Tuesday,
06/19 | 9:00 a.m. | Congress Opening
Jürgen Popp, Congress Chair, Institute of Photonic Technology |
| 9:05 a.m. | Welcome Speech
Christoph Matschie, Thuringian Minister of Education, Science and Culture |
| 9:20 a.m. | Nanoscopy with focused light
Stefan W. Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry |
| | 10:20 p.m. | Coffee Break |
Tuesday,
06/19 | Industrial Perspectives: Identifying Market Barriers
Session Chair: Francesco Pavone, University of Florence, Italy |
| 10:50 a.m. | "Succesful products, pleased customers, ...anything else?" - Biophotonics from an industrial perspective
Bernhard Friedrich Ohnesorge, Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH, Jena, germany |
| 11:10 a.m. | Molecular Imaging in Endoscopy – challenges and risks
Norbert Hansen, Karl Storz AG |
| 11:30 a.m. | Using Consumer Technology in High Tech Applications to Drive Costs Out!? Pro and Cons from the perspective of a laser development company.
Wilhelm Kaenders, TOPTICA Photonics AG |
| 11:50 a.m. | Bringing a compact LSPR biosensing decice to early cancer detection market
Rafael Porcar-Guezenec 1, Cosingo-Imagine Optic Spain SL |
| 12:10 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 01:30 p.m. | Light4tech Firenze: from ideas to prototypes towards the market
Domenico Alfieri, Light4tech Firenze |
| 01:50 p.m. | Glucose – a biophotonics‘ delicacy
Wolfgang Petrich, Roche Diagnostics GmbH |
| 02:10 p.m. | Biophotonic solutions to explore the Bio World Industrial feed back
Chiraz Frydman, HORIBA Scientific |
| 02:30 p.m. | Perspectives in relation to Biophotonics
Stephen Anderson, SPIE |
| 02:50 p.m. | N.N.
Jonathan Sorger, Intuitive Surgical Inc. |
| 03:10 p.m. | Coffee Break |
Tuesday,
06/19 | Education in Biophotonics: Training the future
Session Chair: Dennis L. Matthews, University of California, USA |
| 03.40 p.m. | Masters Education in Optics at Imperial College London
Kenny Weir, Imperial College London |
| 04:00 p.m. | Introducing biophotonics to first year undergraduates in science and non-science majors: Approaches and lessons learned
Marco Molinaro, University of California, USA |
| 04.20 p.m. | Photonics innovation skills for the next generation engineers
Heidi Ottevaere, Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| 04:40 p.m. | Graduate Program in Biophotonics at Laval University: The Challenge of Transdisciplinary Training
Paul de Koninck, Université Laval Robert-Giffard, Québec, Canada |
| 05:00 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 05:20 p.m. | Studying Photonics at the Politecnico di Milano
Roberta Ramponi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
| 05:40 p.m. | Education programs in photonics/biophotonics and biomedical engineering at the University Bern
Martin Frenz, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 06:00 p.m. | International Master and Doctoral Programs at the Abbe School of Photonics Jena
Thomas Pertsch, Abbe School of Photonics Jena, Germany |
| 06:20 p.m. | Case study on Biophotonics track in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Tel-Aviv University
Israel Gannot, Tel-Aviv University, Israel |
Tuesday,
06/19 | 06:40 p.m. | Thuringian Night: Welcome Speach
Arnulf Wulff, State Development Corporation of Thuringia (LEG), Germany |
| 06:50 p.m. | Thuringian Night: Get together
Organized in coorporation with LEG, Germany |
| 09.00 p.m. | Pink Floyd
Multimedia show at the planetarium |
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Wednesday,
06/20 | Challenges: Tackling the Unmet Needs
Session Chair: Dr. Roberto Pini |
| 09:00 a.m. | Advances in endoscopic imaging of gastrointestinal neoplasia
Andreas Stallmach, Jena University Hospital, Germany |
| 09:25 a.m. | Versatile nanocarriers for cancer therapy and imaging
Kit Lam, University of California Davis, USA |
| 09:50 a.m. | Biophotonics tools in ocular surgery and diagnosis: facts and potentials
Luca Menabuoni, Prato Hospital, Florenz, Italy |
| 10:15 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 a.m. | Sepsis – unmet medical needs and strategies to improve outcome
Michael Bauer, Center for Sepsis Control & Care, Jena University Hospital, Germany |
| 11:10 a.m. | Future prospects in neurological surgery: the impact of novel technologies
Alfredo Puca, Catholic University, Rom, Italy |
| 11:35 a.m. | Diagnostics and Treatment of Tumours using Laser Techniques
Katarina Svanberg, Lund University, Sweden |
