Talks & Posters

Prof. Rocha is interested in receiving invitations for presentations or talks.

Talks & Seminars (Prof. Rocha)

• September 2024: Invited talk at the VIII Jornadas Ibéricas de Fotoquímica (8’JIF), Seeing is believing: microscopic techniques to uncover cell-matrix interactions in biomimetic hydrogels, Lisbon (Portugal)
• June 2024: Invited seminar at the Regenerative Medicine Centre, Imaging Cellular Forces: From Micro to the Nano-scale, Utrecht (The Netherlands)
• April 2024: Invited talk at the BioNanoTech Spring School, Unraveling Hydrogel Mechanics: From Cellular to Nano Scale, Leuven (Belgium)
• February 2024: Invited research seminar on the mini-symposium ‘Understanding the biophysical properties of hydrogels and cell-cell interactions’, Seeing is believing: microscopic techniques to uncover cell-matrix interactions in biomimetic hydrogels (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
• January 2024: Invited talk at NWO Physics, Unravelling hydrogel mechanics: from cell to the nano scale, Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
• June 2023: Inviter seminar at Antwerpen University, Imaging the forces driving cellular behaviour: from material characterisation to 3D cell models, Antwerpen (Belgium)
• August 2022: Invited talk at 8th EuChemS Chemistry Congress, Imaging the forces driving cellular behaviour: from material characterisation to 3D cell models, Lisbon (Portugal)
• August 2022: Selected oral presentation at 17th conference Methods and Applications in Fluorescence (MAF), Synthetic fibrous hydrogels as a platform to decipher cell-matrix mechanoreciprocity, Gotenburg (Sweden)
• January 2020: Invited talk at IV International Caparica Symposium on Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials and Applications 2020, Drug delivery using nanocarriers in 3D cell models, Lisbon (Portugal)
• July 2019: Invited talk at the symposium ‘Molecular biophysics goes chemistry’, Microscopy toolbox for structural and mechanical characterisation of new biomimetic materials, Leuven (Belgium) - get PDF
• June 2019: Invited seminar at the Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Materials in medicine: from tissue engineering to drug delivery, Lisbon (Portugal) - get PDF
• April 2019: Invited seminar at Instituto Salud D. Carlos III, Fluorescence microscopy and cancer research: from drug delivery to 3D tumour models, Madrid (Spain)
• September 2018: Invited talk at the workshop ‘Imaging interactions with fluorescence: from the Nano-to-Macro scale’, Single-molecule Fluorescence Microscopy: a powerful tool to study protein-protein interactions, Hasselt (Belgium)
• March 2017: Invited seminar at Institute of Molecular Materials, Single-molecule Fluorescence Microscopy: a powerful tool to study molecular dynamics and organization, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

Talks & Seminars (group members)

• September 2024: Methods and Applications in Fluorescence (MAF), Valencia (Spain)
  Guillermo Solís, Rapid stem cell spreading induced by high affinity α5β1 integrin-selective bicyclic RGD peptide in biomimetic hydrogels
  Samantha Zaman, Lanthanide-based upconverting nanoparticles conjugated to BODIPY for deeper penetrating photodynamic therapy
  
• July 2024: PhotoIUPAC, Valencia (Spain)
  Boris Louis, Optical binding of nanoparticles outside the photon beam: The creation of primeval optical matter
  
• April 2024: IMEC partner week , Leuven (Belgium)
  Boris Louis, Microscopy toolbox for mapping force field in three dimension
  
• November 2023: 7th Australia-Belgium-Japan Joint Symposium on Excitonics and Cellular Communication, Leuven (Belgium)
  Maria Bravo, Improving Clinical Translatability of Nano-based Cancer Therapies
  
• September 2023 Graduate Research Conference, Melbourne (Australia)
  Improving Clinical Translatability of Nano-based Cancer Therapies – Winner best long talk
  
• September 2023 Physical Chemistry Seminar, Melbourne (Australia)
  Maria Bravo, Improving Clinical Translatability of Nano-based Cancer Therapies
  
• September 2023: Exciton Science Spring Seminar, Melbourne (Australia)
  Maria Bravo, Advanced Cell Models and Multifunctional Nanomaterials for Cancer Ablation in Cancer Therapies
  
