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XXVIth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics Program of the XXVIth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics of the Bioelectrochemical Society Online 9-13 May, 2021 Cluj-Napoca, Romania 1 XXVIth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics The Bioelectrochemical Society Chemin du Closelet 2 1006 Lausanne Switzerland Copyright © 2021 All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the Publisher. No responsibility is assumed by the Publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of product liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. Printed in Romania 2 XXVIth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics Organising Committee Chair: Robert Săndulescu, Iuliu Hațieganu University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Lo Gorton, Lund University, Sweden Elisabeth Lojou, Marseille University, France Camelia Bala, University of Bucharest, Romania Cecilia Cristea, Iuliu Hațieganu University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Victor Diculescu, National Institute of Materials Physics, Bucharest Graziella Turdean, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Eleonora-Mihaela Ungureanu, Politehnica University Bucharest, Romania Local Organising Committee Ede Bodoki, Iuliu Hatieganu University Cluj-Napoca, Romania Mihaela Tertiș, Iuliu Hatieganu University Cluj-Napoca Oana Hosu, Iuliu Hatieganu University Cluj-Napoca Bogdan Feier, Iuliu Hatieganu University Cluj-Napoca Radu Oprean, Iuliu Haţieganu University Cluj-Napoca Andreea Cernat, Iuliu Hatieganu University Cluj-Napoca Bogdan Iacob, Iuliu Haţieganu University Cluj-Napoca Stela Pruneanu, Isotopic and Molecular Technology Institute Cluj-Napoca Liana Mureșan, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca 3 XXVIth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics Sponsors 4 XXVIth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics 5 XXVIth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics Program Table of Contents Online Special Meeting Program………………………………....6 Oral presentation program...............................................................7 Poster presentation program..........................................................31 Abstracts of Giulio Milazzo Prize, Luigi Galvani Prize, Plenary, Keynote and Invited Lectures…………........................................43 Abstracts of Oral presentation.......................................................67 Abstracts of Poster presentation...................................................149 Authors Index...............................................................................224 6 XXVIth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics Online Special Meetings Program Please be aware that the schedule (dates and hours) involves Central European Time (CET) and not Romania’s time zone! Sunday, 9 May 2021 13:30 – 15:00 BES Council, Room 1 17:30 – 18:00 Opening Ceremony, Room 1 18:00 – 18:50 Giulio Milazzo Prize Lecture, Room 1 19:00 – 19:30 Luigi Galvani Prize Lecture, Room 1 Monday, 10 May 2021 17:20 – 19:30 S1 Poster Exhibition and Networking Tuesday, 11 May 2021 12:20 – 13:20 BES General Assembly, Room 1 14:30 – 16:00 Flash Poster Session 1, Room 1 Flash Poster Session 2, Room 2 16:20 – 19:30 S2 Poster Exhibition and Networking Wednesday, 12 May 2021 16:40 – 19:30 S3, S4, S5, and S6 Poster Exhibition and Networking Thursday, 13 May 2021 13:00 – 13:20 Closing Ceremony, Room 1 7 XXVIth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics Program of the Online XXVIth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics Please be aware that the schedule (dates and hours) involves Central European Time (CET) and not Romania’s time zone! Sunday, 9 May 2021 - Afternoon 17:30 – 18:00 Opening Ceremony, Room 1 ________________________________________________________________________________ Giulio Milazzo Prize Lecture ______________________________________________________ Room 1 Chaired by: Lo Gorton 18:00 to 18:50 Lluis Mir (METSY, UMR 9018 CNRS - Université Paris-Saclay, France) Electroporation, from Fundamentals to Medical Applications ________________________________________________________________________________ Luigi Galvani Prize Lecture ______________________________________________________ Room 1 Chaired by: Lo Gorton 19:00 to 19:30 Francesco Ricci (Laboratory of Biosensors and Nanomachines, Chemistry Department, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy) DNA-based Nanodevices for Sensing Applications 8 XXVIth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics Monday, 10 May 2021 - Morning __________________________________________________________________________________ Plenary Lecture ___________________________________________________________________________ Room 1 Chaired by: Lo Gorton 09:00 to 10:00 PL-01 Guillermo Bazan (University of Singapore) Living Bioelectrochemical Composites __________________________________________________________________________________ S1 Smart Materials for Bioelectrochemistry ___________________________________________________________________________ Room 1 Chaired by: Wolfgang Schuhmann and Ilaria Palchetti 10:00 to 10:20 S1-O-01 Bogdan C. Iacob (Analytical Chemistry Department, Iuliu Hatieganu University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) Ioan Adrian Stoian, João P. Prates Ramalho, Iuliu O. Marian, Radu Oprean, Ede Bodoki Chiral Interactions of Propranolol Enantiomers at the Surface of Cysteine Modified Gold Nanoparticles 10:20 to 10:40 S1-O-02 Katarzyna Szot-Karpińska (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland) Justyna Borkowska, Patryk Kudła, Sławomir Filipek, Magdalena Narajczyk, Joanna Niedziółka-Jönsson Peptide-based Materials for Studying Interactions with CRP Protein - Development and Application 10:40 to 11:00 S1-O-03 Panpan Wang (Center for Electrochemical Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) Anna Frank, Fangyuan Zhao, Marc M. Nowaczyk, Adrian Ruff, Felipe Conzuelo, Wolfgang Schuhmann A Mixed Monolayer Comprised of Trimeric and Monomeric Photosystem I Enables Improved Anisotropic Electron Flow in Biophotovoltaic Devices 11:00 to 11:30 Coffee Break and Posters 11:30 to 12:00 Keynote S1-KL-01 Paolo Actis (School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, United Kingdom) Mukhil Raveendran, Andrew J. Lee, Christoph Wälti DNA Nanostructures for Single-Molecule Biosensing 9 XXVIth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics 12:00 to 12:20 S1-O-04 Sergey Shleev (Biomedical Science and Biofilms-Research Center for Biointerfaces, Malmö University, Sweden) Olga Aleksejeva, Chiara di Bari, Elena Gonzalez- Arribas, Antonio L. de Lacey, Marcos Pita, Roland Ludwig, Victor Andoralov Membrane and Mediator Free High Voltage Enzymatic Supercapacitors 12:20 to 12:40 S1-O-05 Alaa Oughli (Professur für Elektrobiotechnologie, TU München, Germany) Steffen Hardt, Olaf Rüdiger, James Birrell, Nicolas Plumeré Reactivation of Sulfide-Protected [FeFe] Hydrogenase in a Redox-active Hydrogel 12:40 to 13:00 S1-O-06 Giulia Selvolini (“Ugo Schiff” Chemistry Department, University of Florence, Italy) Giovanna Marrazza Towards Electrochemical Detection of Deoxynivalenol by Exploiting Molecular Docking Simulations 13:00 to 13:20 S1-O-07 Paolo Bollela (Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, USA) Zhong Guo, Selvakumar Edwardraja, Vasantha Krishna Kadambar, Kirill Alexandrov, Artem Melman, Evgeny Katz Self-Powered Molecule Release Systems Activated with Chemical Signals Processed Through Reconfigurable Implication or Inhibition Boolean Logic Gates __________________________________________________________________________________ S2 Electrochemical Sensors for Diagnostics and Therapy Monitoring ___________________________________________________________________________ Room 2 Chaired by: Włodzimierz Kutner and Miroslav Fojta 10:00 to 10:20 S2-O-01 Christopher Brett (Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, Portugal) Wanderson Da Silva Electrochemical Enzyme Biosensor Platforms with Iron Oxide Nanoparticles and Polyphenazines Prepared in Ethaline Deep Eutectic Solvent 10:20 to 10:40 S2-O-02 Adrian Blidar (Analytical Chemistry Department, Iuliu Hatieganu University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) Oana Hosu, Geanina Ştefan, Diana Bogdan, Karolien de Wael, Cecilia Cristea The Development of an Aptasensor for Oxytetracycline using Au-based Nanostructured Platforms 10 XXVIth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics 10:40 to 11:00 S2-O-03 Mihaela Puiu (LaborQ, University of Bucharest) Lucian-Gabriel Zamfir, George Mădălin Dănila, Camelia Bala Detection of Allosteric Modulators of Growth Hormone Secretagogue Receptor According to their Affinity Profiles in Competitive Assays 11:00 to 11:30 Coffee Break and Posters 11:30 to 12:00 Keynote S2-KL-01 Francesco Paolucci (Dipartimento di Chimica Giacomo Ciamician, Università di Bologna, Italy) Giovanni Valenti, Sara Rebeccani, Massimo Marcaccio Insight into the Mechanism of Coreactant Electrochemiluminiscence Empower its Analytical Strenght 12:00 to 12:20 S2-O-04 Ana Maria Oliveira-Brett (Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, Portugal) W.B.S. 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