BNERC: The 13th International Symposium on Bioscience and Nanotechnology

“The 13th International Symposium on Bioscience and Nanotechnology” was held from 26th to 28th November 2015 at the “Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre Annex: Beta” on the Kawagoe Campus, Toyo University.

The 13th International Symposium on Bioscience and Nanotechnology

Dates:
    26th – 28th November 2015

Place:
    Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre Annex: Beta
    Kawagoe Campus, Toyo University

Organisers:
    Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre
    Graduate School of Interdisciplinary New Science

Supporting institutions/companies:
    Embassy of India
    Embassy of France
    Electron Optics Laboratory (JEOL) Ltd.
    Shimadzu Co.
    Horiba Ltd.
    Hitachi High-Technologies Co.
    Elionix Inc.
    Samco Inc.
    Nissan ARC Ltd.
    Ulvac-Phi Inc.

Total participants: 437

There were 16 plenary talks given by advanced researchers from Japan, India, the UK, France, the US and Singapore, 5 talks by post-doctoral researchers/PhD students from Japan, the UK and France, and 64 poster presentations.

Outline:

26th November 2015
    Presentations by BN Research Centre’s researchers
    Poster sessions
    External evaluation committee

27th November 2015
    Special ceremony inviting the Indian Ambassador to Japan; HE Smt. Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa
    Plenary talks by eminent researchers, PD researchers and PhD students
    Poster sessions
    Get-together

28th November 2015
    Plenary talks by eminent researchers, PD researchers and PhD students
    Poster sessions

The symposium schedule is summarised here.

The participants actively discussed future research collaboration during the symposium and it was decided that three research projects will be initiated based at the Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre.

1.   Development of high resolution bio-imaging methodologies
          Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre, Toyo University, Japan
          Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
          Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, India
          Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

2.   Creation of magnetic nano materials and development of nano robotics
      Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre, Toyo University, Japan
        University of Oxford, UK
        Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France

3.   Creation of metal encapsulated functional fullerenes
          Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre, Toyo University, Japan
        Florida State University, USA
          Université de Nantes, France