Conferences
| Aug. 2019 | Edinburgh, UK | The 1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Medical and Health Sciences (ICRAMHS).
Oral presentation: Glioblastoma produces nitric oxide (NO) in response to activation stimulus. Elena Afrimzon, Yana Shafran, Naomi Zurgil, Maria Sobolev, Mordechai Deutsch. |
| Aug. 2019 | Copenhagen, Denmark | The 2nd International Conference on Medical & Health Science - ICMHS 2019.
Oral presentation: Semi-quantitative analysis of nitric oxide production in three-dimensional glioblastoma multiforme models in vitro. Elena Afrimzon, Yana Shafran, Naomi Zurgil, Maria Sobolev, Mordechai Deutsch. |
| July 2019 | Macau, China | The 2nd international conference of applied biochemistry and biotechnology (ABB) 2019.
Oral presentation: Analysis of cancer cell invasion and anti-metastatic drug screening using hydrogel micro-chamber array (HMCA) - based plates. Orit Ravid-Hermesh, Naomi Zurgil, Yana Shafran, Elena Afrimzon, Maria Sobolev, Yaron Hakuk, Zehavit Bar-On Eizig, Mordechai Deutsch. |
| July 2018 | Valencia, Spain | 3rd global insight conference on breast cancer.
Oral presentation: Investigating the impact of nitric oxide on breast cancer spheroids vulnerable to estrogen-induced apoptosis, using unique live-cell imaging-based platform. |
| Aug. 2018 | Rome, Italy | 4th World Congress on Cancer Research & Therapy
Oral presentation: 3D breast cancer models grown from individual cells in vitro: effect of environmental stiffness |
| Nov. 2017 | Lisbon, Portugal | 2nd annual World Preclinical Congress Europe.
Oral presentation: Imaging-Based Platforms for Formation, Treatment and High Content Analyses of Cancer Cell Spheroids. |
| March 2017 | Jerusalem, Israel | Quantum Effects in Biological Systems (QuEBS) 2017 conference.
Oral presentation: On the cryopreservation of individual sperm cells in nano-liter volumes. |
| Feb. 2017 | Porto, Portugal | BIOSTEC 2017 - 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies.
Oral presentation: Spheroid Formation: Means, Monitoring and Analysis of Intercellular Interaction Oral presentation: Live-cell array methodology for culturing, treatment and kinetic measurements of individual cells/group of cells, at single element resolution. |
| Jan.-Feb. 2017 | San Francisco, USA | SPIE ,Phonics west BiOS
Oral presentation: BIO-133 polymer for improved imaging over micro-plate arrays, micro-pillars, other 3-D patterns. |
| Nov. 2016 | Barcelona, Spain | 2nd International Conference and Exhibition on Medical Physics and Biophysics (Medical Physics-2016).
Oral presentation: Analysis of the Spectroscopic Aspects of the Cationic Dye Basic Orange 21 in bulk, and particularly in leukocytes |
| Sept. 2016 | Berlin, Germany | International Conference on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine.
Oral presentation: Efficient approach to 3D breast cancer structure formation and growth in vitro, in environments of varying rigidities. |
| Sept. 2016 | Berlin, Germany | Annual Conference on Bioscience.
