TOM 4 – Biophotonics and Medical Optics

The focus of this topical meeting is to explore new trends and applications in the field of Biophotonics and Medical Optics. New developments in optical control of cells, biomarkers, fluidics and lab on a chip devices as well as new approaches to tissue imaging and cell functionality will be discussed.

TOPICS

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Optical control of cells, optogenetics 
• Photoporation Biomarkers for optical techniques 
• Studies of cells and single molecules 
• Lab-on-a-chip optofluidic devices 
• Microfluidic biosensors 
• Fabrication technologies for optofluidics
• Optical Coherence Tomography technical advances, functional OCT, 
• catheter development 
• Optical Coherence Tomography in clinical practice, translational research 
• Optical Coherence Tomography in ophthalmology

CHAIRS

• Chair: Johannes de Boer, VU University Amsterdam (NL)
• Co-chairs: Martin Leahy, National University of Ireland, Galway (IE)
                  Alexander Heisterkamp, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (DE)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

• Adrian Podoleanu, University of Kent (GB)
• Gereon Huttmann, University of Lubeck (DE)
• Michael Pircher, Medical University Vienna (AU)
• Robert Huber, University of Lubeck (DE)

PLENARY SPEAKER

• Vasilis Ntziachristos, Technical University of Munich (DE)

INVITED SPEAKERS

• Christian Hübner University of Lubeck (DE) 
• Francesco Pavone, University of Florence (IT)
• Gabriel Popescu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA): Quantitative phase imaging of cells in 2, 3, and 4 dimensions
• Gijs van Soest, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam (NL)
• Maciej Wojtkowski, University of Torun (PL)
• Michael Pircher, Medical University Vienna (AT)
• Rainer Leitgeb, Medical University Vienna (AT): Digital Adaptive Optics Optical Coherence Tomography
• Dirk-Jan Faber, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam (NL): Quantitative relation between tissue organization and optical properties derived from Optical Coherence Tomography images
• Geoffroy Lerosey, Institut Langevin - ESPCI ParisTech and CNRS (FR)