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

from Saturday, 29 June 2024 (10:00) to Sunday, 7 July 2024 (20:30)
Collegium Novodvorscianum

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
29 Jun 2024
30 Jun 2024
1 Jul 2024
2 Jul 2024
3 Jul 2024
4 Jul 2024
5 Jul 2024
6 Jul 2024
7 Jul 2024
AM
08:30 --- Coffee a priori ---
09:00 --- Opening ---
09:30 --- Opening talk: Long-term Covid 19 effect on reproductive health-vaccination versus disease ! ---
10:00 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
10:30
TOTAL-BODY PET (until 11:30) ()
10:30 Key talk: Total-Body PET: In Search of the "Killer App" - Prof. Ramsey Badawi (UC Davis)   ()
11:00 Key talk: Toward More Affordable Multi-Dimensional PET Imaging - Prof. Sadek Nehmeh (Weill Cornell Medical College)   ()
11:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:50
POSITRONIUM IN MEDICINE (until 12:25) ()
11:50 First positronium imaging of humans - Prof. Pawel Moskal (Jagiellonian University)   ()
12:00 Invited talk: From SPLIT to SIMPLE: High-Resolution Statistical Image Reconstruction Methods for Positronium Lifetime Imaging - Prof. Jinyi Qi (UC Davis)   ()
08:30 --- Coffee a priori ---
09:00
NOVEL BIOMARKERS FOR THERANOSTICS (until 10:50) ()
09:00 Key talk: Proteomic profiles of melanoma-derived and lymphocyte-derived exosomes from plasma of melanoma patients - 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 - 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 - 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 - Dr Martyna Krzykawska-Serda (Jagiellonian University)   ()
10:50 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
11:20
TOTAL-BODY PET (until 13:05) ()
11:20 Key talk: Total-Body PET: where are we today? - Prof. Axel Rominger (University of Bern)   ()
11:50 Invited talk: Clinical practice and clinical research on the Total Body PET - Dr Adrienne Brouwers   ()
12:15 Invited talk: Molecular transport imaging of radiotracers with total-body dynamic PET - Prof. Guobao Wang (University of California Davis)   ()
12:40 Invited talk: Quantitative modeling of human physiology using PET - Dr Thomas Lund Andersen (Rigshospitalet)   ()
08:30 --- COFFEE A PRIORI ---
09:00
SCANDIUM FOR PET (until 09:50) ()
09:00 Invited talk: Possibilities of producing scandium isotopes in Poland - 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 - Dr Rafał Walczak (Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology)   ()
09:50 --- Coffee break & Krakow promotion video ---
10:20
POSITRONIUM IN MEDICINE (until 11:30) ()
10:20 Invited talk: Enhanced Two-Component Positronium Lifetime Imaging in Time-of-Flight PET - Prof. Hsin-Hsiung Huang (University of Central Florida)   ()
10:45 Invited talk: Challenges and prospects of the positronium imaging reconstruction in J-PET - Dr Roman Shopa (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland)   ()
11:10 An analytic, moment-based method to estimate orthopositronium lifetimes in positronium lifetime imaging - Lucas Berens (University of Chicago)   ()
11:30 --- SHORT BREAK ---
11:40
POSITRONIUM IN MEDICINE (until 12:45) ()
11:40 Invited talk: Ortho-Positronium Lifetime Spectroscopy for 2-D Liver Tissue Imaging - 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 - Dr Sodai Takyu (QST)   ()
12:30 Preliminary studies of positronium lifetime estimation in human livers - Mr Manish Das (Jagielloninan University)   ()
08:30 --- Coffee a priori ---
09:00
ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE FOR MEDICINE (until 10:40) ()
09:00 Key talk: Artificial intelligence in medical imaging: influencing precision care - Prof. Damini Dey (Cedar Sinai, LA, USA)   ()
09:30 Key talk: Knowledge-guided Artificial Intelligence for Personalized Nuclear Medicine Theranostics - Prof. Kuangyu Shi (Dept. Nuclear Medicine, University of Bern)   ()
10:00 Deep learning in online adaptive MRI guided radiotherapy at the MRIdian MR-Linac - 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 - Dr Narendra Rathod   ()
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Session 2 (until 12:10) ()
11:10 Invited talk: Multiplexed PET based on triple coincidences - Prof. Joaquin L. Herraiz (Complutense University of Madrid)   ()
11:35 Extension of MLEM algorithm for simultaneous dual-tracer PET image reconstruction - Dr Lech Raczyński   ()
