Special Sessions

List of special sessions for the WC2026 Congress

The Congress will comprise both regular as well as a number of special sessions.
The table below gives an overview at a glance.
Descriptions of the special sessions will be added later.


Special sessions

# Special Session Organizer(s)
1 Electroporation for Cell Engineering Govind Srimathveeravalli
2 Microfluidic electroporation Claire Hur, Xiaoyun Ding, Jeffrey Zahn
3 Veterinary Applications of ECT Felipe Maglietti
4 Nanoscale Electroporation Andy Tay
5 Technologies, Advancements and Challenges for Sub-Nanosecond Pulses Delivery: Towards Minimally Invasive and Bridges with High Frequency Electromagnetic Fields EMF Exposure Systems Delia Arnaud-Cormos, Philippe Lévêque
6 Advances in the Theory of Electroporation Lea Rems, Carlos Marques
7 Fundamental Physicochemical Effects of Pulsed Electric Fields Michal Cifra, Samo Mahnič
8 Electrotransfection for Immunotherapy Fan Yuan
9 The Use of Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF) in the Food Industry Stefan Töpfl
10 Irreversible Electroporation Rafael Davalos
11 In Vivo Delivery of Genetic Medicine Through Gene Electrotransfer Emanuela Signori, Maja Čemažar
12 Emerging Medical Applications of Nanosecond and Microsecond Pulsed Electric Fields Rich Nuccitelli, Olga Pakhomova
13 Therapeutic Applications of Gene Electrotransfer Richard Heller, Hao Lin
14 Electric Fields for Microbial Cell Factories: Process Intensification and Product Recovery Javier Raso, Sudhir Sastry
15 Effect of PEF Technology on Food Structure and Digestibility Indra Oey
16 Experimental Studies of Cell and Membrane Effects of Electroporation Andrei Pakhomov
17 Electroporation-Based Treatments in Veterinary Medicine Nataša Tozon, Urša Lampreht Tratar
18 Pulsed Field Ablation for Cardiac Arrythmias Edward Jacobs
19 Potential applications of PEFs technology in vegetable and fruit processing Claudia Siemer, Felix Schottroff
20 Calcium electroporation Julio Arroyo, Rafael Devalos
21 Electrochemotherapy of cutaneous tumors Gregor Serša