BES_2024 Programme

 

 

You can download here the final programme

 

 

Sunday, 19th May 2024

14:00 - 16:30

 

Registration

University of Alcalá
Plaza San Diego, s/n
Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)

17:00

 

Opening Ceremony

Corral de Comedias de Alcalá de Henares
Plaza de Cervantes, 15
Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)

17:30

 

Giulio Milazzo Prize Lecture

18:15

 

Luigi Galvani Prize Lecture

19:00

 

Young Researcher Prize Lecture

19:30

 

Welcome Reception

University of Alcalá
Plaza San Diego, s/n
Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)

Monday, 20th May 2024

 

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AUDITORIUM

Session Chair: Abraham Esteve - Núñez

 

ROOM 1

Session Chair: Marisela Vélez and Benjamin Korth

09:00

 

Plenary Lecture:

Out of the Mud and into the Clean Room: Geobacter Electromicrobiology and Nanowire-Based Electronics

Derek Lovley
University of Massachusetts (USA)

 

 

09:50

 

Project/Sponsor

 

 

09:55

 

Invited Oral Presentation: 

Life of Geobacter as a syntroph in artificial and environmental consortia with methanogens

Amelia Rotaru
University of of Southern Denmark (Denmark)

 

Invited Oral Presentation: 

Bioenergy for the future: Bio-robots and Pee Power®

Ioannis Ieoropoulos
University of Southampton (UK)

10:15


 

 

Oral presentation:

Synthetic biology in Geobacter sulfurreducens: Implementation of an electrogenetic oscillator using an NADH/NAD sensor
Lewis Grozinger

 

Oral presentation:

Study of the Influence of Carbon Surface Functionalities on Bacteria/Electrode Interaction in Microbial Electrochemical Fluidized Bed Reactors
Raul Berenguer

10:30

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

AUDITORIUM

Session Chair: Abraham Esteve - Núñez and Marina Ramírez

 

ROOM 1

Session Chair: Marisela Vélez and Benjamin Korth

11:00

 

Keynote presentation:

Conceptual Models to Predict G. sulfurreducens' Electrochemical Response and Recent Advances That Have Altered Them

César Torres
Arizona State Univesity (USA)

 

Keynote presentation:

Advances in irreversible electroporation technology

Rafael Davalos
Georgia Tech – Emory University (USA)

11:30

 

Oral presentation: Low electrode potentials impact on Geobacter sulfurreducens growth: a high-throughput study
David Hernández Villamor
  Oral presentation: Effect of conducting polymer on skin structure: case of polypyrrole
Povilas Virbickas

11:45

 

Oral presentation: Characterization of DHN-melanin from Exophiala mesophila and electrochemical interactions with Geobacter sulfurreducens
Marc Viñas

 

Oral presentation: Spectroelectrochemical Study of the Interactions of Doxorubicin with biomimetic lipid films containing nucleolipids
Julia Álvarez Malmagro

12:00

 

Oral presentation: The importance of the inner membrane cytochrome ImcH in Geobacter extracellular electron transfer and energy conservation
Americo G. Duarte

 

Oral presentation: Time-resolved Electromechanical and Conductive Behavior of Nanostructured Bilayers Tethered to the Surface of the Electrode with Incorporated Channel Proteins and Peptides
Pawel Krysinski

12:15

 

Oral presentation: Investigating the Mechanisms of Iron Oxidation: Insights from the Mto Pathway in Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1
Catarina Paquete

 

Oral presentation: Multilayer conducting polymer films for the regulation of neural outgrowth and promotion of neural-electrode integration
Katarzyna Krukiewicz

12:30

 

LUNCH BREAK

 

 

AUDITORIUM

Session Chair: Wolfgang Schuhmann and Cecilia Cristea

 

ROOM 1

Session Chair: Cesar Torres and Catarina Paquete

14:00

 

Oral presentation: Bi-enzymatic chemo-mechanical feedback loop for continuous self-sustained actuation of conducting polymers
Alexander Kuhn

