4th International Graduate summer school -
Biophotonics '09

6-13 June 2009, Ven, Sweden

List of lecturers

Below the list of lecturers is provided including the main topic covered by the speaker.

 

Program

The program for the school is now available, see below, and you may also download a printer-friendly version of the online program as PDF.
Notice that the program including Book of abstracts will be available at the school and all participants will receive one copy.

Session overview

Events Sessions Poster presentations

Saturday 6 June , 2009

9.00-12.00 Registration in Lund (meeting point)

Address:
Department of Physics
Lund University
Sölvegatan 14
Lund, Sweden

12.30 Opening: Welcome to Biophotonics ’09
  • Prof. Peter E. Andersen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, and
  • Prof. Stefan Andersson-Engels, Lund University, Sweden
13.00-14.45 Overview lecture

Professor Sune Svanberg, Lund University, Sweden
 

13.00-14.00: Lasers and spectroscopy in biomedical optics
 
14.15-14.45: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and its activities
16.00 Departure for Ven

The bus ride from Lund University to the ferry is arranged by the summer school. The ferry departs from Landskrona at 17.30.

18.30-19.00 Arrival and check-in at Backafallsbyn on Ven
19.30 Dinner
21.00 Saturday night hot topics
  • All speakers present themselves and their topic
  • The organizers present themselves and their institutions

Sunday 7 June, 2009

7.30 Breakfast
8.20-8.30 Practical notes and announcements
8.30-12.00 Session 1 - Tissue optics

Professor Steven Jacques, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
 

8.30-9.10: Tissue optics 1
 
9.25-10.05: Tissue optics 2
 
10.25-11.05: Tissue optics 3
 
11.20- 12.00: Tissue optics 4
 
12.15 Lunch
13.30-15.15 Session 2 - Strategies for cancer treatment using lasers and photodynamic therapy

Professor, MD Katarina Svanberg, Lund University Hospital, Dept. Of Oncology, Lund, Sweden
 

13.30-14.15: Strategies for cancer treatment using lasers and photodynamic therapy I
14.30-15.15: Strategies for cancer treatment using lasers and photodynamic therapy II
17.30 Dinner
19.00-22.00

Poster session I

Presentations by students of their research (posters).

Monday 8 June , 2009

7.30 Breakfast
8.20-8.30 Practical notes and announcements
8.30-12.00 Session 3 - Using light for the detection and treatment of disease: From bench to bedside

Professor Hubert van den Bergh, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institut de l'environnement, Switzerland
 

8.30-9.10: Using light for the detection and treatment of disease
9.25-10.05: Study case 1
10.25-11.05: Study case 2
11.20-12.00: Study case 3
12.15 Lunch
Afternoon free for discussions and recreation
17.30 Dinner
19.00-22.00

Poster session II

Presentations by students of their research (posters).

Tuesday 9 June, 2009

7.30 Breakfast
8.20-8.30 Practical notes and announcements
8.30-12.00

Session 4 - Supercontinuum light sources

Professor J. Roy Taylor, Physics Department, Imperial College, United Kingdom
 

8.30-9.10: Supercontinuum light sources I
9.25-10.05: Supercontinuum light sources II
10.25-11.05: Supercontinuum light sources III
11.20-12.00: Supercontinuum light sources IV
12.15 Lunch
Afternoon free for discussions and recreation
17.30 Dinner
19.00-22.00

Poster session III

Presentations by students of their research (posters).

Wednesday 10 June, 2009

7.30 Breakfast
8.20-8.30 Practical notes and announcements
8.30-12.00

Session 5 - Fluorescence nanoscopy: Principles and applications in life sciences

Professor Stefan W. Hell, Dept. of NanoBiophotonics, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
 

8.30-9.10: Fluorescence nanoscopy I
9.25-10.05: Fluorescence nanoscopy II
10.25-11.05: Fluorescence nanoscopy III
11.20-12.00: Fluorescence nanoscopy IV
12.15 Lunch
Afternoon free for discussions and recreation
17.15 Dinner
18.30-22.00

Session 6 - Optical micromanipulation for biophotonics

Professor Kishan Dholakia, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom

18.30-19.10: Optical micromanipulation for biophotonics I
19.25-20.05: Optical micromanipulation for biophotonics II
20.25-21.05: Optical micromanipulation for biophotonics III
21.20-22:00: Optical micromanipulation for biophotonics IV

Thursday 11 June, 2009

7.30 Breakfast
8.20-8.30 Practical notes and announcements
8.30-12.00 Session 7 - Optical coherence tomography for structural, functional, and quantitative phase imaging in biomedicine and biotechnology

Professor Joseph A. Izatt, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, USA
 

8.30-9.10: Optical coherence tomography I
9.25-10.05: Optical coherence tomography II
10.25-11.05: Optical coherence tomography III
11.20-12.00: Optical coherence tomography IV
12.15 Lunch
  Afternoon free for discussions and recreation
17.15 Dinner
18.30-22.00 Session 8 - Near-infrared fluorescence for medical imaging and tomography

Professor Eva M. Sevick-Muraca, The University of Texas Health Center Science-Houston, USA
 

18.30-19.10: Introduction to medical imaging
19.25-20.05: NIR light-tissue interactions and instrumentation
20.25-21.05: Disease target for molecular imaging
21.20-22:00: NIR fluorescence in humans

Friday 12 June, 2009

7.30 Breakfast
8.20-8.30 Practical notes and announcements
8.30-12.00 Session 9 - Medical imaging in thick tissues using diffuse optics

Professor Bruce J. Tromberg, Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, University of California, Irvine, USA
 

8.30-9.10: Medical imaging in thick tissues using diffuse optics I
9.25-10.05: Medical imaging in thick tissues using diffuse optics II
10.25-11.05: Medical imaging in thick tissues using diffuse optics III
11.20-12.00: Medical imaging in thick tissues using diffuse optics IV
12.15 Lunch
13.30-17.00 Session 10 - Interferometry for measuring molecular interactions

Professor Darryl J. Bornhop, Chemistry Department, Vanderbilt University, USA
 
13.30-14.10: Measuring molecular interactions I
14.25-15.05: Measuring molecular interactions II
15.25-16.05: Measuring molecular interactions III
16.20-17:00: Measuring molecular interactions IV

18.30

Gala dinner

Saturday 13 June, 2009

Before 9.00 Check-out
9.00-10.00 Breakfast
10.15 Departure for ferry
11.00 On the mainland, there will be shuttle buses for Lund train station and Kastrup airport, Copenhagen, Denmark

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