Day 1
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
Day 2
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
Day 3
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
Day 4
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
Day 5
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
Day 6
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
Day 7
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
Day 8
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
Workshops
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