JS2024 : 5th Jagiellonian Symposium on Advances in Particle Physics and Medicine

29 Jun 2024, 10:00 → 7 Jul 2024, 20:30 Europe/Warsaw

Collegium Novodvorscianum

Prof. Paweł Moskal, Prof. Ewa Stępień

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Saturday, 29 June

17:00 → 19:00 Welcome reception

18:00 → 19:00 Guided tour through Collegium Maius

Sunday, 30 June

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee a priori

09:00 → 09:30 Opening

09:30 → 10:00 Opening talk: Long-term Covid 19 effect on reproductive health-vaccination versus disease !

10:00 → 10:30 COFFEE BREAK

10:30 → 11:30 TOTAL-BODY PET

10:30 Key talk: Total-Body PET: In Search of the "Killer App"

Speaker: Prof. Ramsey Badawi (UC Davis)

11:00 Key talk: Toward More Affordable Multi-Dimensional PET Imaging

Speaker: Prof. Sadek Nehmeh (Weill Cornell Medical College)

11:30 → 11:50 Coffee break

11:50 → 12:25 POSITRONIUM IN MEDICINE

11:50 First positronium imaging of humans

Speaker: Prof. Pawel Moskal (Jagiellonian University)

12:00 Invited talk: From SPLIT to SIMPLE: High-Resolution Statistical Image Reconstruction Methods for Positronium Lifetime Imaging

Speaker: Prof. Jinyi Qi (UC Davis)

12:25 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 EXTRACELLULAR VESCICLES FOR THERANOSTICS

14:00 Invited talk: Insight into proteome of follicular fluid-derived extracellular vesicles following vitamin D3 and insulin treatment – an in vitro study on a pig model

Speaker: Prof. Małgorzata Grzesiak (Department of Endocrinology, Jagiellonian University)

14:25 Invited talk: The role of extracellular vesicles secreted by senescent vascular smooth muscle cells in modulation of immune cell function

Speaker: Prof. Grażyna Mosieniak (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS)

14:50 Invited talk: Leukemic extracellular vesicles as drivers of T cell-mediated immunosuppression

Speaker: Prof. Katarzyna Piwocka (Nencki Institute)

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 → 17:00 PET IMAGING INNOVATIONS

15:45 Invited talk: Total-body multi-parametric PET imaging: recent advancements and future perspective for its clinical adoption

Speaker: Prof. Nicolas Karakatsanis (Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University)

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16:10 Invited talk: Multi-organ kinetic modelling and connectome analysis for Total-Body PET

Speaker: Prof. Adriana Tavares (University of Edinburgh)

16:35 Invited talk: Ultrafast Timing Reconstruction-free Direct Positron Emission Imaging (dPEI)

Speaker: Prof. Sun Il Kwon (University of California Davis)

Monday, 1 July

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee a priori

09:00 → 10:50 NOVEL BIOMARKERS FOR THERANOSTICS

09:00 Key talk: Proteomic profiles of melanoma-derived and lymphocyte-derived exosomes from plasma of melanoma patients

Speaker: Prof. Piotr Widlak (Medical University of Gdańsk)

09:30 Key talk: Radioisotope labelled somatostatin receptor antagonists as a promising tool to improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with neuroendocrine tumours

Speaker: Prof. Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk (Department of Endocrinology, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, Cracow, Poland)

10:00 Invited talk: Integrative Biophysical and Computational Approaches for Melanoma Drug Combination Selection via Glycosylation-Based Biomarkers

Speaker: Prof. Tomasz Kobiela (Warsaw University of Technology)

10:25 Invited talk: Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Novel Gold Nanorod-Based Theranostic Agents for Anticancer Therapy

Speaker: Dr Martyna Krzykawska-Serda (Jagiellonian University)

10:50 → 11:20 COFFEE BREAK

11:20 → 13:05 TOTAL-BODY PET

11:20 Key talk: Total-Body PET: where are we today?

