Program
23 September 2026
| 14h - 17h | Thematic workshops TBD |
24 September 2026
| 08h30 – 09h15 | Registration |
| 09h15 – 09h30 | Opening Ceremony |
Session 1 – Innovations and Emerging Technologies
Chairs – TBD
| 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 |
| 11h30 - 12h00 | Molecular Insights into Bacterial Metabolism: Probing Activity from Single Cells to Biofilms Howbeer Muhamad Ali |
| 12h00 – 12h30 | Flash oral presentations |
| 12h30 – 14h00 | Lunch Break |
Session 2 – Applications in infection control and disease diagnostics
Chairs – TBD
| 14h00 – 14h30 | ATR-FTIR: From typing to real-time infection control Ângela Novais / Luísa Peixe |
| 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 Fingerprinting by Transflection applications for microbial characterization 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 |
| 17h30 – 18h30 | Poster session 1 Posters on topics from session 1 & 2 |
| Evening | Organized Dinner |
25 September 2026
Session 3 - Clinical applications in biofluids and cancer
Chairs – TBD
| 09h00 – 10h00 | Plenary Lecture AI-driven clinical pathology: Are we closer to clinical adoption? Peter Gardner |
| 10h00 - 10h30 | Serum and biofluid spectroscopy for early disease detection Bayden Wood |
| 10h30 – 11h00 | Coffee Break |
| 11h00 - 11h30 | Anticancer Metallodrugs probed by Vibrational Spectroscopy– A Search for New Targets Maria Marques |
| 11h30 - 12h30 | Poster session 2 Posters on topics from session 3 & 4 |
| 12h30 - 14h00 | Lunch Break |
Session 4 - Data science and clinical translation
Chairs – TBD
| 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 |
| 16h00 - 16h30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Closing session Prizes (oral & posters) |