 

Oral presentation: Strategies of Boosting Utilization of Electricity Generated from Electro-Wetland: A Result of Bioelectrochemical Process
Yaqian Zhao

14:15

 

Oral presentation: Chemosensors using extended-gate field-effect transistors (EG-FETs) integrated with polymers imprinted molecularly with epitopes of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) predictive protein biomarkers for selective IPF determination in bodily fluids
Wlodzimierz Kutner

 

Oral presentation: Revolutionizing Wastewater Treatment: Integrating Electrically Conductive Biofilters (METland®) for Enhanced Efficiency and Environmental Impact
Manikanta M. Doki

14:30

 

Oral presentation: Combining 2D material with NAD-dependent dehydrogenase enzymes for bioanalytical applications
Ana Maria Villa-Manso

 

Oral presentation: Modular METlands®: A demonstration study
Ting Wei

14:45

 

Oral presentation: Enzyme-based amperometric biosensor for emerging Propofol detection
Verdiana Marchianó

 

Oral presentation: Textile-based flexible electrodes for enrichment of electroactive microbes from textile wastewater and efficient Multielectrode Assembly Bioelectrochemical Reactor (MEABR)
Rahul Kandpal

15:00

 

Oral presentation: Multi-Sensor Array for In Situ Bioanalysis of Oxidative Stress
Hadar Ben Yoav

 

Oral presentation: HTC doping of carbon felt anode to enhance metal recovery from acid mine drainage
Francisco Jesús Fernández Morales

15:15

 

Oral presentation: Tapinarof Redox Behavior and Photostability
Martina Zatloukalova

 

Oral presentation: Towards combined electrochemical-microbial synthesis of real yarn made of Nylon6.6 from lignin for the fictive Dulcinea del Toboso
Falk Harnisch

15:30

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

AUDITORIUM

Session Chair: Marcos Pita and Amelia Rotaru

 

ROOM 1

Session Chair: Omer Yehezkeli and Christiani Pierangela

16:00

 

Oral presentation: Formate Dehydrogenase-based Biocathodes for CO2 Conversion into Formate
Mihai-Cristian Fera
  Oral presentation: Engineering bioelectrochemical systems to steer the production of protein-rich microbial biomass
Narcís Pous

16:15

 

Oral presentation: Marrying Electrocatalysis and Enzymatic Catalysis for CO2-Reduction Hybrid Cascades
Wolfgang Schuhmann
  Oral presentation: Exploiting electro-active biofilms for polymer storage: effect of anodic potential and feeding strategies
Gaia Salvatori

16:30

 

Oral presentation: Bioelectrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to formate by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 in an ionic liquid-assisted electrochemical system
Ashwini Dantanarayana
  Oral presentation: Electrogenicity of biofilms formed by medically relevant microbes
Tautgirdas Ruzgas

16:45

 

Oral presentation: Microbial electrochemical fluidized bed reactor a suitable configuration for microbial electrosynthesis to produce volatile fatty acids and biomass from CO2
María Llorente Remartínez
  Oral presentation: Detection and destruction of Biofilms
Ritu Kataky

17:00

 

Oral presentation: Moving CO2 conversion in electrobiorefineries towards industrial application, as fast as Rocinante
Paniz Izadi
  Oral presentation: Microneedle-based Devices for Continuous Monitoring and Delivery of Therapeutic Drugs
Marc Parrilla

17:15

 

Oral presentation: Microbial CO2 Conversion to Hydrogen and Polyhydroxybutyrate using Carbon-negative and Sustainable Microbial Electrosynthesis Cell
Jung Rae Kim
  Oral presentation: Copper Efflux Oxidases: multi copper oxidases involved in bacterial copper homeostasis with distinct catalytic properties
Umberto Contaldo

17:30

 

Oral presentation: Boosting Ammonium Recovery in a Three-Chamber Bioelectrochemical Systems employing Gas-Diffusion Electrodes
Albert Guisasola
  Oral presentation: Bidirectional electrode reaction of coenzyme F420 catalyzed by F420-dependent sulfite reductase (Fsr)
Satoshi Furota

