Monday, July 1, 2024

Time Event (+)
13:30 - 14:30 WELCOME - Badge and welcome package pick-up  
14:30 - 14:50 OPENING (Amphiteatre) - Jeremie Torres  
14:50 - 16:30 Emerging Topics (quantum phenomena, quantum devices) (Amphiteatre) - J. Preto (+)  
14:50 - 15:30 › Exploring Many-Body Dispersion in biomolecular complexes through Quantum Field Theory Perspectives - Matteo Gori, University of Luxembourg  
15:30 - 16:00 › Optimizing slime mold solutions to NP-hard problems using synchronization and morphological indices - S. Bajpai, Quantum Biology Laboratory, Howard University - P. Kurian, Quantum Biology Laboratory, Howard University  
16:00 - 16:30 › Quantum-enhanced photoprotection in neuroprotein architectures emerges from collective light-matter interactions - Hamza Patwa, Quantum Biology Laboratory, Howard University  
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break (Lobby)  
17:00 - 18:00 PLENARY (Amphiteatre) - Judith Klinmann  
19:00 - 21:00 WELCOME COCKTAIL  

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 10:00 PLENARY (Amphiteatre) - Martina Havenith  
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break (Lobby)  
10:20 - 12:20 New experimental tools and techniques (Amphiteatre) - H. Hoshina (+)  
10:20 - 10:50 › Decoding Protein Interactions: Insights from Composition-Based Analysis - Torbjörn Nur Olsson, University of Gothenburg  
10:50 - 11:20 › Terahertz dielectric spectroscopy with CMOS-integrated near-field sensor - Kęstutis Ikamas -- Institute of Applied Electrodynamics and Telecommunications, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania  
11:20 - 11:50 › NEAR-FIELD WIRE-PROBE AS THZ SENSOR TO DETECT COLLECTIVE OSCILLATIONS OF BIOMOLECULES - Tristan Béranger, University of Montpellier  
11:50 - 12:20 › Data-driven free-energy and torque reconstruction for rotatory motor proteins - Nazul Jared Lopez, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb  
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch (Lobby)  
14:00 - 15:00 PLENARY (Amphiteatre) - Jack Tuszynski  
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break (Lobby)  
15:20 - 17:00 EM fields interaction with living systems (Amphiteatre) - P. Kurian (+)  
15:20 - 16:00 › Nonthermal excitation effects of sub-terahertz radiation on transcription by RNA polymerase - Masahiko Imashimizu, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology  
16:00 - 16:30 › Effects of THz radiation on protein-ligand interactions - Milan Senćanski, Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences  
16:30 - 17:00 › Biophotons: A Hard Problem - Maurizio Benfatto, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare  
19:00 - 22:00 CONFERENCE DINNER  

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 10:00 PLENARY (Amphiteatre) - Cecilia Clementi  
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break (Lobby)  
10:20 - 12:00 Studies of biomolecule folding and dynamics on multiple time scales (Amphiteatre) - J. Tuszynski (+)  
10:20 - 11:00 › Mesoscale properties emerge from the molecular dynamics of a biomolecular condensate - Nicola Galvanetto, University of Zurich  
11:00 - 11:30 › Spatio-temporal dynamics of the proton motive force on single bacterial cells - Francesco Pedaci, Centre de Biologie Structurale [Montpellier]  
11:30 - 12:00 › Signature of (anti)cooperativity in the stochastic fluctuations of small systems: application to the mechano-sensitive assembly of the bacterial flagellar motor - Nils-Ole Walliser, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), University of Montpellier  
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch (Lobby)  
13:30 - 19:00 SOCIAL EVENT - Social event  

Thursday, July 4, 2024

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 10:00 PLENARY (Amphiteatre) - Philip Kurian  
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break (Lobby)  
10:20 - 12:00 EM fields interaction with living systems (Amphiteatre) - L. Varani (+)  
10:20 - 11:00 › THz irradiation induces the lateral diffusion of cell membrane molecules - Hiromichi Hoshina, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics  
11:00 - 11:30 › Exploring Vibrational and Electromagnetic Properties of Protein Tubulin using normal mode analysis - Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Academy of Sciences  
11:30 - 12:00 › Electrodynamic forces driving DNA-protein interactions at large biomolecular distances - Marco Pettini, University of Marseille  
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Lobby)  
13:30 - 15:50 Frohlich Theory for living matter (Amphiteatre) - M. Pettini (+)  
13:30 - 14:10 › Energy condensation and dipole alignment in protein dynamics - Alexander Tenenbaum, Physics Department, Sapienza University, Rome  
14:10 - 14:40 › Exploring the existence of Fröhlich condensates from realistic all-atom simulations - Jordane Preto, University of Marseille  
14:40 - 15:10 › Thermal excitation of collective oscillations among biomolecules - Elsa Perez Martin, Institut d'Electronique et des Systèmes  
15:10 - 15:50 › Quantum Theory for a Fröhlich Condensate: Out-of-Equilibrium Long-Range Order - Zhedong Zhang, City University of Hong Kong  
15:50 - 16:10 CLOSING (Amphiteatre) - Jeremie Torres  
16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break (Lobby)