Sunday, March 29, 2026
Location: Volkshaus
Registration will take place on site. Drinks and snacks will be served to welcome everyone.
Monday, March 30, 2026
Location: Volkshaus
The conference organization will be available at the registration desk for conference check-in and questions.
Location: Ernst-Abbe-Saal
Conference Opening and Welcome Note
Location: Ernst-Abbe-Saal
Chair: Jürgen Popp
Quantum Sensor Networks
Alexey Gorshkov (College Park, USA)
Molecular and Single-Molecule Detection Methods I
Location: Ernst-Abbe-Saal
Chair: Dmitri Papkovsky
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)
Location: Room Otto Schott
Chair: Dana Cialla-May
10:45-11:15
Invited Lecture –
Molecular (Bio)Sensing by Plasmonic Nanoparticles
Wolfgang Fritzsche (Jena/DE)
11:15-11:30
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)
11:30-11:45
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 (Prague/CZ)
11:45-12:00
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)
12:00-12:15
Snapshot Spectral Imaging Plasmon Sensor
Ondrej Stranik (Jena/DE), Sebastian Unger (Jena/DE), Mary C. Licuona Puma (Jena/DE), Rainer Heintzmann (Jena/DE)
Wearable, Implantable, and Miniaturized Sensor Systems I
Location: Room Grete Unrein
Chair: Neso Sojic
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)
Location: Ernst-Abbe-Saal
Chair: Guillermo Orellana
DNA Moiré Superlattices
Laura La Niu (Stuttgart/DE)
14:15 - 15:30:
Molecular and Single-Molecule Detection Methods II
Location: Ernst-Abbe-Saal
Junior Chair: Aradhana Dwivedi
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
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)
15:00-15:15
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)
15:15-15:30
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)
Location: Room Otto Schott
Chair: Wolfgang Fritzsche
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
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)
14:45-15:00
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)
15:00-15:15
Cyclic Voltarefractometry of Individual Nanoparticles
Shavkat Nizamov (Cottbus/DE), Veronika Laurinavichyute (Cottbus/DE), Vladimir M. Mirsky (Cottbus/DE)
15:15-15:30
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
Location: Room Grete Unrein
Junior Chair: Jyothi Nair
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
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)
14:45-15:00
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)
15:00-15:15
Spectroscopy without Borders: Empowering Global Solutions through Portable Technology
Christian W. Huck (Innsbruck/AT)
Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Sensing
Location: Ernst-Abbe-Saal
Chair: Xudong Wang
16:00-16:30
Invited Lecture –
Scanning (photo)electrochemical Probe Microscopy: Insight into Light-driven Catalytic Processes
Christine Kranz (Ulm/DE)
16:30-16:45
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)
16:45-17:00
Microfabricated Coreactant-Free ECL Platform Enabling Next-Generation Multiplexed Portable Diagnostics
Somayyeh Bozorgzadeh (Cork/IE), Alan O’Riordan (Cork/IE)
17:00-17:15
Electrochemical Detection of Methylmercury Using a Catalytic Protein-based Impedance Sensor
Allwin M. Raj (Ljubljana/SI, Maribor/SI), T. Tamilpavai (Maribor/SI), Tomaž Rijavec (Ljubljana/SI), Aleksandra Lobnik (Maribor/SI), Milena Horvat (Ljubljana/SI), Aleš Lapanje (Ljubljana/SI)
Location: Room Otto Schott
Chair: Artur Dybko
16:00-16:30
Invited Lecture –
Plasmonic Fiber Grating Biosensors:
From Early Concepts to Prospects for Industrial Deployment
Christophe Caucheteur (Mons/BE)
16:30-16:45
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)
16:45-17:00
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)
17:00-17:15
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)
Location: Room Grete Unrein
Chair: Thomas Bocklitz
16:00-16:15
Automation Meets Analytics: Smart Detection in Laboratory and Chemical Workflows
Kerstin Thurow (Rostock/DE)
Speaker: Simon-Johannes Burgdorf (Rostock/DE)
16:15-16:30
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)
16:30-16:45
Final-stage Data Processing for Improved Performance of Fiber Optic Resonator Sensors Beyond Virtual Vernier Effect
Ander Zornoza (Bilbao/ES), Joel Villatoro (Bilbao/ES)
16:45 – 17:00
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)
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.
Chair: Jürgen Popp
From DNA Nanotechnology to Biomedical Insight: Towards Single-Molecule Spatial Omics
Ralf Jungmann (Munich/DE)
Luminescence, Fluorescence, and FRET-Based Sensors I
Location: Ernst-Abbe-Saal
Chair: Tobias Meyer-Zedler
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)
Location: Room Otto Schott
Chair: Jer-Shing Huang
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
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)
Location: Room Grete Unrein
Chair: Ivo Raimundo Jr.
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)
Location: Ernst-Abbe-Saal
Junior Chair: Timea Frosch
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 (Mülheim/DE), Heinz W. Siesler (Essen/DE)
12:15-12:30
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), Giulia Grisendi (Modena/IT), Giulia Golinelli (Modena/IT), Massimo Dominici (Modena/IT), Guido Bocci (Pisa/IT), Daniela Giuliani (Modena/IT), Giuseppe Barillaro (Pisa/IT)
Location: Room Otto Schott
Junior Chair: Carl Messerschmidt
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
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)
12:00-12:15
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)
Location: Room Grete Unrein
Chair: Torsten Mayr
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)
Location: Ernst-Abbe-Saal
Chair: Guillermo Orellana
Novel Bio(inspired) (photo)electrochemical Sensing Strategies
Karolien De Wael (Antwerp/BE)
Location: Ernst-Abbe-Saal
Chair: Günter Gauglitz
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)
Location: Room Otto Schott
Chair: Ondrej Stranik
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)
Location: Room Grete Unrein
Chair: Ambra Giannetti
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)
Location: Ernst-Abbe-Saal
Chair: Klaus Koren
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
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)
17:30-17:45
Ion-sensing in Water using Potential-sensitive Dyes in Thin Film Optodes
Ramis Arbi (Hamilton/CA), Niko Hildebrandt (Hamilton/CA)
Location: Room Otto Schott
Junior Chair: Tony Dib
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)
Location: Room Grete Unrein
Chair: Olesia Petrova
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)
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.
Chair: Francesco Baldini
Advancing Single-Molecule Imaging
Aleksandra Radenovic (Lausanne/CH)
Location: Ernst-Abbe-Saal
Chair: Francesco Baldini
An Integrated and Rapid Biosensors for Biomedical and Environmental Applications
Mohammed Zourob (Riad/SA)
Location: Ernst-Abbe-Saal
Chair: Astrid Tannert
10:20-10:35
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)
10:35-10:50
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)
10:50-11:05
Photoswitch-Enabled Optical Study of Ion Channel Function in Model Membranes
Jessica M. Jaramillo (Jena/DE), Indra Schröder (Jena/DE)
11:05-11:20
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)
11:20-11:35
“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)
Location: Room Otto Schott
Chair: Jiri Homola
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 (Mülheim a. d. Ruhr/DE), Miriam Unger (Mülheim 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)
Location: Ernst-Abbe-Saal
Closing remarks and Announcement of Europt(r)ode 2028
