Sunday, March 29, 2026
Registration will take place on site. Drinks and snacks will be served to welcome everyone.
Monday, March 30, 2026
The conference organization will be available at the registration desk for conference check-in and questions.
Conference Opening and Welcome Note
Quantum Sensor Networks
Alexey Gorshkov (College Park, USA)
Molecular and Single-Molecule Detection Methods I
10:45-11:15
Invited Lecture –
Fluorescent Molecular and Nanoscale Probes for Biosensing
Andrey Klymchenko (Strasbourg/FR)
11:15-11:30
Molecular Detection of Drug–Target Interactions of Antimalarials in Infected Red Blood Cells
Timea Frosch (Jena/DE), Jürgen Popp (Jena/DE), Torsten Frosch (Darmstadt/DE)
11:30-11:45
A Novel Method for Label-free Colorimetric Biosensing
Arturo Patrone Garcia (Valencia/ES), Miquel Avella-Oliver (Valencia/ES), Ángel Maquieira (Valencia/ES)
11:45-12:00
A Holistic Approach to Viral Vector Production Analytics Using Label-free Biosensing
Alexander Krauth (Tübingen/DE), Peter Fechner (Tübingen/DE), Johanna Hutterer (Tübingen/DE), Günter Gauglitz (Tübingen/DE)
12:00-12:15
Studying Dynamics of the Peroxisomal Membrane by 3D Tracking of Peroxisomal Membrane Proteins using Minflux Super-resolution Microscopy
Katharina Reglinski (Jena/DE), Jonatan Alvelid (Jena/DE), Delgir Zakinova (Jena/DE), Wolfgang Schlips (Bochum/DE), Ralf Erdmann (Bochum/DE), Christian Eggeling (Jena/DE)
10:45-11:15
Invited Lecture –
Molecular (Bio)Sensing by Plasmonic Nanoparticles
Wolfgang Fritzsche (Jena/DE)
11:15-11:30
Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) and Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR)-based Optical Biosensing of Trenbolone Acetate Dopant
Moses Wabwile Juma (Cape Town/ZA, Nairobi/KE), Zephania Birech (Nairobi/KE), Nancy Mwikali Mwenze (Cape Town/ZA), Nairobi/KE), Annah Moraa Ondieki (Nairobi/KE), Simon Dhlamini Mokhotjwa (Cape Town/ZA)
11:30-11:45
Intratissular and Intracranial SERS Nanofibers for Monitoring Proteins in Brain Tissues
Jean-Francois Masson (Montreal/CA), Maryam Hojjat Jodaylami (Montreal/CA), Dominic Falardeau (Montreal/CA), Ravi L. Rungta (Montreal/CA), Arlette Kolta (Montreal/CA)
11:45-12:00
Plasmonic Biosensors with Digital Assay Format
Katharina Schmidt (Wiener Neustadt/AT), Naoto Asai (Wiener Neustadt/AT), Gizem Aktug (Prague/CZ), Dario Cattozzo Mor (Prague/CZ), Anna Kutova (Prague/CZ), Begüm Balkan (Prague/CZ), Zdeněk Hubička (Prague/CZ), Andreas Weinhaeusel (Vienna/AT), Chun Jen Huang (Taouyan/TW), Jakub Dostalek (Jena/DE)
12:00-12:15
Sensing with Gold Nanoparticles Excited with an Eco- friendly Fluorescent Optical Fibre
Lucero M. Hernandez-Cedillo (Bilbao/ES), María A. Illarramendi (Bilbao/ES), Igor Ayesta (Bilbao/ES), Joseba Zubia (Bilbao/ES), Joel Villatoro (Bilbao/ES)
Wearable, Implantable, and Miniaturized Sensor Systems I
10:45-11:15
Invited Lecture –
Sensor Arrays for Complex Analytical Applications
Emilia Witkowska-Nery (Warsaw/PL)
11:15-11:30
Towards Ultra-miniature and Wearable Raman Spectrometers for Real-World Biomedical Applications: Some Industrial Experience and Perspective
William Yang-Terziyan (San Jose/US)
11:30-11:45
Cellulose Paper-based Optode Device (CPOD) for Reversible, Colourimetric Sensing of pH and Mg2+ Ions
Deepak Joshy (Zagreb/HR), Iva Karneluti (Zagreb/HR), Ivana Perkovic (Zagreb/HR), Huma Yilmaz (Zagreb/HR), Gerhard J. Mohr (Weiz/AT), Matthew D. Steinberg (Cambridge/GB), Ivana M. Steinberg (Cambridge/GB)
11:45-12:00
Biomedical Technologies for Early Detection of Catheter Associated Infections
