Thursday June 7th

10.00 – 10.30: Welcome and introduction by the organizers (Niko Hildebrandt and Alexander P. Demchenko)
10.30 – 11.00: Overview of research and technological developments in the field of nanoscience and
nanotechnology in Ukraine (Anton G. Naumovets, Institute of Physics NASU, Kiev, Ukraine).

11.00 – 11.30: Coffee break

11.30 – 12.15: Biosensing applications using lanthanide complexes and semiconductor quantum dots for Förster
resonance energy transfer (Niko Hildebrandt, IEF Orsay, France).
12.15 – 13.00: Luminescent lanthanide(III) chelates. Functionalization, construction of FRET composites and
analytical applications (Kateryna Vityukova, Bogatsky Physico-Chemical Institute NASU, Odessa, Ukraine).

13.00 – 14.30: Lunch break

14.30 – 15.15: Viral capsides as nanoscopic scaffolds for luminescent lanthanide complexes (Loïc Charbonnière,
CNRS Strasbourg, France)
15.15 – 16.00: Ultra-small and stable magic-size semiconductor quantum dots. Spectroscopy and functionalization
(Ihor Dmitruk, Institute of Physics NASU and Department of Physics Shevtchenko University, Kiev, Ukraine)
16.00 – 16.45: Efficient aqueous phase transfer of InP/ZnS quantum dots and functionalization with Ln(III) chelates
for multimodal imaging (Peter Reiss, CEA Grenoble, France)

16.45 – 17.15: Coffee break

17.15 – 18.00: Polymers in functionalization of nanoparticles and nanocomposites. Functional oligoperoxide-based
luminescent and scintillation polymer and mineral-nanocomposites. Applications in cellular research. (Alexander
Zaichenko, Polytechnical Institute, Lviv, Ukraine).
18.00 – 18.45: Synthesis and functionalization of fluorescent semiconductor quantum dots for cellular and in vivo
imaging (Thomas Pons, ESPCI, France)

Friday June 8th

10.00 – 10.45: Smart organic dyes as molecular reporters. Functionalization and incorporation into nanoscale
composites (Alexander P. Demchenko, Palladin Institute of Biochemistry NASU, Kiev, Ukraine).
10.45 – 11.30: Nerve growth cones as sensing, amplifying and filtering modules: a single-molecule and microfluidic
approach (Vasyl SHYNKAR, ENS Cachan, France)

11.30 – 12.00: Coffee break

12.00 – 12.45: Scanning tunneling microscopy of organic molecules (Olexandr Marchenko, Institute of Physics
NASU, Kiev, Ukraine).
12.45 – 13.30: Plasmonic enhancement of fluorescence and the construction of new analytical devices (Volodymyr
I. Chegel (Lashkarev Institute of semiconductor physics, Kiev, Ukraine).

13.30 – 14.45: Lunch break

14.45 – 15.30: Virus-templated assembly of QDs into higher order structures for applications in nanobiotechnology
and nanomedicine (Oya Tagit, IEF Orsay, France).
15.30 – 16.15: Plasmonic enhancement of fluorescence in imaging biomolecules and living cells (Halyna I.
Dovbeshko, Institute of Physics NASU, Kiev, Ukraine)

Contact : Niko Hildebrandt (IEF).