DLD Study Day - 3rd edition

Tuesday 15 Sept 2026, 08:30 → 17:30 Europe/Brussels

D5 (Major Housiau Barracks)

08:30 → 09:00 Welcoming: Registration

Registration and coffie

09:00 → 09:15 Session 1: Welcome talk

CBRN - Bio & Chem

09:15 → 09:30 Session 1: Non-destructive decontamination and new ways of dealing with CBRN contaminated forensic evidence in a laboratory.

CBRN - Bio & Chem

Convener: Mr Alessandro Previero (DLD)

09:30 → 09:35 Session 1: Isolation and genetic characterization of waterborne microorganisms with the potential of causing outbreaks and/or being used as bioterrorism weapons.

CBRN - Bio & Chem

Convener: Dr Laëtitia Avrain (DLD)

09:35 → 09:50 Session 1: Analysis of Chemical Warfare Agents and Related Compounds for Technical Exploitation

CBRN - Bio & Chem

Convener: Mr Brecht Wouters (DLD)

09:50 → 09:53 Session 1: Forensic Analysis of Contaminated Evidence: Laboratory processing of DNA and documents contaminated by chemical and/or biological warfare agents

CBRN - Bio & Chem

Convener: Mr Alessandro Previero (DLD)

09:53 → 09:58 Session 1: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment of circulating Pathogens WIth Likelihood to become bioterrorism agents or cause Disease outbreaks.

CBRN - Bio & Chem

Convener: Mr Gilles Fastré (DLD)

09:58 → 10:13 Session 1: DEPloyable Immunoassays for Biological TOXin detection.

CBRN - Bio & Chem

Convener: Mr Zacharie Paquet (DLD)

10:13 → 10:16 Session 1: Artificial Intelligence (Machine learning)-based identification of environmental & biological tandem mass spectrometry data

CBRN - Bio & Chem

Convener: Brecht Wouters (DLD)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffie break & Poster Session

Museum room

10:50 → 10:55 Session 2: Development of a Next Generation Sequencing pipeline applicable to the characterisation of plasmid-mediated pathogenicity of Biological Warfare Agents, as well as clinical and potentially harmful environmental agents.

Bio & Med

Convener: Dr Alejandra Vargas Valderrama (DLD)

10:55 → 11:10 Session 2: RESILIENCE-R: First research action for Medical counter measures performed in the frame of the RESILIENCE FPA consortium

Bio & Med

Convener: Dr Anandi Martin (HMRA - LabMCT)

11:10 → 11:25 Session 2: Vector-Borne Diseases - Provisional title

Bio & Med

Convener: Mr Gilles Fastré (DLD)

11:25 → 11:30 Session 2: Integrating novel antimicrobials & BIOfilm-targeting strategies for development of Targeted Antimicrobial Combinations & Therapies for wound infections

Bio & Med

Convener: Dr Laëtitia Avrain (DLD)

11:30 → 11:45 Session 2: Development and validation of multiplex LAMP assays for rapid and reliable detection of highly pathogenic biological warfare and bioterrorism agents (CDC Category A) and their integration into the GeneDisc®system.

Bio & Med

Convener: Dr Mostafa Bentahir (DLD-BIO)

11:45 → 11:50 Session 2: Belgian e-platform for Protein-based Refinement and Optimized Threat Evaluation using Computational AI-driven Technology

Bio & Med

Convener: Dr Béatrice Sulka (DLD)

11:50 → 11:55 Session 2: Food-borne detection of high-risk consumption pathways of cholera outbreaks: present and future.

Bio & Med

Convener: Mr Gilles Fastré (DLD)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch & Poster session

13:00 → 13:15 Session 3: Prevent, Protect and recovery from incident or accident by radiological detection.

Convener: Mr Dylan Malfroid (DLD)

13:15 → 13:18 Session 3: Remote Analysis & Detection for the Identification of rAdioactive maTErials in the Field

Convener: Mrs Christine Mertens (DLD)

13:20 → 13:35 Session 3: Surveillance and Reconnaissance Techniques for Chemical and Biological Threats

Convener: Dr Alejandra Vargas Valderrama (DLD)

13:35 → 13:50 Session 3: Drone for nuclear detection and surveillance - Provisional title

Convener: Mr Marc Fonteyne (DLD)

13:50 → 14:05 Session 3: Operationnal activities @ DLD by White cell

Convener: Mr Wim Bruyninckx (DLD)

14:05 → 14:35 Coffie break & Poster session

14:35 → 14:50 Session 4: New Generation Green Energy Systems: Development and Characterization of Heat and Electricity Production in a BE Defense Base

Convener: Mr François Dougnier (DLD)

14:50 → 15:05 Session 4: Nanofibre-based aerosol layers for enhanced CBRN protection

Convener: Dr Hilda Wullens (DLD)

15:05 → 15:20 Session 4: Generating Synthetic Data from Limited Datasets

Convener: Dr Oscar Olarte Rodriguez (ERM - MWMW)

15:20 → 15:23 Session 4: Compatibility of "green" non-conventional fuels in the frame of he NATO single fuel policy

Convener: Mr François Dougnier (DLD)

15:23 → 15:38 Session 4: EDA projects @ DLD

Convener: Dr Béatrice Sulka (DLD)

15:40 → 16:00 Conclusion & Final discussion: Conclusion and final discussion

16:00 → 17:30 Drink