Hatice Ceylan Koydemir (College Station/US)
DNA Moiré Superlattices
Laura La Niu (Stuttgart/DE)
14:15 - 15:45:
Molecular and Single-Molecule Detection Methods II
14:15-14:30
High-throughput Molecular Microarray-based for Rapid, Cost-effective Detection of Clinical Strains of Klebsiella Pneumoniae
Abdinasir Abdilahi (Jena/DE), Sascha Braun (Jena/DE), Stefan Monecke (Jena/DE), Maximilian Collatz (Jena/DE), Elke Müller (Jena/DE), Annet Reissig (Jena/DE), Celia Diezel (Jena/DE), Kathrin Frankenfeld (Bad Langensalza/DE), Thomas Wellhöfer (Bad Langensalza/DE), Ralf Ehricht (Jena/DE)
14:30-14:45
Artificial Intelligence-Aided Massively Parallel Slitless Spectroscopy for Single-Molecule Bioaffinity Detection in Aqueous Solution
Antonín Hlaváček (Brno/CZ), Kateřina Uhrová (Brno/CZ), Julie Weisová (Brno/CZ), Jana Křivánková (Brno/CZ)
14:45-15:00
SERS-based Analytical Platform for Identification of Spectro-markers of Salivary Gland Tumours: Towards Clinical Utility of SERS in Oncology
Agnieszka Kaminska (Warsaw/PL), Aneta Kowalska (Warsaw/PL), Marta Czaplicka (Warsaw/PL), Ida Wiśniewska (Warsaw/PL), Sylwia Berus (Warsaw/PL), Zuzanna Gronkiewicz (Warsaw/PL), Wojciech Kukwa (Warsaw/PL), Magdalena Data (Warsaw/PL)
15:00-15:15
Sub-diffraction, Lens-free Fluorescence Imaging On-chip via Sparse Optical Lattices
Steven Vanuytsel (Leuven/BE), Quentin Desmeth (Leuven/BE), Andim Stassen (Leuven/BE), Victor Chuman Alvarado (Leuven/BE), Zhenxiang Luo (Leuven/BE), Victor Garcia Munoz (Leuven/BE), Finub J. Shirley (Leuven/BE), Pol Van Dorpe (Leuven/BE), Niels Verellen (Leuven/BE)
15:15-15:30
Agarose–Chitosan Nanoreactor Beads Reveal Core–Shell Mechanism for Multiplex Barcoding
Katharina Heise (Jena/DE), Lennart Gura (Jena/DE), Lea Kanitz (Jena/DE), Emma Pohl (Jena/DE), Theresa Liebe (Jena/DE), Daniel Toro (Jena/DE), Katrin Steinmetzer (Jena/DE), Thomas Ellinger (Jena/DE), Susanne Klingner (Jena/DE), Stephan Hubold (Jena/DE), Oliver Lemuth (Jena/DE), Susanne Töpfer (Jena/DE), Eugen Ermantraut (Jena/DE)
15:30-15:45
Seeing Without Labels: Multimodal and Non-linear Raman Microspectroscopy for Intracellular API Localization
Julian Plitzko (Jena/DE), Natalja Redinger (Borsten/DE), Tobias Meyer-Zedler (Jena/DE), Matthias Hauptmann (Borsten/DE), Claus Feldmann (Lübeck/DE), Franziska Adermann (Jena/DE), Thorben Köhler (Jena/DE), Klea Mehmetaj (Jena/DE), Stephanie Schubert (Jena/DE), Adrian T. Press (Jena/DE), Ulrich E. Schaible (Borsten/DE), Michael Bauer (Jena/DE), Michael Schmitt (Jena/DE), Jürgen Popp (Jena/DE)
14:15-14:30
Improving Nanoplasmonic Sensor Performance: Validated Simulation Design
Kevin Thomschke (Dresden/DE), Nadja Steinke (Dresden/DE), Christiane Schuster (Dresden/DE), Thomas Härtling (Dresden/DE)
14:30-14:45
Dual-Fingerprint Raman Techniques for Multi-targeted Biosensing
Ai-Guo Shen (Wuhan/CN), Wei Zhu (Wuhan/CN, Jena/DE), Ji-Ming Hu (Jena/DE)
14:45-15:00
Use of SERS for Holistic Analysis of Patterns in Alzheimer’s Extracellular Vesicles
Sergio Quintero Moreno (Braga/PT), Francisca Oliveira (Braga/PT), Alexandra Teixer (Braga/PT), Rita Nóbrega-Martins (Braga/PT), Beatriz Barros-Santos(Braga/PT), Lorena Dieguez(Braga/PT), Joana M. Silva(Braga/PT), Sara Abalde(Braga/PT)
15:00-15:15
Polarisation-based Sensing of Tissue Phantoms with Quantum Metrics
Vira R. Besaga (Jena/DE), Ivan V. Lopushenko (Oulu, FI), Oleksii Sieryi (Oulu, FI), Alexander Bykov (Oulu, FI), Frank Setzpfandt (Jena/DE), Igor Meglinski (Birmingham/GB)
15:15-15:30
Cyclic Voltarefractometry of Individual Nanoparticles
