Photonics4Life events

Biophotonics Concertation Meeting

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:53:44 GMT

On behalf of Photonics4Life and the ETP Photonics21 with support from OPTBIO we invite you to join a Concertation Meeting to be held on November 5th in Brussels

The Biophotonics Concertation Meeting will bring together on-going EU projects on Biophotonics and other interested stakeholders. They will present their achievements and create a shared vision concerning the needs for European Biophotonics. The goal of the meeting is to elaborate the scope of actions which might be covered by an ERA-NET Plus on Biophotonics. In addition, there will also be a presentation on the upcoming photonics calls which will be of interest to those considering new Biophotonics proposals.

If you are interested in attending this event please mark the date in your calendar. More details about the registration, the programme and the venue will be provided soon by email and on this website.

MiCom 2010

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:31:26 GMT

The European Student Conference on Microbial Communication is a meeting of Ph.D. students and experienced researchers from all over the world who will actively discuss and exchange ideas on di!erent aspects of microbial communication.

Topics include the interaction of microorganisms with other microorganisms, higher organisms,
human hosts, and their environment - and the use of physical sciences and bioinformatics to study them. It is a great opportunity to learn about the recent state-of-the-art approaches in the investigation of microbial interactions and to meet scientists working in the same field.
The program includes scientific talks, poster sessions, inspiring workshops in small groups (‘Meet the Expert‘) given by leading scientists in the field of microbial communication as well as social and cultural events.

Topics include the interaction of microorganisms with...

... Microorganisms,
... Higher Organisms,
... Human Hosts,
... The Environment.
and also the use of Bioinformatics and Biophotonics to study them

For more information see also: http://www.jsmc.uni-jena.de/micom2010/

Faraday Discussion 149: Analysis for Healthcare Diagnostics and Theranostics

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:10:23 GMT

The need in healthcare to detect biomolecular species such as proteins, oligonucleotides (DNA and RNA) and cells for diagnostics is driving the current development of physical techniques. The development is generally based on optical, electrochemical and mass spectrometric transduction to enable these measurements. These are now also being exploited in array formats, enabling the development of high throughput detection to inform systems biology and pathway medicine by giving new insights into biomolecular pathways and the identification of new target analytes.

This is a highly topical and exciting area which opens up the real prospect of theranostics (the use of diagnostics in informing patient specific therapy), but for which development and optimisation of detection requires an understanding and control of the fundamental physical processes occurring both in sensing and in signal transduction and the comparatives merits of alternative detection strategies. For high throughput detection, bioinformatics (the processing and interpretation of vast amounts of data) also presents a real challenge.

Faraday Discussion 149 is organised by the Faraday Division in association with the Analytical Division.

Themes

Systems/Devices to Inform Therapy (SDIT)
Physical Techniques for Diagnostics (PTD)
High-Throughput Measurement and Analysis (HTMA)
Towards Real-time Clinical Measurement (TRCM)

Call for poster abstracts deadline - 2 July 2010

More information can be found here.

Saratov Fall Meeting

Wed, 26 May 2010 11:23:19 GMT

The main goal of the School and the Workshops is to involve junior researches and students in the field of recent developments and applications of laser and optical technologies in medicine and biology, coherent optics of random and ordered media, material and environmental sciences, nonlinear dynamics of laser systems, laser spectroscopy and molecular modelling.

The main attention will be paid to discussion of fundamentals and general approaches of description of coherent, low-coherent, polarized, spatially and temporally modulated light interactions with inhomogeneous scattering media, photonic crystals, tissue phantoms, and various types of tissues in vitro and in vivo. Such effects as static and dynamic light scattering, Doppler Effect, optoacoustic and optothermal interactions, mechanical stress, photodynamic effect, etc will be considered. On this basis the variety of laser and optical technologies for medical diagnostics, therapy, surgery, and light dosimetry, as well as for spectroscopy of random and ordered media will be presented.

SFM-10 will morning plenary sessions, afternoon lecture and oral sessions and evening poster presentations. The original oral reports and posters will be presented by junior scientists and students. Plenary lectures will be presented by well recognized experts in the field.

