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Thursday, May 29, 2025 to Friday, May 30, 2025
8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Draft Agenda
OPTIONAL DAY Wednesday, May 28, 2025
7:00 AM Breakfast at the Hotel (Hyatt Place Downtown Greensboro)
8:00 AM Travel to Plant and Pollinator Center (using UNCG shuttle), 5900 Summit Ave
8:30 AM Educational and Hands-on Experience at the Plant and Pollinator Center
11:30 AM Travel to Greensboro Science Center 4301 Lawndale Dr.
12:00 PM Lunch at the Greensboro Science Center
1:00 PM Tour Greensboro Science Center
4:00 PM Shuttle back to Hotel
6:00 PM Dinner on your own (suggestion will be made)
STARTING DAY Thursday, May 29, 2025
7:00 AM Breakfast at the Hotel (Hyatt Place Downtown Greensboro)
8:00 AM Travel to UNCG (using UNCG shuttle) - 10 min shuttle (2 shutle of 30 pers will be available, parking for car available) Union Square 124 E Gate City Blvd.
8:15 AM Coffee and Network
8:45 AM Analytical Session I: Spectroscopy - 15 mins presentations followed by 30 min Panel Session
- Don Baer - PNNL- X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, the importance, the challenges, and important opportunities.
- Malvern company
- Christoph Krafft - How can Simultaneous Optical Photothermal Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy meet the Challenges of Micro- and Nanoplastic Identification
Armand Masion - CEREGE - Magnets: they’re not only for your fridge anymore; a few snapshots of what NMR can do for you
10:45 AM Coffee Break
11:15 AM Analytical Session II: Microscopy – 15 mins presentations followed by 30 min Panel Session
- Greg Lowry - Opportunities and Limitations of Confocal Microscopy for Elucidating Nanomaterial-plant Interactions.
- Keana Scott - Multi-scale FIB SEM imaging of complex particles and matrices
- Sara Mason - BNL- Outlook of Theory and Computation to Accelerate Nano-Enabled Agriculture
- Hsin-Yun Chao- Advanced TEM and STEM techniques for nanoscale materials engineering
12:45 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Analytical Round Table with instrument company representatives and speakers-
Round table subject to be determined
3:30 PM Coffee Break
4:00 PM JSNN Site Visit, 2907 E Gate City Blvd.
5:30 PM Cultural and Cocktail Night at Weatherspoon Art Museum (Nanoart Exhibit) including tour visit,1005 Spring Garden St.
6:30 PM Dinner at the Weatherspoon Art Museum (2 min walk)
8:30 pm return to the hotel
Friday, May 30, 2025
7:00 AM Breakfast at the Hotel (Hyatt Place Downtown Greensboro)
8:00 AM Travel to UNCG (using UNCG shuttle), Union Square 124 E Gate City Blvd.
8:15 AM Coffee and Network
8:45 AM Student presentation, present your pHD to one dedicated stakeholder (3 to 5 min by presentation)
10:00 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM Invited Speaker (communication talk)
- Khara Grieger - Societal implications and responsible innovation of nanotechnology
- Judy Ledlee - Innovation, Commercialization
- Jason Delborne - When Biotechnology Goes Wild: Stakeholder Engagement for Environmental Biotechnologies
- Meagan Kittle Autry - Communicating Your Work to Public Audiences
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Round Table Rotations - Communication, Stakeholder Engagement, and Mentorship (parallel leadership meeting)
5:00 PM Wrap-up followed by INFRAMES Leadership Dinner (Location TBD)
Key addresses :
Hotel: Hyatt Greensboro Downtown , 300 N Eugene St.
Conference : Union Square 124 E Gate City Blvd.
Thrusday dinner : Weatherspoon Art Museum, 1005 Spring Garden St.
Other destinations are in the agenda.