Invited/Keynote Speaker at International Conferences:

Expert Talk: “Nanosystem-enabled delivery and regenerative strategies against inflammatory diseases” NANOinBIO 2024, April 14-20, 2024, Guadeloupe, France

Keynote: “Targeted Delivery of Interleukin-10 via Polymer Nanoparticles Reduces the Inflammation in Atherosclerosis”, ESB 2022, Sept 4-8, Bordeaux, France.

Invited Talk: “Enabled microfluidics chips for high throughput synthesis of tailored nanoparticles”, Pacifichem, December 15-20, 2021, HI, USA (Virtual).

Invited Talk: “Targeted Gene Delivery of Interleukin-10 via Polymer Nanoparticles to Reduce the Inflammation in Atherosclerosis”, December 15-20, 2021, HI, USA (Virtual).

Invited Talk: “Sugar-based Hybrid Nanomaterials’ Applications in Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine”, AMBER (Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research) Centre, Ireland, September 24, 2020 ((changed to an online presentation).

Invited Talk: “Targeted Gene Delivery of Interleukin-10 via Polymer Nanoparticles to Reduce the Inflammation in Atherosclerosis”, 20th IEEE Int Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO2020), July 29-31, 2020, Montreal, Canada (canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic).

Keynote: “Enabling Technologies for Tissue Engineering and biodevices”, 42nd edition of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’20), for Theme Micro/Nano-bioengineering; Cellular/Tissue Engineering & Biomaterial, July 20-24, 2020, Montreal, Canada (changed to an online presentation).

Seminar: Université de Mons “Advanced nanomaterials for regenerative medicine and nanomedicine”, May 6th, 2020, Mons, Belgium (canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic).

Invited Talk: Université de Paris, “Advanced nanomaterials for regenerative medicine and nanomedicine”, May 11th 2020, Paris, France (canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic).

Keynote: International Conference and Exhibition on Advanced & Nano Materials, “Applications of Hybrid Chitosan-Based Nanomaterials in Regenerative and Nano-medicine”, ICANM 2019, August 12-14th, Montreal, Canada.

Keynote: Rachmiel Levine-Arthur Riggs Diabetes Research Symposium, “Microfluid perfusion systems for secretion fingerprint analysis of pancreatic islets”, April 10-13, 2019, Pasadena, USA

Keynote: TERM-2018 (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine), “Chitosan and Derivatives in Regenerative Medicine and NanoMedicine”, October 29-31, 2018, Baltimore, USA.

Keynote: Nanotech France 2017 International Nanotechnology Conference, “Human Pancreatic Islet Secretory Fingerprint Analysis using a Microfluidic Impedance Spectroscopy Platform”, June 28-30, 2017, Paris, France.

University of Orleans (Cross-Faculty/Departmental seminar and Public Outreach), “More Sugar Please!”, September 21, 2016, France

Keynote: Microfluidics Congress, “Non-invasive monitoring of cellular activity using integrated microfluidic devices”, July 11-12, 2016, Philadelphia, USA.

Invited Talk: CMOS Emerging Technologies Research (CMOSETR 2016), “Monitoring of bacterial cells activity using a custom surface plasmon resonance biosensor”, May 25–27, 2016, Montreal, Canada.

Seminar: CNRS-Orleans, “The Evolutionary Use of Chitosan for Drug Delivery, Imaging, Biorecognition and Tissue Engineering”, April 2016, France.

Invited Talk: “Injectable purine-based sponges as a potential therapy to target remyelination post-spinal cord injuries”, Pacifichem 2015, December 15-20, HI, USA.

Invited Talk: “Surface-enhanced Raman scattering nanoparticles for the detection and mapping of cardiovascular inflammatory biomarkers”, Pacifichem 2015, December 15-20, HI, USA.

Keynote: Porous and Powder Materials 2015 (PPM 2015), “Injectable and in-situ rapidly gelling chitosan-based biomaterials: A potential therapy for remyelination post-spinal cord injuries”, September 15-18, 2015, Izmir, Turkey.

Plenary: Bioinspired molecular assemblies as protective and delivery systems, “Rapidly Gelling Injectable Sponges as a Potential Therapy to Target Remyelination Post-Spinal Cord Injuries”, September 7-9, 2015, Orléans, France.