Workshops:

- Optical Technologies in Biophysics & Medicine XII

- Coherent Optics of Ordered and Random Media XI

- Laser Physics and Photonics XII

- Spectroscopy and Molecular Modeling XI

- Modern Optics IX

- Electromagnetics of Microwaves, Submillimeter & Optical Waves X

- English as a Communicative Tool in the Scientific Community IX

- Workshop on Management of High Technologies Commercialization and Regional Innovation Systems VII

- Luminescence VI

- Nanobiophotonics VI

- Nonlinear Dynamics I

- Internet Biophotonics III

- Microscopic and Low-Coherence Methods in Biomedical and Non-

Biomedical Applications III

- History, Methodology and Philosophy of the

Light for Health

Tue, 25 May 2010 11:57:15 GMT

The ICFO Light for Health Event will bring together the region’s biophotonics community and leading scientists from the biomedical, biophotonics and super-resolution imaging research fields. The event comprises lectures by renowned leaders in these areas, panel discussions and lab tours. The two-day event will be a gathering space for ICFOnians, medical doctors and clinicians, biologists, physicists, engineers, chemists and experts from small and large corporations. The event includes the European release of the new STED CW System by Leica Microsystems.

More information can be found on the ICFO website

Confirmed Speakers

Medical Optics (28 June)

Brian C. Wilson Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada

Katarina Svanberg Lund University Hospital, Sweden

Daniel Licht The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA

Hellmuth Obrig Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany

Nanoscopy (29 June)

Niek van Hulst ICFO, Spain

Paul French Imperial College, UK

Melike Lakadamyali Harvard University, USA

Alberto Diaspro Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

Luis Serrano Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain

ICT 2010

Tue, 25 May 2010 11:29:17 GMT

ICT is a biennial event for researchers, business people, investors, and policy makers in the field of digital innovation. ICT 2010 will focus on policy priorities such as Europe's Digital Agenda and the next financial programme of the European Union for funding research and innovation in ICT.

At ICT 2010:

latest research trends in information and communication technologies
European priorities for 2.8 billion Euros research funding in ICT, 2011-2012
Meet potential research and business partners at dozens of networking sessions
an exhibition with over 5000 square meters of Europe's latest ICT research

More information can be found here.

Photonics West

Tue, 25 May 2010 11:20:07 GMT

BiOS - Biomedical Optics
OPTO - Integrated Optoelectronics
LASE - Lasers and Applications
MOEMS-MEMS - Micro & Nanofabrication
Green Photonics - New for 2011

Call for Papers open until 12 July 2010

More information coming soon

International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS XXII)

Mon, 17 May 2010 13:18:14 GMT

Conference Program
The conference format will feature plenary, invited and contributed lectures, and poster presentations. The scientific presentations will be accompanied by an instrument exhibit, and a social program, using the cultural and natural settings of New England as a backdrop.

Abstracts presented at the conference will be published by the American Institute of Physics as a topical conference proceedings.

Plenary Speakers:
Dana Dlott, UI Urbana-Champaign
Andrea Ferrari, Cambridge UK
Rich Mathies, UC Berkeley
Pavel Matosek, Rutherford Appleton
Martin Moskovits, UC Santa Barbara
Bruno Pettinger, FHI Berlin
Geri Richmond, U. Oregon
Tom Spiro, U. Washington
Tahei Tahara, Riken Japan
Siva Umapathy, IIS Bangalore
David Villeneuve, NRC Canada
Sunney Xie, Harvard University

Ethics in Biophotonics

Wed, 05 May 2010 09:56:43 GMT

Workshop from Photonics4Life adressing ethical and regulatory concerns in Biophotonics especially in in-vivo applications.

Ethik Workshop Agenda 5-6 May 2010.pdf 28.24 kB

Biophotonics and Imaging Graduate Summer School (BIGSS) 2010

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:32:15 GMT

This year the school features a group of international experts who have offered to give between one and five hours training each in their specialist area. The speakers include: Bruce J. Tromberg (Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Biomedical Optics), Stefan Andersson-Engels, Juergen Popp and Joerg Enderlein.
The school aims to provide a uniquely designed programme that integrates lessons delivered by world leading experts in the field with industry sponsored workshops and a range of fun activities for both students and speakers to enjoy. The current programme may be viewed by clicking here. However the final schedule has yet to be finalised.
Organising Committee: Martin Leahy, Chris Dainty, Valery Tuchin, Peter Dockery, Alan Ryder, Paul Whelan, Brendan Wilkins, Hugh Byrne, Noel Buckley, Elfed Lewis, Conleth Hussey, Michael Connelly, Marie-Louise O’Connell, Peter Owens

Suitable for : Postgraduate researchers in biophotonics
Cost: Free to attend.