Shavkat Nizamov (Cottbus/DE), Veronika Laurinavichyute (Cottbus/DE), Vladimir M. Mirsky (Cottbus/DE)
15:30-15:45
Broadband, Spatially Extended, and Single-handed Optical Chirality Enhancement from 3D Archimedean Sieve
Min Jiang (Jena/DE, Canberra/AU), Abhik Chakraborty (Jena/DE), Xiaofei Wu (Jena/DE), Hark Hoe Tan (Canberra/AU), Jer-Shing Huang (Jena/DE)
Wearable, Implantable, and Miniaturized Sensor Systems II
14:15-14:30
Development of a Biocompatible Cellulose-Based Sensing Film for the Colourimetric Detection of Biomarkers
Iva Karneluti (Zagreb/HR), Deepak Joshy (Zagreb/HR), Gerhard J. Mohr (Weiz/AT), Ivana M. Steinberg (Zagreb/HR)
14:30-14:45
Implantable and Bioresorbable Sensors for Precision In-vivo Detection of Therapeutic and Clinical Markers
Martina Corsi (Pisa/IT), Elena Maurina (Pisa/IT), Salvatore Surdo (Pisa/IT), Eleonora Vandini (Modena/IT), Eleonora Daini (Modena/IT), Antonietta Vilella (Modena/IT), Giuseppina Leo (Modena/IT), Moein Farshchian (Modena/IT), Gulia Grisendi (Modena/IT), Giulia Golinelli (Modena/IT), Massimo Dominici (Modena/IT), Guido Bocci (Pisa/IT), Daniela Giuliani (Modena/IT), Giuseppe Barillaro (Pisa/IT)
14:45-15:00
Filter, Flip, and Fabricate: Wax-Assisted Stamp Transfer Approach for Ti₃C₂Tₓ MXene Flexible Electrochemical Transducers
Zaheer Ud Din Babar (Naples/IT), Mariam Fatima (Naples/IT), Bartolomeo Della Ventura (Naples/IT), Vincenzo Iannotti (Naples/IT), Raffaele Velotta (Naples/IT)
15:00-15:15
Development of a Phosphorescent Quantum Dots–Hydrogel Hybrid Material as a Potential Platform for Wearable Sensing
Huma Yilmaz (Zagreb/HR), Iva Karneluti (Zagreb/HR), Deepak Joshy (Zagreb/HR), Gerhard J. Mohr (Weiz/AT), Ivana M. Steinberg (Zagreb/HR)
15:15-15:30
Optical Biosensor Towards in Vivo Biomolecular Monitoring
Soohyun Park (Heidelberg/DE), Pragnya Satapathy (Heidelberg/DE), Catia Santa (Heidelberg/DE), Alice Gerber (Heidelberg/DE), Heather Clark (Tempe/US), Jakub Dostalek (Prague/CZ, Krems an der Donau/AT), Bastian Hengerer (Biberbach an der Riß/DE), Khulan Sergelen (Heidelberg/DE)
15:30-15:45
Spectroscopy without Borders: Empowering Global Solutions through Portable Technology
Christian W. Huck (Innsbruck/AT)
Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Sensing
16:15-16:45
Invited Lecture –
Scanning (photo)electrochemical Probe Microscopy: Insight into Light-driven Catalytic Processes
Christine Kranz (Ulm/DE)
16:45-17:00
Amplification-Free DNA Detection with a 3D-Printed Fluidic Cell in an EIS Biosensor
Tina D’Aponte (Naples/IT), Erica Cavaliere (Naples/IT), Elisabetta de Alteriis (Naples/IT), Fabrizio Cartenì (Portici/IT), Stefano Mazzoleni (Portici/IT), Vincenzo Iannotti (Naples/IT), Raffaele Velotta (Naples/IT), Bartolomeo Della Ventura (Naples/IT)
17:00-17:15
Photo-induced Electrochemiluminescence Sensing and Imaging at Semiconductor Surfaces
Changlin Zhou (Bordeaux/FR), Julie Descamps (Bordeaux/FR), Yiran Zhao (Rennes/FR), Gabriel Loget (Bordeaux/FR), Neso Sojic (Bordeaux/FR)
17:15-17:30
Microfabricated Coreactant-Free ECL Platform Enabling Next-Generation Multiplexed Portable Diagnostics
Somayyeh Bozorgzadeh (Cork/IE), Alan O’Riordan (Cork/IE)
16:15-16:45
Invited Lecture –
Plasmonic Fiber Grating Biosensors:
From Early Concepts to Prospects for Industrial Deployment
Christophe Caucheteur (Mons/BE)
16:45-17:00
Dual Lossy Mode Resonance-based Biosensor for Multianalyte Detection
Francesco Baldini (Sesto Fiorentino/IT), Desiree Santano (Pamplona/ES), Abian B. Socorro (Pamplona/ES), Ambra Giannetti (Sesto Fiorentino/IT), Claudia Borri (Sesto Fiorentino/IT), Ignacio Del Villar (Pamplona/ES), Francesco Chiavaioli (Sesto Fiorentino/IT)