Horiba Webinar Series, “Sub-femtomole Detection of 16s rRNA from Legionella pneumophilia Using Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging”, June 18th, 2014.

Ian Wark Institute, University of South Australia, “Enabling Microsystems for Biomedical Applications”, June 2nd, 2014, Adelaide, Australia.

Les Entretiens Jacques Cartier, Edition 2013, “Microsystèmes pour le Monitorage Non-invasive et Quantitative de la Fonctionnalité des Ilots Pancréatiques Humains”, Novembre 24-16, 2013, Lyon, France.

Tutorial: 4th International Symposium on Surface and Interface of Biomaterials, “Microdevices for application in regenerative and personalized medicine”,, September 24-28, 2013, Roma, Italy.

Keynote: 4th International Symposium on Surface and Interface of Biomaterials, “Microfluidic Lab on-a-Chip devices for high throughput rare cell sorting”, September 24-28, 2013, Roma, Italy.

Keynote: MINATEC- Nanoscience foundation- Nano and micro systems for cell biology, “Enabling technology for label-free detection, separation, patterning and in vitro culture of cells”, July 16th, 2013, Grenoble, France.

INSA-Institut de Nanotechnology de Lyon “Multipurpose Lab on-Chip Devices for Real-Time Monitoring and Analysis of Molecular and Cellular Interactions”, July 7th, 2013, Lyon, France.

Institut Claude Bourgelat, “Enabling tools for neogenesis”, May 28th, 2013, Lyon, France.

Keynote: 9th Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Conference (NanoTR-9), “Enabling technology for label-free detection, separation, patterning and in vitro culture of cells”, June 24-28, 2013, Erzurum, Turkey.

Keynote: Recent Advances in Nano Sensors for Mono- and Multi-Target Assays Workshop, “post amplification strategies for Time effective detection of 16S rRNA from Legionella pneumophilia in water sample using SPRi”, 19-22 May 2013, Kiev, Ukraine.

245th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, “post amplification strategies for Time effective detection of 16S rRNA from Legionella pneumophilia in water sample using SPRi”, April 2013 New Orleans, USA.

University of Clarkson, “Microfluidic devices for the Biological Components: On-chip investigation of genes, proteins, cells, and tissue”, November 2012, Potsdam, USA.

Label Free Techniques 2012 Conference, “Coupling Engineered Surface Chemistry and Digital Microfluidics with SPRi for Proteomic and Genomic Research”, November 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Keynote: 4th International Conference-Smart Materials, Structures and Systems, “Light sensitive nanocarriers for gene delivery”, June 2012, Florence, Italy.

9th world Biomaterials Conference, “Self-Assembly of Polyelectrolyte Multilayered Shell on Red Blood Cells for Immunocamoulage: A Step Towards Universal Blood, Workshop for Layer-by-layer built biomaterials: 1-, 2-, and 3-D nanoassembly”, Chengdu, China, June 2012.

Inst. for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, “Nanotechnology in personalized medicine: design of biointerfaces for modulating the interaction with biologics”, Zanjan, Iran, December 2011.

4e edition colloque LIA-LN2, “Biocapteurs pour le suivi de la néogenèse”, July 2011, Allevard-les-Bains, France.

College of Medicine, Inha U Hopsital, “New paradigms in target and sustain release systems”, May 2011, Incheon, South Korea.

3rd Workshop of Nanosense, May 2011, “Enabling tools for tissue engineering”, Jeju Island, South Korea.

Northeastern University    "Design of Microfluidic Lab-on-Chip devices for ultrasensitive immunoassays", October 2010, Boston, USA.

Université Paris-Sud, “Design of Biointerfaces for modulating the interaction with biologics”, September 2010, Orsay, France.

Workshop “Biosensors based on Nanomaterials”, “Integrated SPR-i based digital microfluidics for high throughput biomarker discovery”, May 2010, Kiev, Ukraine.

Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán A.C., Invited lecturer and provided three lectures on tissue engineering, March 2010, Merida, Mexico.

Keynote: International Congress of Antibody-2010 (ICA), High Throughput Microfluidic Platforms for Biomarker Discovery & Quantification, January 2010, Dalian, China.