17:45

 

Oral presentation: Serially-stacked bioelectrochemical systems for electromethanogenesis
Simone Colantoni
  Oral presentation: Stable Protein 1 Hemin Complex as Peroxidase Mimicking Artificial Enzyme
Yara Zeibaq

18:00 - 20:00

 

ODD POSTER SESSION

 

Tuesday, 21st May 2024

 

 

AUDITORIUM

Session Chair: Rafael Davalos

 

ROOM 1

Session Chair: Sebastià Puig and Arpita Bose

09:00

 

Plenary Lecture:

Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) for Improving Process Efficiency and Sustainability of the Food Industry

Javier Raso
University of Zaragoza (Spain)

 

 

09:50

 

Project/Sponsor

 

 

 09:55

 

Invited Oral Presentation: 

Bioelectricity of non-excitable cells and multicellular pattern memories

Javier Cervera
University of Valencia (Spain)

 

Oral Presentation: Artificial Polymeric Matrices for Electrifying Cyanobacteria on 3D Electrodes
Rachel Egan

10:15

 

Oral Presentation: Lipid Membrane Behavior of Nitro-Fatty Acids: Electroreduction, Loading into Liposomes and Nrf2 Pathway Activation
Jan Vacek

 

Oral Presentation: Electrochemical Aptasensors for targeting Gram-negative and Gram-positive Bacteria
Alexandra Canciu

10:30

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

AUDITORIUM

Session Chair: Karolien DeWael and Paolo Bollella

 

ROOM 1

Session Chair: Sebastià Puig and Arpita Bose

11:00

 

Keynote presentation:

Developing Spectro-Electrochemical Sensors to Study the Physio-pathology of the Bioenergetic Units: Mitochondria

Stephane Arbault
Univesity Bordeaux (France)

  Oral presentation: Enzyme Immobilization on Conductive Surfaces Used for Synthetic Applications in Flow Reactors
Simin Arshi

11:15

 

  Oral Presentation: A single chamber microfluidic BES with controlled microaerobic conditions for electrophysiological characterization of electroactive microorganisms
Lorenzo Cristiani

11:30

 

Oral Presentation: Self-Powered Hydrogen Peroxide Sensors Based on Stabilized Prussian Blue: Advanced Microsensors for Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Studies
Elena Daboss
  Oral Presentation: Team up for survival like Don Quijote and Sancho Panza: Electroactive microorganisms and Entropy export
Benjamin Korth

11:45

 

Oral Presentation: Electrochemiluminescence in ?planar? micropore for application in single cell cytokine biosensing
Stéphane Tawil
  Oral Presentation: Anodic Extracellular Electron Transfer in Clostridium ljungdahlii
Santiago Treceno Boto

12:00

 

Oral Presentation: Exploiting the Fe-NH2-MIL-101 MOF: Unveiling its attributes for enhanced electrochemical immunosensing applications in chronic wounds
Victor Pérez-Ginés
  Oral Presentation: Light Driven Microbial Fuel Cell for Direct Conversion of Cellulose to Electrical Power
Mor Shemesh

 12:15

 

Oral Presentation: Hydroxyapatite Nanoflowers modified with Ciprofloxacin as Potential Local Drug Delivery System
Krzysztof Stolarczyk
  Oral Presentation: A detailed electrochemical characterization of long-range conduction in cable bacteria
Dmitrii Pankratov

12:30 - 13:30

 

BES General Assembly

12:30

 

LUNCH BREAK

15:00 - 18:00

 

Excursion

Guided visit to the historic buildings of the University of Alcalá and the Centre of the city of Alcalá de Henares.
Meeting point: Entrance door to the Colegio de San Ildefonso building (Rectorate of the University).

