Welcome to the web site of the 2nd International Conference on Bio-joining that will take place in Porto, Portugal, 29-30 October 2026. The conference venue is the campus of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), which offers excellent facilities for high quality scientific interactions. FEUP is located in the town of Porto in the Northern region of Portugal. Porto is a beautiful and lively city, steeped in history and rich in great experiences. With its magnificent location by the Atlantic coast, Porto is the city of the world famous Port Wine and the River Douro.
This conference is held every 2 years. The conference is chaired by Lucas F. M. da Silva and co-chaired by Stanislav Gorb, Brian Love and Luísa Carvalho. The focus is on joining techniques (adhesives, mechanical joints and welding) applied to biological environments, in medical, dentistry and veterinary applications.
Submissions are welcomed on the following topics:
Natural adhesives
Biological adhesives
Biomimetic adhesives
Fibrillar adhesives
Bioadhesion
Bioinspired interfaces and surfaces
Joining of natural materials
Adhesion and adhesives in dentistry
Adhesion and adhesives in medicine
Adhesion and adhesives in veterinary
Biologically inspired joints
Mechanical joints in biological applications
Welding in biological applications
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts:
22 May 2026
Notification of Acceptance to Authors:
12 June 2026
Early bird registration:
3 July 2026
Submission of papers (not compulsory)
29 October 2026
Instructions for abstract submission
Abstracts should be sent electronically to Lucas F M da Silva at lucas@fe.up.pt. Indicate in the email if you want oral or poster presentation.
Chairman
Lucas F M da Silva
University of Porto, Portugal
lucas@fe.up.pt
Co-Chairmen
Stanislav Gorb
Kiel University, Germany
sgorb@zoologie.uni-kiel.de
Brian Love
The University of Michigan, USA
bjlove@umich.edu
Luísa Carvalho
Polytechnic of Viseu, Portugal
lhcarvalho@estgv.ipv.pt
Organizing committee
Beatriz Simões (INEGI, Portugal)
Eduardo Marques (University of Porto, Portugal)
Ricardo Carbas (INEGI, Portugal)
Scientific committee
Alina Sionkowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
Andreas Fery (Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Germany)
Antonio Pizzi (University of Lorraine, France)
Bo Persson (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
Byung-Dae Park (National Institute of Forest Science, Korea)
Dan Sameoto (University of Alberta, Canada)
Davide Ruffoni (University of Liège, Belgium)
Francisca Arán-Ais (INESCOP Innovation and Technology Centre, Spain)
Giuseppe Carbone (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
Guillermo Amador (Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands)
Haytam Kasem (Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem, Israel)
Henrik Birkedal (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Henrik Hölschner (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany)
João Mano (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Juan Carlos del Real (Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain)
Kevin Turner (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Lígia Rocha (IUCS - CESPU, Portugal)
Longjian Xue (Wuhan University, China)
Manoj Chaudhury (Lehigh University, USA)
Manuela Rebora (University of Perugia, Italy)
Maria João Calheiros-Lobo (IUCS - CESPU, Portugal)
Marleen Kamperman (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Milan Šernek (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Nasim Annabi (University of California, USA)
Nao Terasaki (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology , Japan)
Pablo Sanz-Ruíz (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Spain)
Patrick Flammang (University of Mons, Belgium)
Phillip Messersmith (University of California, USA)
Philippe Leclere (University of Mons, Belgium)
Roberto Santoprete (L'Oréal, France)
Romana Santos (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Roya Dastjerdi (Yazd University, Iran)
Siqun Wang (University of Tennessee, USA)
Teresa Pinho (IUCS - CESPU, Portugal)
Rui Falacho (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Tetsuo Yamaguchi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Zhendong Dai (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
The conference program will be made available soon.
Instructions for the preparation of posters - The posters should be supplied in A0 size (841 mm x 1189 mm) in portrait format. The text and illustrations should be legible at a distance of 2 meters. The posters will be available online on this website at the time of the conference. For remote presenters, links to videoconferencing will be available to allow direct contact between the poster's author and the other conference participants.
The best oral presentation and the best poster will be awarded with a free registration in the BJ2028 conference