4th Jagiellonian Symposium on Advances in Particle Physics and Medicine

from Sunday, 10 July 2022 (10:00) to Friday, 15 July 2022 (18:00)
Collegium Maius & Theranostics Center

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
10 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022
12 Jul 2022
13 Jul 2022
14 Jul 2022
15 Jul 2022
AM
08:00 --- Coffee a priori ---
08:30 --- Opening ---
09:00
Clinical imaging - Chairs: Prof. Paweł Moskal, Prof. Ewa Stępień (until 10:35) ()
09:00
Session 1 (until 10:35) ()
09:00 Opening talk: Potential Applications of Total Body PET Imaging with Emphasis on CV, MSK and Malignant Disorders - Prof. Abass Alavi; University of Pennsylvania, USA   ()
09:45 Key talk: Clinical and Technical Consideration for Fast TOF PET - Prof. Georges El Fakhri, Gordon Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA   ()
10:10 Key talk: Idea of theranostics in nuclear medicine. Where we are? - Prof. Leszek Krolicki; Medical University of Warsaw, Poland   ()
10:35 --- Coffee break & Krakow promotion video ---
11:05
Preclinical and clinical imaging - Chairs: Prof. Anna Gromotowicz-Popławska, Prof. Marco Durante (until 12:05) ()
11:05
Session 2 (until 12:05) ()
11:05 Invited talk: Molecular imaging of human stem/progenitor cells for pro-regenerative purposese - Prof. Maciej Kurpisz; Institute of Human Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland   ()
11:25 Invited talk: Quantitative analysis of tumor hypoxia in nuclear medicine imaging and therapy - Prof. Kuangyu Shi; University of Bern, Switzerland   ()
11:45 Invited talk: Nuclear Imaging in Infective Endocarditis - Prof. Magdalena Kostkiewicz; Nuclear Medicine Department, John Paul II Hospital, Poland   ()
08:00 --- Coffee a priori ---
08:30
Particle therapy - Chairs: Prof. Saverio Altieri, Dr Antoni Ruciński (until 10:15) ()
08:30
Session 1 (until 10:15) ()
08:30 Key talk: Biomedical Applications of Radioactive ion Beams: First results of the BARB project at GSI - Prof. Marco Durante; GSI Darmstadt, Germany   ()
08:55 Invited talk: Influence of physical uncertainties on proton radiotherapy of moving targets - Prof. Renata Kopeć; Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland   ()
09:15 Invited talk: Dose-3D - towards measuring radiation dose with spatial granulation - Prof. Tomasz Szumlak; AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland   ()
09:35 Invited talk: A new perspective for NCT: besides cancer, can it be effectively used for Alzheimer’s disease? - Dr Nicoletta Protti; Pavia University, Italy   ()
09:55 Pilot tests of proton beam range monitoring with J-PET - Dr Jakub Baran; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
10:15
Poster session - Chairs: Dr. Łukasz Kapłon, Dr. Aleksander Gajos; Poster Award Committee: Prof. Catalina Curceanu, Prof. Ihor Kadenko (until 12:00) ()
10:15
Poster session & Coffee & Conference photo I (until 12:00) ()
10:15 Design and Application for a new intense positron beam at the Antimatter Laboratory in Trento - Luca Povolo; University of Trento, Italy   ()
10:17 Calibration of Silicon Drift Detectors for the SIDDHARTA-2 Experiment - Dr Aleksander Khreptak; National Laboratory of Frascati (LNF), Italy   ()
10:19 Monte Carlo simulation platform and software stack in Dose-3D project - Jakub Hajduga; AGH University of Science and Technology WFIIS, Poland   ()
10:21 Application of the PALS technique in the investigation of the nanostructure of enzymatic biosensor matrices for biomarkers detection in medical diagnostics - Magdalena Goździuk; Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland   ()
10:23 Double photon coincidence detection method for gamma-ray imaging in medicine - Dr Mizuki Uenomachi; Kyoto University, Japan   ()
10:25 Intelligent data analysis for the next generation medical phantom Dose-3D - Kamila Kalecińska; AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland   ()
10:27 Silicon as a candidate for a proton beam-activated tracer for range verification in proton therapy - Barbara Kołodziej; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
10:29 Design of spread-out Bragg peaks in spatially fractionation proton therapy - Agata Tobola-Galus; Institute Of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy od Sciences, Poland   ()
10:31 Angular DOI Calibration Methods towards PET In-System Calibration of (Semi-)Monolithic Scintillators - Yannick Kuhl; RWTH Aachen University, Germany   ()
10:35 Developing a phantom for the positronium imaging evaluation. - Gabriela Łapkiewicz; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
10:37 Estimation of 511 keV gamma scatter fraction in WLS layer in Total Body J-PET ; A simulation study - Keyvan Tayefi Ardebili; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
10:39 Breast Cancer diagnosis study along with the introduction of new detection technology - Shivani; Jagiellonian University, Poland (Jagiellonian University)   ()
