Optics Within Life Sciences (OWLS) 2012

Key Topics

• NanoBiophotonics
• Biophotonics in Medical Therapuetics including Optogenetics
• New tools for Biophotonics (from light sources to detectors to instruments)
• Biophotonics in Medical Diagnostics
• Laser based diagnostics and therapy
• Biophotonics in Analytics for Life Sciences
• Holographic techniques in medical diagnostics
• Laser based biomedical applications
• Imaging technologies in medicine and biology
• Optics in environmental science
• Living cell imaging (green fluorescent protein)
• Optical spectroscopy in biology and medicine
• Digital signal processing and image reconstruction
• Fluorescence resonance energy transfer microscopy
• Novel microscopy
• Fluorescence lifetime imaging
• Near-field scanning microscopy
• Confocal microscopy
• Optical coherence tomography
• Nonlinear microscopy (multi-photon, SHG, THG, CARS)
• Optics in vision research
• Optics in the humanities
• Bio-photomechanics
• Optical biosensors
• Interaction of laser radiation with biological media and materials
• Laser tweezers and trapping
• Novel clinical applications
• Photodynamic therapy
• Photoacoustics
• Nanophotonics
• Super resolution microscopy and optical nanoscopy