Conferences/Workshops
M. Focsan, Innovative Plasmonic Nanobiosensors in Biophotonics: From Biomarker Detection to Imaging and Therapy, 3rd International Conference - Advances in 3OM and Photonics Technologies, 8- 11 December 2025, Timisoara, Romania – keynote lecture
Vlad Cucuiet, Dana Maniu, Simion Astilean, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focsan, Viscoelastic Properties of DNA Strands: A Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation Study on DNA Length Dependence, 3rd International Conference on Advances in 3OM and Photonics Technologies, Timisoara, Romania, 8 - 11 December 2025 - oral presentation
Daria Stoia, Monica Focsan, ThermoPlasSens: A Thermoplasmonic Paper-Based Biosensor for Multiplexed DNA Hybridization, microRNA, and Cancer Biomarker Detection, 3rd International Conference on Advances in 3OM and Photonics Technologies, Timisoara, Romania, 8 - 11 December 2025 - oral presentation
Daria Stoia, Alexandru Holca, Raluca Borlan, Daria Ursa, Carmen Maxim, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focsan, ThermoPlasSens: A Multiplexed Paper-Based Plasmonic Biosensor Integrating SERS, LSPR, and Thermoplasmonic Readouts for DNA Hybridization Detection", 13th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS13) and 5th International Conference on Enhanced Spectroscopy (ICES5) in Xiamen, China, 30 November - 5 December 2025 - oral presentation
Ismaël Mahboub, Alexandru Holca, Dana Maniu, Simion Astilean, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focsan, Design of a simple, inexpensive SERS substrate optimized for rapid detection of nucleic acids, 7th edition of the international conference of Nanophotonics and Micro/Nano Optics at Sorbonne University, Paris, France, 20 - 22 October 2025 - poster
Ismaël Mahboub, Andreea-Carmen Maxim, Serban-Constantin Grecu, Mathieu Edely, Dana Maniu, Simion Astilean, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focsan, Biomolecular interactions of nucleic acids detection/quantification by Surface Enhanced Raman spectroscopy, 7th edition of the international conference of Nanophotonics and Micro/Nano Optics at Sorbonne University, Paris, France, 20 - 22 October 2025 - poster
Andreea-Carmen Maxim, Ismaël Mahboub, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focșan, Ultrasensitive, Label-Free Biosensing Using Large-Area Plasmonic Nanostructures Fabricated via Nanosphere Lithography, 15th International Conference on Processes in Isotopes and Molecules, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 16 - 19 September 2025 - poster
Mădălina Tudor, Denisa Dămoc, Raluca Borlan, Mara Muntean, Olga Sorițău, Dana Maniu, Monica Focșan, Poly (Lactic-co-Glycolic Acid) Nanoparticles Encapsulating IR-783 fluorophore for NIR Imaging and Photothermal Therapy, 15th International Conference on Processes in Isotopes and Molecules, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 16 - 19 September 2025 - poster
Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Detection, identification and structural study of biomolecules by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, 1st Carpathian Biophotonics Meeting, Sinaia, Romania, 8 - 12 September 2025 - invited oral presentation
Simion Aștilean, Plasmonics in Biophotonics: New Nanotools for Sensing, Imaging and Therapy, 1st Carpathian Biophotonics Meeting, Sinaia, Romania, 8 - 12 September 2025 - invited oral presentation
Monica Focșan, Miniaturized Microfluidic Plasmonic Chip for Enhanced Biosensing, 15th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, Malaga, Spain, 22 - 25 July 2025 - invited lecture
Alexandru-Milentie Hada, Mihnea Moruz, Simion Astilean, Marc Lamy de Chapelle, Monica Focsan, From Catalysis to Sensing: Plasmon-Driven Conversion of pATP and Its Application in Fe²⁺ Detection, 11th International Conference on Antennas and Electromagnetic Systems, Tangier, Morocco, 1 - 4 July 2025 - invited oral presentation
Mihnea Moruz, Alexandru Milentie Hada, Simion Aștilean, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Monica Focșan, Photocatalytic Nanosystem for Sensitive and Selective Detection of Fe²⁺ Ions, Cluj Innovation Days 2025 - Bridge-type conference in MedTech, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 29 - 30 May 2025 - poster
Ismael 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, 35th Anniversary World Congress on Biosensors, Lisbon, Portugal, 19 – 22 May 2025 - poster
Daria Stoia, Ana-Maria Crăciun, Monica Potara, Mathieu Edely, Dana Maniu, Simion Aștilean, Monica Focșan, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Sensitive Dual Detection of DNA Hybridization, 35th Anniversary World Congress on Biosensors, Lisbon, Portugal, 19 – 22 May 2025 - poster
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 Răducu, Alexandru 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 Focșan, Innovative plasmonic nanobiosensors for real-time biomarker detection: from simulated to real sample applications, SPIE Photonics WEST International Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, 25 – 30 January 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 changes, SPIE Photonics West International Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, 25 – 30 January 2025 - poster
Monica Focșan, Plasmonic nanobiosensors for Real-Time Biomarker Detection, 3eme 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 Aștilean, Plasmonic-Based
Nanoplatforms for Enhanced Biosensing and Bioimaging, 20th 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 Stoia, New 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 Chapelle, Plasmonic 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 Focșan, Portable 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 Chapelle, Observation of DNA Strand Interaction with SERS, NanoPlasMeta conference, Rome, Italy, 21 - 23 February 2024 - invited oral presentation