Speaker: Prof. Axel Rominger (University of Bern)

11:50 Invited talk: Clinical practice and clinical research on the Total Body PET

Speaker: Dr Adrienne Brouwers

12:15 Invited talk: Molecular transport imaging of radiotracers with total-body dynamic PET

Speaker: Prof. Guobao Wang (University of California Davis)

12:40 Invited talk: Quantitative modeling of human physiology using PET

Speaker: Dr Thomas Lund Andersen (Rigshospitalet)

13:05 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:45 POSITRONIUM IN FUNDAMENTAL AND MATERIAL PHYSICS

14:30 Invited talk: New bunched positron beam at the AntiMatter Laboratory in Trento: planned quantum experiments with positronium

Speaker: Prof. Roberto Sennen Brusa (Department of Physics- University of Trento and INFN-TIFPA)

14:55 Invited talk: Study of the mechanism of positronium formation on solid surfaces

Speaker: Prof. Jakub Cizek (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University)

15:20 Invited talk: Doppler cooling of positronium with a broadband laser pulse

Speaker: Dr Lisa Glöggler (CERN)

15:45 → 16:15 COFFEE BREAK

16:15 → 17:55 EXOTIC ATOMS AND NUCLEI, NUCLEAR PHYSICS

16:15 Invited talk: Novel approaches to light hypernuclei with heavy ion beams, image analyses and machine learning

Speaker: Prof. Takehiko Saito (RIKEN and GSI)

16:40 Invited talk: Observations of electron emissions from the DD reaction: its implications in fundamental and applied research

Speaker: Dr Rakesh Dubey (Uniwersytet Szczeciński)

17:05 Invited talk: Chiral symmetry restoration in nucleus observed in pionic atoms

Speaker: Prof. Kenta Itahashi (RIKEN)

17:30 Invited talk: Kaonic Atoms with the SIDDHARTA-2 experiment

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Napolitano (INFN - LNF)

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19:00 → 20:30 CLASSICAL CONCERT

Tuesday, 2 July

08:30 → 09:00 COFFEE A PRIORI

09:00 → 09:50 SCANDIUM FOR PET

09:00 Invited talk: Possibilities of producing scandium isotopes in Poland

Speaker: Dr Jarosław Choiński (Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw)

09:25 Invited talk: Production of theranostic pair (43/44)Sc – (47)Sc on calcium targets

Speaker: Dr Rafał Walczak (Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology)

09:50 → 10:20 Coffee break & Krakow promotion video

10:20 → 11:30 POSITRONIUM IN MEDICINE

10:20 Invited talk: Enhanced Two-Component Positronium Lifetime Imaging in Time-of-Flight PET

Speaker: Prof. Hsin-Hsiung Huang (University of Central Florida)

10:45 Invited talk: Challenges and prospects of the positronium imaging reconstruction in J-PET

Speaker: Dr Roman Shopa (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland)

11:10 An analytic, moment-based method to estimate orthopositronium lifetimes in positronium lifetime imaging

Speaker: Lucas Berens (University of Chicago)

11:30 → 11:40 SHORT BREAK

11:40 → 12:45 POSITRONIUM IN MEDICINE

11:40 Invited talk: Ortho-Positronium Lifetime Spectroscopy for 2-D Liver Tissue Imaging

Speaker: Prof. Angela Di Fulvio (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

12:05 Invited talk: Positronium lifetime measurement using a clinical PET system for biomedical applications

Speaker: Dr Sodai Takyu (QST)

12:30 Preliminary studies of positronium lifetime estimation in human livers

Speaker: Mr Manish Das (Jagielloninan University)

12:45 → 14:10 Lunch

14:10 → 15:55 POSITRONIUM IN FUNDAMENTAL AND MATERIAL PHYSICS

14:10 Key talk: Search for New Particle in Positronium Decay

Speaker: Prof. Hong Joo Kim (Kyungpook National University)

14:40 Invited talk: Application of spin-polarized positron annihilation spectroscopy to spintronics materials

Speaker: Prof. Atsuo Kawasuso (National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology)

15:05 Invited talk: Remarks on Positronum in molecular matter and other

Speaker: Prof. Jerzy Dryzek (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

15:30 Invited talk: S-QM/MM approach to positronium in liquids

Speaker: Prof. Marcio Varella (University of Sao Paulo)

15:55 → 16:25 Coffee break

16:25 → 18:05 POSITRONIUM IN FUNDAMENTAL AND MATERIAL PHYSICS

16:25 Invited talk: Many-body theory of positron and positronium interactions with atoms and molecules

Speaker: Prof. Dermot Green (Queen's University Belfast)

16:50 Invited talk: Late-time decay for electromagnetic bound states

Speaker: Prof. Francesco Giacosa (Jan Kochanowski University)

