PRESENTATIONS OF FORTH INSTITUTES AND UNITS (1)
Chair: Dr. Maria Klapa (ICE-HT)

• Presentation of FORTH, Prof. Nektarios Tavernarakis, Chairman of Board of Directors
• Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT), Dr. Vassilios Burganos, Director
• Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (ΙΜΒΒ), Dr. Iannis Talianides, Director
• Institute of Petroleum Research (IPR), Prof. Nikolaos Pasadakis, Director
• Institute of Astrophysics (ΙΑ), Prof. Vassilios Charmandaris, Director
• PRAXI Network, Mr. Panagiotis Karniouras, Director
• The Science and Technology Park of Crete (STEP-C), Mr. Artemis Saitakis, Director
• Crete University Press (CUP), Ms. Dionysia Daskalou, Director

Plenary Lecture I – Precision Medicine
Chair: Dr. Iannis Talianides (IMBB)

"The Human Cell Atlas impact on life science and healthcare"
Prof. Henk Stunnenberg, Senior Scientist at Princess Maxima Centre for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht
Professor of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

FORTH RESEARCHERS’ PRESENTATIONS: SESSION 1
Chair: Dr. Maria Monastirioti (IMBB)

• "Unraveling the mechanisms regulating innate immune responses to identify functional biomarkers for inflammatory diseases"
  Prof. Christos Tsatsanis, ΙΜΒΒ Collaborating Faculty Member & Medical School-University of Crete
• "Organoid based tissue manufacturing: designing high-precision functional living implants"
  Dr. Ioannis Papantoniou, Assistant Researcher, ICE-HT
• "Greek National Networks of Personalized Medicine for Cancer Prevention and Cardiovascular diseases: technical perspectives"
  Dr. Irini Fundulaki, Associate Researcher, ICS

Plenary Lecture II – Petroleum Research
Chairs: Dr. Vassilis Burganos (ICE-HT) & Prof. Nikolaos Pasadakis (IPR)

"Multiphase flow in geological porous media: new insights and application perspectives"
Dr. Olga Vizika, Director of Geosciences, IFP Energies Nouvelles, France

FORTH RESEARCHERS’ PRESENTATIONS: SESSION 2
Chair: Dr. Konstantina Georgiadi (IMS)

• "Archaeological investigation of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Eastern Crete"
  Dr. Konstantinos Roussos, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, IMS
• "Multi-Level Studies of Developmental Morphogenesis: from Biophysics to EvoDevo"
  Dr. Anastasios Pavlopoulos, Assistant Researcher, IMBB
• "Lasers: From strong-laser-field physics to attosecond science and quantum optics"
  Dr. Paraskevas Tzallas, Research Director, IESL
• "Satellite thermal infrared analysis for urban surface temperature estimation at local scale"
  Dr. Zina Mitraka, Postdoctoral Fellow, Remote Sensing Lab, IACM
• "Reasoning Technologies for Theoretical and Applied AI"
  Dr. Giorgos Flouris, Associate Researcher, ICS

SHORT PRESENTATIONS OF 2019 FORTH SYNERGY GRANTS

• "OMEGA": Optical memristors, based on photo-fluidity, chalcogenide whispering gallery mode cavities
  Dr. Stavros Pissadakis, Research Director, IESL
• "RINGS": Shear and extensional rheology of entangled ring polymer melts
  Dr. Dimitris Tsalikis, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ICE-HT
• "NEUROGRAMS": Neural networks in Alzheimer’s disease
  Prof. Maria Papadopouli, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Crete, ICS Collaborating Faculty Member
• "SPIVAST": Spin-valley polarization studies in monolayer transition metal dichalgogenides under mechanical deformation
  Prof. George Kioseoglou, Dept. of Materials Science & Technology, Univ. of Crete, IESL Collaborating Faculty Member
• "EVO-NMDA": Evolution of the NMDA receptor and its role in cognitive functions
  Dr. Pavlos Pavlidis, Assistant Researcher, ICS

PRESENTATIONS OF FORTH INSTITUTES AND UNITS (2)
Chair: Dr. Wolf von Klitzing (IESL)

• Institute of Mediterranean Studies (ΙΜS), Prof. Gelina Harlaftis, Director
• Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Prof. Spiros Anastasiadis, Director
• Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Prof. Dimitris Plexousakis, Director
• Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics (ΙACM), Prof. Charalambos Makridakis, Director

Plenary Lecture ΙΙΙ – Space Research
Chair: Dr. Wolf von Klitzing (IESL)

"Presenting the ESA General Support Technology Programme (GSTP)"
Mr. Udo Becker, Head of Technology Programmes Office, European Space Agency (ESA)

FORTH RESEARCHERS’ PRESENTATIONS: SESSION 3
Chair: Dr. Maria Klapa (ICE-HT) & Dr. Konstantina Georgiadi (IMS)

• "Quantum Waves at IESL: From the Fundamental to the Practical"
  Dr. Wolf von Klitzing, Research Director, IESL
• "Estimation of Soil Erosion rates in different spatial and time scales. A Geoinformatics approach"
  Dr. Dimitrios Alexakis, Assistant Researcher, IMS
• "Signalling and Endocytic trafficking in endothelial cells: Basic Mechanisms and Perspectives in stem cell biology and differentiation"
  Dr. Carol Murphy, Associate Researcher, IMBB-BR
• "The Center of Studies on Air Quality and Climate Change (C-STACC) in ICE-HT"
  Prof. Athanasios Nenes, ICE-HT Affiliated Scientist & School of Architecture, Civil & Environmental Engineering, EPFL
• "3D Computer Vision for Faces and Other Deformable Objects"
  Dr. Anastasios Roussos, Associate Researcher, ICS

FORTH RESEARCHERS’ PRESENTATIONS: SESSION 4
Chair: Dr. Ioannis Kamarianakis (IACM) & Dr. Maria Monastirioti (IMBB)

• "Cryptography: An interdisciplinary research field"
  Dr. Georgios Nikolopoulos, Associate Researcher, IESL
• "In Gods we trust, all others must bring data: IACM’s new Statistical Learning Lab"
  Dr. Ioannis Kamarianakis, Associate Researcher, IACM

Plenary Lecture IV – Big Data Analysis
Chair: Ioannis Kamarianakis (IACM)

"Bayesian computation: a personal perspective"
Prof. Petros Dellaportas, Professor of Statistical Science, UCL, UK, Professor of Statistics at the Athens
University of Economics and Business & Turing Fellow, Alan Turing Institute, UK

FORTH General Assembly Discussion
Chair: Prof. Nektarios Tavernarakis

Poster Honors - Conclusions - Closing Remarks
Dr. Maria Klapa (on behalf of the Organizing Committee)