2024 Program Themes & Symposia

ENVIRONMENTAL PHOTOBIOLOGY

  • Plant response to solar radiation in Australia - Johanna Turnball, Australia

  • Photosensing and photobiology in aquatic phototrophs - Devaki Blaya and Arthur Grossmann, USA

  • Climate change and plant physiology - Hongtao Liu, China

PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY

  • Photodiagnosis and non-dermatological PDT - Qian Peng, Oslo, NO

  • Novel approaches to photochemical mechanisms in PDT - Santi Nonell, Spain

  • Cell death mechanisms involved in photodynamic activation - Tayyaba Hasan, USA

  • ROS & nitric oxide in PDT - Salvatore Sortino, It

  • Photodynamic therapy resistance mechanisms in cancer - Pål Selbo, Oslo, NO

  • Design of photosensitizing systems with improved efficiency - Fabienne Dumoulin, Turkey

APPLIED PHOTOBIOLOGY & INNOVATIONS
IN THE 21ST CENTURY

  • Role of UV radiation in the breakdown of plastic waste - Anthony Andrady, USA

  • Biosensing and Photodiagnostic - nanoscience to address biological challenges - Maria Marin, UK

  • Nanobioplasmonics - Tomoko Inose, JP

  • PDT combinations and drug delivery - Kristian Berg, Oslo, NO

  • Light dosimetry and delivery in tissue in PDT - Luis Arnaut, Portugal

  • Photodynamic treatments for neglected diseases - Amparo Faustino, Pt

  • Targeted photosensitizer delivery strategies - Huang-Chiao Huang, USA

  • Role of nanoparticles in PDT - Gang Zheng, CA

PLANT & MICRO-ORGANISM PHOTOBIOLOGY

  • Plant responses to UV-B mediated by the UVR8 photoreceptor - Ruohe Yin, Shanghai, China

  • Photosynthetic pigments: Tetrapyrroles & carotenoids - Tatsuru Massuda, Japan

  • Biodiversity in photosynthetic light harvesting and regulation - Roberta Croce, NL

  • Photosystem II and water oxidation - Nick Cox, Australia

PHYSICAL & CHEMICAL PHOTOBIOLOGY

LIGHT & ABORIGINAL ART: DAWN TO DUSK

PHOTOBIOLOGY IN HEALTH & DISEASE

  • What’s new and controversial on sunscreens and photoprotection - Henry Lim , US

  • Hyperpigmentations. The role of visible light - François Bernerd, L'Oreal, FR

  • Photobiology and photoprotection in skin of color - Indermeet Kohli, US and Antony Young, UK

  • UV radiation and vitamin D - Peter Philipsen, Denmark

  • Photosensitivity diseases/photodiagnostics - Sally Ibbotson, UK

  • Phototherapy - Franz Trautinger, Austria

  • Advances in optogenetics and molecular aspects - Matias Zurbriggen, Germany

  • Designed photoenzymes - Silvia Braslavsky, Germany; and Pavel Müller, France

  • Photosynthetic organisms as biofactories - Yagut Allahverdiyeva-Rinne, Finland

  • Phototoxicity - Photostability of drugs - Giorgia Miolo, It

  • Photoreactivity of biomolecules : diversity in the mechanisms - Patricia Vicendo, Fr

  • Quantum efficiency of photobiological processes : an experimental and theoretical view from femtosecond to millisecond time-scale - Michel Sliwa, Fr

  • Melanin pigments: how photochemistry affects their biological role - Tadeusz Sarna, Poland

  • Light sensing in plant algae and cyanobacteria: photosynthesis and photoperception - Xiaojing Yang, USA

  • Biomolecular condensates in plant light signaling - Giltsu Choi, KR

  • Acclimation of photosynthesis - Jun Minagawa, JP

  • Melanoma heterogeneity and therapeutic approaches - Nikolas Haass, Australia

  • Mechanisms of defense against sunlight induced DNA damage - Carlos Menck, Brazil

  • Light in the onset, prevention and treatment of myopia - Gareth Lingham, Australia

  • Ocular Photobiology : non-visual interaction of light with eye - Patrick Rochette, Quebec, CA

  • Structure, function and application of animal “non-conventional” opsins - A. Terakita, Japan

  • Photoimmunology: effect of solar radiation on the immune system - Scott Byrne, Australia

  • Endogenous photosensitizers and the skin redoxome - Mauricio Baptista, Brazil

  • Light-skin interactions and the novel pareadigms in skin photoprotection - Mauricio Baptista, Brazil

  • Computational chemistry and photochemistry of biological and nanotechnological systems - Daniel Roca Sanjuan, Spain