17:15 Invited talk: Studies of ortho-positronium mean lifetime with the J-PET tomograph

Speaker: Dr Sushil Sharma (Jagiellonian University)

17:40 QFT approach to positronium decays

Speaker: Dr Milena Piotrowska (Jan Kochanowski University)

Wednesday, 3 July

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee a priori

09:00 → 10:40 ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE FOR MEDICINE

09:00 Key talk: Artificial intelligence in medical imaging: influencing precision care

Speaker: Prof. Damini Dey (Cedar Sinai, LA, USA)

09:30 Key talk: Knowledge-guided Artificial Intelligence for Personalized Nuclear Medicine Theranostics

Speaker: Prof. Kuangyu Shi (Dept. Nuclear Medicine, University of Bern)

10:00 Deep learning in online adaptive MRI guided radiotherapy at the MRIdian MR-Linac

Speaker: Maria Kawula (LMU Hospital)

10:20 Advancing cardiac detection in chest X-ray images using Machine Learning: A practical application of AI in medical imaging

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 12:10 Session 2: MULTI-TRACER PET IMAGING

11:10 Invited talk: Multiplexed PET based on triple coincidences

Speaker: Prof. Joaquin L. Herraiz (Complutense University of Madrid)

11:35 Extension of MLEM algorithm for simultaneous dual-tracer PET image reconstruction

Speaker: Dr Lech Raczyński

11:55 Developing of dual-tracer imaging with modular J-PET

Speaker: Ermias Yitayew Beyene

12:10 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:50 QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT IN PET

13:30 Key talk: Quantum Entanglement and Multimodality Techniques

Speaker: Prof. Shiva Abbaszadeh

14:00 Invited talk: Probing polarization correlations of annihilation quanta in Compton scattering experiment and their implementation in Positron emission tomography

Speaker: Prof. Mihael Makek (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)

14:25 Invited talk: A first detailed study of the quantum decoherence of entangled gamma photons

Speaker: Prof. Julien Bordes (University of York)

14:50 → 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 → 16:25 QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT IN PET

15:20 Invited talk: Theoretical Framework for Multiple Compton Scattering of PET Annihilation Photons

Speaker: Prof. Pietro Caradonna (University of York)

15:45 Studies of the quantum entanglement of photons from electron- positron annihilation in the porous material using J-PET scanner

Speaker: Deepak Kumar (Jagiellonian University)

16:05 Positron emission tomography imaging using polarization- correlated annihilation quanta – experimental study

Speaker: Ms Ana Marija Kozuljevic (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)

19:30 → 20:30 Public lecture: Artificial Intelligence and Medicine: Crossing the Rubicon

Speaker: Prof. Piotr Slomka (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)

Thursday, 4 July

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee a priori

09:00 → 10:35 PARTICLE THERAPY MONITORING

09:00 Key talk: Image-guided FLASH proton therapy

Speaker: Prof. Karol Lang (The University of Texas at Austin, Austin Texas, USA)

09:30 Invited talk: Compton cameras for cancer treatment assessment

Speaker: Prof. Gabriela Llosá (IFIC (CSIC-U. Valencia))

09:55 Range monitoring capabilities with the SiFi-CC Compton camera: spectral-spatial imaging with Monte Carlo-simulated data

Speaker: Dr Jorge Roser (Institute of Medical Engineering, Universtität zu Lübeck)

10:15 Short-term response of melanoma spheroids and melanocytes to FLASH proton therapy - the use of colorimetric microscopy and infrared microscopy

Speaker: Dr Martyna Durak-Kozica (Jagiellonian University)

10:35 → 11:05 Coffee break

11:05 → 12:45 EXTRACELLULAR VESCICLES FOR THERANOSTICS

11:05 Key talk: Developing a strategy to measure concentrations of extracellular vesicles in human plasma for biomarker exploration

Speaker: Prof. Rienk Neuwland (Amsterdam University Medical Center, Netherlands)

11:35 Invited talk: The glycosylation status of melanoma cells directly affects the proteome composition of extracellular vesicles they release

Speaker: Prof. Małgorzata Przybyło (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)

12:00 Invited talk: Probing red blood cell - derived microparticles (RMPs): Insights from Raman spectroscopy and complementary techniques

Speaker: Prof. Katarzyna Marzec (AGH University of Science and Technology)