11:55 Developing of dual-tracer imaging with modular J-PET - Ermias Yitayew Beyene   ()
08:30 --- Coffee a priori ---
09:00
PARTICLE THERAPY MONITORING (until 10:35) ()
09:00 Key talk: Image-guided FLASH proton therapy - Prof. Karol Lang (The University of Texas at Austin, Austin Texas, USA)   ()
09:30 Invited talk: Compton cameras for cancer treatment assessment - 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 - 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 - Dr Martyna Durak-Kozica (Jagiellonian University)   ()
10:35 --- Coffee break ---
11:05
EXTRACELLULAR VESCICLES FOR THERANOSTICS (until 12:45) ()
11:05 Key talk: Developing a strategy to measure concentrations of extracellular vesicles in human plasma for biomarker exploration - 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 - 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 - 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) - Patrycja Kowalska (Warsaw University of Technology)   ()
09:00 --- Coffe a priori ---
09:30
POSITRONIUM IN FUNDAMENTAL AND MATERIAL PHYSICS (until 10:30) ()
09:30 Dark Matter in Positronium and J-PET prospects - Dr Elena Perez del Rio (INFN-LNF)   ()
09:50 Advancements in sensitivity of CPT symmetry test for ortho- positronium decays in J-PET - Neha Chug (Jagiellonian University)   ()
10:10 Ortho-Positronium Detection with a High-Resolution PET Scanner - Firas Abouzahr (University of Texas at Austin)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
PARTICLE THERAPY MONITORING (until 12:55) ()
11:00 Key talk: A high-resolution, spherical in-beam PET scanner for range monitoring and biological guidance of ion beam therapy - Prof. Katia Parodi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich))   ()
11:30 Invited talk: Proton therapy range monitoring using the J-PET scanner - Dr Antoni Rucinski (Instytut Fizyki Jądrowej PAN)   ()
11:55 First PET Studies of a FLASH Proton Beam - Dr John Cesar   ()
12:15 Experimental characterization of LET spectra in proton therapy - 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 - Dr Ilaria Mattei   ()
08:30 --- Coffe a priori ---
09:00
POSITRONIUM IN FUNDAMENTAL AND MATERIAL PHYSICS (until 10:20) ()
09:00 Key talk: Experimental studies on the positronium negative ion, a three-body bound state composed of a positron and two electrons - Prof. Yasuyuki Nagashima (Tokyo University of Science)   ()
09:30 Invited talk: Applying positron-emission diagnostic techniques to magnetically confined electron–positron pair plasma - 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 - Prof. Radek Zaleski (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University)   ()
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:50
EXOTIC ATOMS AND NUCLEI, NUCLEAR PHYSICS (until 12:30) ()
10:50 Invited talk: Formation of long lived nuclear molecules in (p, 2He) nuclear reactions on 181Ta and 159Tb - Prof. Ihor Kadenko (International Nuclear Safety Center of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)   ()
11:15 Invited talk: Spectroscopy of antiprotonic atoms - Prof. Tomasz Sowiński (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)   ()
11:40 Invited talk: Structure of \Xi hypernuclei - 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 - Prof. Takatsugu Ishikawa (Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University)   ()
09:00 --- Coffee a priori ---
09:30
PET IMAGING INNOVATIONS (until 11:30) ()
09:30 Key talk: Bench-to-clinical research on novel application-specific PET systems - 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 - Prof. Pragya Das (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)   ()
10:25 Invited talk: New tricks with old PETs - Dr Tom Leadbeater (University of Cape Town)   ()
10:50 Optical quality control of plastic scintillators for the total-body J-PET scanner - Dr Łukasz Kapłon (Jagiellonian University)   ()
11:10 Using 3D CNNs for distortion corrections in PET imaging - Dr Konrad Klimaszewski (Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych)   ()
11:30 --- Coffee break ---
PM
17:00 --- Welcome reception ---
18:00 --- Guided tour through Collegium Maius ---
12:25 --- Lunch ---
14:00
EXTRACELLULAR VESCICLES FOR THERANOSTICS (until 15:15) ()
