Recording is now available on the Aquaphotomics YouTube Channel!
Thank you so much for joining us at the webinar! I hope you all enjoy Prof. Hayashi’s talk.
As promised, here is the link to the webinar recording:
The subtitles language can be changed to Japanese or other languages.
Enable “Subtitles/closed captions”, then go to Settings->Subtitles->Auto-translate->select a language.
字幕の言語を日本語や他の言語に変更することができます。
字幕をオンにして、「設定」→「字幕」→「自動翻訳」→「日本語」
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We will have another webinar coming up in April. See you soon!
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce a new aquaphotomics webinar, first one this year, marking the beginning of a spring season, and hopefully a successful year for all of us.
This time, we have a pleasure to host the lecture of Prof. Tomohiro Hayashi, from Tokyo Institute of Technology, who will be talking about the role of water in the mechanism underlying bio inertness of materials.
Prof. Hayashi is a regular attendant of the Aquaphotomics Conferences, and his lectures are always advanced and very inspiring.
Please find short abstract of his lecture below. The webinar will be held using Zoom platform, 1h for the lecture and 30 min for discussion; free for all who wish to participate. All you need to do is to sign up for attendance using the “Sign up” form provided below.
The webinar will be held in English, and it will be recorded and made available on the Aquaphotomics YouTube channel shortly afterwards, with Japanese subtitle.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the Aquaphotomics Spring Webinar!
Speaker: Associated Professor Tomohiro Hayashi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Title: Mechanism underlying anti-biofouling: behavior of molecules at bio interfaces
Abstract: Although surfaces rejecting adsorption of biomolecules and adhesion of cells and microorganisms (anti-fouling surfaces) are highly demanded, designs of these surfaces still involve difficulties because of the lack of understanding of the underlying mechanism. We first discuss the mechanism underlying the bio inertness of oligo (ethylene glycol)-, zwitterionic-, DNA, and peptide-terminated self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) by investigating the interfacial behavior of water molecules by surface force and surface-sensitive vibrational spectroscopic techniques. Our surface force measurements evaluating the interaction between SAMs in a physiological condition revealed that all investigated bioinert SAMs exhibited water-induced repulsion. In contrast, bio adhering SAMs do not show repulsion. Surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy unveiled the characteristic hydrogen bonding state of water molecules near the nonfouling monolayers. These results exhibit that interfacial water plays the role of a physical barrier to prevent bioadhesion.
Time & Date: 2022/03/15 (Tuesday) Starts at: Japan Time (JST) 5:00 PM / Central European Time (CET) 9:00 AM
Ends at: Japan Time (JST) 6:30 PM / Central European Time (CET) 10:30 AM
Recording of Christmas Webinars are now available on the Aquaphotomics YouTube Channel!
Thank you for joining us at the webinars!
We are in process of planning more upcoming webinars. We will be sure to update everyone when we are ready to go. Thank you for your continued support in Aquaphotomics!
Webinar #1
Webinar #2
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
To mark the end of this year, which was in many ways extraordinary for the development of aquaphotomics, we will be organizing an Aquaphotomics Christmas Special. The event will feature two live webinars, to reflect on the achievements of the past 2021, the Conference, publications, our first book and all our impressions about where aquaphotomics currently is, how far we have progressed and, of course, a little bit about our plans and wishes for the next year.
Aquaphotomics Christmas Special will feature 2 webinars, 2 hours each, on 15th and 22nd of December, and will consist of an introduction, lecture and discussion afterwards.
The lectures will be presented by Dr Alexander Mallet and Dr Pierre Madl, and will be a continuation of the talks presented at the Conference which at that time sparked very lively discussions. We hope that webinars will provide an opportunity to reignite the discussion spark and more time to address many questions that the topics generated.
Please find the date and time of the webinars in the schedule. The webinars will be held using Zoom platform; free for all who wish to participate and with live transcription to Japanese. All you need to do is sign up for attendance using the form below.
Finally, a Christmas will not be Christmas without presents. And as our Christmas present, we decided to make all the lectures from The 4th International Aquaphotomics Conference free for public. You can refresh your memories of how it all went in March, by watching a short digest video and find all the lectures and workshop on our Aquaphotomics YouTube channel.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the Aquaphotomics Christmas Special!
