Thursday, May 15
Scala Restaurant (downtown)
19:00 Get-Together
Michael Heller (UC San Diego) A Forty Year Journey With DNA Technology
Friday, May 16
IPHT, Campus Beutenberg
8:15 pickup at Hotel IBIS lobby for transfer by public bus to IPHT
9:00 Welcome (Wolfgang Fritzsche)
	Itamar Willner (Jerusalem) DNA-Based Functional Materials
Origami I (Jussi Toppari)
	Kurt Gothelf (Aarhus) Programmed Assembly of Molecules and Materials Guillermo Acuna (Braunschweig) Single-Molecule Positioning in Zeromode Waveguides
= coffee break =
11:00
	Andreas Kopielski (IPHT) Isothermal DNA folding for origami based plasmonic nanostructures David Smith (Fraunhofer Leipzig) Biofunctionalization of DNA-based nanostructures Hiroshi Sugiyama (Kyoto Univ.) Single-Molecule Observation in the DNA origami nanostructure
= lunch =
13:30 Methods and Technology(Itamar Willner)
	Michael Heller (UC San Diego) DNA Double-Write Photolithography: A Synergy for Top-Down and Bottom-Up Nanofabrication Vladimir Gubala (Kent Univ.) ‘Vertical’ Or ‘Horizontal’? Surface Engineering And Consequences On Surface-Bound DNA Orientation. Ingrid Tessmer (Univ. Würzburg) AFM imaging studies of protein-DNA complexes Thorsten Schmidt (TU Dresden) A polyamide based glue for dsDNA and enzymatically produced oligonucleotides for structural DNA nanotechn.
15:10Posters: Short Presentations
15:30 Poster Session (Coffe & Cake)
17:00 Excursion & Dinner
Saturday, May 17
IPHT, Campus Beutenberg, Bus No. 10 leaves at 8:50 downtown
09:10 Origami II (Kurt Gothelf)
	Andrew Pike (Newcastle Univ.) DNA-promoted polymerization of pyrrole; a route to templated DNA origami conductive networks Adam Woolley (Brigham Young Univ.) Site-specific metallization of DNA origami nanostructures Anton Kuzyk (MPI Stuttgart) Reconfigurable 3D plasmonic metamolecules Anastasiya Puchkova (Braunschweig) Enhancement of fluorescence intensity by DNA origami nanoantennas
= Coffee Break =
11:15 Charge Transfer (Mike Heller)
	Danny Porath (Jerusalem) Charge Transport in single DNA-Based Molecules Jussi Toppari (Univ. Jyväskylä) Electrical measurement of 3D DNA origami and TX-tile assembled SET Janina Wirth (IPHT) Excitation transfer in DNA molecules after plasmonic excitation of metal nanoparticles
12:30 Lunch
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Verena Baumann (LMU Munich)
DNA-Functionalized Gold Nanorods for Building Hierarchical Heterostructures

Jakob Dieckmann (Jena)
Development of a novel device for DNA amplification using the LAMP technique

Lisa Hannusch (Dresden)
Single-Molecule Investigation of DNA Double Strand Melting and Secondary Structure Formation Behaviour Using Magnetic Tweezers

Hong-Zhang He (Hong Kong)
Label-free luminescence switch-on detection of T4 polynucleotide kinase activity using a G-quadruplex-selective probe

Jacqueline Jatschka (IPHT)
Plasmonic bioanalytical sensing platforms based on nanoparticles laayer or single nanoparticles by Microspectroscopy and Imaging Spectroscopy

Joanna Kosman (Poznan Univ.)
DNA detection probes based on molecular beacon – DNAzyme systems

Jessica Lorenz (Fraunhofer Leipzig)
DNA nanostructures as carriers of therapeutic biomolecules

Christin Möser (Fraunhofer Leipzig)
Polyethylene glycol (PEG) modified DNA-nanostructures as carriers for hydrophobic drugs

Martin Sajfutdinow (Fraunhofer Leipzig)
Elucidating the assembly of brick-based DNA nanostructures

Christoph Schneider (Fraunhofer Leipzig)
DNA-directed organization of single walled carbon nanotubes

Ondrej Stranik (IPHT)
Development of a fully integrated device for the detection of EGFR genotyping from patients suffering with a lung cancer -LungCARD project

Shin-ichi Tanaka (Hiroshima)
Synthesis of Green-Emitting Pt Nanoclusters for Cell Imaging by Reducing Pt Ions from Pre-Equilibrated Pt/PAMAM (G4-OH) Complexes

Matthias Thiele (IPHT)
Microfluidic synthesis of silver prisms and subsequently gold-stabilization for a post-synthetic DNA-conjugation as a plasmonic toolbox with DNA-Origam

Colette Whitfield(Newcastle Univ.)
The controlled elongation of DNA by a PCR-based method