PROGRAMME

Strategies for Developing Antibiotic Alternatives: Overcoming the Limitations of Conventional Antibiotics DR. KIM, Dajeong Korea Research Institute Of Bioscience And Biotechnology

Targeting Gram-negative Pathogens: Emerging Strategies with Outer Membrane-Targeting Antibiotics DR. KWAK, Jaesung Korea Research Institute Of Chemical Technology

Killing intracellular bacteria with antibiotic-loaded nanoparticles DR. NICHOLAS D., University Of Southampton Nick is an Associate Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Southampton, UK. His research focuses on drug delivery and biomaterials in tissue repair and regeneration. He obtained a BSc in Biology from the University of Nottingham, UK. He then completed a PhD at King's College London under the supervision of Prof John Pickup, where he researched techniques in fluorescence spectroscopy for tracking metabolism in cells by using their natural fluorescence. He worked as an MRC postdoctoral fellow under Prof Julia Polak and Prof Molly Stevens at Imperial College researching the effects of biomaterials on the differentiation of embryonic stem cells. After further postdoctoral work at Stanford University, USA, focussed on liposomal delivery of Wnt proteins, he took up a position at the University of Southampton in the UK. His current work focusses on use of polymersomes, microbubbles and nanodroplets for drug delivery in bone repair and infection control. His work is published in respected journals, including Nature Materials, PNAS, ACS Nano and Biomaterials and his current research is funded by EPSRC, BBSRC and ORUK.

Assessing the cost-effectiveness of using the 4CMenB meningitis B vaccine to protect against gonorrhoea PROF. WHITE, Peter Uk Health Security Agency and Imperial College, UK Prof Peter White is Head of the Modelling & Economics Unit at the UK Health Security Agency, Professor of Public Health Modelling in the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London, and Co-Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Health Analytics & Modelling. He was recently a member of WHO’s Sexually Transmitted Infections Research Priorities Technical Advisory Group, and is a former Expert Consultant to US CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention on modelling sexually-transmitted infections. He studied at the Universities of Cambridge (MA), Oxford (MSc), and Stirling (PhD). He was originally a laboratory scientist, and performed ecological fieldwork as part of his PhD. Peter’s work focuses on improving understanding the epidemiology of a range of infectious diseases and cost-effectiveness of interventions. He uses techniques of Bayesian evidence synthesis, transmission-dynamic modelling, health-services research, analysis of patient and population behaviour, and economic analysis, applied to data from surveillance, surveys, cohort studies, and trials.

Simultaneous analysis of two types of Magnetic Nano Particles based on FMMD technology DR. HONG, Hyobong Etri, Korea

Frequency Mixing Magnetic Detection: a versatile technique for characterization and imaging of magnetic nanoparticles and for quantification of biomolecules PROF. KRAUSE, Hans-joachim Forschungszentrum Jülich, Ibi-3, 52425 Jülich, Germany

Storing and processing information using nature’s solution – DNA DR. BAE, Wooli University Of Surrey

Bubbles for bonding broken bones: Ultrasound contrast agents for bone fracture treatment PROF. EVANS, Nicholas University Of Southampton Nick is an Associate Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Southampton, UK. His research focuses on drug delivery and biomaterials in tissue repair and regeneration. He obtained a BSc in Biology from the University of Nottingham, UK. He then completed a PhD at King's College London under the supervision of Prof John Pickup, where he researched techniques in fluorescence spectroscopy for tracking metabolism in cells by using their natural fluorescence. He worked as an MRC postdoctoral fellow under Prof Julia Polak and Prof Molly Stevens at Imperial College researching the effects of biomaterials on the differentiation of embryonic stem cells. After further postdoctoral work at Stanford University, USA, focussed on liposomal delivery of Wnt proteins, he took up a position at the University of Southampton in the UK. His current work focusses on use of polymersomes, microbubbles and nanodroplets for drug delivery in bone repair and infection control. His work is published in respected journals, including Nature Materials, PNAS, ACS Nano and Biomaterials and his current research is funded by EPSRC, BBSRC and ORUK.

Human bone matrix hydrogels as a bioactive niche for bone stromal cell -driven bone regeneration DR. KIM, Yang-hee University Of Southampton

From Organoid genetics to mosaic genetics DR. KOO, Bon-kyoung Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Dr. Bon-Kyoung Koo is a geneticist studying stem cell regulation using organoids and CRISPR. At the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea, he investigates clonal dynamics and was awarded the 2024 ERC Synergy Grant.

Nanomechanical binding mechanism of ligands and antibodies drives agonistic activity for cancer immune therapy PROF. HINTERDORFER, Peter Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Peter Hinterdorfer is full Professor at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz since 2010. The research of his scanning probe microscopy group is focused around nanoscopic techniques in life science, bio-nano technology, and medical diagnostics. He has published more than 300 papers, cited 19,148 x, h-index 71. Hinterdorfer has memberships of the ERC-Synergy grant panel (2020) and ERC-Consolidator grant panel (2025), and is/was editorial board member of Scientific Reports (since 2018), Council Member of the Biophysical Society (2010 – 2013), Editor of Biophysical Journal (2006 – 2012), as well as Editor of the ‘Springer Handbook of Single-Molecule Biophysics’ (2009). Since 1999 he is organizing the Annual Linz Winter Workshop and School and since 2004 he is member of the organizational board of the ISPM (International Scanning Probe Microscopy) conference series. Hinterdorfer was awarded by numerous international and national grants. As core facilities, the lab is equipped with 10 atomic force microscopes (AFM), including 1 high speed AFM and 2 AFM/fluorescence microscope combinations.