Link: http://nbipi.ucc.ie/events/157-bigss-2010

Photonics in Medical Diagnostics – latest developments & healthcare solutions

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:25:58 GMT

May 6, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot

This event is designed to bring together the latest photonic diagnostic advances with those experienced in providing profitable heath care solutions, providing a greater understanding of what photonics technologies have in common and encouraging best practice in commercial development. Some of the latest optical based diagnostic techniques will be covered in the first part of this meeting. All those techniques have proven diagnostic capability and are in the process of being commercially developed.

Bringing these, and any other new solution, to the healthcare practitioner requires much more than a new technique. Not only does a complete medical system require engineering around the technology, it must be delivered to the market it a way that delivers both clinical benefit and economic advantage for suppliers and healthcare providers. The second set of presentations will focus on case studies from experienced heathcare solution providers who have many years of experience of delivering successful solutions to the healthcare market.

Agenda

10.00	Registration & Coffee
10.30	Welcome
10:45	Optical coherence tomography; current status future opportunities	Gordon McKenzie	Michelson Diagnostics
11:15	Disease diagnostics with Raman	Pavel Matousek	STFC and Cobalt Light
11.45	Point of care diagnostics with waveguides	Sam Watts	Stratophase
12.15	Lunch
13.15	Commercialising Healthcare solutions	Leonard Fass	GE Healthcare
13.45	Guide to Innovation Pathways in Healthcare	Chris Rowe	NHS Innovations South East
14:15	Bringing innovation to the NHS	Brian Winn	NHS Innovation Centre
14:45	Collaboration funding opportunities	John Lincoln	SEPNET
15:00	Tour of STFC facilities at RAL (Optional)

The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) have very kindly agreed to host this meeting at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX, 10:00am-3pm 6 May 2010. A tour of the STFC’s RAL facilities will be available at the end of the meeting. Directions are available here.

Further details and Agenda available

Signup on line for this event.

EOS Annual Meeting 2010 - Topical Meeting 1

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:09:33 GMT

EOS Annual Meeting 2010 TOM 1:Biophotonics - Advanced Trapping and Optofluidics in Life Sciences

26 - 29 October 2010, Parc Floral De Paris, France
Gathering more than 700 international experts from science and industry, the Annual Meeting of the European Optical Society (EOSAM) counts among the most important European optics and photonics events.The EOS Topical Meeting Biophotonics aims at exploring the exciting marriage of optical techniques and microfluidics with an emphasis upon the topics of optofluidics and optical trapping.

TOPICS

Cell nanosurgery
Photoporation
Optical sorting
Studies of cells and single molecules
Lab-on-a-chip optofluidic devices
Microfluidic biosensors
Biomolecular detection at the nanoscale
Fabrication technologies for optofluidics
Optical cell trapping

CHAIRS
Gert von Bally, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, DE
Kishan Dholakia, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Roberta Ramponi, Politecnico di Milano, IT

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Dan Cojoc, CNR-INFM, IT
David Erickson, Cornell University, US
Alexander Heisterkamp, Laser Zentrum Hannover, DE
Uriel Levy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL
Jürgen Popp, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, IPHT, DE
Monika Ritsch-Marte, Medical University of Innsbruck, DE
Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland Brisbane, AU
Antonio Sasso, University of Naples Federico II, IT
Holger Schmidt, University of California, US
Changhuei Yang, California Institute of Technology - Caltech, US
Pavel Zemánek, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, ISI, CZ

PLENARY SPEAKER
Demetri Psaltis, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL, CH

INVITED SPEAKERS
Roman Quidant, Institute of Photonics Sciences - ICFO, ES
James Wilkinson, University of Southampton, UK

International Conference of Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT)

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:05:11 GMT

The 18th meeting will be held in Egmond aan Zee, near Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from September 11-16, 2010. ALT'10 will focus on the recent developments and advances in laser technologies and their applications. The conference is co-organized by the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands and the General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia; we look forward to welcome you in the Netherlands.

More information can be found here.

