Detailed Program

Day 1 - September 1st (Sunday)
15:00-19:00 Registration
17:00-19:00 Welcome Cocktail
Day 2 - September 2nd (Monday)
08:00-08:45 Registration
09:00-09:15 Welcome and Opening Ceremony

Bioanalytical Applications I (F) 9:15-10:25

Chair of the session: Barańska M.
09:15-09:45 Plenary Speaker: Popp J., Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, “Raman spectroscopy for biomedical and life-science analysis
09:45-10:05 Invited Speaker: Małek K., Jagiellonian University, Poland, “Insights into intercellular interactions by FTIR and Raman spectroscopy imaging
10:05-10:25 Invited Speaker: Sroka-Bartnicka A., Medical Univeristy of Lublin, Poland, “Multimodal spectral imaging FTIR, Raman vs DESI and MALDI mass spectrometry imaging in diabetic lipid changes of rat kidney
10:25-10:30 GROUP PHOTO
10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Sponsor session I 11:00-11:40

Chair of the session: Beton-Mysur K.
11:00-11:20 COMEF
11:20-11:30 WITec
11:30-11:40 Attocube

Bioanalytical Applications II (F) 11:40-13:10

Chair of the session: Marques M.
11:40-11:55 Kashif M., FOCAS Research Institute, Technological University, Ireland, “Pesticide Residual Analysis of Lambda cyhalothrin by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Comparison of Silver Nanodendrites and Silver Nanosphere Substrates
11:55-12:10 Chrabąszcz K., Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS, Poland, “Obtaining radiation effects on biomolecules-FT-IR and AFM-IR cellular investigations
12:10-12:25 Kočišová E., Charles University, Czech Republic, “Detection and segregation of biological molecules by droplet deposition method in Raman spectroscopy
12:25-12:40 Hańczyc P., University of Warsaw, Poland, “Laser spectroscopy in studies on biomolecules linked with genetic and neurodegenerative diseases
12:40-12:55 Patil N., Technological University Dublin, Ireland, “Targeted kinetic Raman microspectroscopy of extracellular medium to elucidate glycolysis pathway kinetics
12:55-13:10 Pragnąca A., Jagiellonian University, Poland, “An effect of mercury toxicity and oxygen depletion on the main cellular components of the blood-brain barrier. FTIR and Raman microscopy study
13:10-13:15 Information about poster session

and city tour
13:15-14:30 Lunch

Nanoscale Analysis (G) 14:30-16:40

Chair of the session: Sroka-Bartnicka A.
14:30-15:00 Plenary Speaker: Ruggeri S., Wageningen University, The Netherlands, “Nano-chemical Imaging and Spectroscopy of Biomolecular Processes
15:00-15:20 Invited Speaker: Kamp M., Utrecht University, The Netherlands
15:20-15:40 Invited Speaker: Koynov K., Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany, “Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy: monitoring the mobility of (bio)molecules and nanoparticles at the nanoscale
15:40-15:55 Dulski M., University of Silesia, Poland, “Empowering Environmental Sustainability Functionalized SBA-15 as a Cutting-Edge Solution for Effective Metal Uptake
15:55-16:10 Torre B., INRiM, Italy, “Adiabatic Nanofocusing in Raman spectroscopy and Hot Electron Nanoscopy (HENs): principles and applications”
16:10-16:25 Piergies N., Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS, Poland, “AFM-SEIRA nanospectroscopy for the molecular orientation studies
16:25-16:40 Stiufiuc R., TRANSCEND Research Center, Romania, “Chiral separations of pharmaceutical compound by means of SERS: elucidating the role of molecular nanoscale interactions in this process
16:40-17:15 Coffee break
16:40-18:00 Poster session
Day 3 - September 3rd (Tuesday)
08:00 Meeting on the TUL campus
08:15-11:30 City tour
11:30-11:50 Coffee break

Biomedical Applications I (D) 11:50-13:30

Chair of the session: Małek K.
11:50-12:20 Plenary Speaker: Majzner K., Jagiellonian University, Poland, “From leukemia treatment to endothelial health: Raman spectroscopy in evaluating drug cytotoxicity and chemoresistance
12:20-12:40 Invited Speaker: Marques M., University of Coimbra, Portugal, “New Routes for Cancer Treatment Tackled by Neutrons
12:40-13:00 Invited Speaker: Marini M., INRiM, Italy, “From DNA-protein repair mechanism to epigenetics: studies by Raman spectroscopy
13:00-13:15 Dziedzic-Kocurek K., Jagiellonian University, Poland, “Revealing the features of the single-cell nucleated avian and non-nucleated mammalian erythrocytes with the use of O-PTIR technique
13:15-13:30 Depciuch J., Medical Univeristy of Lublin, Poland, “Common FTIR marker of prostate cancer in urine and tissues correlated with PSA level

