TOPICAL PROBLEMS OF BIOPHOTONICS

Chairs
Lothar Lilge, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Canada
Ammasi Periasamy, University of Virginia, USA
Elena Zagaynova, Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, Russia

Program Committee
Konstantin Lukyanov, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS, Russia
Michel Orrit, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Vladislav Shcheslavskiy, Becker&Hickl GmbH, Germany

Topics

Tumor biology: microenvironment, oxygenation, bioenergetics
Drug discovery and preclinical studies
PDT and laser treatment
Molecular mechanisms of cancer
Nanobiophotonics for biomedical applications
Optical probes and fluorescent proteins

Scientific Secretary
Marina Shirmanova
Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy
10/1 Minin and Pozharsky sq., 603005 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Tel: + 7 (831) 4655672;
shirmanovam@gmail.com

Invited speakers

	Margarida Barroso, Albany Medical College, USA	Novel insights into transferrin-mediated delivery into tumor cells using in vitro and in vivo fret imaging
	Paul J. Campagnola University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA	Analysis of stromal alterations in ovarian cancers via Second Harmonic Generation microscopy
	Dhayn Chandra Roswell Park Cancer Institute, USA	Novel regulation of cancer cell death by OXPHOS complexes, cytokines, and unfolded protein response
	Vladimir Chekhonin Russian State Medical University, Russia	Internalization of vertorized liposomes into target-cells
	Chia-Liang Cheng National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan	Drug loading and efficiency of nanodiamond-anticancer drug complex in 2d and 3d cellular model
	Santhosh Chidangil Manipal University, India	Optical Biopsy: Journey from Laboratory System to Public Health-care
	Richard Day Indiana University School of Medicine, USA	Intravital FRET and FLIM: monitoring biosensor activities and intrinsic metabolic states
	Sergey Deyev Shemyakin&Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of RAS, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod,Russia	New strategies of cancer diagnostics and therapy
	Nikolai Khlebtsov Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms RAS, Russia	Optimal design of layered plasmonic nanostructures with embedded raman reporters
	Lothar Lilge Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Canada	Photodynamic treatment planning and dosimetry: development of an universal applicable treatment optimization process
	Yousuf Mohammed, University of Queensland, Australia	Zinc oxide nanoparticle penetration into in vivo and in vitro human skin. Simulating life like experimental conditions and using non-invasive MPT-FLIM imaging can provide accurate toxicological assessment
	Mikako Ogawa, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan	New cancer therapy using near infrared light
	Elena Perevedentseva National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan	Multifunctional nanoparticles for bio-medical researches and theranostics
	Ammasi Periasamy University of Virginia, USA	Tryptophan as an alternative biomarker for cancer metabolism: FLIM-FRET microscopy
	Alexander Savitsky Bach Institute of Biochemistry RAS, Russia	Rational mutagenesis of new photoconvertable fluorescent protein for the live cell microscopy
	Vladislav Shcheslavskiy Becker&Hickl GmbH, Germany	Probing tumors with time-resolved spectroscopy
	Marina Shirmanova, Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, Russia	Tumor response to chemotherapy as a complex phenomenon: insight into mophofunctional characteristics using fluorescence imaging
	Konstantin Sokolov The UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA	Mechanisms of molecular cancer imaging and therapy with ultra-small nanoparticles
	Hauke Studier Becker&Hickl GmbH, Germany, University of South Australia, Australia	Non-invasive metabolic imaging of melanoma progression
	Richard Taylor Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany	High temporal and spatial resolution in tracking proteins on and through a cell membrane using iSCAT