Program
XXIX Gliwice Scientific Mettings
20-21 November 2025
[Conference materials]
Scientific program
Thursday, November 20, 2025
9:00 – 9:15 Opening of the Conference
Welcome addresses
Remembering Prof. Mieczysław Chorąży (1925-2021)
9:15 – 10:00 Prof. Mieczysław Chorąży Memory Lecture 2025:
Marc Baumann (University of Helsinki, Helsinki): All you need to know about Alzheimer’s disease.
10:00 – 13:30 Session I: „Brains and Genomes”
Claude R. Cloninger (Washington University, St. Louis): How and why has human personality evolved?
Giordano Lippi (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla): MicroRNA mechanisms of neuronal diversification.
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
Joanna Rzeszowska (Silesian University of Technologies, Gliwice): New amplifications and deletions in human genomes.
Gunter Meister (University of Regensburg, Regensburg): Contribution of non-coding RNAs to social fear adaptation in mice.
Aleksandra Pękowska (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warszawa): Evolution of astrocytes in primates: from genes to phenotypes.
Andrew Yoo (Washington University, St. Louis): MicroRNAs as potent cell-fate effectors and modeling late-onset neurodegeneration via direct somatic reprogramming.
Łukasz Chrobok (Jagiellonian University, Krakow): Deciphering circadian rhythms in gene expression in the brainstem satiety centre - implications for obesity management.
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:30 Poster Session (Part I – odd numbers and Part II – even numbers) and Coffee
16:30 – 18:00 Session II: „Brains and Artificial Intelligence”:
Krzysztof Fujarewicz (Silesian University of Technologies, Gliwice): Biological inspirations in machine learning.
Igor Zwir (Washington University, St. Louis): Brain AI for digital mental health: multi-layer machine learning across omics, imaging, and neuromodulation.
Jacek Rumiński (Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk): Deep learning in brain imaging studies.
Andrzej Polański (Silesian University of Technologies, Gliwice): Modeling slow degradation processes with the use of Fisher–Kolmogorov wave.
19:00 - Social Event
Friday, November 21, 2025
8:30 – 11:00 Session III: "Extracellular Vesicles in neuronal communication":
Eva-Maria Krämer-Albers (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz): Extracellular vesicles in neuron-glia communication and CNS homeostasis.
Rossella Di Giaimo (University of Naples Federico II, Naples): Extracellular vesicle-mediated trafficking of molecular cues during human brain development and alteration.
Katalin Lumniczky (National Centre for Public Health and Pharmacy, Budapest): The role of microenvironment in radiation-induced brain tumorigenesis – the DISCOVER project.
Eulalia Marti Puig (University of Barcelona, Barcelona): Plasma Extracellular Vesicle-associated small RNAs as Early Biomarkers in Huntington’s Disease.
Urszula Wojda (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warszawa): Prospects of exosomal miRNAs and artificial intelligence in the diagnostics and prognostics of neurodegenerative diseases.
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:20 Session IV: "Education and Implementation of Research"
Barbara Kraj (Old Dominion University, Norfolk): Introducing molecular diagnostics into the clinical laboratory education.
Olena Danylyuk (Henry Ford Innovation Institute, Detroit): Transforming Ideas into Impact: IP, Commercialization, and Partnerships in Academic Medical Centers.
Anna Habryka-Pawlowska (Preclinical Services, Revvity, Cambridge): From Screening to Success: Supporting Early Discovery Programmes from Inception to Clinic.
Piotr Trzonkowski (Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk): T regulatory cells in the treatment of autoimmune diseases – from bench to bedside.
Iwona Ługowska (MSCI National Research Institute of Oncology, Warszawa): Polish Cancer Mission Hub – the pentahelix model of stakeholder cooperation.
13:20 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:45 Session V: "New Trends in Medical Biotechnologies"
Kevin Dean (UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas): Decoding Biology with Autonomous Multiscale Imaging.
Seweryn Gałecki (UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; Silesian University of Technologies, Gliwice): Highly multiplexed imaging of subcellular architectures with nanoscale precision.
Petr Humpolíček (Tomas Bata University, Zlin): Novel methods of preparation of conductive composites based on polypyrrole.
Jan Vícha (Tomas Bata University, Zlin): Anticancer drug carriers: a relic of the past or the future of cancer therapy?
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee Break
Marcin Kamiński (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis): How mitochondrial metabolism controls T cell activation, i.e., ‘How to fix an old engine using metabolic tracing analysis’?
Domenico Vittorio Delfino (University of Perugia, Perugia): When nature meets precision medicine: natural compounds against NPM1-mutant AML.
Jan Hansmann (University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Schweinfurt): How engineering technology supports life science.
17:45 – 18:15 Poster Awards and Closing of the Conference