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