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	Wolfgang P. Meier Professor of Chemistry University of Basel, Switzerland
	Rafael Hernandez Assistant Professor Co-Director of the Renewable Fuels and Chemicals Laboratory Mississippi State University
	Cabot Corporate Needs Jake M. Reder New Business Development Project Leader Cabot Corporation
	Technology Commercialization Sean Lee Licensing Associate, Physical Sciences Office of Technology Transfer, Boston University
	NASA NDE Applications for Mobile MEMS Devices and Sensors William (Cy) Wilson Researcher, Non-Destructive Evaluation Sciences Branch NASA Langley Research Center
	Chad A. Mirkin Professor, Department of Chemistry Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology Northwestern University
	Jay Inslee Congressman , Washington’s First Congressional District United States Congress Co-author of Apollo's Fire - Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy
	David Kopans Director of Regulatory Affairs Fat Spaniel Technologies, Inc.
	Angela M. Belcher Germehausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Sam Bhattacharyya Director, Savannah River National Laboratory Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC
	Air Products & Chemicals: Corporate & Technology Needs Vincent Magnotta Manager, Corporate Technology Transfer Air Products and Chemicals
	Wilson Poon SRC Senior Research Fellow & Professor of Condensed Matter Physics SUPA and School of Physics The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
	Scott E. DePasquale Vice President Venture Investment Group GE Energy Financial Services
	Robert C. Renner Executive Director Awwa Research Foundation
	Structure of Filamentous Phage Particles and Their Components Stanley J. Opella Professor University of California, San Diego
	Stoddard M. “Todd” Wilson General Partner RockPort Capital Partners
	Kieran F. Drain President and Chief Executive Officer NanoGram Corporation
	Greg Haugstad Director, Characterization Facility, Institute of Technology, University of Minesota MiNTeC node of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
	Nick Quirke Vice President UCD, Chair of Chemistry Imperial College London, UK
	Daniel Attinger Founder, Laboratory for Microscale Transport Phenomena Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department Columbia University
	Microfluidics in Life Sciences Joel S. Rossier Co-Founder DiagnoSwiss S.A., Switzerland
	David A. Weitz Professor Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Group Department of Physics Harvard University
	Joseph P. Strakey Chief Technology Officer National Energy Technology Laboratory Department of Energy
	Shape Memory Polymer Nanocomposites Sadhan C. Jana Professor, Department of Polymer Engineering University of Akron
	Supriyo Bandyopadhyay Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor of Physics Virginia Commonwealth University
	Self-Assembly and Properties of Block Copolypeptide Materials Timothy John Deming Professor and Chair, Department of Bioengineering University of California, Los Angeles
	Warren Belmar Deputy General Counsel for Energy Policy U. S. Department of Energy
	David Wright Associate Professor of Chemistry Vanderbilt University
	Mansoor Amiji Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Associate Chairman, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Co-Director, Nanomedicine Education and Research Consortium (NERC) Northeastern University
	Bjornulf White Manager, Business Development Lockheed Martin Corporation
	Alexander “Hap” Ellis III General Partner RockPort Capital Partners
	Mitch Tyson Chief Executive Officer Advanced Electron Beams
	Sarah L. Tao Senior Research Engineer, MEMS Design The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
	Andrew Zaske Product GM – Engineered Systems GE Water & Process Technologies
	Amy Corinne Smith Senior Vice President Co-Head of Alternative Energy Banking Lehman Brothers
	Paul Dickerson Chief Operating Officer Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy U.S. Department of Energy
	Sheldon B. Davis Manager Process Research and Development Cabot Corporation
	Polycationic coatings that kill bacteria and viruses on contact Alexander M. Klibanov Novartis Endowed Chair Professor of Chemistry & Bioengineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Fiona Case Case Scientific NSTI Soft Nanotech Coordinator
	Technologies for Portable Electronics Jerry Hallmark Manager - Energy System Technologies Motorola - Mobile Devices
	Vladimir Torchilin Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine Northeastern University
	New Routes to Gels and Glasses, or how to apply analogies between soft matter physics and food systems Anna Stradner Leader Joint Nestlé - University of Fribourg Research Group University of Fribourg, Switzerland
	Phage-Based Patient-Specific Navigation Systems Susan L. Deutscher Associate Professor of Biochemistry University of Missouri
	Daniel Gross Partner Hudson Clean Energy Partners, L.P.