| 12:00 a.m. | Real-time endoscopic fluorescence lifetime imaging and spectroscopy for label-free contrast of gastrointestinal diseases
Andrew Thillainayagam, Imperial College London, UK |
| 12:25 p.m. | Lunch Break |
Wednesday,
06/20 | Cluster Projects I: Success Stories From Around the Globe
Session Chair: Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, UK |
| 01:55 p.m. | 3D-BladderMap
Birte-Swantje Schneevoigt, University Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany |
| 02:20 p.m. | Modulated Raman Spectroscopy for Biomedical Applications
Sebastian Dochow, Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany |
| 02:45 p.m. | Towards non-invasive monitoring of cerebral and lung metabolism of preterm infants by optical methods
Martin Wolf, Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland |
| 03:10 p.m. | On-chip Raman scattering with integrated organic lasers for improved point-of-care diagnostics
Irina Nazarenko, Freiburg University Medical Centre, Germany |
| 03:35 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 04:05 p.m. | From Infection to Detection
Andreas Bauwens, Münster University Hospital, Germany |
| 04:30 p.m. | Optical transfection of challenging cell types – applications in studies and genetic treatment of diseased cells
Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, UK |
| 04:55 p.m. | Skin tumor diagnosis by multimodal optical imaging
Arnaud Dubois, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Paris, France |
| 05:20 p.m. | Characterization of Atherosclerotic Plaque Depositions in vivo by Fiber-Optic Raman Spectroscopy and ex vivo by FTIR, Raman and Non-Linear Imaging Techniques
Christian Matthäus, Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany |
| 05:45 p.m. | Break |
Wednesday,
06/20 | 08:00 p.m. | Gala Dinner with Evening Lecture
by Sune Svanberg, Lund University, Sweden |
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Thursday,
06/21 | Funding & Regulatory Issues
Session Chair: Jürgen Popp, Congress Chair, Institute of Photonic Technology |
| 09:00 a.m. | N.N.
Sohi Rastegar, National Science Foundation, USA |
| 09:25 a.m. | The Ecosystem for Biophotonics Innovation
Dennis L. Matthews, University of California, USA |
| 09:50 a.m. | Photonics at the heart of innovation in Horizon 2020
Ronan Burgess, European Commission |
| 10:15 a.m. | Photonics Research Germany - the German National Programme to Develop a Key Enabling Technology
Hans Eggers, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany |
| 10:40 a.m. | Coffee Break |
Thursday,
06/21 | Cluster Projects II: Success Stories From Around the Globe
Session Chair: Arthur Er-Terg Chiou, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC |
| 11:10 a.m. | National Biophotonics and Imaging Platform Ireland - Unique infrastructure, advancing biophotonics
Martin J. Leahy, National University of Ireland Galway and RCSI, Ireland |
| 11:35 a.m. | Photonics for Life Sciences Research in Australia
Ewa M. Goldys, Macquarie University, Sydney Australia |
| 12:00 a.m. | CAREMAN and NANODEM - two European projects for POCT
Francesco Baldini, National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy |
| 12:25 p.m. | Bridging the gap: settings new frontiers in neurosciences with material sciences and photonics
Daniel Côté, Centre de Recherche de l'Institut en Santé Mentale de Québec, Canada |
| 12:50 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 02:20 p.m. | The microscope‐in‐a-needle story – the technology push to image cancer in humans at high resolution
David D. Sampson, University of Western Australia, Australia |
| 02:45 p.m. | Modulated Raman Spectroscopy for early diagnosis of bladder cancer
Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, UK |
| 03:10 p.m. | Fiberoptic Spectroscopy for in-vivo Medical Diagnosis
HJCM Sterenborg, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 03:35 p.m. | A LED-based medical device for selective photocoagulation of blood
Francesco Pavone, University of Florence, Italy |
| 04:00 p.m. | Imaging of blood micro-circulation during cardiac arrest
Igor Meglinski, University of Otago, New Zealand |
| 04:25 p.m. | Moving Raman spectroscopy into on-line diagnosis of neoplastic lesions in the upper GI during clinical endoscopic examination
Zhiwei Huang, National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| 04:50 p.m.
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05:00 p.m. | Congress Summary
Jürgen Popp, Congress Chair, Institute of Photonic Technology |
