First Conference on Biomotors, Virus Assembly, and Nanobiotechnology Applications

Organizing Institutes: The Ohio State University; Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine

Date: August 16 - 19th, 2017

Location: The Ohio State University Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Rd, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

We are pleased to announce the First Conference on Biomotors, Virus Assembly, and Nanobiotechnology Applications to be held August 16-19, 2017 at the Fawcett Center near the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH, USA. We have invited some of the leading scientists and engineers working in the diverse fields of chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics, structural biology, microbiology, cell biology, materials, and nanotechnology to participate.

Due to the great potential in the application of biomotors and viral components in nanotechnology, one motivation of organizing this conference is to promote the participation of more bioscientists into the nanobiotechnology field. Our cross-disiplinary approach to virus assembly, biomotor, and nanobiotechnology research is designed to foster collaborations among scientists.

Conference Chair
Dr. Peixuan Guo

Sylvan G. Frank Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery;
Director of Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine;
President of International Society of RNA Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine;
Professor of College of Pharmacy and College of Medicine;
Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute (DHLRI);
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

Local host chair: Farzin Haque, Ph.D.
Director of Research, P&Z Biological Technology

            co-chairs: Hui Zhang, Ph.D.
                              Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University

                              Jianhua Yu, Ph.D.
                              Associate Professor, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University

Organizers and Scientific Program Committee

Stephen Kowalczykowski

Professor & Member of National Academy of Sciences;
Single molecule studies on biomotor (Nature 2012 & Nature 2013);
University of California at Davis, USA
Ian J. Molineux

Professor, Editor of Virology journal;
Motors for viral DNA and genome ejection (Science 2013, Nature 2014 & PNAS 2015);
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Wah Chiu

Professor & Member of National Academy of Sciences;
Cryo-EM structure of viruses and nanomedicine (Nature 2014, Nat. Commun. 2015 & PNAS 2015);
Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Hiroyuki Noji

Professor;
Single molecule studies on FoF1-ATP biomotors (Science 2011, Nat. Commun. 2014 & Sci Rep. 2015);
University of Tokyo, Japan
Nils Walter

Professor;
Single molecule studies on RNA motion (Nat. Commun. 2013, JACS 2015 & Nat. Commun. 2016);
University of Michigan, USA
Xing-Jie Liang

Professor & Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Biophysics Reports journal;
Nanobiotechnology (Nat Nanotechnol. 2016 & ACS Nano 2016);
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, CAS, China
Yizhou Dong

Asst. Professor;
Nanobiotechnology (Nat. Nanotechnol. 2014, Nano Lett. 2016 & Sci Rep. 2016);
The Ohio State University, USA
Ian Grainge

Assoc. Professor;
Mechanism of bacterial DNA translocation motor (Sci Rep. 2016);
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Christophe Lavelle

Research Scientist, Editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Life Science journal & Editor of Methods journal;
DNA and chromatin biophysics (Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2014 & Nucleic Acids Res. 2015);
CNRS & Sorbonne Universities at Paris, France

Confirmed Speakers (listed in no particular order)

Piotr Grodzinski

Director of NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer at NIH;
Cancer Nanotechnology (Lancet 2014 & Cancer Res. 2014);
National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA
Stephen Kowalczykowski

Professor & Member of National Academy of Sciences;
Single molecule studies on biomotor (Nature 2012 & Nature 2013);
University of California at Davis, USA
Chen Wang

Professor, Director of National Center for Nanoscience and Technology;
Single molecule studies of assembling mechanisms of amyloid peptides (Sci Rep. 2015, Sci Rep. 2016 & ACS Nano 2016);
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
Christophe Lavelle

Research Scientist, Editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Life Science journal & Editor of Methods journal;
DNA and chromatin biophysics (Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2014 & Nucleic Acids Res. 2015);
CNRS & Sorbonne Universities at Paris, France
Peixuan Guo

Professor & Director of Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine;
Phi29 DNA packaging motor and RNA nanotechnology (Nat Nanotechnol. 2010, Nat Nanotechnol. 2011, Nano Today 2015 & ACS Nano 2017);
The Ohio State University, USA
Nils Walter

Professor;
Single molecule studies on RNA motion (Nat. Commun. 2013, JACS 2015 & Nat. Commun. 2016);
University of Michigan, USA
Lindsay W. Black

Professor;
Pioneer in T4 DNA packaging motor (PNAS 2014 & Virology 2015);
University of Maryland, USA
Paulo Tavares

Senior Investigator;
Pioneer in SPP1 DNA packaging motor (PNAS 2015);
Université Paris-Saclay, France
Eckhard Jankowsky