Oral presentation: Arrayed miniature femtoliter, picoliter and nanoliter volume vessels for live-cell imaging time-lapse measurement at single-cell/element resolution. |
| Nov. 2014 | Suzhou, China | BIT's 12th Annual Congress of International Drug Discovery Science and Technology-2014. Oral presentation: 3D Co-culturing Live Cell Imaging-Based Platforms for Single Element Time Lapse Measurement Drug Screening. Naomi Zurgil, Elena Afrimzon, Orit Ravid Hermesh, Maria Sobolev, Yana Shafran, Sergei Moshkov, Assaf Deutsch, Yael Bishitz-Markovitz, Yishay Tauber, Steffen Howitz, Jian He, Benedikt Busse, Motti Deutsch. |
| Nov. 2014 | Suzhou, China | Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conferences. Dynamics of Cellular Behavior During Development and Disease. Oral presentation: Characterization, monitoring and analysis of cell-cell interaction in the course of tumor cell spheroid aggregation. Naomi Zurgil, Elena Afrimzon, Orit Ravid Hermesh, Maria Sobolev, Yana Shafran, Sergei Moshkov, Assaf Deutsch, Yael Bishitz-Markovitz, Yishay Tauber, Steffen Howitz, Jian He, Benedikt Busse, Motti Deutsch. |
| Sept. 2014 | San Diego, USA | Exosomes & Single Cell Analysis Summit. Oral presentation: Live cell imaging-based platforms for single cell/element time lapse measurements. Naomi Zurgil, Elena Afrimzon, Orit Ravid Hermesh, Maria Soboleve , Yana Shafran, Sergei Moshkov, Assaf Deutsch, Steffen Howitz, Jian He, Benedikt Busse, Motti Deutsch. |
| Sept. 2014 | Seattle, USA | 6th International Congress 2014. Leaders in Biobanking. Cancer Diagnosis at the crossroads: Precision medicine driving change. Poster presentation: Microstructure array made of hydrogel, for the formation, growth and analysis of multicellular 3D cancer spheroids. Afrimzon E, Zurgil N, Shafran Y, Sobolev M and Deutsch M. |
| Sept. 2014 | Prague, Czech Republics | 18th International Microscopy Congress (IMC 2014(. Poster Presentation: The involvement of nitric oxide in breast cancer pathogenesis. Image based investigation at the resolution of single cell clusters (spheroids). Shafran Y, Zurgil N, Sobolev M, Moshkov S, Ravid O, Afrimzon E, Shainberg A, Deutsch M. |
| March 2014 | Angers, France | BIOSTEC 2014.
1) Oral and Poster presentation: Spectroscopic Characteristics of the Cationic Dye Basic Orange 21 in Leukocytes. Z. Eizig, D. T. Major, H. L. Kasdan, E. Afrimzon, N. Zurgil and M. Deutsch. 2) Oral presentation: On the Cryopreservation of Individual Cells in Volumes Less than Nano Liter. B. Galmidi, Y. Shafran, R. Orvieto, N. Zurgil and M. Deutsch. |
| June 2013 | Boston, USA |
11th ISSCR Annual Meeting. Poster: Functional heterogeneity of umbilical cord blood CD34 positive cells. A Afrimzon E, Zurgil N, Shafran Y, Sobolev M, Goldman-Levi R, Shinar E, Deutsch M. |
| March 2012 | Mainz, Germany | ERA-Net meeting. Oral presentation: ApoE-conjugated HSA-NPs: single cell analysis of glioblastoma A172 and endothelial bEnd.3 cells. Afrimzon E, Zurgil N, Shafran Y, Sobolev M, Deutsch, M. |
| Oct. 2011 | Hannover, Germany |
Biotechnica. Oral presentation: " Enabling single cell analysis of non-adherent cells and cellular spheroids. |
| Oct. 2011 | Rhodes, Greece |
16th World Congress on Advances in Oncology and.14th International Symposiumon Molecular Medicine. |
| Aug. 2011 | Orlando, USA |
Department of Defense (DOD) Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Era of Hope.2011 Meeting. |
| June 2011 | Ingbert, Germany |
ERA Net Nanobrain Symposium. |
| Oct. 2009 | Jerusalem, Israel |
2nd Korea Israel Nanobiotechnology Workshop Cells & Molecules, Chips & Sensors: innovative platforms for interfacing biology. Oral presentation: "A novel miniature cell retainer for correlative high-content analysis of individual untethered non-adherent cells. |
| June 2008 | Baltimore, Maryland |
Department of Defense (DOD) Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Era of Hope.2008 Meeting: poster presentation: "Functional Analysis of Individual Cells & Microenvironment of Breast Cancer Draining Lymph Nodes". |
| May 2008 | Budapest, Hungary |
ISAC XXIV International Congress: 4 posters. 1)" Functional analysis of individual cells and microenvironment of breast cancer draining lymph nodes". 2) " Intracellular Nitric Oxide (NO) rates of generation correlate with different NO synthases expression levels, at the resolution of individual live cells". 3) " The involvement of Lysophosphatidylecholine (LPC) in inflammation and apoptosis processes in atherosclerosis". 4) "Enabling Real Time Quantification of Protein Translocation in Non-Tethered, Non-Adherent Individual Cells." |