20:30

 

Gala Dinner

Parador de Alcalá de Henares
c/ Colegios, 10
Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)

 

Wednesday, 22nd May 2024

 

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AUDITORIUM

Session Chair: Nicolas Plumeré

 

ROOM 1

Session Chair: Alexander Kuhn and Elisabeth Lojou

 

ROOM 2

Session Chair: Stéphane Arboult ande Felipe Conzuelo

09:30

 

Plenary Lecture:

Studying and using Hydrogenases

Christophe Léger

Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines
CNRS/AMU, Marseille (France)

 

     

10:20

 

Project/Sponsor

 

 

 

 

10:25 

 

Invited Oral Presentation: 

Amplifying Protein Electron Transfer via Fusion of Minimal Cytochromes

Lital Alfonta
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)

 

Invited Oral Presentation:

Characterization of Planar and Micro/Nano-structured Bioelectrodes by in situ fluorescence microscopy

Anne de Poulpiquet
Aix-Marseille University (France)

 

Invited Oral Presentation: 

AI facilitated fluoro-electrochemical phytoplankton classification

Haotian Chen
University of Oxford (UK)

10:45

 

Oral Presentation: Multipurpose Conductive-Ink Formulation for Flexible and Wearable Enzyme-based Bioelectronics
Paolo Bollella
  Oral Presentation: Electrochemistry of Immobilized Cytochrome c- Cytochrome c1 Complex
Inmaculada Márquez
  Oral Presentation: Demystifying Complex Electron Transfer Mechanisms: Making Fourier Transform Voltammetry Accessible to All
Natalia Baranska

11:00

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

AUDITORIUM

Session Chair: Haotian Chen

 

ROOM 1

Session Chair: Alexander Kuhn and Elisabeth Lojou

 

ROOM 2

Session Chair: Stéphane Arboult ande Felipe Conzuelo

11:30

 

Keynote Presentation: 

Modelling Enzyme Electrodes - what do we Learn and how is it Useful?

Phil Bartlett
University of Southampton (UK)

  Oral Presentation: Prompting DIET with electrically conductive particles to enhance the anaerobic degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons under sulfate-reducing conditions
Matteo Tucci

 

Oral Presentation: Evaluation of Different Cathode Materials on the Production of Soluble Hydrogen for Improving the Energy Efficiency of Microbial Electrosynthesis Processes
Juan Diego Carvajalino-Olave

11:45

 

  Oral Presentation: Glucose oxidase-copper (II) phosphate hybrid nanoflowers incorporated in electrochemical device for sensitive detection of glucose in sweat samples
Chloe Aymard
  Oral Presentation: BES-BioH2 System: Exploring the Potential of Urban Waste Water for Hydrogen Production Using Microbial Electrochemical Technology
Juan Manuel Ortiz

12:00

 

Oral Presentation: Multipurpose Conductive-Ink CFD simulation to optimize flow dynamics in a single chamber bioelectrochemically improved anaerobic digester
Stefanie Feilner
  Oral Presentation: Understanding enzyme-nanoparticle interactions during electroenzymatic hydrogen formation
Sophie Webb
  Oral Presentation: High-throughput Redox-potential Estimation of New Enzyme Variants using Absorbance Measurement in Droplet-based Microfluidics
Abdi Mirgissa Kaba

12:15

 

Oral Presentation: When the aptamer secondary structure is not enough for optimization: computational assisted rational truncation of aptamers for electrochemical sensing
Noemi De los Santos Álvarez
  Oral Presentation: Addressing the aggregation of reduced graphene oxides for the direct electron transfer of enzymes
Xinxin Xiao
  Oral Presentation: Single-Entity Electrochemistry of Redox Enzymes
Alina Sekretareva

12:30

 

LUNCH BREAK

 

 

AUDITORIUM

Session Chair: Lital Alfonta and Seiya Tsujimura

 

ROOM 1

Session Chair: Cristina Gutiérrez-Sánchez and Marc Parrilla

 

ROOM 2

Session Chair: Petra Hellwing and Julia Alvarez-Malmagro

14:00

 

