23 September 2026

14h00 - 17h00

Thematic workshop Machine-Learning for Vibrational Spectroscopy

24 September 2026

08h30 – 09h15	Registration
09h15 – 09h30	Opening Ceremony Luísa Peixe, FFUP Direction representative

Session 1 – Innovations and Emerging Technologies

Chairs – Nick Stone & Roystone Goodacre

09h30 – 10h30	Plenary Lecture From Bench to Bedside: Translational Vibrational Biospectroscopy for Precision Medicine Michael Schmitt
10h30 - 11h00	AFM-IR in Biosciences: Nanoscale Insights from Tissues to Single Biomolecules Ariane Deniset
11h00 – 11h30	Coffee Break
12h00 – 12h30	Flash oral presentations - Anna Zetterström \| Multimodal Imaging of Renal Tissue using Infrared, Raman and Mass Spectrometry - Dános Sebestyén Varga \| Interfacial Water Organization in Glycocalyx Model Systems - Luis Fuertes-Pina \| MarIA: An Open-Source Machine Learning Platform for Enhanced MALDI-TOF-Based Discrimination of Streptococcus pneumoniae Within the Streptococcus mitis Group
12h30 – 14h00	Lunch Break

Session 2 – Applications in infection control and disease diagnostics

Chairs – Belén Rodriguez-Sanchez & Jan Liese

14h00 – 14h30	ATR-FTIR: From typing to real-time infection control Ângela Novais
14h30 – 15h00	Artificial Intelligence–Driven Saliva-Based ATR-FTIR Biospectroscopy for Non-Invasive Detection of Oral and Systemic Diseases Robinson Sabino Silva
15h00 – 15h30	Implementing Spectral Acquisition in the Transflection Mode for Automated Microbial Phenotyping by FTIR Spectroscopy Ashraf Ismail
15h30 - 16h00	Coffee Break
16h00 - 16h30	Standing Guard Over Our Food: Field-Ready Raman Spectroscopy Royston Goodacre
16h30 - 17h00	Milk FT-MIR spectrometry, 20 years of experience: what's next? Hélène Soyeurt
17h00 – 17h30	Flash oral presentations - Jörg Rau \| With the IR-Biotyper from research to application in an accredited official food control laboratory / Framework - Challenges - Solutions - Katharina Anna Frings \| ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy and Deep Learning for Classification and Concentration Prediction of Implant-associated Bacteria in Single and Mixed Samples - Mustafa Kansiz \| Breaking the Diffraction Barrier: Submicron Infrared Imaging of Protein Misfolding and Amyloid Formation with O-PTIR
17h30 – 18h30	Poster session 1 Posters on topics from session 1 & 2 - Ângela Novais \| Direct Bacterial Species-Level Identification from Positive Blood Cultures Using FT-IR Spectroscopy and Machine Learning: A Proof-of-Concept Study - David Rodriguez \| "Application of FTIR Spectroscopy in the Routine Clinical Practice of a Microbiology Laboratory in a Tertiary Care Hospital: four real-case scenarios" - Irene Iugovaz \| Classification and Identification of Pathogenic Escherichia coli and Antibiotic Resistant Nosocomial Bacteria by FPA-FTIR Spectroscopy - Ivan Tavcar \| FTIR Microscopy as a potential means of high-throughput saliva screening for SARS-COV-2 infection - Laura Guimarães \| How can Raman Spectroscopy be applied to environmental monitoring? - Manuel Alberto Martínez Ruiz \| In situ identification of soilborne plant pathogens via micro-Raman spectroscopy and belowground microscopy - Montserrat Roman Quintero \| Vibrational Biospectroscopic Investigation of Antimicrobial Peptide–Membrane Interactions Across Multiple Length Scales - Mustafa Kansiz \| High-Speed Laser-Scanning Photothermal Submicron Infrared (O-PTIR) and Stimulated Raman (PT-SRS) Platform for Real-Time Label-Free Chemical Imaging - Norman Mauder \| Evaluation of culture conditions for microbial typing by FTIR - Norman Mauder \| Culture media influence on strain typing performance by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy - Raquel Sitta \| Application of Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy for the identification of microbial pathogens in raw milk associated with cow mastitis - Rita Martins \| FT-IR spectroscopy is a fast and accurate tool for discrimination of hypervirulent and multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae - Robinson Sabino-Silva \| ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy Coupled with Machine Learning for the Identification of DENV Infection in Serum Samples: A Novel Approach - Wiktor FIlip Stachera \| Transfection detection using FTIR
Evening	Organized Dinner

25 September 2026

Session 3 - Clinical applications in biofluids and cancer

Chairs – Nick Stone & Ariane Deniset

09h00 – 10h00	Plenary Lecture AI-driven clinical pathology: Are we closer to clinical adoption? Peter Gardner
10h00 - 10h30	ATIR Spectroscopy Enables Differentiation of Dengue in Serum and Whole Blood in Febrile Patients Bayden Wood
10h30 – 11h00	Coffee Break
11h00 – 13h30	Flash oral presentations - Maryam Hanine \| Advanced mid-IR vibrational spectroscopic technique to characterize metabolic alterations in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (T-ALL) - Tom Grunert \| FTIR spectroscopy for monitoring patient status and risk during peritoneal dialysis – a follow up study of a larger cohort - Yifan Wei \| Developing novel prognostic biomarkers for Penile Cancer using Infrared Spectroscopy
11h30 - 12h30	Poster session 2 Posters on topics from session 3 & 4 - Andresa Dias \| Liquid Biopsy-Based Detection of Endometrial Polyps through Raman Spectroscopy - Chanat Thanavanich \| Supervised Classification of Penile Cancer Tissues using Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging and Discriminant Analysis - Filip Kisiel \| Machine-learning validation of PTEN loss prediction in prostate cancer using QCL infrared imaging - Karolina Beton-Mysur \| Brewing Stress in Cancer Cells: Raman Insights into Caffeine-Citalopram Interactions - Krzysztof Dziuba \| What is a Spectral Token? From classification to representation learning - Maria M. Félix \| Discrimination of Endometrial Adenocarcinoma and Endometrial Adenosquamous Carcinoma Using Raman Microspectroscopy
12h30 - 14h00	Lunch Break

Session 4 - Data science and clinical translation

Chairs – Achim Kohler & Luísa Peixe

14h00 – 14h30	Plenary Lecture AI-assisted vibrational spectroscopy: present and future Axel Mosig
14h30 - 15h00	Exploring the applicability domain of chemometric and machine learning models Uladzislau Blazhko
15h00 - 15h30	Translation to clinical diagnostics: opportunities and challenges Nick Stone
15h30 – 16h00	Flash oral presentations - Dougal Ferguson \| Identification of at-risk radical prostatectomy cancer patients using QCL spectroscopy - Haolin Zhou \| Exploration of Hypoxia Microenvironment with IR Spectral-Spatial Signatures - Jana Hahn \| Protein Quantification in Aluminum-Adjuvanted Vaccines Using Raman Spectroscopy and Machine Learning
16h00 - 16h30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00	Closing session Luísa Peixe, Ângela Novais, Raquel Branquinho Prizes (oral & posters)

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