| April 2008 | Munich, Germany |
Analytica Innovation & Technology Forum, Lab on a Chip Forum. Lecture: "Functional analysis of individual cells and microenvironment of metastatic and tumor-free breast cancer draining lymph nodes via the new Nunc LiveCell Array technology." |
| Sept. 2006 | Paris, France |
1st Joint Meeting of European National Societies of Immunology -.16th European Congress of Immunology, under the auspices of EFIS. Poster: "Apoptotic Mechanism of Methootrexate therapy in active rheumatoid arthritis patients is related to reduction of TH1 predominance." Herman S, Zurgil N, Langevitz P, Ehrenfeld M, Deutsch M. |
| May 2006 | Quebec, Canada |
ISAC XXIII International Congress, oral presentations: Enabling Repetitive Prolonged Measurements Of Non-Tethered Non-Adherent Individual Cells In a Microtiter Plate." Deutsch M, Zurgil N, Afrimzon E, Shafran Y,Deutsch A.; and "The involvement of Lysophosphatidylecholine (LPC) in lymphocyte apoptosis in atherosclerosis." Afrimzon E, Zurgil N, Shafran Y, Deutsch M; poster: Measuring individual cell activation and invasion markers, indicating possible lymph node exposure to invasive breast cancer cells." |
| Feb. 2006 | Hadassah-Medical School, Jerusalem |
Israeli Immunological Society, 35th Annual Meeting: ""The intracellular esterases activity of live cells may distinguish metastatic from tumor-free lymph nodes." Afrimzon E, Zurgil N, Deutsch M.; and "Methotrexate induces IL-10 production and inhibits nitric oxide secretion in mononuclear cells of rheumatoid arthritis patients" Herman S, Zurgil N, Deutsch M. |
| Sept. 2005 | Geneva, Switzerland |
SBS.2005.11th Annual Conference and Exhibition -Drug Discovery from Targets to Candidates. Poster: "Real-Time Monitoring of ROS & NO Generation & Apoptosis Kinetics in Individual, Non-Adherent Living Cells Using the Optical LiveCell® Array." Zurgil N, Deutsch M. |
| Aug. 2005 | Boston, USA |
Drug Discovery Technology Conference. Abstract: "Quantifying the Physiological Effects of RNAi in thousands of non-adherent living cells at the individual cell resolution using the Optical LiveCell® Array," Haigh S, Hyde B, Elorza A, Biran I, Zurgil N, Deutsch M, Shirihai O. |
| July 2005 | Saint Malo, USA |
Journes Electrochimie termination du monoxyde dazote intracellulaire et extracellulaire produit une culture cellulaire laide dun dispositif de mesure ?lectrochimique couple la spectrophotomtrie de fluorescence Pereira Rodrigues N, Zurgil N, Chang SC, McNeil C, Deutsch M, Bedioui F. |
| June 2005 | California, USA |
American Diabetes Association 65th Scientific Sessions. Islet On a Chip: A Novel Array of Living Beta Cells Reveals Functional Subclasses with Distinct Susceptibility to Glucolipotoxicity, Katz S, Hibo M, Biran I, Heart E, Corkey B, Deutsch M, Zurgil N, Shirihai O. |
| June 2005 | Coimbra, Portugal |
BIOELECTROCHEMISTRY.2005 Conference. “Simultaneous optical and electrochemical detection of intra- and extra-cellular NO produced by glioblastoma cell line,†Pereira Rodrigues N, Zurgil N, Chang SC, Henderson J, Bedioui F, Mc Neil C, Deutsch M. |
| June 2005 | Coimbra, Portugal |
BIOELECTROCHEMISTRY-2005 Conference. Chang SC, Pereira Rodrigues N, Zurgil N, Henderson J, Bedioui F, Mc Neil C, Deutsch M. |
| June 2005 | Pennsylvania, USA |
ERA OF HOPE Department of Defense Breast Cancer Breast Cancer Research Program Meeting. Poster presentation: The search for parameters of negative sentinel lymph node indicators of axillary lymph node status in breast cancer patients. |
| Nov. 2004 | Budapest, Hungary |
4th International Congress on Autoimmunity, oral presentation: Lymphocyte Apoptosis Induced by Lysophosphatidylcholine, by Afrimzon E, Zurgil N, Shafran Y, Shovman O, Gilburd B, Brikman H, Shoenfeld Y, Deutsch M. |
| May 2004 | Montpellier, France |
ISAC XXII International Congress, poster presentation: Measuring intracellular levels of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in individual living cells, Zurgil N, Afrimzon E, Shafran Y, Deutsch M. |
| April 2004 | London, England |
Practical Experiences of high content screening in drug discovery Conference: panel discussion: What is the value of High-Content Screening |
