Programme Lasers for Life - A Laserlab-Europe Foresight Workshop
Monday 2nd June 2014
12:30 Meeting open for registration
13:30 Welcoming remarks by Claes-Göran Wahlström (Laserlab-Europe) and John Collier (STFC Central Laser Facility)
Scientific Session 1: Medical Imaging, Diagnosis, and Therapy (Part 1)
14:00 Plenary: Serge Mordon (INSERM, Lille, France) Laser applications in medicine
15:00 Sally Ibbotson (Dundee, UK) Phototherapy, photodiagnosis
15:30 Adrian Podoleanu (Kent, UK) Master/Slave optical coherence tomography
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Katarina Svanberg (Lund, Sweden) Lasers for Oncology
17:00 Samantha Hills (Lynton Lasers, UK) Lasers for cosmetic therapy
17:30 Vasilis Ntziachristos (IBMI, Munich, Germany) In vivo targeted fluorescence
18:00 Carsten Philipp (Evangelical Elisabeth Clinic, Germany) Laser surgery, endoscopy
18:30 Drinks reception, poster session, commercial exhibition, and networking opportunity
19:30 Dinner
22:00 Departure for hotels
Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Scientific Session 2: Medical Imaging, Diagnosis, and Therapy (Part 2)
09:00 Plenary: Brett Bouma (Harvard, USA) Lasers for medical imaging
10:00 Fiona Lyng (Dublin Inst of Tech, Ireland) Laser spectroscopy for diagnosis
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Colin Hopper (UCL, UK) PDT for head & neck cancer
11:30 Katalin Hideghety (Szeged, Hungary) Future applications of laser-driven ionizing radiation
Scientific Session 3: Complementary approaches forward look (Synchrotrons, FELS, and High Power Lasers)
12:00 Plenary: Henry Chapman (DESY, Germany) FELs for structural biology
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Paul Dumas (Soleil, France) Synchrotrons & lasers in the IR
14:30 Elizabeth Duke (Diamond Light Source, UK) Correlative X-ray & laser microscopy: CLXM
15:00 Richard Abel (Imperial College, UK) High power lasers for medical imaging
15:30 Jörg Schreiber (MPI, Germany) Laser-driven ion acceleration
16:00 Coffee break
Scientific Session 4: Future Applications of Laser Spectroscopy & Imaging for Biological and Medical Research (Part 1)
16:30 Plenary: Ernst Stelzer (Buchmann Inst, Germany) Advanced light microscopy
17:30 Christian Eggeling (Oxford, UK) STED microscopy
18:00 Neil Hunt (Strathclyde, UK) 2DIR of proteins & peptides
18:30 Drinks, poster session, commercial exhibition, and networking opportunity
19:30 Dinner
22:00 Departure for hotels
Wednesday 4th June 2014
Scientific Session 5: Future Applications of Laser Spectroscopy & Imaging for Biological and Medical Research (Part 2)
09:00 Susan Quinn (UCD, Ireland) Ultrafast spectroscopy of nucleic acids
09:30 Marisa Martin-Fernandez (STFC, UK) Single Molecule techniques in cells & tissues
10:00 Maria Garcia Parajo (ICFO, Spain) Single Molecule Biophotonics
10:30 Erwin Peterman (VU Amsterdam, NL) Super-resolution & Optical Tweezers
11:00 Coffee break
Scientific Session 6: Horizon Scanning – Exploration of emerging areas
11:30 Maria Farsari (IESL-FORTH, Greece) 2.5D and 3D printing of biomedical implants
12:00 Aleksandr Ovsianikov (Vienna Uni. of Technology) Laser-based tissue engineering
12:30 Michael Hausser (University College London) Optogenetics
13:00 Ken Ledingham (Strathclyde, UK) Opportunities for international collaboration in laser therapy
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Discussion forum: Presentations from policy leaders and open discussion with delegates
15:30 Closing remarks
16:00 Workshop ends
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