 

Keynote Presentation:

Application of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers/Peptide Nucleic Acids as a Novel Hybrid Receptor for miRNA 21

Christine Kranz
University of Ulm (Germany)

  Oral Presentation: Investigating the Influence of Temperature on dsDNA-Curcumin Binding through Electrochemical Analysis
Kimia Zarean Mousaabadi
  Oral Presentation: Membrane proteins reconstituted in lyotropic lipid mesophases as biomimetics of cell membranes: electrochemical monitoring of activation and inhibition of K+ channels
Renata Bilewicz

14:15

 

  Oral Presentation: Nanobioconjugates of Bidimensional nanomaterials and tetrahedral DNA nanostructures for virus detection
Tania García-Mendiola
  Oral Presentation: Electrochemical Characterization of Mammalian Respiratory Complexes in Intact Mitochondrial Membranes
Marisela Velez Tirado

14:30

 

Oral Presentation: Design of an electrochemical aptasensor for the quality control of gluten-free food
Cecilia Cristea
  Oral Presentation: Aptamer-Based Electrochemical Screening Platforms for Immunotherapy Monitoring
Melisa del Barrio
  Oral Presentation: Bioelectrochemistry of Cytochrome c at a Polarised Liquid|Liquid Interface
Michéal Scanlon

14:45

 

Oral Presentation: Analyzing the methylome of miRNAs for improved cancer prognosis using electrochemical biotools
Eloy Povedano
  Oral Presentation: Robust grafting of aptamers onto 3D-printed carbon-based electrodes for low-cost aptasensors
Mathilde Manceau
  Oral Presentation: Emerging insights on the electrochemistry of bacterial ATPase at a proteoliposome-modified soft-interface: Proton Pump and Inhibition
Alonso Gamero Quijano

15:00

 

Oral Presentation: Electrochemically ph-controlled synthesis of CdSe nanoparticles in apo-ferritin bionanoreactor
Angelo Tricase
  Oral Presentation: An Electrochemical Paper-Based Device for Quantification of PCR-Amplified Nucleic Acids 
Daciana Botta
  Oral Presentation: Analytical Bioelectrochemistry of Thylakoid Membrane Electron Transport
Joshua Lawrence

15:15

 

Oral Presentation: Engineering G-quadruplex aptamers that modulate their binding constant electrochemically
Madoka Nagata
  Oral Presentation: Harnessing Singlet Oxygen-Based Photoelectrochemistry and LNA Probes for Improved Discrimination of Single Nucleotide
Alejandro Valverde 
   

15:30

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

AUDITORIUM

Session Chair: Jenny Zhang and Anne De Poulpiquet

 

ROOM 1

Session Chair: Antonio de Lacey and Melisa Del Barrio

   

16:00

 

Oral Presentation: Microbes, light, electricity and the circular economy- Arpìta Bose   Oral Presentation: Long-term experimental bioelectrochemical hydrogen production from real wastewaters at industrial scale
Juan Antonio Baeza
   

16:15

 

Oral Presentation: Gold nanoparticles-modified purple bacteria for advanced biophotoanodes
Pierluigi Lasala
  Oral Presentation: Hydrogenase Electrodes for Intermittent H2 Production
Nicolas Plumere
   

16:30

 

Oral Presentation: Biotic-Abiotic Semiartificial Cells for Light-Driven Chiral Molecule Production
Omer Yehezkeli
  Oral Presentation: Insights into hydrogenases for application in photohydrogen synthesis
Lars Lauterbach
   

16:45

 

Oral Presentation: Photoactive proteins in biohybrid systems - perfect molecules or room for improvement?
Fred Lisdat
  Oral Presentation: Designing Artificial Metalloenzymes for Sustainable Energy Conversion: Beyond the Primary Coordination Sphere
Patricia Rodríguez Macía
   

17:00

 

