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Biomimetic Materials
@Politecnico di Milano
Under the patronage of:
Embassy of Italy
Helsinki
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Tel.:
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Milan, April 4, 2011
Kick-off meeting of the project “Development of a Technology
Platform between the South and the North of Europe: Exchange
Research Program between Politecnico di Milano and VTT –
Technical Research Centre of Finland (S2N)”
Introductory Addresses
10:00 Giovanni Azzone
Rector, Politecnico di Milano
“Politecnico di Milano - a Leading Research
University”
Erkki Leppävuori
President, VTT
“VTT - the Multitechnological Research Partner”
14:00 Erja Turunen
VTT, Strategic Research, Applied Materials
“Nacre Mimicking Structures by Thermal
Spraying”
14:30 Markus Linder
VTT, Research Professor
“Biology as a Treasure Trove for Materials
Engineering”
15:00 Coffee break
Carlo Mango
Fondazione Cariplo, Head of Scientific Research
and Technology Transfer Unit
“The Approach of Cariplo Foundation in
R&D Funding: Past Experience and Future
Perspectives”
Pierangelo Metrangolo
Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano
Research Professor of Molecular Recognition at VTT
“Introduction to the Project S2N”
11:00 Coffee break
Scientific Session
Chairman: Giuseppe Resnati
11:30 Lia Addadi
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
“The Best Materials Scientists in the Five
Kingdoms: Inspiration from Biomineralization”
Chairman: Guglielmo Lanzani
15:30 Giuseppe Resnati
NFMLab, DCMIC “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di
Milano, Italy
“Halogen Bonds in Biomolecules: Commonplace
or Extraordinary?”
16:00 Radka Chaloupkova
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
“Medium and Protein Engineering for
Improvement of Biocatalysts in Non-conventional
Media”
16:30 Olli Ikkala
Aalto University School of Science and
Technology, Helsinki, Finland
“From Self-Assemblies and Hierarchies to
Biomimetics”
17:00 Roberto Milani
CNST-IIT@POLIMI, Milano, Italy
“Halogen Modification of Proteins as a Tool for
Self-assembly Direction”
12:30 Buffet lunch
17:30 Concluding remarks
Monday, April 4, 2011
Aula Magna
Piazza L. Da Vinci 32
20133 Milano, Italy