The 3rd International Graduate Summer School Biophotonics '07 held in June 2007 at
Backafallsbyn on the island Ven emphasised superresolution microscopy and molecular imaging, while also educating students about light-tissue interaction in more general terms and applications thereof. It was a huge success in terms of education, scientific exchange, and personal friendships.
We, the organizers, would like to express our gratitude to the lecturers for taking time to teach at the school and spending valuable time with the students. It is admirable that all lecturers participated without receiving any fee. We also greatly appreciate the financial support and donations we received from various sponsors making this event possible.
Furthermore, we extend our thanks to all participants for their enthusiastic contributions during the discussions following the lectures and especially during the poster sessions.
Scope
The 3rd International Graduate summer school Biophotonics '07 covered the following main areas:
- Lasers and their application in medicine
- Tissue optics
- Photodynamic therapy
- Optical tweezers and their applications in biophotonics
- Optical biosensors
- Molecular imaging based on optical methods
- Optical coherence tomography and coherence domain optical methods in biomedicine
Lecturers
- Professor Darryl J. Bornhop, Chemistry Department, Vanderbilt University, USA
- Professor Kishan Dholakia, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom
- Professor James Fujimoto, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
- Professor Stefan W. Hell, Dept. of NanoBiophotonics, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
- Professor Steven Jacques, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
- Professor Paul Michael Petersen, Optics and Plasma Research Department, Risø National Laboratory, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Dr. Brian W. Pogue, Dartmouth College, USA
- Professor Eva Sevick-Muraca, Department of Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine Houston, USA
- Professor, MD Katarina Svanberg, Lund University Hospital, Dept. Of Oncology, Lund, Sweden
- Professor Sune Svanberg, Lund University, Dept. of Physics, Lund, Sweden
- Professor Hubert van den Bergh, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institut de l'environnement, Switzerland
Best Poster Presentation Award 2007
Lakshmi Sampath
(right) at her award-winning poster at Biophotonics '07. From left: Profs. Stefan Andersson-Engels and Peter E. Andersen.
Lakshmi Sampath
Baylor College of Medicine
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Houston, TX, USA
lsampath@bcm.edu
Poster title:
Non-invasive in-vivo detection of HER2 overexpression in breast cancer using dual-labeled trastuzumab-based imaging agent
Honorable Mentions
Best poster award and honorable mentioning award winners (from left): Henrik Schiøtt Sørensen, Constantin Ungureanu, Nicole Prent, Lakshmi Sampath (Best Poster Award), Emilie Krite Svanberg, Ozzy Mermut, and Anders Gunnarsson.
Nicole Prent
University of Toronto
Physics and Institute for Optics
Toronto, Canada
n.prent@rogers.com
Poster title:
Investigating mitochondrial activity during muscle contractions with harmonic generation microscopy
Honorable Mentioning
Emilie Krite Svanberg
Lund University
Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care
Lund, Sweden
emilie.krite_svanberg@med.lu.se
Poster title:
Physiological effects on skin and skeletal muscle studied with three noninvasive optical techniques
Honorable Mentioning
Ozzy Mermut
McMaster University-Juravinski Cancer Center, and National Optics Institute
Medical Physics, and Biophotonics
Quebec City, Canada
ozzy.mermut@ino.ca
Poster title:
Frequency domain, time-resolved and spectroscopic investigations of photosensitizers encapsulated in liposomal phantoms
Honorable Mentioning
Constantin Ungureanu
University of Twente
Biomedical Technology Institute
Twente, The Netherlands
c.ungureanu@tnw.utwente.nl
Poster title:
Contrast agents for photoacoustic imaging
Honorable Mentioning
Anders Gunnarsson
Lund University
Department of Physics
Lund, Sweden
anders.gunnarsson@ftf.lth.se
Poster title:
Real-time single-molecule detection on random arrays for biosensing applications using total internal reflection fluorescence
Honorable Mentioning
Henrik Sørensen
Technical University of Denmark
Risø National Laboratory, Optics and Plasma Research Dept.
Roskilde, Denmark
henrik.schioett.soerensen@risoe.dk
Poster title:
Chip based in situ interferometric method for detection of cardiac markers
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