Sponsor session II 13:30-14:05

Chair of the session: Surmacki J.
13:30-13:50 Renishaw
13:50-14:05 PIK Instruments and Bruker Optics
14:05-15:15 Lunch

Biomedical Applications II (D) 15:15-16:55

Chair of the session: Marini M.
15:15-15:35 Invited Speaker: Gardner P., University of Manchester, The United Kingdom, “Separating pussycats and tigers: Risk stratification of prostate cancer using infrared imaging
15:35-15:55 Invited Speaker: Sato H., Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan, “Fat analysis in live cell and tissue with Raman spectroscopy
15:55-16:10 Salman A., SCE-Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel, “Rapid Identification of Viral and Bacterial Infections, and Assessment of Antibiotic Efficacy in Bacteremia Patients through a Simple Peripheral Blood Analysis: Expert System Employing Infrared Microscopy of White Blood
16:10-16:25 Piot O., University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France, “Processing of Raman spectra by trajectory inference: applications to the study of adipocyte differentiation and to the characterization of cancer-associated adipocytes
16:25-16:40 Pogoda K., Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS, Poland, “Revealing nanoscale properties of plasma membrane vesicles using the combination of spectroscopic modalities
16:40-16:55 El Tahech H., Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France, “Supervised learning of infrared spectral images for the differential diagnosis of subtypes of breast cancer

Isotopic Labelling (E) 16:55-18:00

Chair of the session: Piot O.
16:55-17:25 Plenary Speaker: Paneth P., Lodz University of Technology, Poland, “Applications of isotope-ratio mass spectrometry
17:25-17:45 Invited Speaker: Barth A., Stockholm University, Sweden, “Isotope-edited Fourier-transform and nanoscale infrared spectroscopy for studying amyloid-β aggregation
17:45-18:00 Korona W., Jagiellonian University, Poland, “Library of Spectral Reporters of Metabolic Pathways: Metabolomics based on Multiplex Cell Labeling
Day 4 - September 4th (Wednesday)

Molecular Spectroscopy (A) 9:00-11:45

Chair of the session: Gardner P.
09:00-09:30 Plenary Speaker: Gerwert K., Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, “Misfolding of Biomarkers Indicates Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease in Early Stages by the Immuno-Infrared Sensor (iRS)
09:30-09:50 Invited Speaker: Hunt N., University of York, The United Kingdom, “Advances in 2D-IR spectroscopy: From protein structural libraries towards clinical diagnostics
09:50-10:10 Invited Speaker: Wolszczak M., Lodz University of Technology, Poland, “Influence of ionizing radiation on human serum albumin solutions
10:10-10:30 Invited Speaker: Andruniów T., Wrocław Univ. of Science and Technology, Poland, “Tuning two-photon absorption properties in fluorescent proteins
10:30-10:45 Mirveis Z., Technological University Dublin, Ireland, “Off-Line monitoring of extracellular media by ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy to explore metabolic pathway kinetics
10:45-11:00 Gieroba B., Medical Univeristy of Lublin, Poland, “Spectral assessment of chitosan curdlan matrices with drugs in the context of potential biomedical applications
11:00-11:15 Meyvish P., Ghent University, Belgium, “Monitoring the transformation of resistant biomolecules to geomolecules: a micropaleontological perspective and applications
11:15-11:30 Zahra S., Jagiellonian University, Poland, “A Novel Approach to Assess Chemical Composition and Ultraviolet Light-Stress Effects on Japanese Knotweed: A Vibrational Spectroscopy Study
11:30-11:45 Rode J., Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Poland, “Influence of conformational freedom, substituents, and solvents on chiroptical spectra
11:45-12:15 Coffee break