17:00-17:15
Self-aligned Nanobead Arrays with Tunable Size on Imaging Fibers for Spectroscopic Platforms
Marine Lavainne (Bordeaux/FR), Karim Vindas (Grenoble/FR), Oleksii Bratash (Grenoble/FR), Patrick Garrigue (Bordeaux/FR), Loïc Leroy (Grenoble/FR), Elodie Engel (Grenoble/FR), Neso Sojic (Bordeaux/FR)
17:15-17:30
Multiplexed Interferometric Optical Fiber Biosensors
Chalimar Salameh (Grenoble/FR), Oleksii Bratash (Grenoble/FR), Thierry Livache (Grenoble/FR), Arnaud Buhot (Grenoble/FR), Loïc Leroy (Grenoble/FR), Elodie E. Engel (Grenoble/FR)
17:30-17:45
Photonic Biosensor for Rapid, Urine-based Screening of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Celia Galindo-Martin (Barcelona/ES), Yannick Hoyos-Mallecot (Barcelona/ES), Juan J. González-López (Barcelona/ES), Laura M. Lechuga (Barcelona/ES), Maria Soler (Barcelona/ES)
16:15-16:45
Invited Lecture –
Automation Meets Analytics: Smart Detection in Laboratory and Chemical Workflows
Kerstin Thurow (Rostock/DE)
16:45-17:00
Investigating the Fluorescence Properties of Edible Oils for Classification Using the LIF Technique and predictive AI models
Ali Rahmatpanahi (Tehran/IR), Ali Bavali (Tehran/IR)
17:00-17:15
Rapid ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy for Field Detection of Dengue Fever Infections
Bayden R. Wood (Victoria/AU), Aaron Mclean (Victoria/AU), Vilayouth Phimolsarnnousith (Vientiane/LA), Bountoy Sibounheuang (Vientiane/LA), Manivanh Vongsouvath (Vientiane/LA), Elizabeth A. Ashley (Vientiane/LA), Michael D. Edstein (Brisbane/AU), Audrey Dubot-Pérès (Vientiane/LA), Marina Chavchich (Brisbane/AU)
17:15-17:30
Final-stage Data Processing for Improved Performance of Fiber Optic Resonator Sensors Beyond Virtual Vernier Effect
Ander Zornoza (Bilbao/ES), Joel Villatoro (Bilbao/ES)
Accompanying the lecture program, there will be an exhibition of scientific posters, which we will visit during this time slot. We ask all poster authors to be available near their posters to answer questions.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
The conference organization will be available at the registration desk for conference check-in and questions.
Ralf Jungmann (Munich/DE)
Luminescence, Fluorescence, and FRET-Based Sensors I
09:45-10:15
Invited Lecture –
How do we Create Robust Optical Chemosensors for Complex Analytes in Condensed Phases?
Thomas Søorensen (Copenhagen/DK)
10:15-10:30
Luminescent Nanoparticles for Reversible Optical Sensing of Oxygen and pH Gradients at sub-Second Temporal and µm Spatial Resolution
Michael Wind-Hansen (Aarhus/DK), A.V. Kalinichev (Aarhus/DK), M. Godefroid (Bremen/DE), L. Behrendt (Uppsala/SE, Lyngby/DK), S. Ahmerkamp (Rostock/DE), K. Koren (Aarhus/DK)
10:30-10:45
Low-cost CMOS-based System for Luminescence Lifetime Imaging of Oxygen, Temperature and pH
Gauthier Rousseau (Vienna/AT), Marianne Pons (Vienna/AT), Hessel Adelerhof (Vienna/AT), Nathan Pellerin (Vienna/AT), Mart Giesbergen (Vienna/AT), Bastien Carde (Vienna/AT), Martin Wolff (Vienna/AT), Koen Blanckaert (Vienna/AT), Benoit Fond (Paris/FR), Sergey Borisov (Graz/AT)
10:45-11:00
Hydrogels for Measurement of Protein Biomarkers in Body Fluids
Khalid Haliru (Birmingham/GB), Nicholas J. Goddard, Ruchi Gupta (Birmingham/GB)
09:45-10:15
Invited Lecture –
Shedding New Light on Cells with Coherent Nonlinear Optical Nanoscopy
Paola Borri (Cardiff/GB)
10:15-10:30
Advancing Ultrafast Spectral Histopathology with Broadband Coherent Raman Scattering
