The detailed program: (under preparation) will offer ample room for lectures, round table discussions and access to laboratory test platforms as an enabling breadboard for future transdisciplinary collaboration avenues.
Programme
Day 1, Wednesday, June 3rd 2026
Venue: Romanian Academy
08:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:30 Opening
09:30 - 10:30 Distinguished plenary talk, Eric Francis Wieschaus
10:30 - 12:30 Session I. Cell Dynamics in Microbial and Biomedical Systems - Structure and Function from Genotypic and Phenotypic Analyses
Venue: ICB
13:15 - 14:15 Lunch & Poster Session
14:15 - 15:45 Session II. Phenotype Relationships Across Biological Scales – Open challenges for Mapping Genotype
15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Session III. Cell physiomics - Biomedical Perspective on Drug Sensitivity and Pathogenic Resistance Analysis
17:30 - 18:15 Round Table #1. State of the Art on Rapid, in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) for severe infectious diseases
Day 2, Thursday, June 4th
Venue: ICB
09:00 - 10:00 Short Talks (of 5’) to highlight the main results - Poster Session / Meeting of the IAB of the ICB
10:00 - 11:30 Session IV. Optical microscopy for analyzing cellular dynamics
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 13:00 Session V. Optical and molecular analysis of cellular responses to antitumoral therapy
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Demonstrations of ICB recent developments in IVD & biomarkers detection
14:45 - 15:45 Session VI. Biomarker-based approaches for rapid diagnosis
15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Session VII. Seeing Cells Differently: Electron vs. NMRI and Optical Microscopy Across Disciplines
17:30 - 18:15 Round Table #2. State of the Art on rapid Detection and Analysis of Drug Sensitivity/Resistance of pathogenic microorganisms and tumor cells
Day 3, Friday, 5th of June
Venue: ICB
09:00 - 9:45 Session VIII. Novel therapeutic approaches to address pathogenic resistance
09:45 - 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:00 Session IX. AI-assisted methods to assess the transient behavior of living cells
11:00 - 11:45 Session X. Active matter aspects in cells and man-made models
11:45 - 13:20 Session XI. Optical and molecular analysis of cellular responses to antitumoral therapy
13:20 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:40 Session XII. Photonics for analyzing cellular dynamics
15:40 - 15:50 Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:50 Session XIII. Data-Driven Insights into the Dynamics of Multicellular Systems
16:50 - 17:50 Round Table #3. State of the Art on novel antimicrobial compounds
Day 4, Saturday, 6th of June 2022
Venue: ICB
09:00 - 10:00 Session XIV. Transdisciplinary opportunities and challenges
10:00 - 11:30 Session XV. Biosensing - new approaches
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:30 Round Table #4. Launch of the Task Force: transdisciplinary routes to address pathogenic resistance
12:30 - 13:00 Best Poster Presentation Award & Closing Session