Location: Van der Valk hotel, Mons, Belgium. Organised together with the European Ceramic Society
Date/time: Conference starts 09:00 Thursday 5th December 2024, and finishes 15:00 Friday 6th December.
Registration fee: no fee (covered by the STOP project), but participants may choose to attend (and pay for) a conference dinner on the Thursday evening.
Aim: technical presentations to motivate workshop-style informal discussion of themes of interest to the community, and to consider whether/how to repeat such an event. Both fifteen-minute oral presentations and posters are welcomed.
Update 4th December
It seems that some emails (such as the final programme) sent from the domain ecers.org may be being silently blocked by spam filters. The meeting will start at 09:00, registration will be possible from 08:30.
Accommodation
ECerS have provided a list of hotels close to where the meeting will be held, together with a map showing their locations.
Programme
Thursday 5th December
09:00 Introduction
09:15 The need for novel antimicrobial nanocoatings
09:30 Antimicrobial surfaces in action in real-life scenarios
10:30 Coffee break
Innovative antimicrobial materials and structures. (On metals, plastics, glass, textiles…)
11:00 Synthesis and Additive Manufacturing of tricalcium phosphate doped with Ag+ and Cu2+ antibacterial cations
11:30 ClicKit – Standardized quantitative in vitro testing of direct cell material interactions
11:50 Elastin-like polypeptides as functional carriers for optimized antimicrobial peptide production
12:10 Development of antibacterial titanium alloy surfaces functionalised with antimicrobial peptides
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 Interfacial adhesion at the surface of biomaterials
14:30 Development of bio-based nanofibers and plant-based extracts for antimicrobial coatings in the context of SUSAAN project
15:00 NANOBLOC: Deposition and characterization of antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral composite coatings
15:30 Coffee break and poster session
16:00 Antibiofilm magnetron-sputtered Ag- and Cu-doped ZnO thin films with calcium phosphates
16:20 Metal-ion loaded silica nanoparticles as antimicrobial coatings for safer high-touch surfaces
16:40 Antibacterial Surfaces
17:00 Electrospinning Biopolymer-Based Materials for Antimicrobial and Mucus-Adhesive Patch Design
17:30 End of first day
19:00 Conference dinner
Friday 6th December
Innovative antimicrobial materials and structures. (On metals, plastics, glass, textiles…) contd.
9:00 Photocatalytic and Antibacterial Properties of Ceramic Conversed Titanium Alloys Surface with Silver
9:30 Antibacterial Efficacy of Core-Shell Nanoparticles: A Systematic Approach
10:00 Antimicrobial materials for medical applications
10:30 Coffee Break and Poster Award announcement
Microbiology: Modes of action: how to kill microbes or prevent their spread via surfaces (fomites)
11:00 Antimicrobial coatings: modes of action, microbiological efficacy testing, and resistance evolution
11:30 Living Materials with Embedded Microbes for Combating Wound Infections
From lab to market: use cases, scale-up, sustainability, safety, & regulatory approval
12:00 Scaling up production of human elastin-like polypeptides with antimicrobial properties
12:30 Regulatory science and the biomaterials progress: where do we stand
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Moderated discussion of matters arising from the talks
14:30 Quo Vadis: Does Europe need such a meeting? If so, what next: future host or COST action?
15:00 End of Conference
Posters
- STOP: Surface Transfer of Pathogens
- Direct stamp method for the reproducible quantitative transfer of bacteria to identify antimicrobial surfaces under semi-dry conditions
- Overview NOVA project
- Bactericidal surfaces prepared by femtosecond laser patterning
- Superficial Structuring of Copper via Femtosecond Laser Radiation for Development of Antibacterial Surfaces
- Enhanced Antibacterial Properties for Orthopedic Applications via Femtosecond Laser Synergistic Effect: β-TCP Structuring and AgNP Synthesis by Photoreduction
- Carbon Coated Zinc Telluride Quantum Dots
- Ultra-Short Laser Processing for Surface Structuring and in-Situ Synthesis of Nanoparticles
- Biomaterials functionalized with antimicrobial peptides for biomedical applications (preventive and/or curative)