Conferences/Workshops


Matei Crăciunescu, Raluca Borlan, Simion Aştilean, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focsan, Development of microfluidic devices for thermoplasmonic applications, Student Scientific Communications Session during the Physics Faculty Days 2025, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 16 may 2025 – oral presentation


Oana RăducuAlexandru Holca, Ana-Maria Crăciun, Raluca Borlan, Septimiu Tripon, Olga Soritău, Gabriela Cherecheș, Dana Maniu, Simion Aștilean, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focșan, Tunable Biosynthesized Gold Nanotriangles: Thermoplasmonic Performance via On-Demand Visible-NIR LED Activation, Student Scientific Communications Session during the Physics Faculty Days 2025, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 16 may 2025 – oral presentation


Vlad Cucuiet, Dana Maniu, Ana Maria Crăciun, Septimiu Tripon, Simion Aștilean,  Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focșan, Probing the Local Field Enhancement Using SERS Detection of DNA Strands with Different Lengths and Grafting Strategies on Graphene Oxide Plasmonic Nanoplatforms, Student Scientific Communications Session during the Physics Faculty Days 2025, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 16 may 2025 – oral presentation

Mădălina Tudor, Mara Muntean, Dana Maniu, Simion Aștilean, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focșan, Chloroplast-Mediated Biosynthesis of Gold Nanoparticles under LED irradiation, Student Scientific Communications Session during the Physics Faculty Days 2025, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 16 may 2025 – poster

Monica FocșanInnovative plasmonic nanobiosensors for real-time biomarker detection: from simulated to real sample applications, SPIE Photonics WEST International ConferenceSan Francisco, California, USA, 25 – 30 Jan 2025 invited oral presentation


Daria Stoia, Ana-Maria Crăciun, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focșan, Dual-mode DNA detection and hybridization using gold nanoparticles: integrating label-free SERS and MEF to evaluate conformational changesSPIE Photonics West International Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, 25 – 30 Jan 2025 - poster


Monica Focșan, Plasmonic nanobiosensors for Real-Time Biomarker Detection3eme Symposium de la Recherche Scientifique Francophone en Europe centrale et orientale, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 16-17 December 2024 - invited oral presentation


Ismail Mahboub, Development d'un substrat SERS simple et peu couteux optimise pour la detection rapide d'țacides nucleiques, 3eme Symposium de la Recherche Scientifique Francophone en Europe centrale et orientale, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 16-17 December 2024 - oral presentation

Daria Stoia, Ana-Maria Crăciun, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focșan, Gold nanoparticule-mediated direct detection of un modified DNA via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: assessing reproducibility and conformational changes, Single-Molecule Sensors and nano systems International Conference (S3IC), Paris, France, 28-30 October 2024 - poster


Ismaël Mahboub, Alexandru Holca, Simion Aștilean, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focșan, Design of a simple, inexpensive SERS substrate optimized for rapid detection of nucleic acids The Annual International conference of the RSBMB 2024,  Bucharest, Romania, 25-27 September 2024 – poster


Alexandru Holca, Septimiu Tripon, Klara Magyari, Simion Aștilean, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focșan, Second NIR activable reduced graphene oxide & gold nanorods hybrid nanosystem for photothermal therapy of cancer, 34th International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials, Dresden, Germany, 1-5 September 2024 – oral presentation


Simion AștileanPlasmonic-Based Nanoplatforms for Enhanced Biosensing and Bioimaging20th European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biomolecules (ECSBM)Lodz, Poland, 1-6 September 2024 - invited oral presentation

Daria Stoia, Monica Potara, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focșan, Advancing Biotechnology: Exploring DNA-Surface Interactions via Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, 10th Regional Biophysics Conference (RBC2024) & 15th International Summer School of Biophysics, Split, Croatia, 26 - 30 August 2024  - poster

Vlad Cucuiet, Dana Maniu, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Simion Aștilean , Monica Focșan, Graphene Mediated SERS detection of DNA hybridization, International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy,  Rome, Italy, 27 July-2 August 2024 - poster

Oana Alexandra Răducu, Simion Aștilean, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focșan, Biosynthesised gold nanoparticles: tunable thermo-plasmonic nanogenerators from Visible region to NIR I and II Biological Windows, 10th International Conference on Advanced Materials, Bucharest, Romania, 15-18 July 2024 - oral presentation

Daria StoiaNew Plasmonic Nanosystems for Detection, Multimodal Therapy, and Biomedical Applications, Summer 2024 Soft Materials / Biological Physics Talk Series online workshop, 17 July 2024 - oral presentation

Marc Lamy de la ChapellePlasmonic sensors: Detection, identification and structural study of biomolecules, Plasmonica 2024, Messina, Italy, 10-12 July 2024 - invited oral presentation

Alexandru Holca, Andreea Câmpu, Mara Muntean, Simion Aștilean, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focșan, Second near-infrared gold nanorods as thermoplasmonic nanogenerators, 22nd International Conference on Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena (ICPPP22), Coimbra, Portugal, 8-12 July 2024 - oral presentation

Raluca Borlan, Mădălina Tudor, Olga Soritău, Adrian Florea, Simion Aștilean, Monica Focșan, Unveiling the Potential of Photothermal Therapy: NIR-797-Loaded PLGA Nanoparticles for Enhanced Cancer Treatment, 18th International Summer Schools on N&N, OE & Nanomedicine (ISSON24), Thessaloniki, Greece, 29 June-6 July 2024 – poster

Ana-Maria Crăciun, Simion Aștilean, Monica Focșan, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, FDTD simulated local field enhancement on plasmonic nanospheres for the optimization of surface enhanced spectroscopies, 8th International Conference on Materials Engineering and Nano Sciences (ICMENS 2024), Osaka, Japan, 22-25 March 2024  - poster

Monica FocșanPortable Microfluidic Plasmonic Chip for Fast Real-Time Biomarker Detection, "New applications of materials and bioreceptors: biosensors and beyond” Workshop, International Centre of Biodynamics, Bucharest, Romania, 22 March 2024 - invited oral presentation


Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Observation of DNA strand interaction with SERS, "New applications of materials and bioreceptors: biosensors and beyond” Workshop, International Centre of Biodynamics, Bucharest, Romania, 22 March 2024 - invited oral presentation


Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Detection, identification and structural study of biomolecules by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, NATO-SPS Advanced Research Workshop, San Felice Circeo, Italy, 3-5 October 2023 - invited oral presentation  


Marc Lamy de la ChapelleObservation of DNA Strand Interaction with SERS,  NanoPlasMeta conference, Rome, Italy, 21-23 February 2024 invited oral presentation