LALS-2024 plenary and invited speakers

Razansky

Daniel Razansky, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich and the Department of Information Technologies and Electrical Engineering of ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Dr. Daniel Razansky holds the Chair of Biomedical Imaging with double appointments at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich and Department of Information Technologies and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich. He earned degrees in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and did further training at the Harvard Medical School. He was previously Professor of Molecular Imaging Engineering at the Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Center Munich in Germany. The Razansky Lab pioneered a number of bio-imaging technologies that were successfully commercialized and put into use in research labs and clinical facilities across the globe, among them the multi-spectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT) and hybrid optoacoustic ultrasound (OPUS). His research has been recognized by the German Innovation Prize and multiple awards from the ERC, NIH, SNF, DFG and HFSP. He is also Fellow of the IEEE, SPIE and Optica Societies.

Plenary talk title: «Ultrafast optoacoustic imaging in biology and the clinics»

Drexler

Wolfgang Drexler, Professor, Head of Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Dr. Wolfgang Drexler received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1991 and 1995, respectively, at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. From 2006 to 2009 he was a Full Professor of Biomedical Imaging at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Since 2010 he is an Honorary Distinguished Professor at Cardiff University, UK. Since October 2009 he is a Full Professor of Medical Physics and the Head of the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at the Medical University of Vienna. He spent 2 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, received amongst others the Austrian START Award from the Austrian Science Fund in 2001 and the COGAN Award from ARVO in 2007. He has published more than 240 publications in peer reviewed journals and is first, co-author or corresponding author of more than 700 conference proceedings or abstracts resulting in a h-index of 79 (Scopus). He is (Co)Editor of 12 books, including two editions of “Optical Coherence Tomography: Technology and Applications” (2008 and 2015).

Plenary talk title: «Multimodal optical endoscopy»

Maercu

Laura Marcu, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery; Director NIH-NIBIB National Center for Interventional Biophotonic Technologies, University of California Davis, California, USA

Dr. Laura Marcu received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering in 1998 from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She is a full professor of biomedical engineering and the founding director of the recently established (2022) NIH-NIBIB P41 Center – the National Center for Interventional Biophotonic Technologies at UC Davis. Since 2007 she has served as co-director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center - Biomedical Technology Program, at the UC Davis Medical Center. Her research interest is in the area of biomedical optics, with a particular focus on research for the development of optical techniques for tissue diagnostics including applications in surgical oncology, interventional cardiology, and tissue engineering. She has published a book as well as over 250 co-authored publications. Currently, she is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Biophotonics and the Translational Biophotonics, and Associate Editor for Optica. She is a Fellow of the AAAS, AIMBE, BMES, OPTICA, SPIE, and NAI.

Plenary talk title: «Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging in Clinical Interventions»