| May 2003 | Wales, England |
ISAC.1st International Cytomics Conference.2 poster presentations: Lysosomal involvement in oxidative stress induced apoptosis, Zurgil N, Shafran Y, Afrimzon E, and Deutsch, M., and Real time monitoring of intracellular reactive oxygen and nitrogen species levels in individual live cells, Zurgil N, Shafran Y, Afrimzon E, Deutsch M. |
| Nov. 2002 | Romania | ATOMO ADVANCED TOPICS IN OPTOELECTRONICS MICRO & NANO TECHNOLOGIES Conference Session, Chairperson and oral presentation, Advanced Topics in Optoeclectronics Micro and Nano Technologies. |
| Nov. 2002 | Hungary | European Commission Grant recipient meeting, oral presentation: Monitoring of Intracellular ROS: Initial Results. |
| Sept. 2002 | Florida, USA |
The 3rd DOD Breast Cancer Research Program Era of Hope meeting, poster presentation. |
| May 2002 | Paris, France |
Kickoff meeting EU Project - Medical Applications of French Microsystems, oral presentation. |
| May 2002 | California, USA |
ISAC XXI International Congress, oral presentation +2 posters. |
| Feb. 2002 | Geneva, Switzerland |
3rd International Congress on Autoimmunity, oral presentation. |
| Nov. 2001 | Paris, France |
Cellsens European Commission Kickoff meeting, oral presentation. |
| Oct. 2001 | Sinaia, Romania |
Internal Semiconductor Conference CAS.2001, Keynote Speaker. |
| Oct. 2001 | Sinaia, Romania |
Micro & Nanotechnologies BioMEMs & Biomedical Applications Workshop. Organized by Intnal Society for BioMEMs & Biomedical Nanotechonology (ISBBN), satellite event of the CAS.2001 Intnal Conference, oral presentation. |
| March 2001 | Europe | European Atherosclerosis Society Workshop on the Immune System in Atherosclerosis, oral presentation. |
| March 2001 | USA | IBC, USA Conference, oral presentation. |
| Jan. 2001 | California, USA |
Photonics West - Showcasing the Power of Light - BIOS.2001, oral presentation: Monitoring the fluorescence intensity and anisotropy decays of individual cell within a population. |
| Sept. 2000 | Washington-DC, USA |
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, 4th Annual Mission Conference, oral presentation: Michaelis-Menten constants of individual resting and activated peripheral blood lymphocytes of breast cancer patient versus healthy normals. |
| May 2000 | Montpellier, France |
The XX Congress of the International Society for Analytical Cytology. 9 posters + 6 oral presentations: 1) Analysis of laser scattering pattern as an early measure of apoptosis.2) A method for differentiating between diverse fluorophores of similar spectra based on the measurement of their fluorescence polarization. 3) Mathematical analysis of the [Ca++] time response curve in cardiac myocyte and its diagnostic aspects 4) Continuous monitoring and analysis of the apoptotic process in individual cells. 5) Determination of the Michaelis-Menten constant (Km) of intracellular enzymatic reaction for individual live lymphocytes. 6) Investigation of cardiac myocyte cytoplasm structural changes during a contraction cycle by means of intracellular fluorescein fluorescence polarization [considered for the President Award at ISAC]. 7) "The monitoring of cell death induced by oxLDL with the Cellscan Mark-S cytometer". |
| April 2000 | Haifa, Israel |
Israel Physical Society 46th Annual Meeting Israel, oral presentation: Investigation of cardiac myocyte structural changes during a contraction cycle by means of intracellular fluorescein fluorescence polarization. |
| April 2000 | Jerusalem, Israel |
The 8th Jerusalem Symposium on Medical Physics and Medical Instrumentation, oral presentation: New methods to investigate cardiac myocyte contraction by fitting to mathematical function, and its application to diseased muscles. |
| Jan. 2000 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
International Society for Heart Research European Section, Israeli Subsection. Oral presentation: Effect of adriamycin, copper and adenosine on calcium transient changes in rat cardiomyocytes. |
| July 1999 | Hamilton-Island, Australia |
ISAC Sam Latt Conference Signaling for Life & Death: Cytometry in analysis and modeling of cell signaling poster + oral presentation: Fluorescein fluorescence hyperpolarization as an early kinetic measure for the apoptotic process. |
| March 1999 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