Professor;
Single molecule biophysics on RNA helicases (Nat. Chem Biol. 2017);
Case Western Reserve University, USA
Xing-Jie Liang

Professor & Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Biophysics Reports journal;
Nanobiotechnology (Nat Nanotechnol. 2016 & ACS Nano 2016);
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, CAS, China
Alex Sparreboom

Professor;
Drug transporters and clinical cancer pharmacology (Nat Commun. 2016);
The Ohio State University, USA
Charles Bell

Assoc. Professor;
Crystal Structure and mechanism of viral DNA packaging motors (Biochemistry 2015);
The Ohio State University, USA
Yizhou Dong

Asst. Professor;
Nanobiotechnology (Nat. Nanotechnol. 2014, Nano Lett. 2016 & Sci Rep. 2016);
The Ohio State University, USA
Richard Fishel

Professor;
Single molecule studies of genetics and DNA repair (Nature 2016 & PNAS 2016);
The Ohio State University, USA
Kathleen Boris-Lawrie

Professor & Department Chair;
Studies of retroviruses that cause cancer and AIDS (J Mol Biol. 2016);
University of Minnesota, USA
Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen

Senior Investigator & Editor of Theranostics journal;
Expert in molecular imaging and nanomedicine (Adv Mater. 2017);
NIH/NIBIB, USA
Ian Grainge

Assoc. Professor;
Mechanism of bacterial DNA translocation motor (Sci Rep. 2016);
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Wei Feng

Professor;
Molecular motor-mediated intracellular transport (J Mol Biol. 2016);
Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China
Rajgopal Govindarajan

Assoc. Professor;
Drug transporters and pancreatic cancer (Cancer Lett. 2015);
The Ohio State University, USA
Tengchuan Jin

Appointed Researcher;
Structural biology of innate immune receptors (Sci Rep. 2017);
University of Science & Technology of China, China
Wah Chiu

Professor & Member of National Academy of Sciences;
Cryo-EM structure of viruses and nanomedicine (Nature 2014, Nat. Commun. 2015 & PNAS 2015);
Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Carlo Montemagno

Professor;
Nanobiotechnology (Small 2017);
University of Alberta, Canada
Qunxin She

Assoc. Professor;
Archaeal genomics and global regulatory mechanisms (Nucleic Acids Res. 2016);
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Guo-Min Li

Professor;
Mechanistic studies on motors on DNA mismatch repair (Cell 2013 & PNAS 2015);
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, USA
Yao-Gen Shu

Researcher;
Single molecule biophysic studies of biomolecules (J Phys Conde Matt. 2017);
Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS, China
Junghae Suh

Assoc. Professor;
Re-programming viruses as biomolecular devices (ACS Nano 2016 & Sci Rep. 2016);
Rice University, USA
Hui Wei

Professor;
Nanobiotechnology and functional nanomaterials (Anal Chem. 2016);
Nanjing University, China
Dale Wigley

Professor & Fellow of Royal Society;
DNA repair studies in bacteria (PNAS 2012 & Nature 2014);
Imperial College London, UK
Christopher Yengo

Assoc. Professor;
Structural mechanism of molecular motor (PNAS 2015);
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Dong Men

Assoc. Professor;
Self-assembled protein nanostructure (ACS Nano. 2015);
Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China
Mark Bathe

Assoc. Professor;
Nucleic acid nanotechnology, quantitative biology and biophysics (Science 2014 & Science 2016);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Ian J. Molineux

Professor, Editor of Virology journal;
Motors for viral DNA and genome ejection (Science 2013, Nature 2014 & PNAS 2015);
University of Texas at Austin, USA
B. Mark Evers

Professor & Director of Markey Cancer Center;
Gastrointestinal cancer and surgery (ACS Nano 2015 & Nature 2016);
University of Kentucky, USA
Mamuka Kvaratskhelia

Kimberly Professor;
Molecular mechanisms of retroviral replication and allosteric HIV-1 integrase inhibitors (Cell 2016);
The Ohio State University, USA
Carlos Catalano

Professor;
Molecular mechanisms of Lamda bacteriophage DNA packaging motor (PNAS 2013 & Biochemistry 2017);
University of Colorado, USA
Hiroyuki Noji

Professor;
Single molecule studies on FoF1-ATP biomotors (Science 2011, Nat. Commun. 2014 & Sci Rep. 2015);
University of Tokyo, Japan
Naoki Sugimoto

Professor & Director of Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research (FIBER);
Biophysical Chemistry of Nucleic Acids (Sci Rep. 2016);
Konan University, Japan
David Jeruzalmi