10:41 Determination of 10B concentration in melanocytes and melanoma cells - Monika Szczepanek; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
10:43 Detection of concentration and survival of HL-60 human acute promyelocytic leukemia cells by the PALS technique - Katsiaryna Yankova; Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland   ()
10:45 Study of differences in the composition of glycosphingolipids between the extracellular vesicles from β-cell and endothelium cell lines using ToF-SIMS - Dr Magdalena Marzec; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
10:47 Gold nanoparticles as contrast agents for micro-CT imaging - Dominik Panek; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
10:49 Relevance of Monte Carlo simulation validation analysis in the scope of the Dose-3D project - Wioleta Górska; AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland   ()
10:51 Assessment of the influence of the Beta parameter in the reconstruction of Q.Clear - Konrad Skórkiewicz; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
10:53 Measurement of correlation between polarization of annihilation photons emitted in e+e- system to detect entanglement at sub-MeV range - Deepak Kumar; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
10:55 Characterization of spheroid growth based on a new dynamical model - Dr Kamil Dulski; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
10:57 Characterization of the 192-strip J-PET detector for multi-photon positronium imaging - Dr Kamil Dulski; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
10:59 Development of a high-resolution PET detector for small animal in-beam PET system - Dr Munetaka Nitta; Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany   ()
11:01 CP Discrete Symmetry study in the decay of ortho-Positronium atom using the J-PET detector. - Kavya Valsan Eliyan; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
11:03 Towards improving the sensitivity of testing CPT symmetry in positronium decays with the Modular J-PET detector - Neha Chug; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
11:05 Development of the normalization method for the Jagiellonian PET scanner - Dr Aurélien Coussat; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
08:00 --- Coffee a priori ---
09:00
Session 1 (until 10:05) ()
09:00 Invited talk: New developments and human imaging experience with the PennPET Explorer - Dr Suleman Surti; University of Pennsylvania, USA   ()
09:25 Invited talk: High throughput cost-efficient Flat panel monolithic Walk Through PET - Prof. Stefaan Vandenberghe; Ghent University, Belgium   ()
09:45 Invited talk: Developing multi-photon total-body PET from plastic scintillators - Dr Szymon Niedźwiecki; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
09:00
Total-Body PET - Chairs: Prof. Abass Alavi, Prof. Catalina Curceanu (until 10:05) ()
10:05 --- Coffee break & Krakow promotion video ---
10:35
PET imaging innovations - Chairs: Prof. Kenji Shimazoe, Dr. Sushil Sharma (until 12:00) ()
10:35
Session 2 (until 12:00) ()
10:35 Key talk: Promising detector concepts to advance coincidence time resolution for time-of-flight positron emission tomography - Prof. Craig Levin; Stanford University and University of Leeds, USA   ()
11:00 Invited talk: A new Brain Dedicated PET scanner with 4D detector information - Prof. Jose Maria Benlloch Baviera, Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging CSIC, Spain   ()
11:20 Development of Polarization-Sensitive Positron Emission Tomography Demonstrator based on Single-layer gamma-ray polarimeters - Dr Siddharth Parashari; University of Zagreb, Croatia   ()
11:40 Reconstruction of photon’s interaction position within plastic scintillator based on the WLS strips readout for the Total-Body J-PET - Szymon Parzych; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
08:00 --- Coffee a priori ---
08:30
Positronium in physics - Chairs: Prof Mihael Makek, Prof. Bożena Jasińska (until 09:55) ()
08:30
Session 1 (until 09:55) ()
08:30 Key talk: Interaction of positron and positronium with gases in liquids and development of a new positron beam for advancing such fundamental studies - Prof. Farida Selim; Bowling Green State University, USA   ()
08:55 Invited talk: Development of a spatial sensitive detector for positronium inertial sensing measurements - Dr Sebastiano Mariazzi; University of Trento, Italy   ()
09:15 Mirror Matter searches with the J-PET detector - Dr Elena Perez del Rio; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
09:35 Precision tests of discrete symmetries in decays of positronium with the J-PET detector - Dr Eryk Czerwiński; Jagiellonian Unversity, Poland   ()
09:55 --- Coffee break ---
10:25 --- Conference photo 2 @ Collegium Novodvorscianum Courtyard ---
10:40
Particle therapy - Chairs: Prof. Karol Lang, Dr Katarzyna Dziedzic-Kocurek (until 12:00) ()
10:40
Session 2 (until 12:00) ()
