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Conferences

Here is a list of the conferences that our team of academics and researchers have attended, or contributed to, on the topic of biomaterials discovery, since 2024.

2025

• Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria: New Insights and Future Trends
  28 Oct 2025, Trieste, Italy
  Jean Dubern presented a poster on: "Quorum sensing-mediated rhamnolipid production prevents biofilm formation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa on anti-attachment micro-topographies".

• UK Cystic Fibrosis Conference 2025
  1 Oct 2025, London, UK
  Rian Griffiths attended.

• 45th British Mass Spectrometry Society (BMSS) Annual Meeting
  8 Sep 2025, Edinburgh, UK
  Rian Griffiths delivered a keynote talk on "MS strategies to understand infection: probing endogenous and exogenous metabolites to reveal infection and inflammation markers". Carver Wong delivered a flash presentation and poster on "Characterising the secretome of polarised macrophages in response to bio-instructive materials".

• 34th Annual Conference of the European Sociaty for Biomaterials (ESB 2025)
  7 Sep 2025, Torino, Italy
  Amir Ghaemmaghami delivered a keynote talk on "Immune-instructive materials to mitigate the foreign body response and promote wound healing".

• SIMS Europe 2025
  7 Sep 2025, Giessen, Germany
  Akmal Sabri submitted an abstract on "OrbiSIMS lipidomic profiling of nanovesicle for extracellular matrix biomaterials".

• UK Surface Analysis Forum (UKSAF) Summer 2025 Meeting: Measurement Challenges​ Past and Future​
  15 Jul 2025, Teddington, UK
  Akmal Sabri attended.

• 1st European Chemical Society (EuChemS) Chemical Biology School on Computational Chemical Biology
  8 Jul 2025, Madrid, Spain
  Eduardo Aguilar-Bejarano attended.

• Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society (TERMIS) EU Congress 2025
  20 May 2025, Freiburg, Germany
  Amir Ghaemmaghami delivered an invited talk on "Immune-instructive materials for tissue regeneration and wound healing".

• Biofilms 11
  13 May 2025, Cardiff, UK
  Jean Dubern presented a poster on "Polymer-directed inhibition of reversible to irreversible attachment prevents Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation".

• British Mass Spectrometry Society (BMSS) Imaging and MALDI Special Interest Group Meeting 2025
  6 May 2025, Sheffiled, UK
  Carver Wong attended.

• Correlative and multimodal imaging in the health and life sciences
  27 Mar 2025, Teddington, UK
  Jeni Luckett, Akmal Sabri and Carver Wong attended.

• Medical Technology UK
  12 Mar 2025, Coventry, UK
  Jeni Luckett, Akmal Sabri, Brandon Tuck and Qiran Du attended.

• British Mass Spectrometry Society (BMSS) Ambient Ionisation Special Interest Group meeting 2025
  5 Feb 2025, Nottingham, UK
  Rian Griffiths and Carver Wong attended.
• Materials for Medical Devices (MMD) Workshop 2025
  21 Jan 2025, Nottingham, UK
  Akmal Sabri delivered a contributed talk on "Cryogenic Orbitrap Secondary ion mass spectrometry (cryo-OrbiSIMS) description of the biointerface of an implanted medical device". Jean Dubern delivered a contributed talk on "Polymer-directed inhibition of reversible to irreversible attachment prevents Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation". Jeni Luckett delivered a contributed talk on "Translational antimicrobial approaches of new biomaterials switching from in vitro to in vivo. Does it work?".

2024

• Collaborative Horizons: Shared Discoveries in Regenerative Medicine
  16 Oct 2024, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  Morgan Alexander delivered a keynote talk.

• 24th International Conference on Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS-24)
  8 Sep 2024, La Rochelle, France 
  Morgan Alexander delivered a contributed talk on "OrbiSIMS lipidomics to understand biomaterials performance in vivo". Akmal Sabri submitted an abstract on "Lipidomics on immune-instructive polymers implanted subcutaneously using 3D OrbiSIMS".

• British Mass Spectrometry Society (BMSS): Single Cell Mass Spectrometry Special Interest Group Meeting 2024
  10 Jul 2024, Surrey, UK
  Morgan Alexander delivered a plenary talk on "Single cell OrbiSIMS lipidomics study of biomaterials in vitro and in vivo".
• UK Surface Analysis Forum (UKSAF) Summer Meeting 2024: The Legacy of 50 Years of Surface Analysis
  2 Jul 2024, Surrey, UK
  Morgan Alexander delivered an invited talk.
• Biomaterials Translation Workshop 2024
  2 Jul 2024, Manchester, UK
  Morgan Alexander delivered an invited talk on "Biomaterials discovery and translation of a medical device".
• Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Molecular Engineering, Measurement and Manipulation at the Boundary Between Living Systems and Synthetic Materials
  16 Jun 2024, Lucca, Italy
  Morgan Alexander delivered a keynote talk.
• Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) Self-assembled Soft Materials: Biointerfaces and Biocompartments
  15 Jun 2024, Lucca, Italy
  Morgan Alexander delivered a keynote talk on "Molecular Characterization of Cells and Bio-Interfaces using SIMS: Elucidating the Foreign Body Reaction".
• 7th International Symposium on Interface Biology of Implants
  5 Jun 2024, Rostock, Germany
  Amir Ghaemmaghami delivered an invited talk on "Immune-instructive polymers for tissue regeneration and wound healing".
• 12th World Biomaterials Congress (WBC) 2024
  26 May 2024, Daegu, South Korea
  Amir Ghaemmaghami organised and chaired the session on "Discovery, characterisation and applications of immune-instructive materials".
  
• 101st IUVSTA workshop on high performance SIMS instrumentation and machine learning / artificial intelligence methods for complex data
  19 May 2024, Maresias, Brazil
  Morgan Alexander was a discussion leader.
• 9th Thesinge Biofilm Meeting
  13 May 2024, Thesinge, The Netherlands
  Matt Price delivered an oral presentation.
• Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2024
  8 Apr 2024, Edinburgh, UK
  Paul Williams delivered an invited talk on "Discovering biofilm resistant materials to prevent medical device-associated infections". 
• Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Engineering Immunity for Medicine
  11 Feb 2024, Lucca, Italy
  Amir Ghaemmaghami delivered and invited talk.
• British Mass Spectrometry Society (BMSS) Ambient Ionisation Special Interest Group meeting 2024
  1 Feb 2024, Birmingham, UK
  Rian Griffiths attended.

2023 (Materials for Medical Devices Large Grant start)