Carl Messerschmidt (Jena/DE), Matteo Calvarese (Jena/DE), Mohammadsadegh Vafaeinezha (Jena/DE), Oleg Ryabchykov (Jena/DE), Anna Mühlig (Jena/DE), Tobias Meyer-Zedler (Jena/DE), Michael Schmitt (Jena/DE), Orlando Guntinas-Lichius (Jena/DE), Thomas Bocklitz (Jena/DE), Jürgen Popp (Jena/DE)
10:30-10:45
Event-Based Structured Illumination Microscopy with Improved Optical Sectioning
Gabriel Baum (Jena/DE), Adrienn Platz (Jena/DE), Andreas Stark (Jena/DE), Christian Franke (Jena/DE)
10:45-11:00
Cellular Multi-Point Adaptive Technology for Two-photon Mesoscope
Shuai Chen(Suzhou/CN, Nanning/CN), Hongbo Jia (Suzhou/CN, Nanning/CN, Magdeburg/DE), Hong Ye (Suzhou/CN)
11:00-11:15
Event-Driven Spectroscopy for Dynamic Optical Sensing Applications
Joana Teixeira (Porto/PT), Tomás Lopes (Porto/PT), Pedro A. S. Jorge (Porto/PT), Nuno A. Silva (Porto/PT)
09:45-10:15
Invited Lecture –
Automated Image Quality Assessment Methods for Optical Microscopy
Thomas Bocklitz (Jena/DE)
10:15-10:30
Field Deployment of Planar Optodes in Soils: Capturing Event-driven Anoxic Hotspot Formation
Martin Reinhard Rasmussen (Aarhus/DK), Xiao Bai (Aarhus/DK), Pauline Sophie Rummel (Aarhus/DK, Diepenbeek/BE), Andrei Kalinichev (Aarhus/DK), Klaus Butterbach-Bahl (Aarhus/DK), Klaus Koren (Aarhus/DK)
10:30-10:45
AI-Driven Modular Optical Microresonator Architecture for Multiplexed Biosensing
Anton Saetchnikov (Bochum/DE), Andreas Ostendrorf (Bochum/DE)
10:45-11:00
Advancing Lung Cancer Diagnosis with AI-Driven Raman Spectroscopy
Concetta Esposito (Benevento/IT), Valeria Iazzetta (Benevento/IT), Sara Spaziani (Benevento/IT), Paola Ulivi (Meldola/IT), Marco Pisco (Benevento/IT), Andrea Cusano (Benevento/IT)
11:00-11:15
AI-enhanced Raman–SERS Nanotheranostics for Intracellular Tracking and Gene-targeted Therapy in Bladder Cancer
Valeria Iazzetta (Benevento/IT), Somayeh Farazpour (Naples/IT) , Sara Spaziani (Benevento/IT), Alessia M. Cossu (Naples/IT), Anna C. De Luca (Naples/IT), Marco Pisco (Benevento/IT), Andrea Cusano (Benevento/IT)
11:30-11:45
Multiplexed Ultra-Rapid High-Resolution Genotyping Using Fluorescence-Encoded Nanoreactor Beads
Stephan Hubold (Jena/DE), Friederike Fritsch (Jena/DE)
11:45-12:00
Sulfate-Directed Silver Dendrites with Long-Term Stability for SERS-Based Biomolecular Analysis in Complex Matrices
Aradhana Dwivedi (Jena/DE), Vladimir Sivakov (Jena/DE), Jürgen Popp (Jena/DE), Dana Cialla-May (Jena/DE)
12:00-12:15
Advancing Polymer Characterization with Simultaneous Optical Photothermal IR and Raman Micro-Spectroscopy
Miriam Unger (Mühlheim/DE), Heinz W. Siesler (Essen/DE)
11:30-11:45
An Optical Label-free Sensor for Characterising Cell-material-interactions
Johanna Hutterer (Tübingen/DE), Peter Fechner (Tübingen/DE), Günther Proll (Tübingen/DE), Ruben Daum (Tübingen/DE), Ivana Mrsic (Tübingen/DE), Günter Gauglitz (Tübingen/DE)
11:45-12:00
Fiber Resonant Cavity Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Multi-component Gases Detection
Fu Wan (Chongqing/CN), Siwei Sun (Chongqing/CN), Weiping Kong (Chongqing/CN), Hongcheng Sun (Chongqing/CN), Junbin Zhang (Chongqing/CN), Bowen Chen (Chongqing/CN), Weigen Chen (Chongqing/CN)
12:00-12:15
Laminated Multi-layer Optical Waveguides Enabled by Floating Film Transfer
Patrick Görrn (Wuppertal/DE), Lev Mikhailov (Wuppertal/DE), Christopher Knoth (Wuppertal/DE), Maximilian Buchmülle (Wuppertal/DE)
11:30-12:00
Invited Lecture –
Phase Imaging Flow Cytometry for Point-of-Care – Diagnostics: Methods and Clinical Validation
Oliver Hayden (Munich/DE)
12:00-12:15