Chemometric Advances (B) 12:15-14:10

Chair of the session: Kneipp J.
12:15-12:45 Plenary Speaker: Bocklitz T., University of Jena, Germany, “Advances in chemometrics by incorporating deep learning techniques and data science methods in the data analysis workflow of bio-spectral data
12:45-13:05 Invited Speaker: Keating M., Technological University Dublin, Ireland, “Seeding multivariate algorithms, a data augmentation approach which can enhance analytical performance
13:05-13:25 Invited Speaker: Cieślik-Boczula K., University of Wrocław, Poland, “Supported by chemometric analysis FTIR studies of the structure of protein-lipid membrane systems
13:25-13:40 Mostafapour S., Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, “Siamese Neural Networks for Clinically Relevant Bacteria Classification based on Raman spectroscopy
13:40-13:55 Adamczyk A., Jagiellonian University, Poland, “Assessment of erythroid differentiation and heme biosynthesis in red blood cells by spontaneous coherent Raman microscopy
13:55-14:10 Kane S., Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France, “Usefulness of Data Simulation for Training Deep Learning Denoising Algorithms in Infrared Spectral Histology
14:10-15:25 Lunch

Biomedical Applications III (D) 15:25-16:55

Chairs of the session: Salman A. and Majzner K.
15:25-15:40 Stawoski K., Jagiellonian University, Poland, “Single-cell Raman studies of the effect of ruxolitinib on JAK-mutated B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell lines
15:40-15:55 Zupančič B., National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia, “Detection of diabetes-related macromolecular changes in human tissues using vibrational spectroscopy
15:55-16:10 Siąkała K., Jagiellonian University, Poland, “Raman probes-a spectroscopic approach to study cell metabolism via organelle-specific compounds active in the ‘silent region’
16:10-16:25 Jarczewska K., Lodz University of Technology, Poland, “The impact of xanthophylls on brain and breast cancer development
16:25-16:40 Beton-Mysur K., Lodz University of Technology, Poland, “Studies on the Effect of Statin Supplemantation on Human Colon Cells Using Raman Imaging and AFM
16:40-16:55 Dawiec P., Jagiellonian University, Poland, “Spectroscopic profiling of therapeutic responses of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia to tyrosine kinase inhibitors
19:30 Meeting on the TUL campus and departure to Orientarium ZOO Lodz
20:00-23:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
23:00 Return by bus to the TUL campus
Day 5 - September 5th (Thursday)

Enhanced Techniques (C) 9:00-11:00

Chair of the session: Quinn S.
09:00-09:30 Plenary Speaker: Kneipp J., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, “Vibrational spectra in enhanced local fields: Possibilities for probing biomolecules and cells” 
09:30-09:50 Invited Speaker: Kamińska-Michota A., Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS, Poland, “SERS-based method for detecting and identifying pathogenic microorganisms - bacteria and viruses
09:50-10:10 Invited Speaker: Aştilean S., Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, “Plasmonic-Based Nanoplatforms for Enhanced Biosensing and Bioimaging
10:10-10:30 Invited Speaker: Kogikoski S. Jr., University of Potsdam, Germany, “Recent Advancements in DNA Origami Plasmonic Nanoantennas for Advanced Single-Molecule Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
10:30-10:45 Wróbel T., Jagiellonian University, Poland, “Imaging of Three-dimentional Molecular Orientation Vibrational Microspectroscopies” 
10:45-11:00 Prochazka M., Charles University, Czech Republic, “Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy on non-plasmonic vanadium pentoxide and vanadium pentoxide/an nanostructures” 
11:00-11:30 Coffee break

Non-Linear Optics and Time-Resolved Spectroscopy (H) 11:30-13:20

Chair of the session: Wolszczak M.
11:30-12:00 Plenary Speaker: Quinn S., University College Dublin, Ireland, “Good Vibrations for DNA Reporting: Exploiting the Excited States of Ruthenium Polypyridyl infrared Probes
12:00-12:20 Invited Speaker: Angulo Nunez G., Institute of Physical Chemistry, PAS, Poland, “Photoinduced reactions in complex condensate media
12:20-12:35 Pastorczak M., Institute of Physical Chemistry, PAS, Poland, “Stimulated Raman techniques applied to biological systems
12:35-12:50 Jarota A., Lodz University of Technology, Poland, "On the Relaxation Dynamics of Diarylethene Photochromic Switches"
12:50-13:05 Firlej J., Jagiellonian University, Poland, “Spontaneous and coherent Raman scattering integration for optical biosensing improvement
13:05-13:20 Kurysheva O., Stockholm University, Sweden, “Unravelling the structure of Aβ42 oligomers in membrane-mimetic environments
13:45-14:00 Student prizes and closing ceremony
14:00-15:00 Lunch