10:40 Invited talk: Research in Neutron Capture Therapy at University of Pavia - Prof. Saverio Altieri; University of Pavia, Italy   ()
11:00 Towards including radiation quality in proton therapy treatment planning and dosimetry - Dr Jan Gajewski; Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland   ()
11:20 Safe proton radiotherapy for patients with metallic spine stabilization system - Dr Kamil Kieislewicz;Centre of Oncology, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Institute Krakow Branch, Poland   ()
11:40 Dose distribution comparison of cerebrospinal axis irradiation. Helical Tomotherapy vs. Proton Pencil Beam Scanning - Dr Bartosz Kiełtyka; The University Hospital in Krakow, Poland   ()
08:00 --- Coffee a priori ---
09:00
Particle detection technologies - Chairs: Prof. Farida Selim, Prof. Taiga Yamaya (until 10:05) ()
09:00
Session 1 (until 10:05) ()
09:00 Key talk: 10ps Time-of-Flight PET scanner: From Hope to Practice - Prof. Paul Lecoq; CERN, Switzerland   ()
09:25 Optimization study of a muon tomography system for imaging of nuclear waste containers - Dr Anzori Georgadze; Kiev Institute for Nuclear Research, Ukraine   ()
09:45 Comparative studies of plastic scintillator strips with high technical attenuation length for the total-body J-PET scanner - Dr Łukasz Kapłon; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
10:05 --- Coffee break ---
10:35
Preclinical imaging - Chairs: Prof. Magdalena Kostkiewicz, Prof. Hans Geissel (until 12:05) ()
10:35
Session 2 (until 12:05) ()
10:35 Key talk: PET/CT and SPECT/CT in preclinical research: Systems and applications - Prof. Sibylle Ziegler; Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany   ()
11:00 Key talk: Designed Protein Cages: Current State and Potential Medical Applications - Prof. Jonathan Heddle; Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Poland   ()
11:25 Invited talk: Perspectives of preclinical research in Bialystok Center of Molecular Imaging - Prof. Anna Gromotowicz-Poplawska; Medical University of Bialystok, Poland   ()
11:45 Proteomic profiling of extracellular vesicles derived from pancreatic beta-cells cultured under hyperglycemia - Carina Rząca; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
PM
17:00 --- Welcome reception ---
18:00 --- Guided tour through Collegium Maius ---
12:05 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Positronium in medicine - Chairs: Prof. Paul Lecoq, Prof. Stefaan Vandenberghe (until 16:00) ()
14:00
Session 3 (until 16:00) ()
14:00 First clinical positronium imaging of patients - Prof. Pawel Moskal; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
14:20 Invited talk: A statistical reconstruction algorithm for positronium lifetime imaging using time-of-flight positron emission tomography - Prof. Hsin-Hsiung Bill Huang; University of Central Florida, USA   ()
14:40 Invited talk: Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy of oxygen content tissue-equivalent samples - Dr Ali Biganeh; Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, Iran   ()
15:00 Multiphoton time-of-flight MLEM reconstruction for the positronium imaging in J-PET - Dr Roman Shopa; National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland   ()
15:20 Study of positronium in normal and cancer cells - Dr Ewelina Kubicz-Staszkiewicz; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
15:40 Current progress, challenges and frontiers for Ps-based oncology nanodiagnostics - Dr Bożena Zgardzińska; Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland   ()
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Exotic atoms and nuclei - Chairs: Dr Natsumi Ikeno, Dr Magdalena Skurzok (until 17:50) ()
16:30
Session 4 (until 17:50) ()
16:30 Invited talk: Pionic atoms and chiral symmetry - Prof. Kenta Itahashi; RIKEN, Japan   ()
16:50 Invited talk: Alpha and cluster decay of thermally excited nuclei - Prof. Neelima Kelkar; University of los Andes, Colombia   ()
17:10 Invited talk: Nuclear instabilities in white dwarfs - Prof. Marek Nowakowski; University of los Andes, Colombia   ()
17:30 Decay probabilities in the multichannel case - Prof. Francesco Giacosa; Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce, Poland   ()
19:30 --- Baroque Concert in Collegium Maius ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Exotic atoms and nuclei - Chairs: Prof. Neelima Kelkar, Prof. Marek Nowakowski (until 15:40) ()
14:00
Session 2 (until 15:40) ()
14:00 Invited talk: Testing Quantum Foundations in the Cosmic Silence - Dr Kristian Piscicchia; Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi", Italy   ()
14:20 Invited talk: A bound diproton: is it “illusive” particle or exotic nucleus? - Prof. Ihor Kadenko; International Nuclear Safety Center of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine   ()
14:40 Invited talk: Search for η’-mesic nuclei in (p,dp) reaction at GSI/FAIR - Dr Yoshiki Tanaka; RIKEN, Japan   ()