Development and Application of p-NIPAM Barriers and Repositories for Microfluidic Flow Control. A Proof of Concept
Maria Angustias Torres-Molina (Granada/ES), Celia E. Ramos-Lorente (Granada/ES), Ignacio de Orbe-Payá (Granada/ES), Nuria López Ruiz (Granada/ES), Pablo Escobedo (Granada/ES), Alberto J. Palma (Granada/ES), Luis F. Capitán-Vallvey (Granada/ES), Miguel M. Erenas (Granada/ES), Isabel M. Pérez de Vargas Sansalvado (Granada/ES)
12:15-12:30
Optofluidic Microfluidic Chip for Streamlined Nucleic Acid Extraction and Isothermal Amplification for Point-of-care Detection of Klebsiella Pneumoniae
Catarina Nogueira (Braga/PT), Ana Frangalho (Braga/PT), Bruno Freitas (Braga/PT), Carla Carvalho (Braga/PT)
12:30-12:45
Development of a Modular Bead-based Microfluidic Fluoroimmunoassay Platform
Knut Rurack (Berlin/DE), Daniel López-Puertollano (Berlin/DE, Valencia/ES), Charlie Tobias (Berlin/DE), Jeremy Bell (Berlin/DE)
Novel Bio(inspired) (photo)electrochemical Sensing Strategies
Karolien De Wael (Antwerp/BE)
14:45-15:15
Invited Lecture –
Measurement of the Absolute Membrane Potential Using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM)
Tobias Meyer-Zedler (Jena/DE)
15:15-15:30
Multi-Resonance Emitters: New Indicator Dyes for Self-Referenced Ratiometric Optical Sensing
Lisa Eiber (Graz/AT), Andreas Russegger (Graz/AT), T. Krampl (Graz/AT), Sergey M. Borisov (Graz/AT)
15:30-15:45
Toward Intelligent 2D Luminescence-based Imaging for Multiparameter Chemical Mapping
Andrey V. Kalinichev (Aarhus/DK), Martin R. Rasmussen (Aarhus/DK), Aaron Hurst (Aarhus/DK), Casper Kunstmann-Olsen (Sønderborg/DK), Daniel E. Lucani (Aarhus/DK), Klaus Koren (Aarhus/DK)
15:45-16:00
Sensing Oxygen in Organic Solvents with Surface-Anchored Metal Organic Frameworks
Theresa Mautz (Graz/AT), Fabian Gasser (Graz/AT), Fernando Warchomicka (Graz/AT), Roland Resel (Graz/AT), Christian Slugovc (Graz/AT), Sergey M. Borisov (Graz/AT)
16:00-16:15
Real-time Profiling of Single-cell Energy Metabolism Phenotype
Xu-dong Wang (Shanghai/CN), Ying Xu (Shanghai/CN), Jiahao Liang (Shanghai/CN), Luqiang Yu (Shanghai/CN), Enlai Yang (Shanghai/CN)
14:45-15:15
Invited Lecture –
Rethinking Optical Biosensors: From Integrated Photonics to Deployable Sensing Platforms
Eleni Makarona (Ag. Paraskevi/GR)
15:15-15:30
A Bimodal Plasmo-photonic Sensor for Label-free Biosensing
Juliana F. Giarola (Barcelona/ES), Marie C. Estevez (Barcelona/ES), Lamprini Damahoudi (Thessaloniki/GR), Stelios Simos (Thessaloniki/GR), Evaggelia Chatzianagnostou (Thessaloniki/GR), Dimosthenis Spasopoulos (Thessaloniki/GR), Konstantinos Vyrsokinos (Thessaloniki/GR), José Carreira (Eclubens/CH), Juan J. González-Lopez (Barcelona/ES), Juan C. Ruiz-Rodríguez (Barcelona/ES), S.Cocaña (Arrasate/ES), A. Tejedor (Arrasate/ES), I. Etxebarria (Arrasate/ES), Nikos Pleros (Thessaloniki/GR), Laura M. Lechuga (Barcelona/ES)
15:30-15:45
Photoinduced Re-writable Birefringence on Optical Fiber Tips using an Azopolymer
Beatriz Soares (Porto/PT), Susana Silva (Porto/PT), Paulo Ribeiro (Caparica/PT), Orlando Frazão (Porto/PT)
15:45-16:00
Waveguides for Wash-Free Immunoassays: Multiplexed and Rapid Detection of Proteins in Complex Media
Stijn Jooken (Leuven/BE), Finub J. Shirley (Leuven/BE), Tim Steylaerts (Leuven/BE), Van Pham (Leuven/BE), Kirill Zinoviev (Leuven/BE), Chad Arnett (Leuven/BE), Amir Asadollahifanabonab (Leuven/BE), Pieter Neutens (Leuven/BE), Jeonghwan Song (Leuven/BE), Lisa Tripodi (Leuven/BE), Pol Van Dorpe (Leuven/BE), Niels Verellen (Leuven/BE)
16:00-16:15
