2013 Agenda

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Monday, December 2, 2013

Location:         NSF Stafford I; Room 375

Session 1: Welcome Remarks

(Moderator: C. Cannizzaro)

9:00 Words of Welcome

Mihail C. Roco (U.S. National Science Foundation)

Robert Pohanka (U.S. National Nanotechnology Coordination Office)

9:10 Welcome on Behalf of the EU

Elke Anklam (DG Joint Research Centre, European Commission)

9:20 Purpose and Goals of the 2013 Workshop

Chris Cannizzaro (U.S. Department of State)

Session 2:   NanoEHS Research Priorities

9:30 Overview of Nanosafety in Europe 2015 – 2025

Kai Savolainen (Finnish Institute of Occupational Health)

10:00 Overview of the 2011 NNI EHS Research Strategy

Treye Thomas (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)

10:30 Coffee Break

Session 3:   Bridging NanoEHS Research Efforts

11:00 International Dimensions of NSF Projects

Barbara Karn & Alan Tessier (U.S. National Science Foundation)

11:20 Horizon 2020

Nicolas Segebarth (DG Research and Innovation, European Commission)

11:40 Communities of Research (CORs)

Stacey Standridge (U.S. National Nanotechnology Coordination Office)

12:00 Cross-COR Information Flow

Mark Hoover (U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)

12:30 Lunch

Breakout Sessions

1:30 See Breakout Session Table in PDF version of agenda for detailed information

5:00 Wrap up for Day 1

5:30 Adjourn         

6:00 Reception and Group Dinner (no host)

 

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Session 4:   COR Reports and Discussion

(Moderator: N. Segebarth)

8:45 Vision for Information Flow among CORs

Nicolas Segebarth (DG Research and Innovation, European Commission)

9:00 Databases & Ontologies

Co-Chair: Nathan Baker (Pacific Northwest National Laboratories)

 Co-Chair: Hubert Rauscher (DG Joint Research Centre, European Commission)

Predictive Modeling for Human Health

Chair: Bengt Fadeel (Karolinska Institute)

Ecotoxicity & Predictive Models

Chair: Richard Handy (Plymouth University)

10:15 Coffee Break

10:45 Exposure through Product Life

Co-Chair: Rick Canady (ILSI Research Foundation)

Co-Chair: Martie van Tongeren (Institute of Occupational Medicine)

Risk Assessment

Co-Chair: Derk Brouwer (Organisation for Applied Scientific Research)

Co-Chair: Mark Wiesner (Duke University)

Presenter: Christine Hendren (Duke University)

Risk Management and Control

                        Co-Chair: Keld Alstrup Jensen (Danish National Research Centre for the Working Environment)

                        Co-Chair: Larry Gibbs (Stanford University)

12:00 Lunch

Session 5:   Roundtable Discussion

(Moderators: E. Anklam & C. Geraci)

1:00 Connecting the CORs to Other Efforts

NANoREG

Keld Alstrup Jensen (Danish National Research Centre for the Working Environment)

OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN)

Phil Sayre (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)

Discussion

Standardization (e.g., ISO, ASTM, CEN, and VAMAS)

Emeric Frejafon (French National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks – INERIS)

Ajit Jillavenkatesa (U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Discussion

ERA-NET SIINN – Consolidated Framework for EHS of Manufactured Nanomaterials

Rainer Hagenbeck (Project Management Agency Jülich, Coordinator of ERA-NET SIINN)

Discussion

3:15 Wrap up for Day 2 and Concluding Remarks

Chris Cannizzaro (U.S. Department of State)

Nicolas Segebarth (DG Research and Innovation, European Commission)

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