15:00 Invited talk: Kaonic atoms at DANE: where we are and where we go? - Prof. Catalina Curceanu on behalf of Dr Alessandro Scordo; National Laboratory of Frascati (LNF), Italy   ()
15:20 Invited talk: Sensitivity of the deeply bound pionic atoms to the pion-nucleon sigma term - Dr Natsumi Ikeno; Tottori University, Japan   ()
15:40 --- Coffee break ---
16:10
Exotic atoms and nuclei - Chairs: Prof. Kenta Itahashi, Prof. Francesco Giacosa (until 18:10) ()
16:10
Session 3 (until 18:10) ()
16:10 Invited talk: Study of the eta-prime meson in nuclei in the LEPS2/BGOegg experiment - Dr Natsuki Tomida; Kyoto University, Japan   ()
16:30 Invited talk: Mass modifications of vector mesons in a finite density matter - Prof. Kyoichiro Ozawa; Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, KEK, Japan   ()
16:50 Invited talk: Studying the process γd→π0ηd - Prof. Alberto Martinez Torres; University of Sao Paulo, Brasil   ()
17:10 Invited talk: Exotic properties of N*(1895) and its impact on photophroduction of light hyperons - Prof. Kanchan Khemchandani; Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brasil   ()
17:30 Polarisation observables Sigma, T, P and H in pi0 and eta photoproduction off quasifree nucleons - Nicolas Jermann; University of Basel, Switzerland   ()
17:50 Helicity dependent cross sections for the photoproduction of π0π± pairs from quasi-free nucleons - Dr Debdeep Ghosal; University of Basel, Switzerland   ()
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:05
Artificial intelligence for medicine - Chairs: Prof. Zdenka Kuncic, Dr Bartosz Leszczyński (until 14:50) ()
14:05
Session 3 (until 14:50) ()
14:05 Key talk: Artificial intelligence in cardiovascular Imaging - Prof. Piotr Slomka; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA   ()
14:30 Invited talk: From High Performance Computing to PET medical imaging - EuroHPC PL software platform for novel techniques and artificial intelligence methods in the context of the total-body J-PET development - Dr Wojciech Krzemień; National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland   ()
14:50 --- Coffee break ---
15:20
PET imaging innovations - Chairs: Prof. Levin Craig, Prof. Tomasz Szumlak (until 16:45) ()
15:20
Session 4 (until 16:45) ()
15:20 Key talk: PET imaging innovations - Prof. Taiga Yamaya; National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Japan   ()
15:45 Invited talk: Multi-isotope imaging and quantum chemical sensing with PET and SPECT nuclides - Prof. Kenji Shimazoe; The University of Tokyo, Japan   ()
16:05 Invited talk: Towards High Sensitivity and High-Resolution PET Scanners; Image-guided Proton Therapy and Total Body imaging - Prof. Karol Lang; University of Texas at Austin, USA   ()
16:25 Polarization and directional correlations of γ-rays for nuclei: Scope in PET - Prof. Pragya Das; Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India   ()
19:30
Public lecture -Prof. Catalina Curceanu (lnf-infn) (until 20:30) ()
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Radiopharmaceuticals - Chairs: Dr Nicoletta Protti, Dr Michał Silarski (until 15:25) ()
14:00
Session 3 (until 15:25) ()
14:00 Key talk: PET-MRI nanotheranostics with radio-labelled nanoparticles - Prof. Zdenka Kuncic; University of Sydney, Australia   ()
14:25 Invited talk: Compartmental models – a useful tool for medical therapy and diagnosis - Prof. Aleksandra Jung; AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland   ()
14:45 Mesoporous silica carriers for controlled drug release - Dr Radek Zaleski; Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland   ()
15:05 Polymer and composite carriers for controlled drug release - Dr Marek Gorgol; Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland   ()
15:25 --- Coffee break ---
15:55
Session 4 (until 17:25) ()
15:55 Unsupervised learning for pixel mask clustering and cluster tracking in LHCb’s Velopix sensor calibration - Maciej Majewski; AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland   ()
16:10 3D printed lightweight and modular lithium-ion Uninterruptible Power Booster for medical devices - Gabriel Moskal; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
16:25 The charm of charm - Jakub Ryżka; AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland   ()
16:40 Preliminary results of determining Modular J-PET spatial resolution - Faranak Tayefi Ardebili; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
16:55 129m,131m,133mXe – for gamma-MRI, a novel medical imaging technique - Mateusz Chojnacki; CERN, Switzerland   ()
17:10 The development of the QETIR image reconstruction software for the Total-Body J-PET application - Meysam Dadgar; Jagiellonian University, Poland   ()
15:55
Young researchers session - Chairs: Dr Yoshiki Tanaka, Dr Szymon Niedźwiecki (until 17:25) ()
20:00 --- Conference dinner at Korzkiew Castle ---
12:05 Closing & Awards for The Best Poster and The Best Young Researcher Talk - Prof. Paweł Moskal, Prof. Ewa Stępień   ()
12:35 --- Lunch ---