaterials
- Shahed Shahir – 5D hybrid imaging for disease screening
- Farnoud Kazemzadeh – wide-view 3D holographic microscope for water quality testing
- Dennis Curry – next generation gold nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems
- Shawn Wettig – removing barriers for synthetic gene therapy
- Juewen Liu – understanding the interaction between phospholipids and inorganic surfaces to improve drug delivery
- Bernie Glick – introduction to modern biotechnology
- Michael Palmer – understanding the antibacterial action mode of daptomycin
- Helen Broom – toxic aggregation and ALS
Date: Wednesday June 17-19, 2015
Location: Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre, room 0101
For more information and the detailed program, please visit the conference website.
