Scientific information
This summit is jointly organized by the International Association for Breath Research (IABR) and the University and Municipality of Parma.
Summit Directors
Massimo Corradi and Antonio Mutti
International Advisory Committee
Anton Amann, Austria
Eugenio Baraldi, Italy
Peter J. Barnes, U.K.
Jörg Ingo Baumbach, Germany
Raed Dweik, USA
Leonardo M. Fabbri, Italy
Dario Olivieri, Italy
Joachim Pleil, USA
Terence Risby, USA
Jochen Schubert, Germany
The Summit will provide a forum to clinicians, scientists, engineers, and environmentalists to present their latest findings and to meet industry executives and entrepreneurs to discuss key trends, future directions, and upcoming technologies in breath analysis. Relevant applications include non invasive diagnosis of respiratory and non-respiratory diseases, assessment of exposure to environmental pollutants, and bioterrorism / security issues.
Final Program
Sunday, 11 September Opening lecture
03.00PM Registration
06.00PM Opening lecture - P.J. Barnes: I.1 Exhaled breath biomarkers
07.00PM Welcome party
Monday, 12 September Exhaled nitric oxide (NO)
Chairs: L. Fabbri, R. Dweik
09.00AM L. Fabbri I.2 Can biomarkers drive personalized medicine?
09.30AM S. Kharitonov I.3 Spirituality, Religion, and Health, Efficacy of Prayer and its Assessment: New Area for Exhaled Biomarkers
10.00AM R. Dweik I.4 Exhaled NO in asthma
10.30AM Coffee break
11.00AM G. Piacentini I.5 Measurement of Exhaled NO in Routine Practice
11.30AM C. Bucca I.6 Exhaled NO in non pulmonary diseases
12.00PM M. Maniscalco I.7 Exhaled nasal NO: what does it tell us?
12.30PM A.S. Modak I.8 Why phenotype breath tests trump genotype tests to individualize therapy?
01.00PM Lunch
Monday, 12 September Exhaled breath condensate (EBC)
Chairs P.J. Barnes, I. Horvath
02.00PM P. Rosias I.9 Methodological aspects of EBC collection and analysis
02.30PM S. Loukides I.10 EBC in asthma and COPD
03.00PM C. Gessner I.11 EBC in lung cancer
03.30PM L. Ciaffoni I.12 Laser-based Absorption Spectroscopy as a Technique for Rapid In-Line Analysis of Respired Gas Concentrations of Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapour
04.00PM J. Hunt I.13 What does EBC pH tell us?
04.30PM E.Baraldi I.14 Metabonomics of EBC
05.00PM I. Horvath I.15 EBC: pearls and pitfalls
Monday, 12 September 2011
Conference Room A
Selected oral presentations on Methodological aspects of breath analysis Chair: A. Amman, M. Hepton
05.30PM M. Sawano, A. Shimouchi O.1. A tracer analysis to demonstrate and quantify the redistribution of endogenous carbon monoxide from blood to tissue
05.40PM O. Beck O.2. Developing exhaled breath as a matrice for drugs of abuse testing
05.50PM A. Aksenov, A. Gojova, W. Zhao, M. Schivo, C. Sandrock, N. J. Kenyon, R. Harper, C.E. Davis O.3. Examining mammalian cell culture headspace volatile organic compounds for biomarkers of cellular changes
06.00PM J. Hunt O.4. An inexpensive 5-minute assay system for breath aldehydes, with sensitivity below 100 ppb
06.10PM J. Izquierdo-Garcia, G. Peces-Barba, J. Ruiz-Cabello O.5. Is the NMR-based metabolomic analysis of Exhaled Breath Condensate accurate?
06.20PM T. Matsusaki, Hi. Morimatsu, J. Kosaka, J. Matsumi, H. Shimizu, T. Takahashi O.6. Increase in Exhaled CO Concentration in Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Conference Room B
Selected oral presentations on Clinical aspects of exhaled breath analysis Chair: E. Baraldi, H. Wirtz
05.30PM M. Hogman, P. Merilainen O.7. Flow dependence of the flow independent NO parameters
05.40PM U. Tisch, R. Ionescu, R. Bassal, M. Nakhleh, N. Axelrod, D. Robertman, Y. Tessler, A. Marmur, I. Schlesinger, J. Aharon-Peretz, H. Haick O.8. The "Breath-Prints" of Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease
05.50PM D. Fuchs, H. Jamnig, P. Heininger, M. Klieber, S. Schroecksnadel, M. Fiegl, M. Hackl, H. Denz , A. Amann O.9. Decline of exhaled isoprene in lung cancer correlates with immune activation
06.00PM KDG van de Kant, JJBN van Berkel, Q Jobsis, V Lima Passos, EMM Klaassen, L van der Sande, CP van Schayck, JC de Jongste, FJ van Schooten, E Dompeling, JW Dallinga. O.10. Exhaled breath profiling in the diagnosis of wheezy preschool children
06.10PM C. Sachs-Olsen, M. Sanak, A.M. Lang, A. Gielicz, P. Mowinckel, K. Cecilie, L. Carlsen, K. Carlsen, A. Szczeklik O.11. Eoxins - A new inflammatory pathway in childhood asthma
06.20PM A. Fell, H. Noto, M. Skogstad, K.Nordby, W. Eduard, M. Veel Svendsen, R. Ovstebo, A. Siebke Troseid, J. Kongerud O.12. A cross-shift study of lung function, exhaled nitric oxide, and inflammatory markers in blood in Norwegian cement production workers
06.30PM DK Milton, MP Fabian, J McDevitt O.13. Influenza Virus Aerosols in Human Exhaled Breath: Particle Size, Culturability, and Effect of Surgical Masks.