Brecken Blackburn, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Invited talk: «Non-Perturbative Optical Methods of Assessing Corneal Mechanical Properties»
Dan Zhu, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Invited talk: «Tissue optical clearing imaging: from in vitro to in vivo»
Irene Georgakoudi, Dartmouth College and Tufts University, USA
Invited talk: «Multi-modal, label-free, optical imaging of metabolic function: From mitochondria to humans»
Johannes de Boer, Vrije University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Invited talk: «Structural and molecular imaging in vivo: PS-OCT and Immuno-OCT»
Karsten Koenig, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Invited talk: «Ultracompact multimodal femtosecond fiber multiphoton tomograph»
Kostadinka Bizheva, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Invited talk: «Progress on imaging neurovascular coupling in the retina»
Martin Leahy, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
Invited talk: «Photoacoustic tracking of stem cells»
Daniel Côté, Université Laval and CERVO Brain Research Center, Québec, Canada
Invited talk: «Novel Raman approaches for the neurosurgical guidance»
Michael Jenkins, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Invited talk: «tSNIP Transient Selective Neural Inhibition via Photobiomodulation»
Grigory Gelikonov, Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Invited talk: «Non-obvious features imaging in OCT»
Adrian Podoleanu, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Invited talk: «Master Slave Optical Coherence Tomography for ultra Fast Swept Sources»
Brendan Kennedy, University of Western Australia, Australia
Invited talk: «Revealing the micro-scale mechanics of cancer using optical coherence elastography»
Yoshiaki Yasuno, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Invited talk: «Computational augmentation of optical coherence tomography contrasts for label-free tissue dynamics and property imaging»
Susana Marcos, University of Rochester, Rochester, USA
Invited talk: «Novel Photo-Activated Treatments in Ophthalmology»
Seemantini K. Nadkarni, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Invited talk: «Investigating the mechanopathology of soft tissues»
Peter Török, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Invited talk: «Limitations of Brillouin elastography in biological samples»
Frédérique Vanholsbeeck, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Invited talk: «Multimodal imaging platform to study cartilage degeneration using compression-based depth-resolved polarisation-sensitive optical coherence tomography and vibrational spectroscopy»
Jitao Zhang, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
Invited talk: «Non-contact biomechanical imaging of cell and tissue using optical Brillouin microscopy»
Dmitry Gorin, Skoltech, Moscow, Russia
Invited talk: «Where does photonics meet acoustics and nanostructured materials for biomedical applications?»
Olga Cherkasova, Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Invited talk: «Terahertz Spectroscopy of Body Fluids for Glioma Diagnostics»
Herbert Schneckenburger, University of Aalen, Aalen, Germany
Invited talk: «Axial tomography in live cell microscopy»
Luis Oliveira, Polytechnic of Porto – School of Engineering (ISEP), Porto, Portugal
Invited talk: «Characterization of UV transparency windows in tissues as a function of glycerol osmolarity»
Evgeny A. Shirshin, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Invited talk: «Surgery guidance with optical spectroscopy: from bench to bedside»
Yury V. Kistenev, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
Invited talk: «Qualitative and quantitative analysis of gas samples THz and IR absorption spectra for medical and ecological applications»
Andrey Dunaev, Orel State University, Orel, Russia
Invited talk: «Biophotonics methods for study the functional state of microcirculatory-tissue systems during long-term isolation in the ground model of a space station and in space flight conditions»
Kirill Zaytsev, Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Invited talk: «Terahertz-wave -- turbid tissue interactions»
Yulia Svenskaya, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia
Invited talk: «Optical monitoring of intrafollicular drug delivery by means of vaterite carriers»
Elina A. Genina, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia
Invited talk: «Combined Photodynamic/Photothermal Therapy of Model Cholangiocarcinoma Using Indocyanine Green and Gold Nanorods»
Yanina Irina, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia
Invited talk: «Phase transition monitoring in adipose tissue by multimodal approach»
Ivan A. Bratchenko, Samara National Research University, Samara, Russia
Invited talk: «Raman spectroscopy and machine learning in the prognosis of patients with coronary heart disease complicated by chronic heart failure»
Irina N. Dolganova, Osipyan Institute of Solid State Physics of RAS, Chernogolovka, Russia
Invited talk: «Application of NIR microsecond laser pulses for tissue coagulation and resection. Current results and perspective»
Aleksander Lanin, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Invited talk: «Multimodal nonlinear microscopy of ratiometric fluorescent sensor-proteins in vivo»
Maxim E. Darvin, Independent researcher, Berlin, Germany
Invited talk: «Non-invasive in vivo imaging of the multi-colored tattoo inks in the skin using two-photon excited fluorescence lifetime imaging»