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 - 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 - Prof. Grażyna Mosieniak (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS)   ()
14:50 Invited talk: Leukemic extracellular vesicles as drivers of T cell-mediated immunosuppression - Prof. Katarzyna Piwocka (Nencki Institute)   ()
15:15 --- Coffee break ---
15:45
PET IMAGING INNOVATIONS (until 17:00) ()
15:45 Invited talk: Total-body multi-parametric PET imaging: recent advancements and future perspective for its clinical adoption - Prof. Nicolas Karakatsanis (Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University)   ()
16:10 Invited talk: Multi-organ kinetic modelling and connectome analysis for Total-Body PET - Prof. Adriana Tavares (University of Edinburgh)   ()
16:35 Invited talk: Ultrafast Timing Reconstruction-free Direct Positron Emission Imaging (dPEI) - Prof. Sun Il Kwon (University of California Davis)   ()
13:05 --- Lunch ---
14:30
POSITRONIUM IN FUNDAMENTAL AND MATERIAL PHYSICS (until 15:45) ()
14:30 Invited talk: New bunched positron beam at the AntiMatter Laboratory in Trento: planned quantum experiments with positronium - 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 - Prof. Jakub Cizek (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University)   ()
15:20 Invited talk: Doppler cooling of positronium with a broadband laser pulse - Dr Lisa Glöggler (CERN)   ()
15:45 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
16:15
EXOTIC ATOMS AND NUCLEI, NUCLEAR PHYSICS (until 17:55) ()
16:15 Invited talk: Novel approaches to light hypernuclei with heavy ion beams, image analyses and machine learning - 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 - Dr Rakesh Dubey (Uniwersytet Szczeciński)   ()
17:05 Invited talk: Chiral symmetry restoration in nucleus observed in pionic atoms - Prof. Kenta Itahashi (RIKEN)   ()
17:30 Invited talk: Kaonic Atoms with the SIDDHARTA-2 experiment - Dr Fabrizio Napolitano (INFN - LNF)   ()
19:00 CLASSICAL CONCERT   ()
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:10
POSITRONIUM IN FUNDAMENTAL AND MATERIAL PHYSICS (until 15:55) ()
14:10 Key talk: Search for New Particle in Positronium Decay - Prof. Hong Joo Kim (Kyungpook National University)   ()
14:40 Invited talk: Application of spin-polarized positron annihilation spectroscopy to spintronics materials - Prof. Atsuo Kawasuso (National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology)   ()
15:05 Invited talk: Remarks on Positronum in molecular matter and other - Prof. Jerzy Dryzek (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)   ()
15:30 Invited talk: S-QM/MM approach to positronium in liquids - Prof. Marcio Varella (University of Sao Paulo)   ()
15:55 --- Coffee break ---
16:25
POSITRONIUM IN FUNDAMENTAL AND MATERIAL PHYSICS (until 18:05) ()
16:25 Invited talk: Many-body theory of positron and positronium interactions with atoms and molecules - Prof. Dermot Green (Queen's University Belfast)   ()
16:50 Invited talk: Late-time decay for electromagnetic bound states - Prof. Francesco Giacosa (Jan Kochanowski University)   ()
17:15 Invited talk: Studies of ortho-positronium mean lifetime with the J-PET tomograph - Dr Sushil Sharma (Jagiellonian University)   ()
17:40 QFT approach to positronium decays - Dr Milena Piotrowska (Jan Kochanowski University)   ()
12:10 --- Lunch ---
13:30
QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT IN PET (until 14:50) ()
13:30 Key talk: Quantum Entanglement and Multimodality Techniques - Prof. Shiva Abbaszadeh   ()
14:00 Invited talk: Probing polarization correlations of annihilation quanta in Compton scattering experiment and their implementation in Positron emission tomography - 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 - Prof. Julien Bordes (University of York)   ()
14:50 --- Coffee break ---
15:20
QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT IN PET (until 16:25) ()
15:20 Invited talk: Theoretical Framework for Multiple Compton Scattering of PET Annihilation Photons - 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 - Deepak Kumar (Jagiellonian University)   ()
16:05 Positron emission tomography imaging using polarization- correlated annihilation quanta – experimental study - Ms Ana Marija Kozuljevic (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)   ()