Tuesday, 13 September Exhaled volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in lung diseases
Chairs D. Olivieri, A. Amann
09.00AM T. Risby I.16 Methodological aspects of VOC collection
09.30AM A. Amann I.17 Research Fields Involving Volatile Compounds: Achievements and Challenges
10.00AM Miekisch W I.18 Data processing in breath analysis - From reading the runes to valid science
10.30AM Coffee break
11.00AM FJ Van Schooten I.19 Metabolomics of Exhaled VOCs by GC-MS-TOF in Inflammatory Lung Diseases
11.30AM P.Mazzone I.20 Exhaled VOCs in lung cancer
12.00PM M. Rosenberg I.21 Microorganisms and Breath Odors
12.30PM J.I. Baumbach I.22 Ion mobility spectrometers in point of care, intensive care and systems biology
01.00PM Lunch
Tuesday, 13 September Breath tests in different clinical conditions
Chairs I.23 T. Risby, J.I. Baumbach
02.00PM M. Phillips I.24 Breath Tests in Different Clinical Conditions
02.30PM T.Popov I.25 Exhaled breath temperature and inflammation
03.00PM JK Schubert I.26 Breath Analysis for Monitoring of inflammatory and metabolic processes
03.30PM W. Denzer I.27 Determination of breath methane levels using Cavity Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy - a feasibility study
04.00PM PR Galassetti I.28 Exhaled breath in diabetes
04.30PM JA Vogt I.29 13CO2 breath tests using infra red spectroscopy
05.00PM J.Dallinga Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Diagnosis and Monitoring
Tuesday 13 September2011
Conference Room A
Selected oral presentations on Methodological aspects of exhaled breath analysis Chair: J. Pleil, W. Miekish
05.30PM M. Syhre, J. Gerhold, H. Wirt O.14. Cutting down to the essentials - the urgent need for validation of electronic nose systems in the quest for early lung cancer detection via breath
05.40PM B. Grabowska-Polanowska, J. Faber, I. Sliwka O.15. The trace analysis of amines in gaseous samples using GC/MS and chosen preconcentration methods
05.50PM J. Beauchamp O.16. Confounding variables in breath analysis - you air what you eat!
06.00PM F. Hoffmeyer, M. Raulf-Heimsoth, T. WeiB, M. Lehnert, B. Kendzia, V. Harth, J. Henry B. Pesch, T. Bruning O.17. Relation between EBC biomarkers and internal exposure to metals from gas metal arc welding
06.10PM W Filipiak, A. Sponring, A. Filipiak, C. Ager, A. Bajtarevic, J. Tropair, A. Amann O.18. Analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by TD-GC-MS: possible application for the selection of cancer-related metabolites?
06.20PM T.Ligor, E. Trawinska, K. Cieslinski, B.Buszewski O.19. Hyphenated techniques for identification of VOCs in breath
06.30PM V.L. Vaks, E.G. Domracheva, A.V. Maslennikova, S.I. Pripolzin, E.A. Sobakinskaya, M.B. Chernyaeva O.20. The Terahertz Nonstationary Spectroscopy for Exhaled Breath Analysis
Conference Room B
Selected oral presentations on Clinical aspects of exhaled breath analysis Chair: R. Dweik, FJ. Van Scooten
05.30PM Y. Joseph, I. Raible, M. Sarpasan, G. Nelles, N. Krasteva O.21 Chemiresistive Nanocomposite Sensors and Electonic Nose for Breath Analaysis Applications
05.40PM J. Herbig, K. Winkler, I. Kohl A. Hansel O.22 Monitoring Metabolic Processes using Real-Time Breath Analysis with PTR-MS
05.50PM G. Vidal-de-Miguel, A. Herrero, G. Bailador, E. Criado, F. Zambrana, C. Sanchez, E. Casado O.23 Towards an Online Breath Cancer Diagnostic Tool
06.00PM F. N. Schleich, R. Asandei, M. Manise, J. Sele, C. Graas, R. Louis O.24 Are FENO indices useful diagnostic tools in suspected asthma?
06.10PM V. Ruzsanyi, A. Amann O.25 Ion mobility spectrometry: a portable tool for fast analysis of exhaled breath
06.20PM M.P. Hlastala, J.C. Anderson O.26 Exchange of Highly Soluble Gases by the Lungs
Wednesday, 14 September
08.30AM Discussant: DK Milton Poster Discussion
Breath Biomarkers in Environmental Health
Chairs A. Mutti, J. Pleil
09.30AM J. Pleil I.30 Breath Biomarkers in Environmental Health Science: Exploring Patterns in the Human Exposome
10.30AM M. Goldoni I.31 Metallic elements in exhaled breath condensate
10.30AM A.C. Olin I.32 Exhaled particles for sampling non-volatiles in breath
11.00AM Coffee break
11.15AM J. King I.33 Real-time measurements of exhaled breath
11.45AM M. Luisetti and P. Iadarola I.34 Profiling the Proteome of Exhaled Breath Condensate in Healthy Smokers and COPD Patients
12.15PM A. Amann Closing remarks