12:25 Possibilities of using extracellular vesicles (EVs) of microbial origin as natural carriers of drugs used in anticancer therapies – EVs-DDS (EVs-based Drug Delivery System)

Speaker: Patrycja Kowalska (Warsaw University of Technology)

12:45 → 15:00 LUNCH & POSTER SESSION & CONFERENCE PHOTO

15:00 → 16:55 PARTICLE DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES

15:00 nvited talk: Development of fast scintillation detectors for photon-counting CT

Speaker: Prof. Dennis Schaart (Delft University of Technology)

15:25 Invited talk: A limited-angle PET imager with ultrafast flat-panel detectors

Speaker: Rok Pestotnik (Jožef Stefan Institute)

15:50 Invited talk: Modeling the effect of neutron damage on LGAD sensors

Speaker: Prof. Ashutosh Bhardwaj (University of Delhi)

16:15 Organic high-Z scintillators for a flexible and fast total body nuclear imaging

Speaker: Mrs Angelica De Gregorio (Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per Ingegneria, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Roma, Italy)

16:35 Development of HPGe Detectors for Ultra High Rate Spectroscopy and Imaging

Speaker: Dr Joanna Szornel (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:55 → 17:25 Coffee break

17:25 → 19:05 EDUCATION AND BIO-ALGORITHMS AND MED-SYSTEMS

17:25 Invited talk: Nurturing the Future Stars of Physics: The International Physics Olympiad

Speaker: Prof. Ryugo HAYANO (The University of Tokyo)

17:50 Invited talk: How do digital technologies fit into clinical reasoning education?

Speaker: Prof. Andrzej Kononowicz (Jagiellonian University Medical College)

18:15 Invited talk: Story of the Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems

Speaker: Prof. Irena Roterman-Konieczna (Jagiellonian University Medical College, Poland)

18:40 Introduction into the ESMI

Speaker: Prof. Ewa Stępień (Department of Medical Physics, M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

20:00 → 23:00 Conference Dinner

Friday, 5 July

09:00 → 09:30 Coffe a priori

09:30 → 10:30 POSITRONIUM IN FUNDAMENTAL AND MATERIAL PHYSICS

09:30 Dark Matter in Positronium and J-PET prospects

Speaker: Dr Elena Perez del Rio (INFN-LNF)

09:50 Advancements in sensitivity of CPT symmetry test for ortho- positronium decays in J-PET

Speaker: Neha Chug (Jagiellonian University)

10:10 Ortho-Positronium Detection with a High-Resolution PET Scanner

Speaker: Firas Abouzahr (University of Texas at Austin)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:55 PARTICLE THERAPY MONITORING

11:00 Key talk: A high-resolution, spherical in-beam PET scanner for range monitoring and biological guidance of ion beam therapy

Speaker: Prof. Katia Parodi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich))

11:30 Invited talk: Proton therapy range monitoring using the J-PET scanner

Speaker: Dr Antoni Rucinski (Instytut Fizyki Jądrowej PAN)

11:55 First PET Studies of a FLASH Proton Beam

Speaker: Dr John Cesar

12:15 Experimental characterization of LET spectra in proton therapy

Speaker: Dr Jan Gajewski (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

12:35 Differential Cross Sections Measurement of 12C fragmentation on C, O and H in the Energy Range of interest for Carbon Ion Therapy Applications

Speaker: Dr Ilaria Mattei

12:55 → 14:15 Lunch

14:15 → 15:55 PET IMMAGING INNOVATIONS

14:15 Invited talk: Resistive Plate Chambers for brain PET imaging and particle tracking and timing

Speaker: Prof. Paulo Fonte (LIP)

14:40 Simulation studies of a brain PET insert for the total body J-PET tomograph

Speaker: Dr Martin Rädler (Department of Experimental Particle Physics and Applications, Jagiellonian University)

15:00 Walk-Through PET scanner: A high throughput, high resolution scanner

Speaker: Dr Meysam Dadgar (Ghent University)

15:20 Design study of a breast-dedicated PET/SPECT detector built from inorganic scintillators and WLS fibers

Speaker: Prof. Anzori Georgadze (Kiev Institute for Nuclear Research)

15:40 Evaluation of lesion contrast and performance characteristics in Modular J-PET scanner

Speaker: Dr Faranak Tayefi Ardebili

15:55 → 16:25 Coffee break

16:25 → 17:50 ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE FOR MEDICINE