The 45th Annual Meeting of the Israel Physical Society - 6 posters + 3 oral presentations: 1) Extraction of morphological properties of single particles using differential laser scattering - A Stationary phase approach. 2) Detection of breast cancer by kinetics of fluorescein release from peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) monitored by fluorescence polarization measurement. 3) Analysis of enzyme kinetics in individual living cells utilizing fluorescence intensity and polarization measurements. |
| Feb. 1998 | Colorado Springs, USA |
ISAC XIX Conference poster + 3 oral presentations: 1) Measurements of dynamic intracellular processes in living cells by the Cellscan 2) Modulation of NK cytotoxicity, mitogenic response and cytoskeleton polymerization in human cells infected with influenza A virus 3) Monitoring of effector and target cell stimulation during conjugation by fluorescence polarization. |
| June 1997 | Jerusalem, Israel |
14th International Conference on Tumor Markers, oral presentation. |
| April 1997 | Jerusalem, Israel |
5th Jerusalem Symposium on Medical Physics Israel and Medical Instrumentation Posters, oral presentation: Tracing structural transitions in non- spherical cell populations. |
| Sept. 1996 | Vienna, Austria |
12th International Congress on Photobiology, oral presentation: The Cellscan: An apparatus for repetitive sequential optical measurements of living cells: clinical and research applications. |
| April 1996 | Rimini, Italy |
The XVIII Congress of the International Society for Analytical Cytology. 6 posters + 2 oral presentations. |
| Feb. 1996 | Paris, France |
6th International Congress on Anti Cancer France Chemotherapy. |
| April 1995 | Ramat-Gan, Israel |
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Symposium on Medical Israel Physics - Israel Physical Society: poster, oral + invited oral presentation: Demonstration of cell activation by the leakage of intracellular fluorescein from the cells. Invited lecture: The Cellscan as an optical multiparametric cytometer for individual cell studies. |
| Feb. 1995 | Barcelona, Spain |
Fifth International Symposium on Biology and Clinical Usefulness of Tumor Markers. Abstract. |
| Dec. 1994 | Eilat, Israel |
Israel Society for Neuroscience. Glioblastoma?derived factors inhibit T cell function. Abstract. |
| June 1994 | Connecticut, USA |
The Physiologist, Physiology of the Release and Activity of Cytokines: Inhibition of T cell function in patients with glioblasomas: A selective impairment of the IL2 system. Abstract. |
| Nov. 1993 | Jerusalem, Israel |
XXIst Meeting of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine: From Basic Research to Clinical Application: Advances in Human Tumor Biology Abstract. |
| April 1993 | Alberta, Canada |
BNNF, International Association for Breast Cancer Research. |
| March 1993 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
The First Schottenstein Cellscan Center for Early Detection of Cancer Workshop. |
| Dec. 1992 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
8th Meeting on Optical Engineering in Israel. |
| Oct. 1992 | Heidelberg, Germany |
Heidelberger Zytometrie Symposium. |
| June 1992 | Helsinki, Finland |
6th European Congress on Surgical Oncology. |
| May 1992 | Petach-Tikva, Israel |
Beilinson Medical Center, General Staff Meeting. |
| May 1992 | Jerusalem, Israel |
18th National Surgical Congress. |
| Oct. 1991 | Mexico-City, Mexico |
The 2nd International Conference on Cancer Immunology and AIDS. |
| May 1990 | Munich, Germany |
Diagnostic Industry in a New Decade. |
| June 1991 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
Annual Scientific Meeting of the Israeli Dermatology Society (First Prize for excellence in Research, awarded by the Israeli Dermatology Society). |
| July 1990 | Vancouver, Canada |
10th International Biophysics Congress, "Early Tissue Specific tumor detection by the Cytoscan System". |
| April 1990 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
General Staff Meeting, Sourasky Tel Aviv Medical Center. |
| Feb. 1990 | Jerusalem, Israel |
Annual Meeting, Israel Society for Microbiology, "The Cytoscan? A Novel Method for Cell Selection". |
| Nov. 1988 | Jerusalem, Israel |
The First Congress of the Israeli Cancer Association. An evaluation of the SCM test for the diagnosis of cancer of the breast. |
| Oct. 1988 | Jerusalem, Israel |
The 10th International Congress on Photobiology. |