Past Winners, 2009

1st Prize for Distinguished Poster Presentation

Andrew Lee
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC USA
“Controlling cell behaviors at the nanoscale level with virus particles”

2nd Prize for Distinguished Poster Presentation

Vaijayanthimala.V, Yan-Kai Tzeng, Chung-Leung Li and Huan-Cheng Chang
Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 106, R.O.C.
Molecular Science and Technology program, Taiwan International Graduate Program,
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 106, R.O.C.
Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300, R.O.C.
Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, 128 Academia Road Section 2, Nankang,
Taipei, 115, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Genomics Research Center, 128 Academia Road Section 2, Nankang, Taipei, 115,
Taiwan, R.O.C.
“Biocompatibility of Fluorescent Nanodiamonds and their mechanism of cellular uptake”

3rd Prize for Distinguished Poster Presentation

Yiota Gregoriou & David T. Cramb
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
“An Investigation of the Uptake Kinetics and Distribution of Quantum Dots in Chicken Embryonic Tissues”

Honorable Mention for Distinguished Poster Presentation

Piyush Verma, Ben Almquist, Nick Melosh
Dept of Materials Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
“Biomimetic metallic electrodes for intracellular electrical measurements”

Honorable Mention for Distinguished Poster Presentation

Stephan Schultes1, Martin Eichhorn2, Gerhard Winter1, Conrad Coester1
1Ludwig Maximilians University, Department of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics, Munich, GERMANY
2Ludwig Maximilians University, Walter Brendel Center of Experimental Medicine, Munich, GERMANY
 “Simulated in-vivo Endothelial Cell Adhesion of Cationic Polysaccharide-gelatin Nanoparticles"

Honorable Mention for Distinguished Poster Presentation

Chalette Lambert1 Stephen Carper2
1Dept of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
2Dept of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, N.V., USA
“Heat Shock Protein 27 Inhibits the Denaturation of Cytochrome C Bound to Gold Nanoparticles”