• July 2023: 31st Internation conference on Photochemistry (ICP 2023), Sapporo (Japan)
  Boris Louis, Correlation clustering for functional imaging of photovoltaic material
  
• June 2023: Exciton Science Winter Seminar, Melbourne (Australia)
  Maria Bravo, Advanced Cell Models and Multifunctional Nanomaterials for Cancer Ablation in Cancer Therapies
  
• February 2023: University of Melbourne/University of Hokkaido Workshop on Nanoparticle Therapeutics, Hokkaido (Japan)
  Maria Bravo, Advanced cell models and multifunctional nanomaterials for light-mediated cancer therapies
  
• October 2022: KU Leuven-Melbourne RTG Graduate Researcher Mini-Conference, Melbourne (Australia)
  Maria Bravo & Samantha Zaman, Multifunctional nanomaterials and advanced cell models for light-mediated cancer therapies – Winner best pair presentation
  
• February 2020: Winter school SOLA (Organic photovoltaic), Karlstad (Sweden),
  Boris Louis, What can we learn from single molecule spectroscopy in conjugated polymers?
  

Posters

• September 2024: Methods and Applications in Fluorescence (MAF), Valencia (Spain)
  Steven Huysecom, Shedding light on polymer dynamics: a multiscale approach – Best poster prize
  Maria Bravo, Improving Clinical Translatability of Nano-based Cancer Therapies
  Sarah Vorsselmans, The Force Within: Uncovering the role of mechanics in vascular disease with FRET-based molecular tension sensors
  Sandra Krzyzowska
  
• April 2024: Symposium on 3D Organ Modelling in Health and Disease, Leuven (Belgium)
  Sarah Vorsselmans, The Force Within: Uncovering the role of mechanics in CCM disease
  
• November 2023: 7th Australia-Belgium-Japan joint symposium on excitronics and cellular communication, Leuven (Belgium)
  Sarah Vorsselmans, Don’t underestimate the Force: The power of FRET-based molecular tension sensors to unravel mechanotransduction pathways in vascular diseases
  
• September 2023: Feel the Force Summer School, Leuven (Belgium)
  Sarah Vorsselmans, Don’t underestimate the Force: The power of FRET-based molecular tension sensors to unravel mechanotransduction pathways in vascular diseases – Best poster prize
  
• February 2023: International Conference on Vascular Anomalies (VAC), Brussels (Belgium)
  Sarah Vorsselmans, Don’t underestimate the Force: The power of FRET-based molecular tension sensors to unravel mechanotransduction pathways in vascular diseases
  
• September 2022: Methods and Applications in Fluorescence (MAF), Gothenburg (Sweden)
  Charlotte Cresens, Super-resolution investigation of flat clathrin lattices in relation to cancer metastasis – Best poster prize
  Boris Luis, Correlation clustering - A Tool to analyse blinking in semiconductor films – Best poster Prize
  Johannes Vandaele, Structural and Mechanical Characterization of new biomimetic materials using fluorescence microscopy
  
• August 2022: Hole burning and single molecule spectroscopy related methods (HBSM), Bayreuth (Germany)
  Boris Louis, Correlation clustering for functional imaging of photovoltaic material
  
• June 2021: NanoLund annual meeting, Lund (Sweden)
  Boris Louis, Correlation clustering for functional imaging of photovoltaic material
  
• November 2019 : Symposium on Plasmonics and Nano-photonics (ISPN) Kobe (Japan)
  Boris Louis, Fast tracking of single emitters in large volumes with nanometer precision
  
• July 2019: Core to Core program, kickoff meeting, Leuven (Belgium)
  Quinten Coucke, Characterization of cellular forces using FRET-based sensors (get PDF)
  Johannes Vandale, Studying nanoscale heterogeneities and dynamics of novel biomimetic polymer gels using advanced microscopy (get PDF)
  
• June 2019: NanoMed Europe, Braga (Portugal)
  Indra Van Zundert, Advanced model systems in nanotechnology unravel the impact of mechanical cues (get PDF)
  
• October 2018: Dutch Biophysics Society meeting, Veldhoven (Netherlands)
  Boris Louis, 3D particle tracking for microscale characterization of polymer networks (get PDF)