	Reid Leonard Director, External Research and Licensing Merck Research Laboratories
	Carbon Nano Tubes: Fundamentals and Applications Meyya Meyyappan Director of the Center for Nanotechnology Senior Scientist NASA Ames Research Center
	BASF Corporate & Technology Needs Mark Mielke Senior Manager BASF Future Business GmbH
	David Douglas Vice President, Eco Responsibility Sun Microsystems Inc.
	Amplification and Self Assemblage of Phage Particles George P. Smith Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, Tucker Hall University of Missouri
	Functional Nanoparticles and Films made in the Gas-Phase Sotiris E. Pratsinis Professor and Head of the Institute of Process Engineering Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
	Distributed Acoustic Sensing Lewis Girod Postdoctoral Researcher Computer Science and AI Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Sharon L. Nunes Vice President of Big Green Innovations IBM Systems & Technology Group
	Novel Nanocomposite Structures Using Mechanical Attrition Brian S. Mitchell Associate Provost and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
	Alois K. Popp Unilever R&D Vlaardingen, The Netherlands
	New Clean Technologies for Green Building George Elvin Director Green Technology Forum
	Timothy L. Williamson Office of Regional Counsel EPA New England
	Kimihiko Iwamura President Omron Silicon Valley
	Alberto Sanna e-Services for Life and Health Scientific Institute San Rafaele, Italy
	Shyam Venkatesh Omron Silicon Valley
	Deborah L. Morrissett Vice President - Regulatory Affairs Chrysler
	Cellular-scale hydrodynamics Howard A. Stone Vicky Joseph Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics Associate Dean for Academic Programs School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University
	Michael J. Carlson Vice President & Chief Information Officer Xcel Energy
	Polymer Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Novel Applications Yvon Durant Director of the Advanced Polymers Laboratory Materials Science Program University of New Hampshire
	Ray O. Johnson Chief Technology Officer Lockheed Martin Corporation
	Targeted Drug-carrying Filamentous Phage Nanomedicines Itai Benhar Associate Professor Tel-Aviv University, Israel
	Robert L. Hirsch Senior Energy Advisor MISI
	Human tumor-specific phage nanoparticles David Krag S.D. Ireland Professor of Surgery The University of Vermont
	Evolution of Phage Display Towards Nanobiotechnology Valery A. Petrenko Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine Auburn University
	Vinayak P. Dravid Professor, Materials Science & Engineering Director, NUANCE Center Northwestern University
	Cancer Gene Therapy Using Nanoparticle Vectors Jack A. Roth Professor and Chairman Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Bud S. Johnson Clinica Chair, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Oncology Director, W.M. Keck Cancer Center for Cancer Gene Therapy The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
	Advanced X-ray techniques for semiconductor nanostructures: from ensemble average to single object properties Till H. Metzger Senior Scientist European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) Grenoble, France
	Technology Commercialization Michael Pratt Director of Corporate Business Development Office of Technology Transfer, Boston University
	Daniel L. Laird Staff Researcher Sandia National Laboratories
	Nanostructure Fabrication: Challenges of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches Sandip Tiwari Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Lester B. Knight Director of Cornell Nanofabrication Facility Cornell University
	Combinatorial Phage Nanobiotechnology Lee Makowski Senior Scientist, Biosciences Division Argonne National Laboratory
	Paradiso Coskina VDI/VDE-IT, Germany
	Imaging Phage Probes Kimberly A. Kelly Assistant Professor Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
	Peter Adriaens Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Michigan
