‘Why Attend NEMB?’ Podcast Online Now, Live Webcasts from Conference
‘Why Attend NEMB?’ Podcast Online Now, Live Webcasts from Conference
If you’re interested in the upcoming ASME 2014 3rd Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB 2014), but would like to learn more about what the meeting will offer, a new podcast on ASME.org featuring the meeting’s organizers should tell you all you need to know. If you can’t attend the conference in person, however, you will still be able to watch a number of the meeting’s presentations during webcasts that will be transmitted live from NEMB 2104.
The conference, to be held from Feb. 2-5 at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, will focus on the integration of engineering, materials science, and nanotechnology in addressing fundamental problems in biology and medicine and in developing devices, materials and methods for the early detection, imaging of pathological and physiological mechanisms, and treatment of disease.
A recently posted nine-minute podcast features the event’s conference and program chairs, Rashid Bashir and John Bischof, providing an overview of the NEMB 2014’s program highlights as well as the opportunities the meeting will offer researchers from both industry and academia.
Describing NEMB 2014 as “a unique conference” during the podcast interview, Dr. Bischof, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Kuhrmeyer Chair in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, added, “ASME is a very strong and traditional engineering society. What ASME is doing, which I think is really excellent, is that while it has this strong tradition, it is also looking for ways to become more flexible and inclusive of new, rapidly evolving fields. And I think this nanoengineering field, especially with regard to biotechnology and medicine, is one where things are particularly moving very fast and inclusive of not only of mechanical engineering but other fields. ASME is now capturing that in this NEMB meeting. This is an excellent example of a new and evolving area that ASME has embraced in this conference.”
Dr. Bashir, the Abel Bliss Professor of Bioengineering at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, agreed that NEMB 2014 would be an exciting event, one that would “allow a convergence of researchers from a range of backgrounds — not only the mechanical engineering discipline, but certainly from others such as materials science, electrical engineering, bioengineering, chemistry and chemical engineering. So, we expect it to be a very exciting venue where these researchers from these different disciplines can come together and discuss the state-of-the-art in nanotechnology, especially its applications in biology and medicine, where so much needs to be done. So many important problems need to be solved.”
If you won’t be able to attend NEMB 2014 in San Francisco, you can still watch live webcasts of two of the conference’s tutorials and eight of its plenary sessions. The tutorials “The Evolution From Materials to Biomaterials to Tissue Engineering,” featuring Buddy D. Ratner of the University of Washington, and “Overview of the nanoBIO node in the Network for Computational Nanotechnology,” with Umberto Ravaioli of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be offered on Sunday, Feb. 2. Webcasts of plenary presentations by Arun Majumdar from Google and Stanford University, Paul Alivisatos of the UC Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Mehmet Toner of Harvard Medical School, Mina Bissell of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Jennifer West of Duke University, and Stephen Quake from Stanford University will be offered from Sunday, Feb. 2, through Wednesday, Feb. 5. In addition, a webcast of the NEMB Poster Presentation Lightning Round will be presented on Monday, Feb. 3, from 5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Registration for the live NEMB webcasts is open through Jan. 29. The cost for the entire suite of tutorial and plenary webcasts is $30. An archived version of the webcasts will be available for purchase after the conference has concluded. For more information on the webcasts, visit www.asmeconferences.org/NEMB2014/Webcast.cfm. To register for the webcasts, visit https://shop.asme.org/ShoppingCart.cfm?mode=add&itemnumber=NEMB2014.
Live updates from the conference will be available on the ASME Nanotechnology Institute’s group page and on Twitter at #NEMB2014.
For more information on the 3rd Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology, visit the conference’s webpage on ASME.org, at www.asmeconferences.org/NEMB2014, or contact Christine Reilley at reilleyc@asme.org.
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