Preliminary program:
19 October
11:00: Registration
11:45: Welcome
Session 1: Biophysical tools & analysis
12:00: Jonas Ríes (EMBL). Superresolution microscopy for structural cell biology
12:40: Maria Mañosas (UB). Unraveling interactions between nucleic acids and proteins using single molecule force spectroscopy techniques
13:20: Contributed talks:
- Natalia Salvat (ICFO). Spatiotemporal Organization of Integrin Receptors and Adaptor Proteins inside Focal Adhesions
- Christian Knapp (ICFO). A Python-based image analysis pipeline reveals the spatio-temporal dynamics of DNA damage during S-phase
- Roger Pons (ICFO). Assessing how glucocerebrosidase defects alter receptor membrane nanoarchitecture to design improved nanomedicines
14:15: Lunch
Session 2: Systems Biology (applied)
16:00: Blanca Rodríguez (Univ Oxford). Enabling precision medicine through multiscale modelling and simulation
16:40: Roser Sala-Llonch (UB). Spatiotemporal characteristics of large-scale human brain networks
17:20: Contributed talks:
- Carles Falcon-Falcon (BarcelonaBeta Brain Research Center). Relevance of CSF-blood flow coupling in the preclinical stage of Alzheimer’s disease. Preliminary results
- Fen Zhang (ICFO). Integration of functional diffuse correlation spectroscopy and electroencephalography for measuring task-triggered brain activation in infants
18:00 – 20:00: Poster Session
20:30: Coffee Discussion at Nou Bar
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20 October
Session 3: Medical diagnosis and treatment
09:00: Institutional Welcome
09:15: Arjun Yodh (UPenn). Functional Imaging and Spectroscopy with Diffusing Light
09:55: Clara Vilches (ICFO). A toolbox for personalized plasmonic photothermal cancer therapy
10:35: Contributed talk:
- Marta Zanoletti (ICFO). Hybrid diffuse optical device for the assessment of microvasculature health at the intensive care
- Manel Vidal-Vidal (UPC). BrainFocus: a computational toolbox to identify epileptic networks from intracranial EEG data
- Anurag Behera (ICFO). High-density hybrid diffuse optical tomographic probe for infant neuromonitoring: a simulation study
11:30: Coffee break
Session 4: Role of Physics in Medicine and Public Health
12:00: Jaume Mesquida (Parc Tauli Univ Hospital). Photonics and advances in critical care
12:40: Clara Prats (UPC). Computational modelling to inform public health decisions
13:20: Contributed talks:
- Lorenzo Cortese (ICFO). Bed-side evaluation of endothelial and microvascular impairments in severe COVID-19 patients through non-invasive near-infrared spectroscopy: the HEMOCOVID-19 trial
- Enrique Alvarez-Lacalle (UPC). Comparison of the severity of omicron and delta variants using hospitalization, and intensive care admissions rates in Catalonia
- Pablo Fernandez Esteberena (ICFO). Thyroid cancer screening using ultrasound-guided hybrid diffuse optical techniques
14:00: Lunch
17:00: Excursion
20:30: Conference dinner
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21 October
Session 5: Physical Biology
09:15: Gorka Muñoz-Gil (UIBK). Machine learning approaches to anomalous diffusion
09:55: Pere Roca-Cusachs (IBEC-UB). Transducing – and shielding – mechanical signals from integrins to the nucleus
10:35: Contributed talks:
- Marc Domingo (ICMB). Inactivating SARS-CoV-2 with surfactants using computer simulations
- Frederic Catala-Castro (ICFO). Actin buffers nuclear stress and maintains nuclear positioning during mechanotransduction
- Juan Torreño-Piña (ICFO). Stochastic particle unbinding modulates growth dynamics and size of transcription factor condensates in living cells
11:30: Coffee break
Session 6: Systems Biology (fundamental)
12:00: Xavier Trepat (IBEC). Epithelial mechanobiology from the bottom up
12:40: Javier Buceta (I2SysBio). Tissue Remodeling: Elongation, Regeneration, and 3D Packing
13:20: Contributed talks:
- Miquel Bosch-Padrós (IBEC). An optogenetic and mechanical approach to control synthetic morphogenesis
- Antonio Pons (UPC). Learning Synchronization Patterns with Neural Mass Model Networks
- Raul Benitez (UPC). Detection of calcium sparks in cardiac cells using deep learning and biophysical models
14:15: Final remarks