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EOSAM - TOM 1: Biophotonics

29th September 2008 - 2nd October 2008
Paris-Nord Villepinte, Parc d'expositions et Centre de Conventions - Paris, France

This topical meeting is part of the EOS Annual Meeting 2008 and will be held from 29 September - 02 October 2008.

The Advance Programme for the EOS Annual Meeting 2008 is now available:

Complete Advance Programme (incl. general information, early-bird registration, hotel list, travel information...; pdf-file; 4.2 MB)
Overview, oral and poster programme only (pdf-file; 2.4 MB)

Early-bird registration

Early-bird registration (credit card payment; 24 kb)
Early-bird registration (bank transfer; 18 kb)

Synopsis

The Topical Meeting on Biophotonics covers two main areas, nano-biophotonics and biosensors.

Nano-biophotonics combines the fields of photonics and nanotechnology for applications in the biomedical sciences. This meeting aims to cover optical imaging, sensing and activation methods, operating down to the single molecule level. It will include advanced imaging modalities ranging from confocal and multiphoton microscopy to far- and near-field optical super-resolution techniques such as STED, PALM and scanning optical probe methods. Genetically engineered, quantum dot, SERS, SPR and FRET probes provide an important view into the nano-world where conventional imaging falls short, while spectral, lifetime and polarisation imaging can provide information at a molecular level. Finally, we would like to consider optical control at the nano-level realized by optical trapping or by photo-activation of bio-molecular species.

In the last two decades, an increasing interest has been devoted by the scientific community to the study of optical biosensors and biochips. The results carried out have shown the tremendous and potential applications that such devices can find in many areas, such as genomics, proteomics, medical diagnostics, pharmacology, health care, environmental monitoring, food analysis, agriculture, defence, and security. As a consequence, the industrial investments in these fields are pushing the biosensing market, that is growing at an increasing rate. The conference provides an international forum for the presentation of new ideas on basic concepts, surface functionalization procedures, transducing mechanisms, configurations and realization technologies to be exploited in the optical biosensing field. Contributions concerning the growing possibilities offered by the micro- and nano-technologies in the integration of optical biosensors with microfluidics and opto-electronic circuits on the same bio-chip are welcome.



Topics

  • Principles and applications of optical biosensors and biochips
  • Micro- and nano-system technology for optical biosensors and biochips
  • Bio-opto-fluidics devices and systems
  • Optical microsensors and chips for genomics and proteomics
  • Novel configurations based on photonic crystals and resonant cavity structures
  • New signal transduction technologies
  • Natural and synthetic receptors for optical biosensors
  • Label-free optical biosensors
  • Near field optical microscopy
  • Far field super-resolving microscopy
  • Raman and flourescence techniques
  • Plasmon enhancement
  • Optical trapping and manipulation
  • Photoactivation and photoswitching
  • Photonic force techniques
  • Molecular, genetically-engineered and nano-particle probes

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Abstract Submission and deadlines

  • The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to Monday, 16 June 2008 at 12 noon (CET).
  • Notification to authors: 10 July 2008 (+++ post-poned to Monday, 14 July - the EOS apologizes for the delay +++)

Prospective authors are invited to submit their abstract in one of the listed topics. The abstract shall cover a minimum of half a page and a maximum of two pages and shall be submitted online with the responsible author’s contact data. The EOS guidelines for abstracts can be downloaded at www.myeos.org/abstractguidelines.
Should you work with Latex-files, please click here to download the guidelines and the template.

How to submit an abstract

  • step 1: click on the link submit an abstract (on the top of this page)
  • step 2: follow the instructions and fill in the required data
  • step 3: click on submit at the end of the page
  • step 4: your paper has been submitted sucessfully

JEOS: RP - Special publication offer

All attendees of the EOS Annual Meeting receive a 20% discount on the publication rate for the e-journal of the EOS: the Journal of the European Optical Society - Rapid Publications (JEOS:RP, http://www.jeos.org/). The paper submitted to JEOS: RP must be an original contribution that is connected to one of the topical meetings and must be submitted no later than 01 December 2008. The special publication fee for attendees of this event is 280 euros (instead of 350 euros).

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Chairs

  • Gert von Bally, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany
  • Ivo Rendina, IMM – National Council of Research, Naples, Italy
  • Mark Neil, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Programme Committee

  • Francesco Baldini, IFAC - National Council of Research, Florence, Italy
  • Luca De Stefano, IMM – National Council of Research, Naples, Italy
  • Kishan Dholakia, University St. Andrews, United Kingdom
  • Emmanuel Fort, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
  • Rainer Heintzman, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
  • Jiri Homola, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Paul Lambeck, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
  • Frances Ligler, Center for Bio/Molecular Science & Engineering, Washington, USA
  • Juergen Popp, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet, Jena, Germany
  • Carsten Schultz, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
  • Vinod Subramaniam, University of Twente, The Netherlands

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Plenary Speaker

  • Brian Mac Craith, Dublin City University, Ireland

Invited Speakers

  • Dorus Gadella, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Guenter Gauglitz, Eberhard-Karls Universitaet, Tuebingen, Germany
  • Martina Havenith, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
  • Laura Lechuga, Microelectronics Institute of Madrid, Spain
  • Dmitri Petrov, ICFO - Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain
  • Tuan Vo-Dinh, Duke University, Durham, Unites States

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Contact

European Optical Society (EOS)
Petra Bindig
Hollerithallee 8
30419 Hannover, Germany

Phone: +49-(0)511-2788-155
Fax: +49-(0)511-2788-119

E-Mail: paris@myeos.org
URL: www.myeos.org

Sub-Conferences

Call for papers!

The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to Monday, 16 June 2008 at 12 am.
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