Alexander V. Priezzhev, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Invited talk: «Сorrelation of endothelium function with optically measured blood microcirculation parameters in healthy volunteers and patients suffering from cardiac diseases»
Andrei Lugovtsov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Invited talk: «Laser aggregometry of red blood cells in a microfluidic channel covered with cultured endothelial cells»
Stefan Andersson-Engels, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland
Invited talk: «Photon Time-of-Flight Sensing for Color-Bias-Free Pulse Oxymetry»
Alexander P. Shkurinov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Invited talk: «Principles of construction of terahertz tunable sensors»
Anna Yaroslavsky, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA
Invited talk: «AI Assisted Rapid Quantitative Optical Cytopathology of Cancer»
Oleg S. Vasyutinskii, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Invited talk: «Photodynamics of molecular probes in solutions, cells and on organic surfaces»
Konstantin Sokolov, MD Anderson, Houston, USA
Invited talk: «Clinically translatable molecular photoacoustic imaging»
Viacheslav Artyushenko, Art photonics GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Invited talk: «Advanced Fiber Spectroscopy for Life Science Applications»
Olga Maria Conde Portilla, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Invited talk: «Explainable AI (XAI) Applied to Laser Applications in Life Sciences»
Rainer A. Leitgeb, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Invited talk: «Clinical translation of Low-cost Swept Source OCT - how low can you go?»
David Mayerich, University of Houston, Houston, USA
Invited talk: «Milling Microscopy: A Platform for Large-Scale Sub-Cellular 3D Histology»
Audrey Bowden, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Invited talk: «Portable fNIRS for measuring brain activity anytime, anywhere»
Michael Pircher, Medizinische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Invited talk: «Applications and challenges of clinical adaptive optics optical coherence tomography»
Robert Zawadzki, University of California, Davis, USA
Invited talk: «Development of FF-SS-OCT systems for structural and bleach-induced functional retinal imaging»
Hatice Ceylan Koydemir, Texas A&M University, USA
Invited talk: «Engineering Biomedical Sensing Technologies to Advance Human Health»
Lev T. Perelman, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, USA
Invited talk: «Multispectral Light Scattering Imaging for Precancer Detection and Cell Analysis»
Michel Meunier, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Invited talk: «Pulsed Laser Trigger Released of Gene and Drug from Lipid Nanoparticles»
Liang Gao, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Invited talk: «Breaking the Speed Barrier: High-Speed Light-Field Microscopy for Kilohertz to Terahertz 3D Imaging»
Adrian Rühm, LMU Munchen, Munchen, Germany
Invited talk: «Pre-clinical and clinical investigations on Hyperspectral-Imaging»
Anna O. Orlova, ITMO University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Invited talk: «Nanostructures for Multi-response Selective Volatile Organic Compound Sensing»
Victor Dremin, Orel State University, Orel, Russia
Invited talk: «Hyperspectral imaging of intestinal ischemia supported by machine learning»
H. Cumhur Tekin, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey
Invited talk: «Advanced image-based techniques in miniaturized devices for biosensing applications»
Xiaolong Liu, Mengchao Hepatobiliary Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
Invited talk: «NIR-II fluorescence Functional imaging of immune cells in cancer immunotherapy»
Hui Ma, Shenzhen International Graduate School and Tsinghua University, Shenzhen and Beijing, China
Invited talk: «Mueller matrix microscopy for digital pathology»
Pavel Subochev, Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Invited talk: « Revolutionizing Vascular Diagnostics: the Role of Wideband Ultrasound Detectors in Laser Optoacoustic Angiography»
Sergei Sokolovski, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Birmingham, UK
Invited talk: «Photonic 3D printing of human tissue models for disease research and treatment»
Valery Tuchin, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia
Invited talk: «Imaging, spectroscopy and therapy enhanced by tissue optical clearing»
Irina Larina, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Invited talk: «Dynamic imaging and optogenetic control of mammalian embryonic cardiogenesis»
Ilya Yaroslavsky, IPG Medical, IPG Photonics, Marlborough, USA
Invited talk: «Fractional Laser Treatment of Cartilage: Review of Recent Ex Vivo and Clinical Data»
Xiaoyu Weng, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
Invited talk: «Research on some fundamental problems in classical optics»
Sehyun Shin, Korea University, Seoul, Sourth Korea
Invited talk: «The Role of Red Blood Cells as Biomarkers in Human Aging and a Potential Route for Reverse-Aging»
Chunxiang Xu, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Invited talk: «Microcavity enhanced SERS biosensing»
Jansen E. Duco, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Invited talk: «Characterization of a combined fluorescence and spatial frequency domain imaging system to monitor photodynamic therapy dosimetry»
Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Invited talk: «Clinical implementation of near-infrared autofluorescence (NIRAF) for guiding endocrine neck surgery»

Xiangwei Zhao, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Invited talk: «Plasmonic materials based biomedical applications»

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