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Start Date | May 31, 2016 |
End Date | Jun 5, 2016 |
Gather around several researcher communities from various fields ranging from physics to biology through chemistry, medical sciences and material sciences. Create structural links between the different scientific communities to initiate multi-technical collaborations to advance each topic in a new multidisciplinary approach. Initiate international projects between European laboratories and those implanted in the basin of the Americas, including United States, Canada and the emerging countries (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina), whose excellence in research and research and development are increasing since the last decade.
Research themes1-Nanosciences at the frontiers with biology
The latest technological developments have opened
the door to the physico-chemical study of biological interfaces (viruses,
bacteria, mammalian cells) from the molecular level to the cellular level. Thus
the border disciplines of chemistry, physics, biology and biophysics are
increasingly popular.
These new scientific approaches are flourishing, such as their innovation
in the understanding of biological processes (nanotoxicity, infection,
adhesion, differentiation, etc.) but also in the design of materials and
surfaces as well as nanostructured chemo-structured.
In addition the latest developments in imaging at small scales are a significant
technical and technological progress to better understand and identify the
structures and their implications in biochemical and biophysical phenomena
but also interactions with surfaces and materials.
2-Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine
Nanoscience is the source of many advanced techniques and applications including in the areas of life sciences and materials sciences. In the field of materials, the latest technological developments have enabled the emergence of innovative materials that are found as biosensors design base, nanosensors and other nanomaterials whose opportunities are numerous in the field of health (nanobioelectronic, tools medical diagnostics, theragnostics, etc). It also notes that the involvement of nanotechnology to problems of medicine and health is causing a revolution in the biomedical field, including nanomedicine with the emergence of new disciplines such as nanobiomechanics and nanobiology (mechanics of cells, cancer, microbiology, virology, etc.).
3-Instrumentation and application tools
For nearly a decade, multiphysics and multiscale
characterization of materials and biological object has become a major issue
that contributes to the understanding and control of physical and chemical
processes from the molecular scale to larger scales. These methodologies are
proving to be an indispensable asset in-depth study of theories, predictive
models, simulations and transposing the nanoscale to the macroscale.
In addition, the significant improvement of existing techniques such as
electron microscopy and the emergence of new spectro-microscopy (imaging 2D /
3D, IR, Raman, etc.) and recent coupling between physico-chemical techniques
offer more application access wide that will now material science to
biomedical sciences and life. Furthermore, the appearance of many
couplings (AFM-PALM, Electrochemical Raman Spectro-Microscopy) or commercial
available devices (Hight Speed AFM, AFM-STED or NanoIR) allowed now new
perspectives in terms of tools for sample characterization and to develop
bioapplications for industry.