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🇦🇺 BioEM 2026 Day 4: Human Studies, Exposure Assessment and One Health

June 23, 2026 (EMFS)
Jun 24, 2026 (original)
Source: BioEM Society
Source category: Meeting
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International scientists are gathered in Cairns, Australia this week for BioEM 2026, the world's largest conference on the biological effects of electromagnetic fields. Wednesday covers human RF and microwave studies, low-frequency and pulsed-field laboratory research, and exposure assessment. The afternoon ends with workshops on non-animal methods and the effects of emerging EMF environments on humans, animals, plants and wildlife.

Day 4 program:

BioEM 2026
Day 4 — Wednesday (June 24)

Full programme

09:30 OS 7 — Human Studies: RF and Microwave (Grzegorz Tatoń, Nirmala Prajapati)
  • OS07-01 Grzegorz Tatoń — MONITORING THE PREVALENCE OF SELF-REPORTED ELECTROMAGNETIC HYPERSENSITIVITY IN POLAND: RESULTS OF NATIONWIDE SURVEYS CONDUCTED BETWEEN 2020 AND 2025
  • OS07-02 Adam Verrender — LOOKING FOR BIOMARKERS WHICH MAY EXPLAIN IDIOPATHIC ENVIRONMENTAL INTOLERANCE ATTRIBUTED TO ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS (IEI-EMF): DOES RF-EMF EXPOSURE INFLUENCE SALIVARY CORTISOL RESPONSE?
  • OS07-03 Benjamin Kalinosky — MODELING THE PULSE PROPAGATION, SPECIFIC ABSORPTION, AND THERMOACOUSTIC RESPONSE IN THE HUMAN BODY AND INNER EAR TO TRANSIENT 5G ULTRA-WIDEBAND ENERGY AND NARROWBAND COUNTERPARTS
09:30 OS 8 — In Vitro: ELF and Pulsed Fields (Micaela Liberti, Leslie Vallet)
  • OS08-01 Nhat Dang — FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT MODULATION OF CELL PROLIFERATION DYNAMICS AND G2/M CELL-CYCLE CONTROL BY WEAK EXTREMELY LOW-FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
  • OS08-02 Daniel Rittirsch — EFFECTS OF DYNAMIC BROADBAND ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS ON OSTEOGENIC DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN ADIPOSE-DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS IN VITRO
  • OS08-03 Yan Zhang — ELECTRIC FIELDS TRIGGER CERAMIDE-DEPENDENT BUDDING OF EXOSOME VESICLES INTO MULTIVESICULAR ENDOSOMES AND BOOST THE GENERATION OF EXOSOMES
  • OS08-04 Olga Pakhomova — RECOMBINANT GELONIN AS A NOVEL CYTOTOXIC AGENT FOR PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD–ENABLED TARGETED ABLATION
11:00 WS1 — EME Research, Measurement and Risk Communication: Highlighting Bioelectromagnetics in Australia (Sarah Loughran)
  • WS1-1 Sarah Loughran — WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION
  • WS1-2 Adam Verrender — ‘INVESTIGATING THE PRESENTATION OF NON-SPECIFIC SYMPTOMS ATTRIBUTED TO ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS’
  • WS1-3 Zoe Thomas — ‘A BURNING ISSUE: DEVELOPING EVIDENCE-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REGULATION OF COSMETIC NIR IN AUSTRALIA’
  • WS1-4 Nathan Bala — ‘INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTS OF RF-EMF ON CORE BODY TEMPERATURE, BEHAVIOUR AND NEUROTRANSMISSION IN HEALTHY AND PATHOLOGICAL RODENT MODELS’
  • WS1-5 Stuart Henderson — ‘MEASURING RF EXPOSURE IN PUBLIC SPACES: INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF CROWDS’
  • WS1-6 Steve Haines — ‘ACMA EME MEASUREMENT PROGRAM – 6 YEARS OF PRACTICAL MEASUREMENTS IN THE FIELD’
  • WS1-7 Rohan Mate — ‘PUBLIC COMMUNICATION – ARPANSA’S TALK TO A SCIENTIST PROGRAM’
  • WS1-8 Sarah Loughran — SUMMARY
13:00 BioEM General Assembly