Professor;
X-ray crystallography for DNA biology studies (Nucleic Acids Res. 2016);
City College of New York, USA
Feng Li

Professor;
Viral nanotechnology and virus-based probes for imging and smart delivery (JACS 2011 & ACS Nano 2015);
Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China
Zongqiang Cui

Professor;
Virus-host interactions in live cells and animals (Nano Lett. 2016 & ACS Nano 2016);
Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China
Kirill Afonin

Asst. Professor;
Dynamic RNA nanostructures and immunological nucleic acids (ACS Nano 2015 & Nano Lett. 2016);
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Xiaoting Zhang

Assoc. Professor;
RNA nanotherapeutics (ACS Nano 2017);
University of Cincinnati, USA
Yuri Lyubchenko

Professor;
Strucutural genomics and protein-DNA interactions (Sci Rep. 2015);
University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Anil K. Sood

Professor;
Ovarian and breast cancer research (Nat Rev Cancer 2015);
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Steve Harvey

Professor;
Mechanism of DNA packaging in viruses (J Phys Chem B. 2016);
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Ning Fang

Assoc. Professor;
Single molecule and nanoparticle imaging (JACS 2014 & Sci Rep. 2015);
Georgia State University, USA
Liqun (Andrew) Gu

Assoc. Professor;
Single molecule biosensing and nanobiotechnology (Nat Nanotechnol. 2011 & Nat Nanotechnol. 2012);
University of Missouri, USA
Jia Geng

Professor;
Single-molecule biophysics and nanopore (ACS Nano 2013 & Nature 2014);
Sichuan University, China
Gino Cingolani

Professor;
Nucleocytoplasmic transport, virus assembly, architecture of viral genome ejection/packaging motors (Nat Commun. 2017);
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Kevin Raney

Professor;
DNA and RNA helicase (J Biol Chem. 2016);
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
Thomas Schmittgen

Professor;
Exosomes and non-coding RNA (Sci Rep. 2016);
University of Florida, USA
Gregory Bowman

Assoc. Professor;
Chromatin remodeling machines (Mol. Cell 2017);
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Vincent Croquette

Research Director;
Single molecule studies of biomotors (Nat. Commun. 2015);
École Normale Supérieure, France
Elena Orlova

Professor;
Bacteriophage assembly (PNAS 2015 & Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2015);
University of London, UK
Ulrich F. Keyser

Professor;
Single molecule study of membrane transport (Nat Nanotechnol. 2016 & ACS Nano 2017);
University of Cambridge, UK
David Lilley

Professor & Fellow of Royal Society;
Nucleic acid structure and activity (Nat Chem Biol. 2017 & Cell Chem Biol. 2017);
University of Dundee, UK
Harohide Saito

Professor;
RNA synthetic biology and nanobiotechnology (Sci Rep. 2016);
Kyoto University, Japan
James M. Berger

Professor & Member of the National Academy of Sciences;
Mechanisms of DNA and RNA-dependent motor proteins and assemblies (Nature. 2015 & Cell 2015);
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
Smita Patel

Professor;
DNA replication and transcription (Cell Rep. 2014, Nat Commun. 2015 & Cell 2015);
Rutgers University, USA
Zhengyi Zhao

Project Manager;
RNA nanotechnology and Phi29 dsDNA packaging motor (ACS Nano 2013 & Small 2016);
Nanobio Delivery Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. USA
Fengmei Pi

Ph.D;
RNA Nanotechnology and drug delivery (J Virol. 2016);
Nanobio Delivery Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. USA
Meni Wanunu

Assoc. Professor;
Single-molecule biophysics, nanopores & DNA/RNA sequencing (Nucleic Acids Res. 2015, Nano Lett. 2016 & ACS Nano 2017);
Northeastern University, USA
John Kasianowicz

Professor;
Single-molecule sensing, viral infection and protein secretion (Anal Chem. 2016 & JACS 2016);
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
Mauro Ferrari

Professor, President & CEO of Houston Methodist Research Institute;
Nanomedicine, drug delivery and biosensors (Cancer Res. 2017);
Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA
Min Chen

Asst. Professor;
Membrane protein for nanopore sensing (ACS Nano 2015 & Anal Chem. 2015);
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Haichen Wu

Professor;
Biological nanopore for single-molecule sensing (JACS 2011 & Anal Chem. 2016);
Institute of Chemistry, CAS, China
Sarah Woodson

Professor;
Ribosome assembly, RNA folding and dynamics (PNAS 2014 & PNAS 2016);
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Di Xia

Senior Investigator;
Membrane protein and crystallography (Sci Rep. 2016);
National Cancer Institute, USA