We are very pleased to announce that the video archive for “the 4th Aquaphotomics International Conference” is now available for free on the conference website.
We are happy to say that our Conference is still the talk of the town!
You can read about it in the latest article “The 4th Aquaphotomics International Conference – Report ” published in Volume 32, Issue 3-4 of NIR news. We are always glad to be a part of the NIR news.
Dear Conference Attendees, Friends, and Colleagues,
I would like to express my deepest gratitude for your invaluable contribution to the 4th Aquaphotomics International Conference held in March 2021 at Kobe University, Japan.
The conference was held both online and onsite on the first day, and was online only on the second and third day from the perspective of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
The conference was well attended with 248 participants from 23 countries (including 70 participants who attended the open lecture only) that greatly exceeded the 114 participants in the 2018 Symposium.
Thank you very much again for making this conference a great success! We will continue to pursue our research activities at the Aquaphotomics International Society.
Yours sincerely,
Roumiana Tsenkova Chairperson, Aquaphotomics International Society
Due to the uncertainty caused by the current COVID-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions around the world, the organizing committee has decided to postpone the 4th Aquaphotomics International Conference to March 20-23, 2021.
Date: November 15 – 19, 2020 March 20 – 23, 2021
Venue: Centennial Hall, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan
Organizers:
Aquaphotomics International Society
Biomeasurement Technology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kobe University
Core Members:
Honorable Chair: Mutsuo IWAMOTO
Chair: Roumiana TSENKOVA (Kobe University)
Vice Chair: Masato YASUI (Keio University)
Vice Chair: Christian HUCK (University of Innsbruck)
International Advisor: Yukihiro OZAKI (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Please visit the conference’s official website for more information.
The 19th International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy (ICNIRS) took place in Gold Cost, Australia from 15th to 20th September, 2019.
The Aquaphotomics session was held on 18th of September, and was chaired by Dr Jill Fernandes from Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland. The session included five speakers who presented their findings on various aquaphotomics-related aspects:
1) Jelena Muncan, Kobe University, Japan: Plant aquaphotomics: New frontiers
2) Roumiana Tsenkova: Aquaphotomics: From basics to applications and new technologies
3) Harpreet Kaur, University of Waikato, New Zealand: Temperature independent quality prediction of kiwifruit juice using aquaphotomics and external parameter orthogonalization
4) Xuenguang Shao, Nankai University, China: Understanding the complexity of water structures from near-infrared spectra by chemometrics and simulations
5) Akifumi Ikehata: Opening the black box of NIR prediction for sugar content of fruits with the aid of NMR-based metabolomics
The first aquaphotomics session held at ICNIRS conference was well-attended and sparked a lot of interesting questions.
Aquaphotomics session speakers (from left to right): Akifumi Ikehata, Xuegang Shao, Roumiana Tsenkova, Jelena Muncan and Harpreet Kaur
This year’s Conference, apart from hosting an entire session devoted to aquaphotomics, also has seen a lot of poster presentations from all around the world:
Cristina Malegori, University of Genova, Italy: Aquaphotomics approach for understanding the role of water activity during storage: The rice germ case study
Tiziana M.P. Cattaneo, CREA, Italy: Aquaphotomics approach to monitor fruit ripening
Tiziana M.P. Cattaneo, CREA, Italy: Aquaphotomics approach applied to study the effect of the use of Borax and NaCl on caviar (Acipenser Transmotanus) storage
Jelena Muncan, Kobe University, Japan: Deep understanding of the interaction between water and Nafion® polymer by means of NIR spectroscopy and aquaphotomics
Carrie K. Vance, Mississippi State University, USA: NIR-Aquaphotomics analysis of Zearalenone Estrogenicity in cycling mares
Carrie K. Vance, Mississippi State University, USA: Reproductive hormone profiles of estrogen and progesterone in cycling mares can be detected using NIR-aquaphotomics
Felix Scholkmann, University of Zurich, Spectrally-determined sample temperature: An important parameter for applications of near-infrared spectroscopy based aquaphotomics
Xueguang Shao, Nankai University, China: Extracting structural information from temperature-dependent near infrared spectra
Yan Sun, Nankai University, China: Understanding the hydrogen bonding of alcohols by temperature-dependent near infrared spectroscopy
Mian Wang, Nankai University, China, Understanding the interactions in protein aqueous solutions by temperature-dependent near infrared spectroscopy
Hengchang Zang, Shandong University, China, Near infrared spectroscopic study of molecular interaction in ethanol-water mixtures
Mariana Santos-Rivera, Mississippi State University, USA: Gender discrimination using Near Infrared Reflectance (NIR) Spectroscopy
The Conference’s best poster award was in fact presented to Mariana Santos-Rivera from the Mississippi State University for the work on gender discrimination using NIRS in-vivo to detect the chemical changes produced by the chemosignaling glands/regions in salamanders with mucus layers and aqueous skin. Congratulations to Mariana!!!
