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Symposium WW: Plasma Processing and Diagnostics for Life Sciences

• 2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

• April 9 - April 13, 2012
• Moscone West Convention Center | Marriott Marquis - San Francisco, California-
• Meeting Chairs: Lara A. Estroff, Jun Liu, Kornelius Nielsch, Kazumi Wada

Plasma Processing and Diagnostics for Life Sciences

  This symposium is co-sponsored by the Japan Society of Applied Physics  

Plasma Chemistry and Life Sciences probably met the first time in the 1950s when S. L. Miller ignited an electrical discharge in a gas mixture of the presumed components of the primordial atmosphere on earth.  Amino acids were found in the glass vessel reactor, and a consistent hypothesis on how life could have started on our planet was confirmed.  Today, plasma science and technology impacts many different large areas of medicine, biology, etc.  In this field, plasma can interact with organisms to produce various functions and new phenomena with potential applications in inactivation of bacteria, wound disinfection and healing, fighting cancers, and activation of cell functions and proliferation.  Additionally, plasmas enable surface modification and fabrication of materials to create advanced biomaterials, drug delivery systems, tissue engineering, etc.  The clarification of mechanisms of gas-phase reactions and plasma-induced surface interactions with organisms is a key issue in advanced diagnostics.  This emerging field, “Plasma-Life Sciences,” will establish new interdisciplinary areas and open new, huge-scale industries.  In order to promote this development, innovation in materials, processing, and diag-nostics over the conventional technologies are strongly required.  This symposium focuses on discussing the broad range of innovative technologies for plasma-life science and precedes this field by transmitting new concepts toward the rest of the world on the basis of the viewpoint of material science and technology. 

Session topics will include:

• Plasma medicine: homeostasis, apoptosis of cancer, ulcer-treatment wound bleeding, inactivation of bacteria, and evaluation with DNA and cell level
• Plasma dentistry: bleaching, killing oral bacteria, and implants
• Plasma welfare: sterilization for aged man and activation of organism longer-operation life
• Plasma agriculture and fisheries: inactivation of mold, rapid growth of plants, deodorizing, disinfecting, rapid growth of fish, and cleaning water
• Plasma surface modifications of biomaterials: synthesis of biocompatible surfaces, surface immobilization and embedding of biomolecules
• Plasma surface modifications of biomedical devices: unfouling, nanotextured, nano-/micro-patterned surfaces; biotemplates; biosensors
• Plasma reactors and simulations for life sciences: atmospheric-pressure/liquid-phase plasma, simulation, and their controlling technologies
• Plasma diagnostics: spatiotemporal measurement of radical, ion, photon, and shocking wave, real-time monitoring, and gas/liquid interface
• Security and standardization for plasma-life applications

A tutorial complementing this symposium is tentatively planned. Further information will be included in the MRS Program that will be available online in January.

Invited speakers include:

Eun Ha Choi (Kwangwoon Univ., Korea), Timo Gans (Queen’s Univ., United Kingdom), Takamichi Hirata (Tokyo City Univ., Japan), Yuzuru Ikehara (National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Technology, Japan), Masafumi Ito (Meijo Univ., Japan), Toshiro Kaneko (Tohoku Univ., Japan), Achim Von Keudell (Ruhr Univ., Germany), Michael Kong (Loughborough Univ., United Kingdom), Mounir Laroussi (Old Dominion Univ.), Akira Mizuno (Toyohashi Univ. of Technology, Japan), Gregor Morfill (Max Planck Inst., Germany), Masaaki Nagatsu (Shizuoka Univ., Japan), Ceana Nezhat (Atlanta Ctr. for Special Minimally Invasive Surgery & Reproductive Medicine), Christian Oehr (Fraunhofer Inst., Germany), Francois Rossi (Joint Research Centre - European Commission, Italy), Eloisa Sardella (CNR Inst. of Inorganic Methods and Plasmas, Italy), Klaus Weltmann (Leibnitz Inst. für Plasmaforschung und Technologie, Germany), Mike Wertheimer (Ecolé Polytechnique, Canada).

Symposium Organizers

Masaru Hori
Nagoya University
Graduate School of Engineering
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku
Nagoya 464-8603, Japan
Tel 81-52-789-4420, Fax 81-52-789-3462
hori@nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp 

Alexander Fridman
Drexel University
A. J. Drexel Plasma Institute
3141 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2884
Tel 215-895-1542, Fax 215-895-1478
fridman@drexel.edu 

Naoshi Itabashi
Hitachi, Ltd.
Central Research Laboratory
Life Science Research Laboratory
Dept. 1-280
Higashi-koigakubo
Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo 185-8601, Japan
Tel 81-42-323-1111 x-4010, Fax 81-42-327-7737
naoshi.itabashi.xf@hitachi.com 

Pietro Favia
University of Bari
Dept. of Chemistry
via Orabona 4
70126 Bari, Italy
Tel 39-080-5443430, Fax 39-080-5443405
favia@chimica.uniba.it 

Masaharu Shiratani
Kyushu University
Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering
Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Tel 81-92-802-3733, Fax 81-92-802-3734
siratani@ed.kyushu-u.ac.jp