Innovation with Purpose MdM Sessions
Conferences that bring together researchers, creators, and changemakers to explore how innovation can be harnessed to address real-world challenges. Through curated sessions, it fosters meaningful dialogue, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and actionable ideas that align technological progress with social impact.
- 07/11/2025: Designing Diagnostics for Real-World Conditions: The LMIC Perspective
- By Olga Ordeig, independent IVD consultant
How can we make diagnostics truly fit for purpose? This presentation takes the perspective of low- and middle-income countries to explore how diagnostic tools can be designed, produced, and implemented to respond to real-world demands and conditions.
- 27/02/2026: From Research to Ecosystem Vision: An Entrepreneurial Electrochemist giving back to the Scientific Community
- By Dmitry Galyamin, Co-founder & Managing Director of ElectroSeek and IMB-CNM alumnus
In this talk, Dmitry Galyamin reflects on the practical challenges encountered during an academic career and on how engagement with the scientific community helped transform recurring frustrations into concrete solutions. One question that particularly shaped this journey was: "why is it often so difficult to find reliable electrochemistry equipment or centralized technical information, while in everyday life we can book travel or buy products online quickly and efficiently?" This seminar offers an honest perspective on his transition from academia to entrepreneurship to build ElectroSeek, a platform that provides solutions to the various technical challenges faced by the electrochemistry community.
- 24/03/2026: Plant Bioelectronics
- By Eleni Stavrinidou, Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University (Norrköping, Sweden)
The climate change and growing population call for plants with increased tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress and for plants with higher productivity. I will present our recent advancements on interfacing bioelectronic tools with model plant systems with the aim to enable new discoveries and possibilities in plant science. We recently developed conformable multielectrode arrays based on organic electronics for large-scale and highresolution plant electrophysiology. This technology enabled us to performed precise spatiotemporal mapping of the action potential in Venus flytrap, a model system for fast electrical signalling, and to reveal key properties of the AP. Currently we are extending the application of this technology to other plant species with the aim to contribute to the mechanistic understanding of long-distance responses in plants particularly related to environmental stress. Apart from monitoring electrical signals we also used electric field to stimulate plants. We developed a bioelectronic platform, the eSoil, that stimulates the growth of plants in hydroponics culture, increasing their biomass by 50%. This work opens the pathway for enhancing plant growth in hydroponics using materials science and bioelectronics that may result in more sustainable food production.
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