	Peter Schurtenberger Department of Physics University of Fribourg, Switzerland
	Nanotechnology Applied to Clinical Biomarker Medicine Lance Liotta Professor George Mason University
	SANYO: Corpoate & Technology Needs Naoki Chiba General Manager SANYO Technology Center USA SANYO North America Corporation
	H. Kumar Wickramasinghe The Henry Samueli Endowed Chair, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Irvine
	Nanotechnology at BASF — Precursor Nano-Structures in Crystallization Processes Jens Rieger Research Director BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard BASF, Germany
	Sally C. Gutierrez Director National Risk Management Research Laboratory Office of Research and Development United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
	Paul V. Braun Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	Lewis R. Norman Research Manager Halliburton
	Issam Dairanieh Venturing Team Alternative Energy Division Beyond Petroleum
	Folate-Targeted Nanoparticle Therapies for Cancer Philip S. Low Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor— Biochemistry Purdue University
	Paschalis Alexandridis Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY)
	Wade Adams Chairman of the Board of Texas Nanotechnology Initiative (TNI) Director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Rice University
	Ravi Shanker Corporate Director Ventures and Business Development The Dow Chemical Company
	Medtronic Technology Needs Sarah Audet Director of Technology Planning Medtronic
	David S. Kalez Managing Director, Head of Clean Technology Pacific Crest Securities
	Nano- and Molecular-Scale Electronics Mark A. Reed Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering and Applied Science Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics Yale University
	Phage-based Biorecognition Interfaces in Biosensors Bryan A. Chin Professor and Chair, Materials Research & Education Ctr. Auburn University
	Roy M. Palk President New Horizons Consulting
	Steve Schuster Chairman and Founder Rainier Corporation
	Pete Moller Managing Director GE IP Equity
	Edward P. Furlani Senior Principal Scientist, Device Physics and Simulation Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories
	Andres E. Carvallo Chief Information Officer Austin Energy
	Duncan Macleod Vice President Shell Hydrogen
	Rolf Aschenbrenner Head of Chip Interconnection Technologies Department Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration Berlin (IZM)
	Site-Directed Chemical Modification of Phage Particles Christopher J. Noren Head, Bioorganic Chemistry Division New England Biolabs
	Biomaterials and Nanotechnology for Tissue Engineering Thomas J. Webster Associate Professor Division of Engineering Brown University
	Boeing Corporate Needs Bahram “Bob” Farahmand Technical Fellow, Fatigue & Fracture Mechanics The Boeing Company
	Self-Assembly of Nanoporous Silica Colloids: from Fundamentals to Applications Igor Sokolov Professor, Department of Physics Director, NanoBio Laboratory (NABLAB) Clarkson University
	Ian A. Bowles Secretary, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Commonwealth of Massachusetts
	Nanostructured Surface Characteristics after Ink Jet Printing Jan Sumerel Dimatix, Inc.
	Eastman Kodak - Technology Interests Brian H. Johnston Director, Kodak External Alliances Eastman Kodak Company
	Ingrid Appelqvist Theme Leader, Food Futures Flagship Designed Food and Ingedients Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
	Johannes G.E.M. (Hans) Fraaije Chief Science Officer Culgi BV, The Netherlands
	Jürgen Keller Fraunhofer Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration IZM Micro Materials Center Berlin, Germany
	Henry M.L. Wong Senior Staff Platform Technologist Intel Corporation
	Gabriel A. Silva Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Jacobs School of Engineering And Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine University of California, San Diego
	Yaron Jacobs Chief Executive Officer CQM Ltd.
