Course Overview
Course Overview
The contents of the School comprise a diverse and all-encompassing programme, a mixture of lectures and laboratory practical work.
Highlights of 2026
Mina K. Chung: Atrial fibrillation from genes to therapeutics
Michal Cifra: Electric field effects on proteins: direct and indirect pathways
Mauro Giacca: RNA therapies for cardiac repair and regeneration
Brendan Koop: Fundamental principles of designing safe, effective, and usable systems for cardiac ablation via pulsed electric fields
Samo Mahnič: On the origin of bubbles in PFA
Helmut Pürerfellner: How PFA will change cardiac arrhythmia treatment
Matej Reberšek: Blood is not water
Mike Sano: It Begins At The End – How Clinical Goals and Constraints Affect Electroporation Device Development
Graham Wright: MRI characterization of PFA lesions
Laboratory and practical work
More details on the Practical work page
- L1 – Gene electrotransfer using locally enhanced electric field
- L2 – Visualization of local ablation zone distribution between two needle electrodes
- L3 – Comparison of flow cytometry and spectrofluorometric measurements in cell permeabilization experiments
- L4 – Triggering action potential and electroporation in excitable cells exposed to electric pulses
- L5 – E. coli inactivation by pulsed electric fields in a continuous mode
- L6 – Influence of the orientation of the electric field on the formation of the DNA membrane complex
- L7 – Measurements of the induced transmembrane voltage with fluorescent dye di-8-ANEPPS
- L8 – Influence of the orientation of the electric field on gene electrotransfer efficiency and cell viability
- L9 – Modelling, visualizing, and tracking pH front formation in tissue phantoms
- L10 – Simultaneous measurement of sarcomere shortening and calcium transients in primary rat cardiomyocytes exposed to electrical pulses
- L11 – Visualizing gas bubble formation during pulsed field delivery
- L12 – Visualization of cytoskeletal filaments with super-resolution structured illumination microscopy (SIM)
- L13 – Electroporation for treatment of cardiac arrhythmias
- L14 – Monitoring cell membrane depolarization due to electroporation using fluorescent plasma membrane potential indicator
- L15 – Measurements of the induced transmembrane voltage with fluorescent dye ElectroFluor630
- C1 – Treatment planning for electrochemotherapy and irreversible electroporation: optimization of voltage and electrode position
- C2 – Numerical modeling of thermal effects during irreversible electroporation treatments
- C3 – Molecular dynamics simulations of membrane electroporation
- C4 – Numerical modeling of pulsed field ablation in swine ventricular myocardium
- H1 – Measurement of electroporation pulses with oscilloscope, and voltage and current probes
- H2 – Development of pulsed power generators for electroporation