14:30 OS 9 — Experimental Dosimetry (Blaž Valič, Débora Tuka Debola)
  • OS09-01 Ryota Ishioka — EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF THE ACTUAL MAXIMUM APPROACH FOR BEAMFORMING RADIO BASE STATIONS WITH MOVING UE
  • OS09-02 Erdal Korkmaz — EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF A COMPACT MMWAVE SENSOR FOR 5G NR FR2RF- EMF EXPOSURE MEASUREMENTS
  • OS09-03 Rob Werner — COMPARISON OF MODELLED EME COMPLIANCE BOUNDARIES USING THEORETICAL MAXIMUM AND ACTUAL MAXIMUM TRANSMIT POWER WITH MEASURED LEVELS.
  • OS09-04 Shotaro Inamori — VERIFICATION TOWARD EXAMINING THRESHOLDS OF AUDITORY EFFECTS INDUCED BY HIGH-FREQUENCY PULSED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS ~CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH REPEATED PULSES AND SINGLE PULSES~.
14:30 OS 10 — Epidemiology and Exposure Assessment 2 (Hiroaki Miyagi, Rohan Mate)
  • OS10-01 Chhavi Raj Bhatt — CHARACTERISING PERSONAL RF-EMF EXPOSURES ON TRAINS IN AUSTRALIA
  • OS10-02 Adriana Fernandes Veludo — EFFECT OF 5G ROLL-OUT ON RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD (RF-EMF) LEVELS IN EUROPEAN MICROENVIRONMENTS: SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATIONS IN EXPOSURE BETWEEN 2023 AND 2025.
  • OS10-03 Rieko Yamamoto — PERSONAL RF-EMF MEASUREMENTS IN ADOLESCENTS IN JAPAN: LEVELS AND FREQUENCY-BAND COMPOSITION ACROSS MICROENVIRONMENTS
  • OS10-04 Nicolas Loizeau — DISENTANGLING ENVIRONMENTAL AND SELF-INDUCED RF-EMF EXPOSURE WITH PORTABLE EXPOSIMETERS: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH AND EXPLORATORY MEASUREMENTS
16:00 WS2 — Non-Animal Methodologies in BioEM Research: AI, Organoids and Organs on a Chip (Anna Guller)
  • WS2-1 Anna Guller — NAMS IN BIOEM: WHY NOW, AND WHAT COUNTS AS MECHANISTIC EVIDENCE?
  • WS2-2 Kassra Ghassemkhani — CAN THETA BURST ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS DISRUPT LEARNING IN PLANARIA? EVIDENCE OF IMPAIRED FEAR-CONDITIONED RESPONSES
  • WS2-3 Millijoy D. Villanueva — FRACTAL, TEXTURE AND RADIOMICS-LIKE IMAGING FEATURES TO MAP GLIOBLASTOMA CELL RESPONSES TO STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS
  • WS2-4 Anna Guller — STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS INDUCE A CONSERVED STRESS-ADAPTATION SIGNATURE IN GLIOBLASTOMA CELLS: AN EXPLORATORY RNA-SEQ STUDY
  • WS2-5 All Speakers And Audience — MODERATED DISCUSSION: TOWARDS INTEGRATION OF NAMS IN BIOEM
16:00 WS3 — One Health, One EMF Environment: From 5G/6G Ecosystems to Space (Silvia Gallucci, Marta Bonato)
  • WS3-1 Marta Bonato — INTRODUCTION TO THE WS3: ONEHEALTH, ONE EMF ENVIRONMENT
  • WS3-2 Ken Karipidis — THE IMPACT OF RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS ON HUMANS, ANIMALS AND PLANTS
  • WS3-3 Silvia Gallucci — BEYOND 5G/6G NETWORKS: HOW NOVEL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMS HUMAN ELECTROMAGNETIC EXPOSURE
  • WS3-4 Massimo Maffei — THE IMPACT OF RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS ON HUMANS, ANIMALS AND PLANTS
  • WS3-5 Felipe Oliveira Ribas — ENVIRONMENTAL EMF EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT AND WILDLIFE: INSECT EXPOSURE TO RF AND THZ
  • WS3-6 All Speakers And Audience — DISCUSSION/Q&A

Source

BioEM 2026 — Technical Program and General Information (Wednesday programme) bioem.org

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BioEM 2026 — Cairns, Australia

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