Fiber-Enhanced & Deep-UV Raman Spectroscopy for Point-of-Care Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Antibiotics
Torsten Frosch (Darmstadt/DE, Jena/DE), Jürgen Popp (Jena/DE), Christian Domes (Jena/DE), Timea Frosch (Jena/DE)
14:45-15:15
Invited Lecture –
Lab-on-a-Chip Platforms for In Situ Photonic and Spectroelectrochemical Sensing
Detlev Belder (Leipzig/DE)
15:15-15:30
Automated Multimodal Imaging of Microorganisms in Fuzzy Logic-Controlled Droplet Microfluidics
Fabian Ott (Jena/DE), Ashkan Samimi (Jena/DE), Sundar Hengoju (Jena/DE), Tobias Meyer-Zedler (Jena/DE), Michael Schmitt (Jena/DE), Miriam A. Rosenbaum (Jena/DE), Jürgen Popp (Jena/DE)
15:30-15:45
Optofluidic Sensor for Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Faecal Pigments in Water Quality Monitoring
Swayam Prakash (Berlin/DE), Jérémy Bell (Berlin/DE), Knut Rurack (Berlin/DE)
15:45-16:00
3D Printed LOC Device for in-line Monitoring of Biofilm Growth using Integrated Raman Spectroscopy
Casper Kunstmann (Sønderborg/DK), Arkadiusz Goszczak (Sønderborg/DK), Jacek Fiutowski (Sønderborg/DK), Zuzanna Parnicka (Sønderborg/DK), Lisa M. Miller (York/GB), Reyme Herman (York/GB)
16:00-16:15
Bead-based Microfluidic Platforms for Bacterial Separation and Detection from Complex Samples
Jessica C. Sousa (Braga/PT), Catarina L. Nogueira (Braga/PT), Ana Frangolho (Braga/PT), Joao P. Conde (Lisbon/PT), Carla M. Carvalho (Braga/PT)
16:45-17:00
Synergistic Indicator-Dye/Nanostructure Design for Optical Sensors with Tunable Properties
Gerhard J. Mohr (Weiz/AT), Cindy Schaude (Weiz/AT), Christian Wolf (Weiz/AT), Jan Hesse (Weiz/AT)
17:00-17:15
Optical Immunodetection of Targeted Explosives using 3D Printed Optical Elements
María A. Hernández García (Berlin/DE), Jérémy Bell (Berlin/DE), Michael Weller (Berlin/DE), Knut Rurack (Berlin/DE)
17:15-17:30
Tuning Fluorescence with Nanostructures: Morphology, Spacer Layers, and Optical Resonances
Alexandra Falamas (Cluj-Napoca/RO), Denisa Cuibus (Cluj-Napoca/RO), Cosmin Farcau (Cluj-Napoca/RO)
17:30-17:45
Optimised Hydrogel Bead Platform for Selective Capture and Controlled Release of IL-6 and IL-8 in OPMD Saliva Abstract
Khalid Haliru (Birmingham/GB)
17:45-18:00
Redefining Mycotoxin Monitoring: A Dual BRET Biosensing Approach for Rapid, Multiplex, and Wash-Free Detection
Andrea Sánchez-Elvira (Madrid/ES), Marta García-Cortés (Madrid/ES), Melisa del Barrio (Madrid/ES), Elena Benito-Peña (Madrid/ES)
16:45-17:00
Optimization of Silver-Coated Boehmite Nanostructures for Enhanced SERS detection of Date-rape Drugs
G. Geka (Ag. Paraskevi/GR), F. Kalogeropoulou (Ag. Paraskevi/GR), A. Kanioura (Ag. Paraskevi/GR), M. Angelopoulou (Ag. Paraskevi/GR), S. Richardson (Ag. Paraskevi/GR), A. Dimitriou (Ag. Paraskevi/GR), D. Tsounidi (Athens/GR), I. Raptis (Athens/GR), D. Goustouridis (Athens/GR), N. Papanikolaou (Ag. Paraskevi/GR), S. Kakabakos (Ag. Paraskevi/GR), Panagiota Petrou (Ag. Paraskevi/GR)
17:00-17:15
Drug Detection and Biomarker Sensing in Complex Bio Matrices by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Dana Cialla-May (Jena/DE), Jürgen Popp (Jena/DE)
17:15-17:30
Low-Cost Multispot Nanoplasmonic Platform for High-sensitivity Multiplexed Biosensing
Jhonattan C. Ramirez (Barcelona/ES), Mari C. Estévez (Barcelona/ES), Laura M. Lechuga (Barcelona/ES)
17:30-17:45
Light-Controlled Disorder-Engineering of Plasmonic Nanoparticles and Metasurfaces
Maximilian Buchmüller (Wuppertal/DE), Patrick Görrn (Wuppertal/DE)
17:45-18:00
Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor Based on an Array of Diffraction Gratings with a Variable Period
