4th International Graduate Summer School, Biophotonics ’09

From 6-13 June 2009 the 4th International Graduate Summer School, Biophotonics ’09, is held at the Swedish island Ven. During one week the school hosts 75 international graduate students and 11 international top-rank speakers.

For more information please visit the school's website: www.biop.dk/biophotonics09/. You can also download the event's flyer here.

About Biophotonics '09

In particular, we are proud to present the list of lecturers and their topics at the school:

• Professor Darryl J. Bornhop, Chemistry Department, Vanderbilt University, USA
  Optical biosensing based on refractive index measurements
• Professor Kishan Dholakia, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom
  Optical tweezers and their role in biophotonics
• Professor Stefan W. Hell, Dept. of NanoBiophotonics, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
  Fluorescence microscopy beyond the diffraction limit: stimulated emission depletion
• Professor Joseph Izatt, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, USA
  Optical coherence tomography
• Professor Steven Jacques, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
  The origins of optical contrast in tissues
• Professor Eva Sevick-Muraca, Department of Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine Houston, USA
  Near-infrared fluorescence, molecular imaging
• Professor, MD Katarina Svanberg, Lund University Hospital, Dept. Of Oncology, Sweden
  Strategies for cancer treatment using lasers and photodynamic therapy
• Professor Sune Svanberg, Lund University, Dept. of Physics, Sweden
  Lasers and spectroscopy in medicine
• Professor Roy Taylor, Imperial College London, Dept. of Physics, United Kingdom
  Supercontinuum light sources – basics and applications
• Professor Bruce Tromberg, University of California, Beckman Laser Institute, USA
  Monitoring and predicting chemotherapy response using diffuse optics
• Professor Hubert van den Bergh, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institut de l'environnement, Switzerland
  Photodynamic therapy

More information is available at the website Biophotonics '09 (http://www.biop.dk/biophotonics09/)

Contact

Peter E. Andersen
Dept. Photonics Engineering
Technical University of Denmark
DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Tel. +45 4677 4555
peta@fotonik.dtu.dk