Université Joseph Fourier, “In vitro and in vivo biocompatibility of nanoparticles”, September 2009, Lyon, France.

Bon-tec 2009, “A core-shell nanoparticulate delivery system for the localized and controlled release of OP-1 in distraction osteogenesis”, October 2009, Hanover, Germany.

HUPO (Human Proteome Organization) 2009 international conference, “Digital microfluidics compatible with dual florescence-SPR detection for proteomics”, September 2009, Toronto, Canada.

Institute of Bioengineering, “Engineered biointerfaces for tissue engineering and targeted drug delivery”, University of Edinburgh, August 2009, Scotland.

École Centrale de Lyon, “Novel biointerfaces for modulating the interactions with biologics”, June 2009, Lyon, France.

25th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, “Novel injectable and release-controlled OP-1 hybrid core-shell nanocapsules enhance distraction osteogenesis in rabbits”, Florida International University, May 2009, Florida, USA.

NanoTech, “Microfluidic Platforms for Biomarker Discovery & Quantification”, 2009, February 2009, Tokyo, Japan.

Middle East Technological University, “High Throughput Microfluidic Platforms for Biomarker Discovery & Quantification”, January 2009, Turkey.

1st Workshop of Nanobiotechnology organized by National Institute in genetics and nanotechnology, “High Throughput Microfluidic Platforms for Biomarker Discovery & Quantification”, June 2008, Teheran, Iran.

1st Workshop of Nanobiotechnology organized by National Institute in genetics and nanotechnology, “Biocompatible Nanoparticles-Based Quantum Dots for In Vitro and In Vivo Live Imaging”, June 2008, Teheran, Iran.

3rd International Conference on Smart Materials, Structure and systems (CIMTEC 2008), “Biocompatible Nanoparticles-Based Quantum Dots for In Vitro and In Vivo Live Imaging”, June 2008, Sicily, Italy.

European Symposium of Vascular Biomaterials (ESVB), “Drug-Eluting Stents: Limits and Perspectives”, May 2007, France.

IV Tampere Tissue Engineering conference, “Complex permittivity measurements for non-invasive & on-line monitoring of cellular activities and cell phenotyping in micro-porous scaffolds”, March 2007, Finland.

9th Annual Congress of Iranian Ass. Endodontics, “a liposome-based drug delivery system incorporating alternating L-b-L assembly of poly-electrolytes for craniofacial distraction osteogenesis”, August 2006, Isfahan, Iran.

Commission d’Énergie Atomique (CEA), “Surface molecular engineering through guided chemistry for biosensing”, December 2005, France.

European Symposium of Vascular Biomaterials (ESVB), “Coated stents: a two-way approach to address restenosis”, May 2005, France.

ETH-Zurich, Department of Material Eng, “Surface molecular engineering to prevent restenosis” August 2004, Switzerland.

Universite de Montréal, “2-D and 3-D polysaccharide systems for gene, protein and drug therapy”, April 2005, Canada.

Agriculture Canada, “Cell and bacterial adhesion on biomaterial, surface: Characterization and quantification”, January 2005, Canada.

Clemson University, Department of Bioengineering “Towards new strategies for improvement of cardiovascular implants”, June 2004, North Carolina, USA.

2nd International Conference on New Biomedical Materials, “Nanoparticles delivery system for distraction osteogenesis”, 2003, Cardiff, UK.

1st World Congress on Regenerative Medicine, “LbL deposition on live tissue as a means for delivery of growth factors for endothelialization”, 2003, Germany.

Institut Curie, “Nanoscale surface development and characterization technologies”, Oct. 2002, France.

1st World Congress on Biomimetics and Artificial Muscles, “Development of permittivity-based probes for the measurement of cell growth”, 2002, USA.

European Symposium of Vascular Biomaterials (ESVB), “Biostability of metallic vascular implants”, 2001, France.

ADF (association dentaire française), “De l’ostéoinduction à l’ostéointégration. 2001, France.

Cleveland Clinic foundation, “Effect of sterilization technologies on biomaterial and medical devices”, 2000, USA.

PARMAPACK’99, “Effect of sterilization on medical devices surfaces”, 1999, France.

Univ. Paris Sud (Orsay), “Effect of ozone on destruction of prion-like proteins”, 1998, France.