Invited Speakers

 

Photodiagnosis and Targeted Photodynamic Therapy for the Treatment of Metastatic Melanoma
H. Abrahamse, Laser Research Center, Univ. of Johannesburg, South Africa

 

Infrared fluorescence diagnosis in surgery and oncology
A.L. Akopov, G.V. Papayan, A.A.Il’in, Pavlov First Saint-Petersburg State Medical Univ., Russia

 

Screening of photoactive nanoparticles in stroma-rich co-culture multicellular tumor spheroids
L. Bezdetnaya-Bolotine, Research Center for Automatic Control of Nancy (CRAN, Lorraine Univ.), Lorraine Inst. of Oncology, France

 

Laser printing of biomaterials and living cells
B.N. Chichkov, Leibniz Univ., Hannover Inst. of Quantum Optics, Germany

 

Probing of Red Blood Cell Dynamics using Optical Trap combined with Micro-Raman Spectroscopy
S. Chidangil, Centre of Excellence for Biophotonics, Manipal, Karnataka, India

 

Optical coherence tomography of brains: ex vivo study of healthy and malignant tissues
I.N. Dolganova, Inst. of Solid State Physics RAS, Bauman Moscow State Technical Univ., Russia

 

Deep UV biosensing
V.P. Drachev, Skolkovo Inst. of Science and technology, Russia; Univ. of North Texas, USA

 

Time-resolved microscopy and photo-mechanical action on bio-related objects
G. Ferrini, Interdisciplinary Laboratories for Advanced Materials Physics (I-LAMP) & Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Univ. Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

 

Photodynamic therapy in the combined treatment of breast cancer intradermal metastases
M. Gelfond, S. Kondratiev, E. Tkachenko, V. Semiglazov, T. Semiglazova, V. Ivanov, K. Usova, N. Brish, Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology of the Ministry of Health, Russia

 

Nanostructured theranostic carriers: preparation, properties, applications
D. Gorin, Skolkovo Inst. of Science and Technology, Russia

 

Luminescent nanoparticles as labels for immunoassay
I.Yu. Goryacheva, Saratov State Univ., Russia

 

New photodynamic therapy with next-generation sugar conjugated photosensitizers
H. Kataoka, Nagoya City Univ. Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Japan

 

Thulium-doped fiber lasers with direct pumping. Medical perspectives
A.A. Kolegov, Russian Federal Nuclear Center — Zababakhin All—Russia Research Inst. of technical Physics, Russia

 

Comparison of oxygen activation by visible and dark red laser radiation in pigment-free aerated solvents. Results of photochemical and luminescence studies
A.A. Krasnovsky, Federal Center for Biotechnology, A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russia

 

Investigation of singlet and triplet oxygen in water and aqueous dispersions of nanosize micelles
A.A. Krasnovsky, Federal Center for Biotechnology, A.N. Bach Inst. of Biochemistry, Russia 

 

Development of novel medical instruments based on sapphire shaped crystals
V.N. Kurlov, Inst. of Solid State Physics RAS, Russia

 

Assessing tissue mechanical properties with Optical Coherence Elastography and Brillouin Spectroscopy
K. Larin, Univ. of Houston, USA

 

In vivo dynamic analysis of mammalian preimplantation development with functional optical coherence tomography
I. Larina, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

 

High-efficient DFG of fiber lasers radiation in the spectral region of 3um for soft tissue ablation
I.A. Larionov, NTO IRE-Polus, Russia

 

Tracking stem cells with gold nanostars
M. Leahy, Galway Univ., Ireland

 

Update on the Ruthenium coordination complex based photosensitizer TLD1433 in phase I and II clinical trials for Non-muscle invasive Bladder Cancer
L. Lilge, M. Roufaiel, A. Mandel, G. Kulkani, M. Jewett, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Univ. of Toronto, Canada

 

New instrumental and methodological approaches to the PD and PDT of tumor and inflammatory diseases
V.B. Loschenov, Prokhorov General Physics Inst. RAS, Russia

 

Optical study of RBCs and platelets correction in arterial hypertension
A. Lugovtsov, Moscow State Univ., Russia

 

Optical differentiation of glucose diffusion in human normal and pathological kidney
L. Oliveira, Polytechnic of Porto, School of Engineering, Centre of Innovation in Engineering and Industrial Technology, ISEP, Portugal

 

Isolation and characterization of the elementary particles of detonation nanodiamond
E. Ōsawa, Toyohashi Univ. Technol., Nano Carbon Research Inst., Ltd, Asama Research Extension Center, Shinshu Univ., Japan

 

Visible Light Sensitized Bactericidal Structures Based on Titania Nanoparticles and Quantum Dots
A.O. Orlova, ITMO Univ., Russia

 

Breast cancer diagnostics using optical Fourier Holography with thin films of Bacteriorhodopsin
D. V. G. L. N. Rao, Univ. of Massachusetts Boston, USA

 

Mechanisms of shungite nanocarbon interactions with biological molecules
N.N. Rozhkova, Federal Research Center “Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences”, Russia

 

Advanced luminescence lifetime imaging for metabolic FLIM and oxygen PLIM
A. Rück, Univ. Ulm, Germany

 

Hybrid disk-shaped nanoresonators on metal film for SERS chemical and biosensing
A.K. Sarychev, Inst. for Theoretical and Applied Electrodynamics RAS, Russia

 

Multi-modal imaging in live cell microscopy
H. Schneckenburger, Aalen Univ., Germany

 

Digital holographic microscopy and tomography in research of cellular response to photodynamic treatment
I.V. Semenova, Ioffe Inst. RAS, Russia

 

Fluorescence time-resolved spectroscopy and macroscopy of tumors
V. Shcheslavskiy, Becker-Hickl GmbH, Germany

 

High resolution fluorescence imaging of a 3D human stem cell-derived skin-neuro-muscle model - applications in development of new therapeutics
Y. Shi, CEO of Axol Ltd, UK

 

Laser optics in hemorheology and its clinical applications
S. Shin, Korea Univ., Korea

 

Exploring tumor-stroma interactions using combined autofluorescence and SHG imaging
M.V. Shirmanova, Privolzhsky Research Medical Univ., Russia

 

On the origin of NIR fluorescence in biotissues
E.A. Shirshin, Moscow State Univ., Russia

 

Immunological Aspects of Photodynamic Therapy
R.Steiner, Inst. of Laser Technologies in Medicine and Metrology at the Univ. of Ulm, Germany

 

Photoswitchable capsule for cell tracking
G.B. Sukhorukov, Queen Mary Univ. of London, UK

 

Biological atomic-force microscopy: is it worth it?
P.S. Timashev, Inst. for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov Univ., Semenov Inst. of Chemical Physics RAS, Inst. of Photonic Technologies, Research Center “Crystallography and Photonics” RAS, Russia

 

Investigation of anisotropic relaxation in excited biomolecules in the pico- and subpicosecond time domain
O.S. Vasyutinskii, Ioffe Inst. RAS, Russia

 

Multiphoton microscopy of oxygen
S.A. Vinogradov, Medicine Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA

 

In vivo deep-tissue photo-therapy based on gold nanobipyramids
J. Wang, Shanghai Inst. of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) 

 

Overcoming the Abbe diffraction limit in THz spectroscopy and imaging of soft biological tissues 
K.I. Zaytsev, Bauman Moscow State Technical Univ., Prokhorov General Physics Inst. RAS, Russia

 

Optically-controlled measurements of cryodestruction of biological tissues using sapphire shaped crystals
A.K. Zotov, Inst. of Solid State Physics RAS, Bauman Moscow State Technical Univ., Russia