Oral Presentation: Repurposing a Multiheme Cytochrome for Photocatalysis and Azo-Dye Remediation
Julea Butt
  Oral Presentation: Electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical studies of [FeFe] hydrogenases with disrupted active site electronic structure
James Birrell
   

17:15

 

Oral Presentation: Long Distance Interprotein Electron Transport in Redox Proteins and Photosynthetic Complexes
Pau Gorostiza
  Oral Presentation: FTIR spectroelectrochemistry of hydrogenases and nitrogenases
Olaf Rudiger
   

17:30

 

SPONSORS AND EXHIBITIONS

 

  Oral Presentation: Enzymatic N2 Reduction to Ammonia by Direct Electron transfer using Nitrogenase Enzyme from Azotobacter vinelandii immobilized on LDG Electrodes
Gabriel Garcia Molina
   

18:00 - 20:00

 

EVEN POSTER SESSION

 

Thursday, 23rd May 2024

 

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AUDITORIUM

Session Chair: Christine Kranz and Santiago Treceno

  

ROOM 1

Session Chair: Phil Barlett and Encarnación Lorenzo

09:00

 

 

 

Plenary Lecture:

Electrochemical methods for the study of the reaction mechanism of membrane proteins from bacterial respiratory chain

Petra Hellwig
University of Strasbourg (France)

 

 

09:50

 

Project/Sponsor

 

 

 

 

Invited Oral Presentation:

Microbial Electrochemical Sensors: A new platform for online and real time water quality monitoring

Antonio Berná
IMDEA Water Institute (Spain)

 

Invited Oral Presentation:

Designing a redox mediator for a fungal FAD-dependent glucose dehydrogenase-based electrode

Iseija Tsujimura 
University of Tsukuba (Japan)

10:15

 

Oral presentation: Advancing electromethanogenesis by an optimized Biochar-Copper-Hydroxyapatite multicomposite cathode
Pierangela Christiani

 

Oral presentation: Integrated electro-biocatalysis for flavin-dependent ene-reduction in a continuous flow system
Lim Guiyeoul

10:30

 

COFFEE BREAK

11:00

 

Keynote presentation:

An electrochemist's toolbox for rewiring photosynthesis

Jenny Zhang
University of Cambridge (UK)

  Oral presentation: Unveiling - Glucosidase Activity for the development of Enzyme Inhibition biosensor with Electrochemical Transduction
Catalina Farcas

11:15

 

  Oral presentation: Design of an Efficient Enzyme Electrode System Capable of Direct and Mediated Electron Transfer for Low Concentration Sucrose Detection
Mislav Sušac

11:30

 

Oral presentation: Improving the Performance of Biophotoelectrodes Constituted by Whole-Cell Photosynthetic Microalgae
Felipe Conzuelo

  Oral presentation: Electrochemical glucose and lactate sensors for personalized health management 
Reshma Kidayaveettil

11:45

 

Oral presentation: Photo-electroheterotrophic production of Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) in purple phototrophic bacteria
Fernando Muniesa-Merino

  Oral presentation: Intrinsic electrochemically-active solute binding proteins for continuous monitoring systems
Mika Hatada

12:00

 

Oral presentation: Tuning Redox Small Molecule Compounds for One Stop Electron Delivery or Cyclic Mediation of Flux to Photosynthetic Electron Transport Chains of PSII-less cells
Christine Lewis
  Oral presentation: Electrochemical assessment of B-lactamase activity
Szilveszter Gaspar

12:15

 

Oral presentation: Spin-flipping for current generation: purple bacteria reaction centers triplet state as an electron source in biophotovoltaics
Rafal Bialek
 

 

12:30

 

Closing Ceremony

12:50

 

LUNCH

 

Organised by:

The Bioelectrochemical Society Universidad de Alcalá
   
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

CSIC

 

Sponsored by:

 

PalmSens LASING NANOELECTRA

 

 

Metrohm Dropsens

 

 

CGTbA-RSEQ Real Sociedad Española de Química Grupo Especializado de Electroquímica Elsevier Bioeletrochemistry Journal