Programme

Opening

Bogdan Simionescu, Vice-President of the Romanian Academy

Alexandru Rafila, Romanian Health Minister

Andrei Alexandru, State Secretary, Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization

Eugen Gheorghiu, Director of ICB

Distinguished plenary talk

Chair: Bogdan Simionescu

MINFLUX and MINSTED provide molecule-scale resolution in fluorescence microscopy

Stefan Walter Hell

Session I. Nanoscale dynamics of live cells

Chair: Björn Kemper

Phase imaging with computational specificity (PICS) for biomedical applications

Gabriel Popescu

Stain-free Flow cytometry by 3D Phase-contrast tomograms: toward the intracellular specificity

Pietro Ferraro

Cancer cell morphology and dynamics classification based on label-free quantitative phase microscopy

Natan Shaked

Analyzing Cell Dynamics: from electrical time-lapse bulky measurements of (synchronized) populations to nanoscale, unitary opto-electrical single-cell time series

Eugen Gheorghiu

Magnetic nanocomposites and bio-ferrofluids: nanosystems for biotechnology and nanomedicine

Rodica Turcu & Ladislau Vekas

Cells and intracellular organelles imaging using supramolecular fluorescent probes or single-walled carbon nanotubes hybrid assemblies

Laura Ursu, Mariana Pinteala, Bogdan C. Simionescu, Alexandru Rotaru

Plasmonic nanoplatforms: from sensing to cell imaging and multimodal light-activated therapy

Simion Astilean

Session III. Cell physiomics - Biomedical Perspective on rapid Analysis of Drug Sensitivity/ Resistance of pathogenic microorganisms & tumor cells

Chairs: Mariana Carmen Chifiriuc, Victor Strâmbu

Phenotypic and molecular identification and antibiotic resistance detection techniques in bacteria: point of support for infectious diseases

Simin Aysel Florescu, Maria Nica

Rapid detection of pathogens and resistance - contribution of flow cytometry

Luminita Gabriela Marutescu, Mariana Carmen Chifiriuc

Electron Microscopy Methods for Diagnosis of Infectious Agents

Tudor Emanuel Fertig, Mihaela Gherghiceanu

Inverse Problems and Hierarchical Multiscale Modelling of Biological Matter

Aatto Laaksonen

Round Table #1. State of the Art on rapid Detection and Analysis of Drug Sensitivity/Resistance of pathogenic microorganisms and tumor cells

Chairs: Simin Aysel Florescu, Victor Strâmbu, Mariana Carmen Chifiriuc, Liliana Viasu, Lorand Savu, Maria Nica

Short Talks (of 5’) to highlight the main results & respond to comments left on posters during the POSTER Session

Chairs: Ionuț Enculescu, Alina Vasilescu

Session IV. Single-cell phenotypic (multivariate) analysis: Open Challenges

Chair: Octavian Popescu

Neutrophil phenotype orchestrates heart healing or failure post myocardial infarction

Elena Butoi and Maya Simionescu

Single-cell omics analyses with single molecular detection: challenges and perspectives

Gradimir Misevic

Session V. Single cell dynamics from high content imaging data towards cellular digital twins

Chair: Gabriel Popescu

A glance on the capability of DHM to study the cell dynamics: from cell cycle to electroporation process

Mona Mihailescu, Violeta Calin, Nicolae Tarba, Ana Maria Sandu, Andreea Ungureanu, Irina A. Paun, Catalin C. Mustaciosu, Alexandru Filippi, Maria-Magdalena Mocanu, Eugen Scarlat, Tudor Savopol, Mihaela G. Moisescu

Quantitative phase imaging with digital holographic microscopy: from in vitro via ex vivo towards in vivo

Björn Kemper

High content label free assessment of single cell dynamics based on electrically modulated microscopy assays

Mihaela Gheorghiu

Session VI. Physics and BioPhysics as a unitary route to assess biological cells and their dynamics

Chair: Eugen Gheorghiu

Employing biomimetic structures as building blocks in sensors and actuators

Ionuț Enculescu

Nano-engineered materials for cellomics

Sorin Melinte

The growth and reset dynamics in complex systems

Zoltán Néda

Session VII. (single) Cell physiomics - Biomedical Perspectives on rapid analysis of pathogenic microorganisms & tumor cells

Chairs: Octavian Popescu

Antibacterials based on carbonic anhydrase inhibition: target identification and validation

Claudiu Supuran

Moving towards near-real-time antibiotic susceptibility testing and antibiotic resistance mechanisms detection

Andrei-Alexandru Muntean, Madalina-Maria Muntean, Mihnea Ioan Gabriel Popa, Bogdan Alexandru Miron, Vlad Tudor Popa, Mircea Ioan Popa

Artificial intelligence based automatic acid-fast bacilli identification: Colentina University Hospital and Zaya Artificial Intelligence experience

Sabina Zurac, M. Trascau, C. Mogodici, C. Popp, L. Nichita, M. Cioplea, T. Poncu, B. Ceachi, L. Sticlaru, A. Cioroianu, M. Busca, O. Stefan, I. Tudor, A. Voicu, D. Stanescu, A. Bastian

Round Table #2. Current and forthcoming tools allowing real time, super-resolution microscopy for analyzing the dynamics of living cell structures

Chairs: Gabriel Popescu, Pietro Ferraro, Ladislau Vekas, Simion Astilean, Ionuț Enculescu, Eugen Gheorghiu

Session VIII. Transdisciplinarity and creative tensions

Chair: Eugen Gheorghiu

On Inter- and Trans-Disciplinarity. A Philosophical Outlook

Mircea Dumitru

Session IX. New approaches to support cell based biosensing

Chairs: Gradimir Misevic, Bogdan Popescu

Portable Surface Plasmon Resonance system for blood marker analysis supporting rapid point-of-care diagnostics and treatment monitoring

Cristina Polonschii

Quantifying drug uptake in single bacterial cells

Catalin Chimerel

Detection of low molecular weight compounds using reflected light microscopy

Szilveszter Gaspar

Zeiss latest technology for long-term volumetric imaging of living cells

Tudor Cicerone

Towards the assessment of Botrytis cinerea spores by coupled electrochemical and Raman spectroscopy assays

Alina Vasilescu

Advanced cell culture approaches for disease modeling, host-pathogen interaction research and drug toxicity and efficacy studies

Igor Pongrac

Round Table #3. Launch of the Task Force: transdisciplinary routes to address life threatening microbial pathogens

Chairs: Octavian Popescu, Bogdan Popescu, Liliana Viasu, Eugen Gheorghiu

Best Poster Presentation Award & Closing Session