Final Programme

 The workshop will consist of 30+10-minute key lectures (blue), 15+5-minute oral presentations, one poster session,
 final panel discussion, and informal discussions throughout.

 
March 15, 2011 (Tuesday)
 

09:00

Bus departure from Bratislava

12:00

Registration

13:00

Lunch

15:00

Workshop opening

BIO-DECONTAMINATION AND MEDICAL APPLICATIONS (chair: Yu. Akishev)

15:20

Klaus-Dieter WELTMANN: Prospects, problems and chances of the use of plasmas in life-sciences

16:00

Ramasamy POTHIRAJA: Sterilization using pulsed corona microplasma jet

16:20

Deanna LACOSTE: Biocidal effects of nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges

16:40 Thomas von WOEDTKE: Plasma-liquid-interactions: chemistry and antimicrobial effects

17:00

Coffee break

FOOD SECURITY AND DECONTAMINATION (chair: J. Kolb)

17:20

Gilbert SHAMA: The prospects for atmospheric gas plasmas in the food industry

18:00

Patrick PEDROW: Atmospheric pressure cold plasma processing of bio-active packaging applied directly to fresh fruits and vegetables

18:20

Kevin KEENER: Decontamination of Bacillus subtilis spores in a sealed package using a non-thermal plasma system

18:40

Zdenko MACHALA: Plasma agents in water and surface decontamination

19:20

Dinner

20:00

Welcome reception

 March 16, 2011 (Wednesday)
 

PLASMA INTERACTION WITH CELLS AND DNA (chair: G. Shama)

08:20

Akira MIZUNO: Damages of biological components in bacteria and bacteriophages exposed to atmospheric non-thermal plasma

09:00

Deborah O'CONNELL: Plasma interactions with plasmid DNA

09:20

Joao Santos SOUSA: DNA oxidation by reactive oxygen species produced by atmospheric pressure microplasmas

09:40

Emmanuel ODIC: Investigations of bacterial inactivation and DNA fragmentation induced by flowing post-discharges

10:00 Coffee break

WOUND HEALING AND MEDICAL APPLICATIONS (chair: K.D. Weltmann)

10:20

Alexander FRIDMAN: Plasma medicine

11:00

Ionut TOPALA: Helium atmospheric pressure plasma jet: diagnostics and application for burned wounds healing

11:20

Yves CREYGHTON: SDBD plasma jet for skin and wound disinfection

11:40

Claudia BENDER: Synergistic effects of tissue tolerable plasma and polihexanide to promote healing in chronic wounds - in vivo and in vitro results

12:00

Georg ISBARY: Cold atmospheric plasma for clinical purposes - promising results in patients and future applications

12:40

Lunch

WOUND HEALING AND MEDICAL APPLICATIONS (chair: E. Robert)

14:00

Juergen LADEMANN: Antisepsis of the skin by treatment with tissue-tolerable plasma (TTP): Risk assessment and perspectives

14:40

Spencer KUO: Non-equilibrium air plasma for wound bleeding control

15:00

Svetlana ERMOLAEVA: Plasma effects on chronic infection models

15:20

Danil DOBRYNIN: Experimental study and mechanisms of plasma assisted wound healing

15:40

Petr LUKES: Generator of focused shock waves in water for biomedical applications

16:00

Coffee break

ELECTRIC FIELDS AND PLASMA SOURCES (chair: V. Tsiolko)

16:20

Juergen KOLB: Biological effects of ultrashort pulsed electric fields

17:00

Ronny BRANDENBURG: Characterization of an intermittent negative dc-corona discharge in argon designed for medical applications

17:20

Oleg PETROV: Low temperature atmospheric argon plasma: Diagnostics and medical applications

17:40

Gamal EL-ARAGI: Experimental study and sterilizing application of non-thermal plasma technology

18:00

Valeriy CHERNYAK: Organic compound destruction in dynamic plasma-liquid systems

19:00

Dinner

20:00

POSTER SESSION

 March 17, 2011 (Thursday)
 

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS (chair: J. Lademann)

08:20

Victor VASILETS: Nitric oxide plasma sources for bio-decontamination and plasma therapy

09:00

Eric ROBERT: First achievements and opportunities for cancer treatment approach using non thermal plasma

09:40

Coffee break

BIOFILMS (chair: A. Mizuno)

10:00

Graciela BRELLES-MARINO: Bacterial biofilm inactivation by gas discharge plasma: Overview and future perspectives

10:20

Chunqi JIANG: A sub-microsecond pulsed plasma jet for endodontic biofilm disinfection

10:40

Evgeny KOBZEV: Inactivation of microorganisms in model biofilms by atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma

11:00

Qingsong YU: Non-thermal plasma treatment of dentin surface for bacterial disinfection and improved composite restoration

11:40

Lunch

12:20

Skiing/Excursions

19:00

Banquet

 March 18, 2011 (Friday)
 

UV IRRADIATION AND EXCILAMPS (chair: V. Vasilets)

08:40

Victor TARASENKO: Excilamps and atmospheric pressure plasma and their applications in biology and medicine

09:20

Vyacheslav TSIOLKO: Features of the sterilization by UV irradiation of low-pressure discharge plasma

10:00

Mykola GUIVAN: Xenon iodide exciplex lamp as an efficient source for the UV surface cleaning and water decontamination

10:20

Jan-Wilm LACKMANN: Characterization of bacterial and bio-macromolecule damage by (V)UV and particle channels of X-microscale atmospheric pressure plasma jet

10:40

Coffee break

PANEL DISCUSSION (chair: A. Fridman)

11:00

PANEL DISCUSSION

11:40

Closing remarks

12:00

Lunch

13:00

Bus departure for Bratislava