IUPB-MEPSA 2024
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Congress Opening
IUPB FINSEN MEDAL LECTURE
IUPB EDNA ROE LECTURE
Morning Tea
Concurrent Session - Structure, function and application of animal “non-conventional” opsins.
Chair: Akihisa Terakita
Concurrent Session - Targeted photosensitizer delivery strategies
Chair: Huang Chiao Huang
Concurrent Session - Advances in optogenetics and molecular aspects
Chair: Matias Zurbriggen
Concurrent Session - UV radiation in the skin and vitamin D
Chair: Peter Philipsen
Concurrent Session - Light sensing in plants, algae and cyanobacteria: photosynthesis and photoperception
Chair: Xiaojing Yang
Concurrent Session - Phototoxicity - Photostability of drugs
Chair: Giorgia Miolo
Lunch
KEYNOTE LECTURE - Serge PICAUD
KEYNOTE LECTURE - Chikako NISHIGORI
Afternoon Tea
Concurrent Session - Photobiology and photoprotection in skin of color
Chairs: Antony Young & Indermeet Kohli
Concurrent Session - Design of photosensitizing systems with improved efficiency
Chair: Fabienne Dumoulin
Concurrent Session - Designed Photoenzymes
Chairs: Silvia Braslavsky & Pavel Müller
Concurrent Session - Biomolecular condensates in plant light signaling
Chair: Giltsu Choi
Concurrent Session - Quantum efficiency of photobiological processes: an experimental and theoretical view from femtosecond to millisecond time-scale
Chair: Michel Sliwa
IUPB Board Meeting
IUPB FINSEN MEDAL LECTURE
IUPB FINSEN LECTURE
Morning Tea
Concurrent Session -What’s new and controversial on sunscreens and photoprotection
Chair: Henry Lim
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Concurrent Session - Cell death mechanisms involved in photodynamic activation
Chair: Tayyaba Hasan
Concurrent Session - Photobiology in aquatic phototrophs
Chairs: Devaki Bhaya & Arthur Grossman
Concurrent Session - Photoreactivity of biomolecules: diversity in the mechanisms
Chair: Patricia Vicendo
Concurrent Session - Photosystem II and water oxidation
Chair: Nick Cox
Concurrent Session - Nanobioplasmonics
Chair: Tomoko Inose
2025 Group Photo
Lunch
Poster Session
Afternoon Tea
Concurrent Session - PDT combinations and drug delivery
Chair: Kristian Berg
Concurrent Session - Biodiversity in photosynthetic light harvesting and regulation
Chair: Roberta Croce
Concurrent Session - Melanin pigments: how photochemistry affects their biological role
Chair: Tadeusz Sarna
Concurrent Session - Nanobiophotonics - nanoscience to address biological challenges
Chair: Maria Jose Marin Altaba
Concurrent Session - Melanoma heterogeneity and therapeutic approaches
Chair: Nikolas Haass
Concurrent Session - Photosensitivity diseases and photodiagnostics
Chair: Sally Ibbotson
IUPB General Assembly
MEPSA AGM
IUPB FINSEN MEDAL LECTURE
KEYNOTE LECTURE - Francesca TOMA
Morning Tea
Concurrent Session - Hyperpigmentation. The role of visible light
Chair: Francoise Bernerd
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Concurrent Session - Endogenous photosensitizers and the skin redoxome
Chair: Mauricio Baptista
Concurrent Session - Photodynamic therapy resistance mechanisms in cancer
Chair: Pål Kristian Selbo
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Concurrent Session - Photoimmunology: effect of solar radiation on the immune system
Chair: Scott Byrne
Concurrent Session - Acclimation of photosynthetic machineries
Chair: Jun Minagawa
KEYNOTE LECTURE - Henry LIM - Beyond sunscreens: Oral and systemic photoprotection'
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Lunch
Concurrent Session - Phototherapy
Chair: Franz Trautinger
Concurrent Session - Role of nanoparticles in PDT and beyond
Chair: Gang Zheng
Concurrent Session - Plant responses to UV-B mediated by the UVR8 photoreceptor
Chair: Ruohe Yin
Concurrent Session - Role of UV radiation in the breakdown of plastic waste
Chair: Anthony Andrady
Concurrent Session - Ocular photobiology : non-visual interaction of light with eye
Chair: Patrick Rochette
Concurrent Session - Keratinocyte cancer – prediction, prevention, diagnosis – skin photoaging.
Chair: James Wells
Afternoon Tea
Concurrent Session - Phototherapy (Continued)
Chair: Franz Trautinger
Concurrent Session - Role of nanoparticles in PDT and beyond (Continued)
Chair: Gang Zheng
Concurrent Session - Plant responses to UV-B mediated by the UVR8 photoreceptor (Continued)
Chair: Ruohe Yin
Concurrent Session - Role of UV radiation in the breakdown of plastic waste (Continued)
Chair: Anthony Andrady
Concurrent Session - Ocular photobiology : non-visual interaction of light with eye (Continued)
Chair: Patrick Rochette
Concurrent Session - Keratinocyte cancer – prediction, prevention, diagnosis – skin photoaging. (Continued)
Chair: James Wells
Congress Dinner
MEPSA AWARD Vivienne Reeve Lecture
KEYNOTE LECTURE - Tayyaba HASAN
Morning Tea
Concurrent Session - Novel approaches to photochemical mechanisms in PDT
Chair: Santi Nonell
Concurrent Session - Biomolecular and biohybrid systems for solar energy conversion
Chair: Roberta Croce
Concurrent Session - Light dosimetry and delivery in tissue in PDT
Chair: Luis Arnaut
Concurrent Session - Photosynthetic pigments: Tetrapyrroles & carotenoids
Chair: Tatsuru Masuda
Concurrent Session - Light in the onset, prevention and treatment of myopia
Chair: Gareth Lingham
Concurrent Session - Computational chemistry and photochemistry of biological and nanotechnological systems
Chair: Daniel Roca-Sanjuán
Lunch
KEYNOTE LECTURE - Robert RAMSAY
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KEYNOTE LECTURE - Maria Gabriela LAGORIO
KEYNOTE LECTURE - Anthony ANDRADY
Concurrent Session - Photosynthetic organisms as biofactories
Chair: Yagut Allahverdiyeva-Rinne
Concurrent Session - Photodiagnosis and photodynamic therapy
Chair: Qian Peng
Concurrent Session - Mechanisms of defense against sunlight induced DNA damage
Chair: Carlos F M Menck
Concurrent Session - ROS & nitric oxide in PDT
Chair: Salvatore Sortino
Concurrent Session - Photobiology and Antarctic organisms
Chair: Melinda Waterman