16:25 Invited talk: Deep learning for data corrections in quantitative NM imaging

Speaker: Prof. Dimitris Visvikis

16:50 Invited talk: Experimental data-driven predictive modeling of DNA damage induced by low-temperature plasma radiation

Speaker: Prof. Sylwia Ptasinska (University of Notre Dame)

17:15 Application of Deep Learning-Based Methods in medical imaging

Speaker: Prof. Marian Cholewa (University of Rzeszow)

17:35 Unravelling Extracellular Vesicle Morphology: Machine Learning approach for Biomarker Identification

Speaker: Kriti Awasthi (Jagiellonian University)

Saturday, 6 July

08:30 → 09:00 Coffe a priori

09:00 → 10:20 POSITRONIUM IN FUNDAMENTAL AND MATERIAL PHYSICS

09:00 Key talk: Experimental studies on the positronium negative ion, a three-body bound state composed of a positron and two electrons

Speaker: Prof. Yasuyuki Nagashima (Tokyo University of Science)

09:30 Invited talk: Applying positron-emission diagnostic techniques to magnetically confined electron–positron pair plasma

Speaker: Dr Jens von der Linden (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)

09:55 Invited talk: Possibility to Detect Electrolyte Disorder Using PET with Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy

Speaker: Prof. Radek Zaleski (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 12:30 EXOTIC ATOMS AND NUCLEI, NUCLEAR PHYSICS

10:50 Invited talk: Formation of long lived nuclear molecules in (p, 2He) nuclear reactions on 181Ta and 159Tb

Speaker: Prof. Ihor Kadenko (International Nuclear Safety Center of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)

11:15 Invited talk: Spectroscopy of antiprotonic atoms

Speaker: Prof. Tomasz Sowiński (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)

11:40 Invited talk: Structure of \Xi hypernuclei

Speaker: Prof. Emiko Hiyama (Tohoku Univ./RIKEN)

12:05 Invited talk: The eta-deuteron interaction studied in coherent neutral-pion and eta-meson photoproduction on the deuteron

Speaker: Prof. Takatsugu Ishikawa (Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:45 NOVEL PHARMACEUTICALS FOR THERANOSTICS

14:00 Invited talk: Improvement of cancer contrast in MRI using nanoparticles in the animal model

Speaker: Prof. Barbara Blasiak

14:25 Targeted Cellular Tracking of Pancreatic Tumor Cells via Magnetic Particle Spectroscopy/ Imaging (MPS/MPI)

Speaker: Dr Ali Dinari (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 → 16:35 MEDICAL IMAGING INNOVATIONS

15:15 Key talk: Uncovering Novel Treatment Strategies to Combat Life-Threatening Infections with Multimodal Imaging

Speaker: Prof. Greetje Vande Velde (KU Leuven)

15:45 Invited talk: Superparamagnetic nanoparticles – a versatile platform for imaging and theranostic innovations

Speaker: Prof. Zdenka Kuncic (University of Sydney, Australia)

16:10 Invited talk: Recent Advances in Hyperpolarized Xenon-129 Molecular Imaging: Are We Close for a Practical Application?

Speaker: Prof. Mitchell Albert (Lakehead University—Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute Research Chair in Molecular Imaging and Advanced Diagnostics)

Sunday, 7 July

09:00 → 09:30 Coffee a priori

09:30 → 11:30 PET IMAGING INNOVATIONS

09:30 Key talk: Bench-to-clinical research on novel application-specific PET systems

Speaker: Prof. Taiga Yamaya (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST))

10:00 Invited talk: Exploring PET imaging with scattered photons and polarization characteristics

Speaker: Prof. Pragya Das (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)

10:25 Invited talk: New tricks with old PETs

Speaker: Dr Tom Leadbeater (University of Cape Town)

10:50 Optical quality control of plastic scintillators for the total-body J-PET scanner

Speaker: Dr Łukasz Kapłon (Jagiellonian University)

11:10 Using 3D CNNs for distortion corrections in PET imaging

Speaker: Dr Konrad Klimaszewski (Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych)

11:30 → 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 → 13:15 CLOSING SESSION

12:00 Closing talk: Beginnings and Prospects of PET

Speaker: Prof. Abass Alavi

12:45 CLOSING CEREMONY

13:15 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 17:00 Networking