Jiří Slabý (Prague/CZ), Markéta Bocková (Prague/CZ), Ludmila Jurgová (Prague/CZ), Karel Chadt (Prague/CZ), Ondřej Hlavačka (Prague/CZ), Jiří Homola (Prague/CZ)
18:00-18:15
Snapshot Spectral Imaging Plasmon Sensor
Ondrej Stranik (Jena/DE), Sebastian Unger (Jena/DE), Mary C. Licuona Puma (Jena/DE), Rainer Heintzmann (Jena/DE)
16:45-17:15
Invited Lecture –
Engineering DNA-controlled CRISPR Systems for Enzyme Activity Monitoring
Alessandro Porchetta (Rome/IT)
17:15-17:30
Picomolar Sensing of Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals in Environmental Samples by a Soft Colloidal Probe Biosensor
Rosa Gehring (Leipzig/DE), Veronika Riedl (Leipzig/DE), Niklas von Malottki (Leipzig/DE), Andreas Müller (Leipzig/DE), Tilo Pompe (Leipzig/DE)
17:30-17:45
Enzyme-based Optical Sensors for Monitoring of L-glutamate in a Gut-brain Axis on Chip
Tom Erik Pedersen (Enschede/NL), S. Michel-Souzy (Enschede/NL), K. Broersen (Enschede/NL), L. Segerink (Enschede/NL)
17:45-18:00
Advanced Plasmonic Biosensors for Methylated DNA Detection
Katharina Schmidt (Vienna/AT), Naoto Asai (Vienna/AT), Andreas Weinhäusel (Vienna/AT), Jakub Dostalek (Prague/CZ)
All conference participants are warmly invited to dinner at the Volksbad.
https://www.europtrode2026.eu/networking/
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
The conference organization will be available at the registration desk for conference check-in and questions.
An Integrated and Rapid Biosensors for Biomedical and Environmental Applications
Mohammed Zourob (Riad/SA)
10:20-10:35
Turning Light into Sensitivity: Leucomethylene Blue-driven Redox Photocatalysis for Food Mycotoxin Fluorescence Sensing
Tamara Moya-Cavas (Madrid/ES), Elena Benito-Peña (Madrid/ES), Guillermo Orellana (Madrid/ES)
10:35-10:50
Photoswitch-Enabled Optical Study of Ion Channel Function in Model Membranes
Jessica M. Jaramillo (Jena/DE), Indra Schröder (Jena/DE)
10:50-11:05
Sensitive and Quantitative Point-of-care Detection of Biomarkers using Europium-doped Vanadate Nanoparticle (YVO4:Eu3+) Probes
Farida Yark (Palaiseau/FR), Robin Kuhner (Palaiseau/FR), Fanny Mousseau (Palaiseau/FR), Philippe Lassalle (Lille/FR), Rabei Mohammedi (Palaiseau/FR), Thierry Gacoin (Palaiseau/FR), Cédric. I Bouzigues (Palaiseau/FR), Antigoni Alexandrou (Palaiseau/FR)
11:05-11:20
“Mix & Measure” Rapid Immunoassays for Food Safety Monitoring
Irene De La Rosa Sánchez (Madrid/ES), Fernando Pradanas-González (Madrid/ES), Fernando Navarro-Villoslada (Madrid/ES), Marta García-Cortés (Madrid/ES), Pablo Purohit (Madrid/ES), Elena Benito Peña (Madrid/ES)
11:20-11:35
Ion-sensing in Water using Potential-sensitive Dyes in Thin Film Optodes
Ramis Arbi (Hamilton/CA), Niko Hildebrandt (Hamilton/CA)
10:20-10:50
Invited Lecture –
Magnetic Control of Molecular Emissivity for New Applications in Imaging
Sergei Vinogradov (Philadelphia/US)
10:50-11:05
Enhanced Deep Tissue Imaging and Sensing using Perovskite Core-Shell Nanoprobes
Peuli Nath (Toledo/US), Aniruddha Ray (Toledo/US)
11:05-11:20
A Closer Look at Life Science Enabled by Multimodal Submicron O-PTIR Imaging
Carolin Borbeck (Mühlheim a. d. Ruhr/DE), Miriam Unger (Mühlheim a. d. Ruhr/DE)
11:20-11:35
Development of a Tethered Capsule Endoscope Integrating White Light Reflectance and Narrow Band Imaging for Esophageal Cancer Screening
Yonghou Tang (Beijing/CN), Tao Wang (Beijing/CN), Tobias Meyer-Zedler (Jena/DE), Michael Schmitt (Jena/DE), Jürgen Popp (Jena/DE), Jianfeng Wang (Beijing/CN, Jena/DE)
Closing remarks and Announcement of Europt(r)ode 2028