November 6-13, 2021
Organized by Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN)
The USERN Congress booklet is now available to explore what happened in the USERN Congress 2021
November 6, 2021
Formal Sciences: Human vs. Artificial Intelligence
(Hosted By Iran)
Searching in the Dark: Unsupervised Learning Meets Fundamental Science ______________________ Tommaso Dorigo, Italy
The impact of the Dark Triad on leader selection and performance ________________________________ Kevin Lowe, Australia
Novel insights into the human brain’s circuitry with diffusion MRI ______________________ Alexander Leemans, Netherlands
Challenges and opportunities in addressing unhealthy digital technology habits ___________________ Daniel King, Australia
Machine learning in brain-computer interfaces ______________________________________________________ Dongrui Wu, China
Simultaneity of vision and incremental knowledge ______________________________________________ Serena Sanseviero, Italy
The crossroad of Machine and Human Learning research __________________________________________ Fabien Lotte, France
Why metabolomics provide a myriad of data but not useful knowledge _____________________________ Rafael Franco, Spain
Singularities, fractals and non-Newtonian fluids ___________________________________________ Vicentiu Radulescu, Romania
Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke _________________________ Ashkan Mowla, USA
November 7, 2021
Physical and Chemical Sciences: Transdisciplinarity
(Hosted By Avicenna International College (Hungary) and USERN ZUMS Office)
Advanced materials impact air-conditioning industry ___________________________________Ernest Chua Kian Jon, Singapore
The Understanding and Application of Triboelectrification _______________________________________ Zong-Hong Lin, Taiwan
Bio-based Polymers from Plant Oils for Better Chemical Recycling _____________________________ Kotohiro Nomura, Japan
Utility under the Dark Tetrad _________________________________________________Orlando Manuel da Costa Gomes, Portugal
Towards a more decarbonized, digitalized, decentralized, democratized energy system_______ Nikos Hatziargyriou, Greece
Advanced materials for potassium batteries: chemistry, materials science and engineering ___________ Federico Bella Italy
Understanding and Optimizing Interface Energetic and Processes____________________________________Giulia Grancini, Italy
Idiosyncratic infusion reactions to nanomedicines: can we predict the unpredictable__________________Moein Moghimi, UK
Multicomponent High-Entropy Cantor alloys for the next generation of new materials ____________________ Brian Cantor, UK
Metal oxide chemical sensors ___________________________________________________________________ Elisabetta Comini, Italy
Dante Alighieri and astronomy _________________________________________________________________ Massima Capaccioli, Italy
November 8, 2021
Biological Sciences: Behind the Scene
(Hosted By University of Pavia (Italy) and USERN AUMS Office)
Novel microengineered for biomedical research _____________________________________ Majid Ebrahimi Warkiani, Australia
Global Pandemics and the essential need for multidisciplinary approach to policy-making _____ Amirhossein Takian, Iran
Discovering the role of the microbiome in health and disease _________________________________ Thomas Bosch, Germany
CD28 signaling and related Inborn Errors of Immunity _______________________________________________ Safa Baris, Turkey
When microbiome science meets philosophy and engineering ________________________________ Shirin Moossavi, Canada
Virtual microscopes to reproduce in silico molecular binding processes _________________ Vittorio Limongelli, Switzerland
Artificial Immune Cells: How Close Can We Get? _____________________________ Mohammad Mahdi Hasani-Sadrabadi, Iran
Biomedical Smart Tattoos _________________________________________________________________________ Carson Bruns, USA
Biohybrid electrospun materials: the role of complex interfaces ________________________________ Rossella Castagna, Italy
Physical and causal inferences in domestic dogs ______________________________________________ Julia Espinosa, Canada
Breakthroughs in the coordinates regulation of autophagy and cell proliferat __________________ Valentina Cianfanelli, Italy
Saliva as a reliable sample type for mass SARS-CoV-2 testing strategies ______________________________ Anne Wyllie, USA
How (not) to build a heart __________________________________________________________________ Francesco Pasqualini, Italy
November 9, 2021
Environmental Sciences: Save the Nature
(Hosted By Kharkiv National Medical University (Ukraine) and USERN SBMU Office)
The importance of space lawyers _____________________________________________________________ Frans von der Dunk, USA
Climate extremes in a warming climate ____________________________________________________________ Wenju Cai, Australia
Challenges for Sustainable Global Food Security _________________________________________________ Matin Qaim, Germany
Green processing as a tool to achieve Sustainable Development Goals ___________________________ Francisco Barba, Spain
Electrochemical strategy, a bright future in sensing of food and drugs _______________________ Hassan Karimi-Maleh, China
The Dark Side of Bottled Water _______________________________________________________________ Amir Hossein Mahvi, Iran
Indigenous landscapes and the impact of global change on forests __________________________________ Marc Abrams, USA
AI, computational fluid dynamics and sustainability ___________________________________________ Ricardo Vinuesa, Sweden
Sustainability Challenges for the Deep Half of the Planet ________________________________________________ Lisa Levin, USA
Environmental Toxicants and Epigenetics ___________________________________________________ Mohammad Abdollahi, Iran
Worldwide status of insecticide resistance of Aedes aegypti, Ae. albopictus ____________________ Hassan Vatandoost, Iran
A Complex Reaction Network for Understanding Early Earth Chemistry ______________________ Albert Fahrenbach, Australia
November 10, 2021
Medical Sciences: Health and Prevention
Reverse translation in perioperative clinical research: linking back to the laboratory _________________ Paul Myles, Australia
Update on antiviral treatment for Covid19 patients _______________________________________________ Ivan Hung, Hong Kong
Education during a Pandemic: Time for Virtual Mobility! _______________________________________ Jan Nouwen, Netherlands
Revisiting the work of the polymath Elie Metchnikoff in the light of COVID-19 ________________ Jean-Marc Cavaillon, France