Key Topics of the conference:
Lasers, amplifiers, micro/nano-photonic devices
Solid-state-, liquid and gas lasers, technology and devices
Fiber lasers, cw and pulsed; amplification, ultra wideband, mode-locked, nonlinear effects
High Energy/Average Power Lasers
Micro fabricated devices, on-chip applications
Nonlinear effects in micro and nano devices

Laser Processing of Materials
Femtosecond laser processing
Laser micro- and nanoprocessing
Laser Nanopatterning
Laser Synthesis of Nanomaterials
Laser Direct Write
Laser assisted fabrication of novel opto-electronic devices

Terahertz Technologies and Applications 200 GHz to 10 THz
Ultrafast time-domain systems
Direct generation using terahertz lasers
Cw generation based on nonlinear optical mixing
New terahertz measurement techniques and instrumentation
Advances in imaging configurations, detector technologies, and terahertz optical components
Terahertz optical measurements
Applications using terahertz radiation for spectroscopy, sensing, and imaging

Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications
Short-pulse solid-state, semiconductor, fiber, and waveguide optical sources and devices
Optical phase control in ultrafast laser systems
Ultrafast optoelectronic and electro-optic materials, devices, and systems
Ultrafast measurement techniques
Applications of ultrafast technology
Ultrafast amplification and schemes

Biophotonics and Optofluidics
Laser medical diagnostics and therapeutics
Biosensing including spectroscopic optical diagnostics
Optical coherence tomography
Photoacoustic techniques
Optics in biotechnology
Lab-on-chip devices
Microfluidically tunable or reconfigurable optical and photonic systems
Optofluidic assembly and lithographic techniques

Active Optical Sensing and Metrology
New optical devices, instruments, and technologies for precision measurements
Optical frequency standards; length, distance, and dimensional metrology; lasers, supercontinua, and broadband sources
Frequency-comb generation, control, and applications; carrier-envelope phase control
Chemical and biological agent detection and identification
Atmospheric monitoring, indoor, outdoor, industrial, combustion, emissions
New: Laser spectroscopy for Breath Analysis

Minatec: Crossroads

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:32:08 GMT

For one week, researchers and manufacturers in micro and nanotechnologies will meet at the Minatec campus in Grenoble, France. Minatec Crossroads offers an opportunity to network with international researchers, representatives of industry and academics in the fields of micro and nanotechnologies.

The program will include:
* Minatec Plenary Session
* 5ème IDEA’s Day
* 12th Leti Annual Review
* Minatec Upstream Research
* Higher Education in Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences
* ObservatoryNano Symposium
* MINATEC Business Session
* Trends In Nanoapplications
* Nanostructures for Clinical Diagnostic and Therapies
* European Nanoelectronics Design Technology Conference
* Workshop on Innovative Memory Technologies
* Forum MTI on : The diffusion of Nanotechnologies
* Micro & Nanotechnologies for Healthcare

More information can be found here

Invest in Photonics 2010

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:23:08 GMT

Invest in Photonics 2010 is a today meeting to facilitate the exchange between entrepreneurs and executives of Photonics companies and investors and analysts, working in the entire photonics applications sector (energy, environment, telecoms, health, industry, consumer technology…)

More information can be found here.

P4L & COST Training school April 2010

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:35:29 GMT

The first 2010 training school for P4L students will take place together with the ESF COST Action MP0604 "Optical Micro-Manipulation by Nonlinear Nanophotonics" in
Visegrád, Hungary frm 19th to 23rd of April 2010. All details can be found at http://www.brc.hu/cost2010/index.html.

The school is aimed at graduate and postdoctoral students. It will provide a comprehensive introduction to the latest achievements in optical micromanipulation, theory and applications in biophotonics and medicine. The school is based on tutorial lectures given by distinguished experts, representing the cutting edge of the field, both in technical development and interdisciplinary areas. The students will also have the possibility to introduce their own work.
It will be organized together by Pal Ormos and his team from Szeged University, and from P4L by the group in Twente, represented by Martin Bennink. The organizing committee is: Kishan Dholakia, Mattias Goksör, Pal Ormos, Antonio Sasso, Francesco Simoni, Vincent Toal, and Cornelia Denz.

Photonics4Life is supporting the participation for each student with 400 €.
Students that like to apply should follow the instructions on the web site, and send an information to Cornelia Denz (http://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik/AP/Denz/) if they apply.

Deadline for application is 8th of February for COST participants, which is actually indicated at the web site. The deadline for P4L students is about a week later, at 15th of February.

