Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

NCDC-201
Nanotechnology and Biosensors
Waterfront Centre, Room 3455 A/B
800 9th Street, SW
(Nearest Metro Station: LEnfant Plaza)
(for direction: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/about/directions.html)
December 15-16, 2004

Wednesday December 15th , 2004 8:00 - Meeting registration 8:20 - Welcome Ralph Otto, Deputy Administrator, USDA-CSREES 8:35 - Welcome Vince Bralts(AA) and Hongda Chen(USDA-CSREES) 8:50 - Introductions of Participants 9:00 - Description of the USDA Regional Research Activities and Process Vince Bralts(AA) and Hongda Chen(USDA-CSREES) 9:30 - USDA Nanotechnology Program Norm Scott and Hongda Chen 10:00 - Break 10:30 - DOE Nanotechnology Programs and National Laboratory Facilities Altaf Carim, DOE 11:00 - NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NSE) Program Geoffrey Prentice, NSF 11:30 - DOD Nanotechnology Programs  Frontiers of Sensor Technologies Jim Murda, DOD 12:00 - Lunch 1:30 - Structure and Project Organization 2:00 - State and Individual Project Reports 3:00 - Break 3:30 - State and Individual Project Reports 5:00 - Ajourn 7:00 - Dinner TBA Thursday December 15th,2004 8:00 - Committee Meeting (Cont.) 9:00 - Discussion of possible NCDC-201 organization 10:00 - Break 10:15 - Selection of Officers 11: 00  Suggestions for next meeting 12:00 - Departure Brainstorming Notes: Our vision: To development applications of nanotechnology and biosensors for food and biological and systems. Interfacing of physical sciences and engineering into biological and environmental systems or applications. [link to CSREES strategic goals] Scope: Sensors: based on nanoscale science and nanotechnology Justification: [refer to the CSREES Strategic Goals] Nano - 1. Food safety 2. biosecurity 3. environmental quality and monitoring 4. quality control of biosystems 5. animal health On Committee Objectives - 1. Nurturing and mentoring jr. researchers 2. Deepening understanding of research of other members 3. Smart delivery of nanoparticles 4. Micro/nanofluidics 5. Nanomaterials 6. Self-assembly 7. Molecular electronics 8. Photonics 9. Targets 10. Soft-hard interface 11. Biomimetics 12. Nanobiosensors 13. Education and outreach 14. Computation and modeling in biological systems 15. Bring in community as a partner  Extension and Experimental Station 16. International collaboration Committee Plan (Refer to NNI, PCAs) 1. *Fundamental nanoscale phenomena and processes (Lu*, Vangie, Jeremy, Fan, Irudayaraj) 2. *Nanomaterials (Milford*, Guna*, Jenna, Lu, Beth, Mrinal, Fan, Vangie) 3. *Nanoscale devices and systems (Fan, Surijan, Vangie*, Lu, Larry, Yoon, JM, Tang, Joseph, Beth, Jeremy) 4. Instrumentation research, metrology, and standards for nanotechnology 5. Nanomanufacturing 6. Expanding access to major research facilities and instrumentation acquisition 7. *Societal dimension  education and outreach, environmental, safety and health impacts, social economical issues (Jeremy, Surijan*, Larry, Yoon, Beth) Agree on Multistate Project Objectives: 1. Fundamental nanoscale phenomena and processes (Lu*, Vangie, Jeremy, Fan, Irudayaraj) 2. Nanomaterials (Milford*, Guna*, Jenna, Lu, Beth, Mrinal, Fan, Vangie) 3. Nanoscale devices and systems (Fan, Surijan, Vangie*, Lu, Larry, Yoon, JM, Tang, Joseph, Beth, Jeremy) 4. Societal dimension  education and outreach, environmental, safety and health impacts, social economical issues (Jeremy, Surijan*, Larry, Yoon, Beth) *The writing committee will be led by Alfred Brandon and consist of those indicated above with an asterisk. Officers for 2005 Alfred Brandon was elected the Chair of the Committee for 2005 Joseph Irudayaraj was elected the Secretary of the Committee for 2005

Statement of Issues and Justification: Nanotechnology holds great promise for many fields of agriculture and was the focus of a recent planning workshop at USDA (Nanoscale Science and Engineering for Agriculture and Food Systems, 2003). For the first time, the USDA-NRI is sponsoring a competition for funding research in this area. Numerous Agricultural and Biological Engineering Departments at Land Grant Universities have added expertise in the growing field of nanotechnology and biosensors, but most of us have not developed a critical mass of expertise on our campuses. This speaks to the potential for a NCT committee to bring together expertise and foster the interaction between multi-disciplinary scientists and our industrial clientele groups. Dr. Vince Bralts at Purdue and Dr. Ajit Srivastava at Michigan State are prepared to take the lead in working with faculty to prepare a formal proposal for consideration as a NC or NCR committee should the NCT be approved by the multi-state research committee.

Objectives
1. To meet to exchange information and coordinate activities related to nanotechnology and biosensors.

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