Prevention of premature death in LMIC __________________________________________________________ Reza Malekzadeh, Iran
Prenatal stress and the effects on the fetus __________________________________________________________ Vivette Glover, UK
Mask off-policy in the shadow of emerging SARS-CoV2 variants ___________________________________ Mehdi Mirsaeidi, USA
Heterogeneity of infant bronchiolitis ______________________________________________________________ Carlos Camargo, USA
Identification of novel therapeutic targets for addiction ___________________________________________ Mehdi Farokhnia, USA
Surgical vs transcatheter aortic valve replacement: resolving the different perspectives of clinicians ____ Frank Sellke, USA
The Urgency to Pivot Back to Hippocratic Medicine ____________________________________________ Armin Arbab-Zadeh, USA
Interdisciplinary Approaches in Research __________________________________________________________ Sabu Thomas, India
Multidisciplinary management of placenta accreta spectrum ______________________________________ Alireza Shamshirsaz
November 11, 2021
Psychoneuroimmunological Sciences: Multidisciplinary Approach
Can you see the elephant yet? CBT and its candles ________________________________________________ Umberto Crisanti, UK
Resorbable Magnesium For Reducing Human Pain _____________________________________________ Manoj Gupta, Singapore
Multidisciplinary approach to sport, psychology and creativity studies ____________________________ Milos Milosevic, Serbia
Endocannabinoid signalling in chronic pain and related co-morbidities _______________________________ Livio Luongo, Italy
Multidisciplinary studies should reflect multidisciplinary practice ______________________________ Ekaterini Goudouris, Brazil
Didactics and teamwork to improve patient care in Immunology _______________________ Juan Carlos Aldave Becerra, Peru
The implementation of universal Newborn Screening for Primary Imunodeficiencies ________ Antonio Condino-Neto, Brazil
Single cell approaches for T cell monitoring in viral infections and cancer ____________________________ Sara De Biasi, Italy
In Search of a Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease _________________________________________________________ George Perry, USA
How demographic history of drift and founder effects can produce a modern mutational landscape of neurodegenerative
conditions ________________________________________________________________________________________ Kenneth Kosik, USA
Studying rare disorders of the Immune system, beyond looking for genes and effective therapies _______ Hans Ochs, USA
Developing data-driven biotypes to inform disease models in psychiatry ______________________________ Yena Lee, Canada
November 12, 2021
Social Sciences: Ethics and Moral
Human Flourishing: Well-Doing and the Sustainable Pursuit of Core Projects ____________________________ Brian Little, USA
Big tech, social media, and technological determinism _______________________________________ Ryan Maboloc, Philippines
On the Nature of Human Evil ______________________________________________________________ Natalya Shelkovaya, Ukraine
Multidisciplinarity for the scientific study of religion ___________________________________________ Sławomir Sztajer, Poland
The Dark Side of Productive Struggle and Productive Persistence ____________________________ Wayne Harvard Slater, USA
The Dark History of “Normal”: Why Applied Behavioral Science Needs Idionomic Concepts ___________ Steven Hayes, USA
How good is experts’ judgment of societal change? ___________________________________________ Igor Grossmann, Canada
Media Coverage and Public Opinion: Which Causes Which? ___________________________________ Christopher Wlezien, USA
Freedom, Security, Efficiency, and Resilience: Some lessons from the Covid Pandemic ______________ Barry Schwartz, USA
Brain Injury: Disrupting the Revolving Door of the Juvenile Justice System ____________________________ Kim Gorgens, USA
Social Integration Focusing on Mental Wellbeing in Prenatal and Adolescent Stages _________________ Juan Carreño, Chile
November 13, 2021
Integrated Sciences: Education and Research
Searching in the Dark: Unsupervised Learning Meets Fundamental Science ______________________ Tommaso Dorigo, Italy
Integrated Education _______________________________________________________________________________ Brian Lighthill, UK
Rationality as an Educational Aim __________________________________________________________ Chi-Ming Lam, Hong Kong
Interdisciplinary research in Network Physiology: Lessons from hypoxia _____________________________ Alireza Mani, UK
Translating the Emir Abdelkader’ poetry: being lost in translation _________________________________ Amine Harbi, Algeria
Scientific misconduct: A study _______________________________________________________________ Surapati Pramanik, India
“Conservation science in cultural heritage” – the case of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa ________________ Salvatore Lorusso, Italy
How positivity bias in transmission of scientific knowledge slows the recovery process _________ Matthias Herrath, USA
STEAM and social studies education _____________________________________________________ Delfin Ortega Sanchez, Spain
The Case For and Against Generations as a Demographic Construct _____________________________ Leah C. Georges, USA
Creativity under Stress ___________________________________________________________________________ Indre Viskontas, USA
USERN Congress Workshop Programs
Scientific Publication and Scientific Progress ________________________________________________________ George Perry, USA
Health Pseudoscience and Multidisciplinary Studies _____________________________________________ Kiarash Aramesh, USA
Introduction to microbiome analysis __________________________________________________________ Shirin Moossavi, Canada
How to write a Motivation Letter ______________________________________________________________ Amirhossein Takian, Iran
System Biology ______________________________________________________________________________ Farshid Noorbakhsh, Iran
Reporting p-values and effect sizes; how to calculate sample sizes with G*Power ______________ Serge Brand, Switzerland
Artificial Intelligence challenges in science and society _________________________________________ Tommaso Dorigo, Italy
Analyzing diffusion MRI data for investigating brain fiber pathways? ______________ Alexander Leemans, The Netherlands
Introduction to Spatial Transcriptomics ___________________________________________________ Arutha Kulasinghe, Australia