Dutch Photonic Event

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:49:03 GMT

Fotonica Evenement

"The knowledge and networking platform for the Dutch photonics industry"

Tuesday, 30 March 2010, 09.00 – 17.00 hrs

Up to date conference program with distinguished speakers, put together by well respected persons from the photonics industry
Photonic innovations and opportunities in the industry, medical technology, telecom as well as other branches
Current developments in fibre, led, oled and laser technology and applications
Research and education
Knowledge Exhibition, Hands-on Photonics, MatchMaking, Photo Contest

Fotonica Evenement 2010 is being organised by Mikrocentrum and Photonics Cluster Netherlands.

The following well respected persons from the photonics industry give their contribution to the conference program:

Ir. Bart Snijders (OMI Optica bij TNO S&I and president Photonics Cluster Netherlands)

Ing. Guus Taminiau (Baas R&D and secretary Photonics Cluster Netherlands)

Dr. Bart Verbeek (President IOP Photonic Devices)

Dr. Ir. Dick Sterenborg (Erasmus MC)

Dr. Ir. Roeland Nuijts (SURFnet BV)

Dr. Ir. Jean Schleipen (Philips Research)

Dr. Willem Hoving (XiO Photonics BV)

Ir. Danaë Delbeke (Photonics Innovation Center)

Dr. Maurice Aalders (AMC Laser Centrum)

Ir. Benno Oderkerk (Avantes)

Dr. Ir. Hugo de Waardt (ECO Tue)

Dr. Kerstin Wörhoff (Integrated Optical MicroSystems (IOMS) Group)

Prof. Dr.Ir. Michel Verhaegen (Delft Center for Systems and Control)

Dr. Ir. Eddy Schipper (SenterNovem)

The day starts with a plenary session. The themes of the following parallel sessions are:

Healthcare & Lifescience

Sustainability & Optical Sensing

Information & Communication Technology

Fundamental Research Photonics

Photonics in Daily Life

Industrial Photonics

More information can be found under http://www.fotonica-evenement.nl/index.php?id=4

BioPIC 2010

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:04:27 GMT

NBIP Ireland, in affiliation with the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) will host a Conference in October 2010 (BioPIC 2010) attracting both national and international expert speakers from the world of biophotonics and imaging to highlight the need for a pan-European research infrastructure in bioimaging. BioPIC 2010 is also seen as an opportunity for trans-national networking, building of collaborations between academia and industry and showcasing of advances in biophotonics and imaging research and technologies. The RMS has also tentatively offered to publish a special issue of the Journal of Microscopy containing papers presented at the meeting.

A list of topics and keynote/plenary speakers for the BioPhotonics and Imaging Conference in 2010 (BioPIC 2010) will be published on the NBIP Ireland website (www.nbipireland.ie). Registration will open in mid April.

Scientific Meeting of Photonics4Life

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:54:06 GMT

3rd Scientific Meeting of Photonics4Life at the Institute for Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona.

This meeting is dedicated to women in Biophotonics. 60% of the scientific talks will be given by women and there will also be a special session, where gender issues within Biophotonics will be discussed. The programm will feature 29 scientific talks, including two tutorials and presentations about the P4L-projects. Furthermore there will be a poster session and an elevator pitch. Over 90 attendees have registered for this meeting.

Agenda:

Agenda_final.pdf 131.32 kB

Annual Meeting of Photonics4Life

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:41:30 GMT

The Network of Excellence for Biophotonics meets for its Annual Meeting including scientific talks, poster session, internal workgroups and much more. Further information can be found here. For registration please fill out the form which can be downloaded above the picture and send it to David Stevenson (ds50(at)st-andrews(dot)ac(dot)uk) of University of St. Andrews.

P4L_Annual Meeting 2010.doc 392.00 kB

Preliminary Programme

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

General Networking Meeting
Lecture Theatre B

08:00-08:30 Coffee with tea, & issuance of passwords for WiFi access, main foyer, School of Physics

08:30-08:45 Results of the recent Executive Committee Meeting

08:45-09:30 Discussion of the database

09:30-11:00 WP meetings (3/6/8/10) in rooms 222/233/330/301 (respectively)

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 WP meetings (11/5/7) in rooms 222/233/301 (respectively)

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break (and a meeting of the Executive board)

14:00-16:00 WP meetings (2/4/9/1) room 222/233/330/301 (respectively)

