Wednesday 6th June

11.20 – 12.30   Session 2: Cell Death and Toxicity 1


2.1 (11.20 – 11:50) Invited Talk - Prof Wen Jiang

Title TBA

School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK


2.2 (11:50 – 12.10) "Real-Time monitoring of Equid alphaherpesviruses infectivity in equine dermal cell based on impedance measurements: effects of aciclovir and ganciclovir treatments"

C. Thieulent1,2, E. Hue1,2, C. Fortier1,2, P. Suzanne3 , S. Zientara4 , H. Munier-Lehmann5 , A. Hans6 , P-H. Pitel1 , P.-O Vidalain7 and S. Pronost1,2

1LABÉO, 1 route de Rosel, 14280 Saint-Contest, France; 2Normandie Univ, Unicaen, BIOTARGEN, 3 rue Nelson Mandela, 14280 Saint-Contest, France; 3Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Médicament de Normandie, 14000 Caen, France; 4Anses, Université Paris-Est, Laboratoire de Santé Animale, UMR 1161 Virologie, 94700 Maisons Alfort, France; 5Institut Pasteur, Unité de Chimie et Biocatalyse, 75015 Paris, France; 6Anses, Laboratoire de pathologie équine de Dozulé, Unité de virologie, 14430 Dozulé, France; 7CNRS UMR 8601, Université Paris Descartes, 75006 Paris, France


2.3 (12.10 – 12.30) "Discrimination between Normal and Cancerous Cells using ECIS and Artificial Intelligence Techniques"

F.E. Giana, F.J. Bonetto and M.I. Bellotti

Instituto Balseiro, UNC/CNEA, San Carlos de Bariloche (Argentina)


12.30 - 14.00   Lunch


14.00 – 15.00 – Session 2: Cell Death and Toxicity 2

2.4 (14.00 – 14.20) "Selection of probiotics and prebiotics against Clostridium difficile using an in vitro intestinal model based on impedance real time monitoring"

Lorena Valdés-Varela, Miguel Gueimonde and Patricia Ruas-Madiedo

Instituto de Productos Lácteos de Asturias-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IPLA-CSIC: Dairy Research Institute-Spanish National Research Council), Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain


2.5 (14.20 – 14.40) "Cells in Contact to Carbon Dots: A label-free, impedance-based and multidimensional approach"

P. Pütz1, M. Lemberger1 and J. Wegener1,2

1Universität Regensburg, Regensburg (Germany); 2Fraunhofer EMFT, Division Cell-Based Sensors, Regensburg (Germany)


2.6 (14.40 – 15.00) "Nanoparticle toxicity: cytotoxic and sub-cytotoxic measurements using xCELLigence real time cell analysis"

S. Boitano1,2, M. McCorkel3, C.L. Sherwood1, N.G. Borrero1,2, Chao Zeng4, Chi Huynh Nguyen4, J.A. Field4, F. Shadman4 and R. Sierra-Alvarez4

1Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center; 2Department of Physiology; 3Department of Biomedical Engineering; 4Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona (USA).


15.00 - 15.30   Coffee


15.30 – 16.30 – Session 2: Cell Death and Toxicity 3

2.7 (15.30 – 15.50) "Monitoring the Toxicity of Bisphenol A using Multiple Impedance-Based Cellular Assays"

M. Zinkl1; L. Sauer1, S. Azzam1 and J. Wegener1,2

1Universität Regensburg, Regensburg (Germany); 2Fraunhofer EMFT, Division Cell-Based Sensors, Regensburg (Germany)


2.8 (15.50 – 16.10) "Cell Monitoring using impedance and impedance spectra for high content toxicity and cell proliferation screening"

Krisztina Juhasz1,2, Elena Dragicevic1, Oliver Reinhardt3, Michael Skiba4, Leo Doer1, Matthias Beckler1, Sonja Stölzle-Feix1, Frauke Alves3,5, Niels Fertig1

1Nanion Technologies, Munich, Germany; 2Institute for Nanoelectronics, Technische Universität München, Germany; 3Translational Molecular Imaging Group, MPI of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany; 4Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Chemo- and Biosensors, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany; 5Clinic of Hematology and Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Göttingen, 37075 Göttingen, Germany.


2.9 (16.10 – 16.30) "Impedance Analysis of Waterborne Parasite Infectivity

V. Senez; A. Vlandas and J. Follet

IEMN, University of Lille, Lille (France)