EOS Topical Meeting on Biophotonics - TOM 1

EOS Events

Date: 29th September 2008 - 2nd October 2008
Location: 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.

Synopsis
Topics
Abstract submission and deadlines
JEOS:RP - special publication offer
Chairs
Programme Committee
Plenary Speaker
Invited Speakers
Industrial Workshop "Biophotonics Business: Opportunities and Challenges for European Companies"
Contact

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.

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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

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, 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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Industrial Workshop "Biophotonics Business: Opportunities and Challenges for European Companies"

The new Biophotonics Business workshop will have a special structure:

First, a set of presentations of leading experts from industry will be invited to set the stage concerning biophotonics business, market outlook and challenges. Participants will then divide into working groups to address key issues concerning the successful transfer of ideas to products. Finally, everyone will participate in a final session to hear and to discuss the results from each working group.