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:30 Status of WPs 1-11 & P4L projects (each 7’ with 3’ discussion)

18:30-21:00 Poster session, evaluation of the posters, elevator pitch, food buffet & wine reception

20:00 Announcement of the winner of the young scientist poster prize

*Delegates wishing to use WiFi during the meeting are advised to pre-install a programme called “Eduroam” prior to arrival, as there is no WiFi access possible without this software. Details may be found here http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/itsupport/computers/network/Wirelessaccess/

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Scientific Meeting
Lecture Theatre B

08:00-09:00 Coffee and tea, main foyer, School of Physics

09:00-09:10 A word of welcome: Professor Kishan Dholakia and Professor Dr. Jürgen Popp

09:10-09:40 Invited Clinical Speaker: Professor Simon Herrington

09:40-11:10 6 Scientific talks, each 12’ with additional 3’ for discussion

Plasmonics for biomedical applications, Romain Quidant, Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO)
White light interference microscopy of RBC, Alexander Kalyanov, Saratov State University (SSU)
Introduction of the Lund cluster, Niels Bendsoe, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, University Hospital, Lund
Quantitative study of dynamic cellular response to femtosecond laser poration by digital holographic microscopy, Maciej Antkowiak, University of St Andrews (USTAN)
Minimally invasive corneal surgery by femtosecond and diode lasers, Francesca Rossi, Institute of Applied Physics National Research Council (IFAC-CNR)
Microstructured Optical Fibers for Minimally Invasive Procedures, Stefaan Heyvaert, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

11:10-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 6 Scientific talks, each 12’ with additional 3’ for discussion

Ultrasonic measurement of ocular surface pulsation, Malgorzata Kowalska, Institute of Physics, Wroclaw University of Technology
Label free holographic and AFM imaging of human neural cells under electrical stimulation, Jouko Viitanen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, (VTT)
Multiparametric surface plasmon resonance imaging biochips, Aurélien Duval, Institut d'Optique Graduate School (IOGS)
Application development of optical technologies towards tumor cell biologies and diagnostics, Christina Rommel, Med. Klinik und Poliklinik B, GMZ, WWU Münster
Direct nano-scale membrane characterization of single human cell, Marc Oliver Richter, IPHT (title to be confirmed).
Imperial (title to be confirmed)

13:00-14:00 Lunch (and a meeting of the assembly) followed by a group photograph

Delegates are requested to assemble for a group photograph at the main entrance of the School of Physics & Astronomy at 13:45

14:00-14:30 Invited Clinical Speaker, Ghulam Nabi MS, MD, M Ch, FRCS (Urol) Senior Clinical Lecturer in surgical uro-oncology and consultant urological surgeon Centre for academic clinical practice/Ninewells Hospital Clinical and Population Sciences & Education Division, College of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, University of Dundee.

Potential role of image guided interventions in improving outcomes of prostate cancer surgery

14:30-15:15 Invited Biophotonics Speaker: Professor John Girkin, Department of Physics, Durham University

Although light and optics has always played an important role in clinical medicine the advent of advanced photonics technologies over the past ten years is opening up new opportunities for both clinicians and physical scientists. By understanding the real clinical needs and appreciating what technology is available, or can be developed, optical physicists are now developing a new range of methods and instruments that it is hoped will enter the clinic in the not too distant future. The presentation will explore the application of widely available photonics technology to two totally different clinical needs. The use of near infrared light for dental diagnosis and the development of a desktop genotyping device will be presented illustrating how specific technology can be adapted for clinical use to improve patient care through photonics.

15:15-15:45 Tutorial 1: Investigating Immune Molecules and Bioactive Microvesicles, Dr Simon Powis, School of Medicine, University of St Andrews

15:45-16:15 Tutorial 2: Investigating Alzheimer’s Disease, Frank Gunn-Moore, School of Biology, University of St Andrews

The prognosis for most neurodegenerative diseases is poor. The causes of the major diseases (eg: Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Multiple Sclerosis) are complex, including genetic and environmental factors. All conspire to interfere with signaling pathways in neurons and glia which sustain growth and viability. This tutorial will discuss some the molecular biology, cell biology, and biophotonics techniques that are used to investigate these diseases.

16:15 Concluding remarks and end of photonics4life meeting. All welcome to join us in the foyer for coffee, biscuits, discussion, and lab tours [including a demonstration of Hamamatsu holographic optical tweezers system].