Invited speakers

Richard P. van Duyne, Northwestern University, U.S.A.

High Resolution and High Throughput Plasmonic Biosensors

Mostafa A. El-Sayed, GATECH, U.S.A.

Confining Resonant Photons to the Nano-Gold Length Scale: the New Properties and Applications in Material Science, Nano-Biology and Cancer Nano-Medicine

Jochen Feldmann, LMU Munich, Germany

TBD

Kimberly Hamad-Shifferli, MIT, U.S.A.

Nanoparticle Interfaces to Biology: Enabling New Capabilities in Drug Delivery and Protein Synthesis

Jiří Homola, Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Republic

Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensors: Advances and Applications

Fredrik Höök, Chalmers University, Sweden

Nanoplasmonic Sensing of Cell-Membrane Mimics: Towards Drug Screening Applications

Mikael Käll, Chalmers University, Sweden

Nanoplasmonic Sensing Based on Optical Forces

Joseph R. Lakowicz, University of Maryland, U.S.A.

Plasmon-Controlled Fluorescence: Applications to Biophysics and Biotechnology (abstract)

Luke P. Lee, UC Berkeley, U.S.A.

Bionanoscience via Satellite Nanoscopes

Luis Liz-Marzan, University of Vigo, Spain

New Composite Nanomaterials for SERS Detection (abstract)

Olivier J. F. Martin, EPFL, Switzerland

Optical Sensing and Trapping with Plasmonic Antennas

Paul Mulvaney, University of Melbourne, Australia

Electrochemical Tuning of SP Resonances of Single Gold Nanocrystals (abstract)

Romain Quidant, ICFO, Spain

Nanoplasmonics: Harnessing Light and Heat at the Nanoscale for Biosciences

Jennifer Shumaker-Parry, University of Utah, U.S.A.

Asymmetrically-Functionalized Metal Nanoparticles as Building Blocks for Controlled Assembly of Plasmonic Architectures

Stavros Stavrakis, University of Dundee, Scotland

Colloidal Lenses Enable High Temperature Single Molecule Imaging and Improve Fluorophore Photostability

Janos Vörös, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Plasmonic Promises: Single-molecule Sensing, Electrochemistry, Nanowire Electronics, Strain Visualization, and Interferometry

Heiko Wolf, IBM Zurich, Switzerland

Generation of Functional Nanoparticle Structures by Templated Self-assembly
and Adhesive Transfer