This year International Diffuse Reflectance Conference (IDRC) will be held online from July 31st to August 5th. All the information about the IDRC can be found at the official website available at the following address:
On Friday 4-Aug-2022 there will be an Aquaphotomics Session (morning session EST 10:00 – 11:45; PST 7:00 – 8:45) chaired by Prof. Dr Roumiana Tsenkova. The session will feature four lectures covering various aspects of aquaphotomics.
~~ AQUAPHOTOMICS SESSION ~~
Assoc. Prof. Jelena Muncan, Aquaphotomics Research Department, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Japan
Aquaphotomics new developments: Towards better understanding of the roles of different water molecular species in bio-aqueous systems
Prof. Dr Xuegang Shao, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, China
Chemometrics for Analyzing the Water Structures from Near-Infrared Spectrum
Dr. Justyna Grabska, Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Radiochemistry, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Structural effects in water-analyte hydrogen-bonded systems studied by NIR spectroscopy and its impact on analytical applications
Flora Vitalis, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Food Science and Technology, Hungary
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:
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If you have any questions, please leave a comment, or email us at info@aquaphotomics.com.
You can also find previous webinar recordings and many other videos about Aquaphotomics on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/Aquaphotomics), so please subscribe!
We will have another webinar coming up in April. See you soon!
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」
If you have any questions, please leave a comment, or email us at info@aquaphotomics.com.
You can also find previous webinar recordings and many other videos about Aquaphotomics on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/Aquaphotomics), so please subscribe!
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!)