The winner of the ICNIRS best poster award: Prof. Dr Daniel Cozzolino congratulates the winner, Ms Mariana Santos-Rivera (left); Mariana with prof. Tsenkova and her mentor prof. Dr Carrie Vance from the Mississippi State University (right)
Compared to the past participations, the Australian ICNIRS conference showed that in the meantime aquaphotomics has made large progress. The content of the oral and poster presentations beautifully illustrated the diversity and all the potential of aquaphotomics applications.
We are looking forward to see more developments in future (see you in China in 2021!)
Honorable Chair: Roumiana TSENKOVA (Kobe University, Japan)
Albert KRASTANOV (University of Food Technologies, Bulgaria)
Aleksandar SLAVCHEV (University of Food Technologies, Bulgaria)
Christian HUCK (Leopold-Franzens University, Austria)
Cristina MALEGORI (University of Genova)
Dusan KOJIC (Keio University, Japan)
Everine Van DE KRAATS (Water Research Lab, Germany)
Federico MARINI (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy)
George BÁZÁR (Kaposvár University, Hungary)
Jelena MUNCAN (Belgrade University, Serbia)
Tiziana CATTANEO (CRA-IT, Italy)
Zoltan KOVACS (Szent István University, Hungary)
Organizing Committee
Chair: Zoltan KOVACS (Szent István University, Hungary)
Bernhard POLNER (Innsbruck University, Austria)
Everine Van DE KRAATS (Water Research Lab, Germany)
Cristina MALEGORI (University of Genova)
George BÁZÁR (Kaposvár University, Hungary)
On behalf of the Organizers, we cordially invite you to the 2nd European Aquaphotomics Conference scheduled to take place on the 2nd – 3rd December, 2019 in Budapest, Hungary.
The 2nd European Aquaphotomics Conference is organized in cooperation with the Faculty of Food Science, Szent Istvan University and the International Aquaphotomics Society.
Aquaphotomics is an interdisciplinary scientific field that has increasingly become relevant in Europe, especially with the dynamic changing era of science and its value to life. The goal of this conference is to build upon evolving ideas from the First Aquaphotomics meeting in Lugano, Switzerland by bringing together scientists, scholars, students and industrial key players to brainstorm on challenges of mutual interest. This conference provides opportunities for delegates and participants from all over the World to exchange new ideas and experiences, to establish business or research relations and to find new partners for future collaboration.
The program will cover major fields of science, particularly spectroscopy and water functionality. The official language will be English and will commence with a semi-irregular but exciting session of direct conversations and interactions among participants. This is to help familiarize with each other’s expertise and get amicable even before the workshop starts so that ideas can be freely shared with more confidence to make greater impacts. Presentations will include invited plenary and keynote lectures, scientific presentations, flash presentations and poster sessions.
We are looking to forward to welcoming you to our amiable city for the 2nd European Aquaphotomics Conference, and we hope that you will find it a stimulating scientific event and an impactful personal experience.
