Claire Auplat, Postdoctoral Researcher, Imperial College. “Risk Management and Institutional Emergence in Nanotechnologies: Looking at Public Engagement Experiences”

Javiera Barandiaran, MPP Candidate, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley, and Coordinator, Roundtable on the Environmental Risks of Nanotechnology. “Local Disclosure Ordinances as Regulatory Catalysts: Early Insights from the Berkeley, California Nanoscale Materials Ordinance”

Jeffrey Birkner, Vice President, Technical Services, Moldex-Metrix, Inc. “Current Respiratory Protection Standards and Devices:  Can They Meet the Needs for Nanoparticle Exposures?”

Larry Busch, Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University. “Problems and Prospects of Nanotechnologies in the Workplace”

Vince Castranova, Chief of Pathology and Physiology Research Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. “Critical Toxicity Parameters for Nanoparticles vs. Conventional Particles”

Brad Chmelka, Professor of Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara. “What is Nanotechnology, and Why Does It Matter?”

Joe Conti, Graduate Research Fellow with the NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society and Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara. “Report on ICON’s ‘Survey of Current Practices in the Nanotechnology Workplace’”

Thomas K. Epprecht, Director, Swiss Reinsurance Company. “Risk Governance and Risk Dialogue – an Insurer’s View”

Richard Freeman, Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Co-Director, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School. “Always Read the Small Print: Economics of Risk Assessment in Nanotech OSHA Issues”

John Froines, Director, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health and Professor of Environmental Health and Safety, UCLA. “Nanotechnology – How to Define Risks and Control Them”

Barbara Herr Harthorn, Director, NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara. “Biased Judgment About Risk as a Regulatory Matter”

Patricia Holden, Professor of Environmental Microbiology, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UC Santa Barbara; Lead PI, ICON-CNS Study of Nanotechnology in the Workplace. “Environmental Considerations in Nanomaterials Health and Safety”

Jacqueline Isaacs, Associate Director, Center for High-Rate Nano-Manufacturing, Northeastern University. “Modeling Uncertain Health Impacts and Production Costs of SWNT Manufacturing”

Nancy J. Jennerjohn, Ph.D. Student, Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA; research centers on the lab-based generation of aerosols containing nanoparticles for characterization. “Report from the 3rd International Symposium on Nanotechnology, Occupational and Environmental Health, August 2007, Taipei”

Nancy Lessin, Health and Safety Consultant, United Steelworkers

Sam Lipson, Director of Environmental Health, City of Cambridge, Massachusetts. “Local Oversight of Emerging Technologies: The Cambridge Experiment”

Gerald Markowitz, Professor of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Graduate Center, City University of New York. “‘A Gift of God?’ The Promise and Peril of New Technologies in the 20th Century”

Frank Mirer, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, Hunter College at City University of New York

Andre Nel, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of NanoMedicine, UCLA; Director, Cellular Immunology Activation Laboratory in the Johnson Cancer Center and the Laboratory for Nanosafety Research and Testing in the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), UCLA. “Predictive Toxicological Paradigms for the Assessment of Nanoparticle Toxicity.”

Michele L. Ostraat, Principal Investigator & NOSH Consortium Technical Leader, DuPont Engineering Research and Technology. “DuPont-Environmental Defense Nanorisk Framework and the Nanoparticle Occupational Safety and Health Consortium”

Jaideep Raje, Analyst, Lux Research, Inc. “The Developing Nanotechnology Occupational Safety and Health Landscape”

Kevin Rowan, Regional Secretary, North British Trades Union Congress (representing some 69 trade unions and half a million trade union members in the north of England)

Paul Schulte, Coordinator, NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center (NTRC) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Director, NIOSH Education and Information Division (EID). “Potential Workplace Hazards of Nanotechnology”

Vivian Weil, Director, Center for Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology. “Report on NanoEthicsBank Survey of Workplace Safety Policies in Nanotechnology Businesses”

John Barlow Weiner, Associate Chief Counsel, Food and Drug Administration. “FDA Nanotechnology Report on Oversight for FDA Regulated Products That Use Nanotechnology” 

Jim Willis, Division Director, Chemical Control Division of the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxic Substances, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “EPA and Nanotechnology”

Lynne Zucker, Director of the Center for International Science, Technology, and Cultural Policy and Professor of Sociology, UCLA; Research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; Michael Darby, Professor of Policy and Director of the John M. Olin Center for Policy, UCLA; Ali Emre Uyar, Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLA. “Commercial Adoption of Nano-Titanium Dioxide Production”Gerald Markowitz, Professor of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Graduate Center, City University of New York. “‘A Gift of God?’ The Promise and Peril of New Technologies in the 20th Century”