Plenary Talks
Derek Abbott
University of Adelaide, Australia		 Biosensing in the terahertz regime
Claude Boccara
Institut Langevin, Laboratoire d'Optique ESPCI, Paris, France
 Full-field OCT: from bench to the operating room
Hiro-o Hamaguchi
School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Single cell viability diagnostics by Raman microspectroscopy
Matthew Larkum
University of Bern, Switzerland		 Dendritic recordings in freely moving animals
Svyatoslav Medvedev
Institute of Human Brain, Russian Academy of Science, St.Petersburg, Russia 		Inaccurate interpretation of neuroimaging results creates illusions
Vladislav Panchenko
Institute on Laser and Information Technologies RAS, Moscow, Russia

 Optical and information technologies for telebiomedicine and implantology

Paras Prasad
Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics
University at Buffalo,
State University of New York, USA

 Overcoming challenges to reveal opportunities at the frontiers of biophotonics
Antoine Triller
Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, France		 Real time molecular dynamics of synaptic adaptation and plasticity

Bruce Tromberg
Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, UC Irvine, USA

Diffuse optical spectroscopic imaging using spatially and temporally modulated light

Xi-Cheng Zhang
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

 Recent development of science, technology, and application of THz air photonics