11:00-11:30 Antonella De Ninno (invited speaker) – On the quantum nature of the two fluids in liquid water
11:30-11:45 Paolo Renati – Temperature dependence analysis of the NIR spectra of liquid water confirms the existence of two phases, one of which is in a coherent state
11:45-12:00 Nikolaj Sorgenfrei Blom – DireWaves: Disarming resistant microbes with weak ELF magnetic fields
12:00-12:15 Everine van de Kraats – Water functionality and lessons learnt from NIR spectroscopy
12:15-12:30 Zoltan Gillay – Evaluation of modified handheld spectrometer to transmission mode using NaCl and saccharose
The payments can be done in cash/by card/ or transferring the money to the hotel account* and it has to be done by 15th November, 16:00 (local, Hungary time). Please do not proceed with the payment until your reservation is confirmed by the hotel!
Bank details
Name of the bank: Magnet Magyar Közösségi Bank Zrt.
Address of the bank: 1062, Budapest Andrássy út 98.
Firm code: 01-10-04611
Bank account for EUR payment: HU 12 1620 0106 11633271 00000000 IBAN
SWIFT: HBWE HUHB
Free cancellations can be done until 15th November, 16:00 (local, Hungary time), after this the 100% of the price has to be paid.
Location: The conference venue can be reached in about ten minutes with Tram 51.
Hotel Rila ** – hostel style
Offers of the hotel
Single room (one bed) – 9000 HUF (27 EUR)/room/ night including breakfast
Double room – 12000 HUF (36 EUR)/room/night including breakfast
The prices include taxes and access to Wi-fi.
Reservation instructions
You can make your reservations via website of the hotel. If you choose this hotel, please in the notes write the SZIECONF code. If you would like to stay with someone else, then when you apply please write also in the notes.
Payment and cancellation policy
Payment can be done at the hotel at arrival in cash/by card.
You can cancel and modify your booking by 23rd November, 16:00 (local, Hungary time).
Website: (where you can make your reservation) http://www.hotelrila.com/
Location: The conference venue can be reached in about five minutes on foot.
Tour
Tour fee covers lunch and dinner and visits to some Budapest tourist sites.
From the 21st
to 23rd of July, 2019, the “First Chinese Conference on
Aquaphotomics” was held in Jinan, China. This event was organized by Professor
Hengchang Zang (Shandong University) and Professor Xueguang Shao (Nankai
University). The event was hosted by China Council of Near Infrared
Spectroscopy (CCNIRS), jointly organized by School of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Shandong University, and sponsored by Bloomage Biotechnology Corporation
Limited.
The Conference
brought together water researchers, students and users of the technology from a
wide variety of backgrounds, applications and industries to present, see and
discuss current developments in aquaphotomics. There were more than 110
participants from a wide range of research fields, including pharmacy, food and
chemical analysis, photobiology,
petrochemistry,
equipment and software suppliers.
The theme of
this conference was “Application of Spectroscopy in Aquaphotomics”. During the
conference, researchers communicated and discussed various topics, such as the
origin of aquaphotomics, methods of aquaphotomics, various applications in
medicine and different industrial branches, specifics of instruments and probes
for water research and so on. Experts discussed in depth and called for more
researchers to join the study of water which may seem to be a simple substance,
but it is a huge world to explore.
The conference
invited Professor Dr Roumiana Tsenkova (Chairperson of the International
Council for Aquaphotomics and a founder of aquaphotomics) and Hoeil Chung (Secretary-General
of Asian NIR Consortium) to give cutting-edge research presentations. Prof.
Hengchang Zang (Shandong University), Prof. Xueguang Shao (Naikai University),
Prof. Jingyan Han (Peking University), Prof. Xinghua Xia (Nanjing University),
Prof. Kexin Xu (Tianjin University), Dr. Xiu’e Jiang (Changchun Institute of
Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Dr. Xueping Guo (Bloomage Biotechnology
Corporation Limited) shared the research results of their laboratories. Most of
the reported achievements were focused on applications in basic research with a
fresh approach to studying using water as a source of information, but many works in the areas of medicine, life
sciences etc. were also presented.
After the
meeting, the experts called for the establishment of the “Chinese Council of Aquaphotomics”
and regular discussions of the topics to promote the development of this
scientific discipline. The hope of the organizers is that regular, successful
conference meetings will attract more people to join this research field, establish
wider network of scientists interested in the research of water molecular
matrix and application of the research findings in industry and everyday-life
applications, thus helping the progress of human society.
Dear colleagues, 
