09:00 – 09:30
Opening Remarks : Session 1- International Biodiscovery Forum: Unlocking the Medicine of the Future
Chair: Nikolai Zhelev
09:30 – 10:00
From Genomics to Precision Medicine: Translating Genetic Discoveries into Clinical Practice
Munis Dundar
10:00 – 10:30
Biomimetic Membrane Interfaces for Medical Devices
Donald Martin
10:30 – 11:00
Engineering the Gut Microbiome: A Novel Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease and Healthy Aging
Satya Prakash
11:00 – 11:30
Rare solutions to Rare genetic diseases in translational medicine
Sehime G. Temel
11:00 – 11:30
Use of NGS-based copy number variation (CNV) analysis in clinical practice
Tahir Atik
12:00 – 13:00
LUNCH
13:00 – 15:30
Session 2: International Biodiscovery Forum: Unlocking the Medicine of the Future
Chair: Munis Dundar
13:00 – 13:30
How Next-Generation Technologies Are Reshaping Drug Discovery and Development
Nikolai Zhelev
13:30 – 14:00
OAmB for fungal and parasitic diseases
Christene Leiper
14:00 – 14:30
Application of AI to drug discovery and development
Edison Judge
14:30 – 15:00
AI in clinical trials
Stephen Leiper
15:00 – 15:30
TBA
Amrik Mahal
08:30 – 09:00
Opening Remarks
Chair: TBA
09:00 – 11:30
Session 3 – International Biodiscovery Forum: Unlocking the Medicine of the Future
Chair: TBA
09:00 – 09:30
Comprehensive miRNA and metabolomic profiling of plasma, pleural, and pericardial fluids in ischemic heart disease and functional validation in AC16 cardiomyocyte cells
Michele Maffia
09:30 – 10:00
Portable and versatile Point-of-care diagnostics for global health: life in your hand
Ratnesh Lal
10:00 – 10:30
Artificial Intelligence in biomedical sciences
Matt Elcombe
10:30 – 11:00
Shaping the Future of Cancer Care: ctDNA-Based Genomic Profiling in solid Tumor Management
M. Cerkez Ergoren
11:00 – 11:30
O & A
11:30 – 13:00
LUNCH
13:00 – 15:30
Session 4- International Biodiscovery Forum: Unlocking the Medicine of the Future 4
Chair: TBA
13:00 – 13:30
Emerging Therapies for lysosomal storage diseases.
Tommaso Beccari
13:30 – 14:00
Metabolomics and Risk prediction driven Clinical Diagnostic
Hilal Khalil
14:00 – 14:30
Neoantigen peptide vaccines for personalized cancer treatment
Anargyros Moulas
14:30 – 15:00
Unraveing Amino Acids Alterations in Anorexia Nervosa: from Biochemical profiles to Therapeuitcs Targets
Maria Rachele Ceccarini
15:00 – 15:30
Early-Life Genomic Diagnostics: NGS Applications in Neonatal and Pediatric Medicine
Ozgur Cogulu
09:00 – 09:45
Plenary Session 1 – Bulgarian Biotechnology Panel
Chair: TBA
09:00 – 09:15
TBA
09:15 – 09:30
TBA
09:30 – 09:45
TBA
09:00 – 09:45
TBA
09:45 – 10:15
Coffee Break
10: 15 – 11:30
Plenary Session 2
Chair: TBA
10:15 – 10:30
Translational Genomics and Precision Medicine in Clinical Practice
Munis Dundar
10:30 – 10:45
TBA
Donald Martin
10:45 – 11:00
Nano-biomechanics for healthy living
Ratnesh Lal
11:00 – 11:15
Nano-siRNA Formulations for Head and Neck and Lung Cancer Therapeutics
Satya Prakash
11:15 – 11:30
TBA
Oscar Vicente
11:30 – 13:00
LUNCH
09:00 – 09:30
Plenary Session 3 -MAGI Session – Innovative Strategies in Genetic Medicine: Integrative Omics, Computational Biology, and Deep Learning
Chairs: Matteo Bertelli, Tommaso Beccari
13:00 -13:15
Implementation of a GPU Accelerated and AI Integrated NGS Workflow
Jurgen Kaftalli
13:15 – 13:30
MAGISNAT Microbiome Pipeline: Data Processing and Interpretation
Ekaterina Chueva
13:30 – 13:45
MAGI Deep Learning Based Classification of Inherited Retinal Diseases Using Retinal Imaging
Sara Feizyab
13:45 – 14:00
Polygenic Risk Scores in Lymphedema and Lipedema: A Machine Learning Approach to Risk Stratification
Luca Ferrari
14:00 -14:15
Machine Learning Models for Personalized Diet and Physical Activity Using Omics and Clinical Data
Alessandro Macchia
14:15 – 14:30
Classification Model for Inherited Retinal Dystrophies Based on Omics and Clinical Data
Ahmad Abidin
14:30 – 15:00
Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:00
Parallel Session 1- Medical Biotechnology 2
TBA: Chair
15:00 – 16:00
Parallel session 2
Chair: TBA
15:00 – 15:15
Immunopathogenesis and Immunogenetic Variants underlying Tuberculosis-diabetes comorbid patients with implications for host-directed therapy via repurposing drugs
Jianping Xie
15:00 – 15:15
TBA
Dana Tapaloaga
15:15 – 15:30
Maternal vitamin D rescues the abnormal intestinal immune state of offspring induced by maternal immune activation
Jiang Xie
15:15 – 15:30
TBA
Juraj Krajcovic
15:30 – 15:45
Anti-GPA33 ScFv engineered milk exosomes as a drug delivery system for targeted therapy of colorectal cancer
Lei Liu
15:30 – 15:45
TBA
Igor Plazl
15:45 – 16:00
Evidence for a novel non-canonical mechanism of exosome biogenesis
Federico Fiorani
15:45- 16:00
TBA
Adam Mechler
16:30
GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING OF EBTNA
09:00 – 10:00
Plenary Session 4
Chair: TBA
09:00 – 09:15
Tracking and control of spoilage bacteria in sub-high-temperature ham sausage
Qun Sun
09:15 – 09:30
TBA
Robert Marks
09:30 – 09:45
TBA
Michel Salzet
09:45 – 10:00
TBA
Isabelle Fournier
10:00 -10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:45
Plenary Session 5
Chair: TBA
10:30 – 10:45
Bacterial cellulose: synthesis, properties, and applications
Iza Radecka
10:45 -11:00
TBA
Osman Erogul
11:00 – 11:15
Development and evaluation of peptide vaccines for cancer
Anargyros Moulas
11:15 – 11:30
Deep Eutectic Solvents in Biocatalysis: Activation and Inhibition
Gary Henehan
11:30 – 11:45
TBA
Sehime G. Temel
12:00
Closing Ceromany and Awards