Plenary Lectures

• Biophotonics: How Living Systems Encode Information in Light
  María Gabriela Lagorio, University of Buenos Aires
  May 16 afternoon


• Artificial Photosynthetic Systems
  Ana Moore, Arizona State University
  May 16 afternoon


• Clinical Applications Inside the Body: The Challenges of Putting PDT Where the Sun Doesn’t Ordinarily Shine
  Keith A. Cengel, University of Pennsylvania
  May 17 morning


• Natural and Synthetic Optogenetic Circuits: Mapping Transcriptional Responses and Visualizing Population Dynamics Through the Eyes of Fungi
  Luis F. Larrondo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Millennium Institute for Integrative Biology, iBio)
  May 17 morning


• Optogenetic Control of Biological Processes: From Photoreceptor Engineering to Their Implementation in Microbial, Animal, and Plant Systems
  Matias D. Zurbriggen, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  May 17 afternoon


• Photochemical Approaches for Strengthening Cancer Immunotherapy
  Pål Kristian Selbo, Oslo University Hospital
  ESP Presidential Lecture, May 18 morning


• Repurposing Bacterial Photosynthesis
  Massimo Trotta, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
  May 18 morning


• Singlet Oxygen Dosimetry and Light Fractionation on PDT Efficacy
  Timothy C. Zhu, University of Pennsylvania
  May 18 afternoon


• From Foundations to Frontiers in Photobiology: Molecules to Medicine with Photoactive Metal Complexes
  Sherri A. McFarland, The University of Texas at Arlington
  ASP Presidential Lecture, May 19 afternoon


• Ultrafast Photophysics in DNA and Eumelanin
  Bern Kohler, The Ohio State University
  May 19 morning


• The Tortoise and the Hare in Photodynamic Therapy: How to Deliver Painless PDT
  Edward V. Maytin, Cleveland Clinic
  May 19 morning


• Photochemistry and Photobiology Editor’s Lecture
  Alexander Greer, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
  May 19 afternoon