	Wolfgang S. Bacsa Professor at the Solid State Physics Laboratory Université Paul Sabatier, France
	Pharmacokinetic Optimization of Phage Particles for Gene-Delivery Andrew Baird Professor University of California at San Diego
	Polymer Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Novel Applications Donald C. Sundberg Director of the Nanostructured Polymers Research Center Materials Science Program University of New Hampshire
	Opportunities and Challenges for Clean Surfaces Daniel E. Rardon Senior Scientist and Manager Advanced Technologies, Office of Science & Technology PPG Industries
	Tinh Nguyen Director, NIST/Industry Polymer Interphases Consortium
	Mark N. Milton Vice President of Nonclinical Development Tempo Pharmaceuticals
	Todd French Co-Director, Renewable Fuels and Chemical Laboratory Mississippi State University
	Hang Lu Assistant Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology
	Lee B. Kane EcoCzar Whole Foods Market, North Atlantic Region
	Nikolay Voutchkov Senior Vice President Poseidon Resources Corporation
	Patricia Glaza Executive Director/CEO Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization
	Nanocarriers for Tumor-Targeted Drug Delivery Tamara Minko Professor of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutics Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
	Martin Carrera Technology Associate Alternative Energy Division Beyond Petroleum (BP)
	Alan Sachs Vice President RNA Therapeutics and Molecular Profiling Merck Research Laboratories
	On the Use of Nanoscale Toughening Agents to Improve the Flaw Tolerance of Epoxies Raymond A. Pearson Director, Center for Polymer Science and Engineering (CPSE) Lehigh University
	Genzyme: Technology Needs Bruce M. Pratt Vice President Science Development Genzyme Corporation
	Jeff Osborne Managing Director, Equity Research Alternative Energy Thomas Weisel Partners
	Bio-Inspired Synthesis of Nanostructured Semiconductors and Ferroelectrics Andrea R. Tao UCOP Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies UC Santa Barbara
	Jack Zedlitz Director of Corporate Communications GreenHunter Energy, Inc.
	Steven Xanthoudakis Director, Licensing and External Research Merck Research Labs, Canada
	Walter A. (Tony) Maull, Jr. CleanTech Market Leader – Mid Atlantic Ernst & Young
	Shear-Aligned Soft Nanocomposites: Structured Block Copolymer Hydrogels Lynn M. Walker Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry and Material Science and Engineering, College of Engineering Carnegie Mellon University
	Investment trends in Cleantech William E. “Wilber” James Managing General Partner RockPort Capital Partners
	Skip Grow Managing Director Lazard Freres & Co. LLC
	Andrew Friendly Senior Associate Advanced Technology Ventures
	Integrated Nanoplatforms for Cancer Detection Scott R. Manalis Associate Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Advanced Nanoscale Simulation Tools Wolfgang Windl Associate Professor Ohio State University
	Clayton Teague Director, Federal National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO)
	Nanocomposites: Shape does matter! Thomas E. Twardowski Associate Professor Widener and Villanova Universities
	Clinical Translation of Nanotechnology for Cancer: The NCI Alliance’s Perspective Piotr Grodzinski Director, Nanotechnology for Cancer Programs NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer NCI/NIH
	Srinivas Iyer Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
	Molecular Imaging in Cancer Anna Moore Associate Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School Assistant in Cell Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Radiology, MGH
	Bio-Inspired Low-Temperature, Kinetically Controlled Nanofabrication of Semiconductor and Ferroelectric Thin Films and Nanoparticles Daniel E. Morse Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology University of California, Santa Barbara
	Christopher A. Hieb Managing Director, Head of West Coast M&A Pacific Crest Securities
	Lynn E. Foster Emerging Technologies Director Greenberg Traurig, LLP
	Nitin S. Parekh Director, Business Development Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
	Hydrogen Production with CO2 Capture for IGCC Power Plants David Henderson Managing Director XPV Capital Corporation
	Joshua M. Dickinson Director of Research Programs WateReuse Foundation
	Nanotechnology: A Key Enabler of Personalized Medicine Linda K. Molnar Program Officer Office of Technology and Industrial Relations National Cancer Institute
	Ezra J. Green Chairman and CEO Clear Skies Group
	Cyndi Tucker Director, Biofuels ConocoPhillips
	Honda: Corporate & Technology Needs Naoki “Nick” Sugimoto Principal Honda Strategic Venturing (HSV) Honda Motor Corporation