19:30 Public lecture: Artificial Intelligence and Medicine: Crossing the Rubicon - Prof. Piotr Slomka (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)   ()
12:45 --- LUNCH & POSTER SESSION & CONFERENCE PHOTO ---
15:00
PARTICLE DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES (until 16:55) ()
15:00 nvited talk: Development of fast scintillation detectors for photon-counting CT - Prof. Dennis Schaart (Delft University of Technology)   ()
15:25 Invited talk: A limited-angle PET imager with ultrafast flat-panel detectors - Rok Pestotnik (Jožef Stefan Institute)   ()
15:50 Invited talk: Modeling the effect of neutron damage on LGAD sensors - Prof. Ashutosh Bhardwaj (University of Delhi)   ()
16:15 Organic high-Z scintillators for a flexible and fast total body nuclear imaging - 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 - Dr Joanna Szornel (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   ()
16:55 --- Coffee break ---
17:25
EDUCATION AND BIO-ALGORITHMS AND MED-SYSTEMS (until 19:05) ()
17:25 Invited talk: Nurturing the Future Stars of Physics: The International Physics Olympiad - Prof. Ryugo HAYANO (The University of Tokyo)   ()
17:50 Invited talk: How do digital technologies fit into clinical reasoning education? - Prof. Andrzej Kononowicz (Jagiellonian University Medical College)   ()
18:15 Invited talk: Story of the Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems - Prof. Irena Roterman-Konieczna (Jagiellonian University Medical College, Poland)   ()
18:40 Introduction into the ESMI - 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
Conference Dinner (until 23:00) ()
12:55 --- Lunch ---
14:15
PET IMMAGING INNOVATIONS (until 15:55) ()
14:15 Invited talk: Resistive Plate Chambers for brain PET imaging and particle tracking and timing - Prof. Paulo Fonte (LIP)   ()
14:40 Simulation studies of a brain PET insert for the total body J-PET tomograph - Dr Martin Rädler (Department of Experimental Particle Physics and Applications, Jagiellonian University)   ()
15:00 Walk-Through PET scanner: A high throughput, high resolution scanner - Dr Meysam Dadgar (Ghent University)   ()
15:20 Design study of a breast-dedicated PET/SPECT detector built from inorganic scintillators and WLS fibers - Prof. Anzori Georgadze (Kiev Institute for Nuclear Research)   ()
15:40 Evaluation of lesion contrast and performance characteristics in Modular J-PET scanner - Dr Faranak Tayefi Ardebili   ()
15:55 --- Coffee break ---
16:25
ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE FOR MEDICINE (until 17:50) ()
16:25 Invited talk: Deep learning for data corrections in quantitative NM imaging - Prof. Dimitris Visvikis   ()
16:50 Invited talk: Experimental data-driven predictive modeling of DNA damage induced by low-temperature plasma radiation - Prof. Sylwia Ptasinska (University of Notre Dame)   ()
17:15 Application of Deep Learning-Based Methods in medical imaging - Prof. Marian Cholewa (University of Rzeszow)   ()
17:35 Unravelling Extracellular Vesicle Morphology: Machine Learning approach for Biomarker Identification - Kriti Awasthi (Jagiellonian University)   ()
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
NOVEL PHARMACEUTICALS FOR THERANOSTICS (until 14:45) ()
14:00 Invited talk: Improvement of cancer contrast in MRI using nanoparticles in the animal model - Prof. Barbara Blasiak   ()
14:25 Targeted Cellular Tracking of Pancreatic Tumor Cells via Magnetic Particle Spectroscopy/ Imaging (MPS/MPI) - Dr Ali Dinari (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)   ()
14:45 --- Coffee break ---
15:15
MEDICAL IMAGING INNOVATIONS (until 16:35) ()
15:15 Key talk: Uncovering Novel Treatment Strategies to Combat Life-Threatening Infections with Multimodal Imaging - Prof. Greetje Vande Velde (KU Leuven)   ()
15:45 Invited talk: Superparamagnetic nanoparticles – a versatile platform for imaging and theranostic innovations - 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? - Prof. Mitchell Albert (Lakehead University—Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute Research Chair in Molecular Imaging and Advanced Diagnostics)   ()
12:00
CLOSING SESSION (until 13:15) ()
12:00 Closing talk: Beginnings and Prospects of PET - Prof. Abass Alavi   ()
12:45 CLOSING CEREMONY   ()
13:15 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Networking (until 17:00) ()