Programme
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Programme
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Schedule last updated: 6 September, 2026
All times are shown in local time (CET, Europe/Ljubljana). Lectures are held in the Multimedia lecture room.
Lecture Lab & practical work Round table Poster & coffee Lunch Social event Exam Registration
Monday, 9 November 2026
| Time | Session | Lecturer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration | ||
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Electroporation – a platform technology | Damijan MIKLAVČIČ | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Student/Poster presentations & Coffee | ||
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Resting and induced transmembrane voltage | Tadej KOTNIK | |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | On the origin of bubbles in Pulsed Field Ablation | Samo MAHNIČ | |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Blood Is Not Water: Hemolysis, Bubble Formation, Protein Denaturation, and Hemostatic Changes During Pulsed Field Ablation | Matej REBERŠEK | |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Lunch | ||
| 14:15 – 15:00 | How PFA will change cardiac arrhythmia treatment | Helmut PÜRERFELLNER | |
| 15:00 – 17:00 | Laboratory and practical work | ||
| 18:30 – 20:30 | Welcome reception |
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
| Time | Session | Lecturer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Molecular dynamics simulations of lipid bilayers electroporation | Mounir TAREK | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Student/Poster presentations & Coffee | ||
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Electric field effects on proteins: direct and indirect pathways | Michal CIFRA | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Tissue in electric field | Bor KOS | |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Lunch | ||
| 14:15 – 15:00 | MRI characterization of PFA lesions | Graham WRIGHT | |
| 15:00 – 17:00 | Laboratory and practical work | ||
| 19:00 – 21:00 | EBTT icebreaker |
Wednesday, 11 November 2026
| Time | Session | Lecturer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Electroporation and electropermeabilisation | Lluis M. MIR | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Student/Poster presentations & Coffee | ||
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Nucleic acids electrotransfer in vitro | Marie-Pierre ROLS | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Collateral effects of electroporation | Antoni IVORRA | |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Lunch | ||
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Fundamental principles of designing safe, effective, and usable systems for cardiac ablation via pulsed electric fields | Brendan KOOP | |
| 15:00 – 17:00 | Laboratory and practical work |
Thursday, 12 November 2026
| Time | Session | Lecturer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Gene electrotransfer in vivo | Maja ČEMAŽAR | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Student/Poster presentations & Coffee | ||
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Prophylactic and therapeutic applications of gene electrotransfer | Richard HELLER | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Irreversible electroporation as an ablation technique | Rafael DAVALOS | |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Lunch | ||
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Atrial fibrillation from genes to therapeutics | Mina CHUNG | |
| 15:15 – 18:00 | Laboratory and practical work | ||
| 15:15 – 18:00 | Round table: Cardiac pulsed field ablation – reality check (in parallel with the practical work) | ||
| 18:30 – 20:30 | Networking dinner |
Friday, 13 November 2026
| Time | Session | Lecturer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Electrochemotherapy from bench to bedside | Gregor SERŠA | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Student/Poster presentations & Demo of electroporators | ||
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Effects of electroporation on vasculature | Boštjan MARKELC | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Electrochemotherapy in clinical practice | Julie GEHL | |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Lunch & Demo of electroporators | ||
| 14:15 – 15:00 | RNA therapies for cardiac repair and regeneration | Mauro GIACCA | |
| 15:00 – 17:00 | Laboratory and practical work | ||
| 18:30 – 20:30 | Gala dinner |
Saturday, 14 November 2026
| Time | Session | Lecturer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Development of devices and electrodes | Damijan MIKLAVČIČ | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Poster presentations / Coffee | ||
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Cardiac PFA | Atul VERMA | |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | It begins at the end – how clinical goals and constraints affect electroporation device development | Michael SANO | |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Exams for ECTS credits | ||
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Certificates and goodbye |