The programme will include 10 plenary and keynote lectures, 33 parallel symposia with invited lectures and free communications, a poster session, industry sponsored sessions, a commercial exhibition and social events. All scientific content will be delivered on-site and online.
Monday, August 30 evening
Franz Trautinger, AT: Love and hate of sunshine Chair: Herbert Hönigsmann, AT |
Tuesday, August 31 morning
Matias Zurbriggen, DE: Photosensory receptors as tools in synthetic biology |
Daniel Roca-Sanjuán, ES: Theoretical and computational photobiology |
Tuesday, August 31 afternoon
Douglas Brash, US: Dark CPDs and genomic sites hypersensitive to UV |
Tayyaba Hasan, US: Does light have a unique niche for enabling nanotechnology |
Wednesday, September 1 morning
Peter Wolf, AT: Effect of UV on microbiomes |
Young Investigator Award Lecture |
Thursday, September 2 morning
Matthias Senge, IE: Photoremediation |
Eleni Stavrinidou, SE: Electronic photosynthesis |
Friday, September 3 morning
Vasilis Ntziachristos, DE: Photoacoustic imaging |
Shawn Chen, SG: Overcoming the depth and oxygen barriers of PDT |
Tuesday, August 31 morning
Solar Fuels Chair: Massimo Trotta, IT & Noam Adir, IL |
Photoaging Chair: Florian Gruber, AT & Thomas Haarmann-Stemmann, DE |
Antimicrobial PDT Chair: Santi Nonell, ES & Tim Maisch, DE |
Harvesting sun light: from visible to far-red Chair: Roberta Croce, NL & Diana Kirilovsky, FR |
Tuesday, August 31 afternoon
Photosensitization Chair: Miguel Miranda, ES & Andrés Thomas, AR |
Responses of non-flowering plants to UV radiation Chair: Javier Martínez-Abaigar, ES & Pirjo Huovinen, CL |
Photomedicine and SARS-CoV-2 / ASP-ESP Symposium Chair: Amparo Faustino, PT & Doug Learn, US |
Near infrared PDT Chair: Cristiano Viappiani, IT & Mladen Korbelik, CA |
Wednesday, September 1 morning
Photocarcinogenesis and photoimmunology Chair: Scott Byrne, AU & Katie Dixon, AU |
Imaging Chair: Florian Gruber, AT & Dario Bassani, FR |
Photoreceptors of the plant microbiota: functions and applications Chair: Aba Losi, IT & Luis Corrochano, ES |
Free Oral Communications Chair: Kristian Berg, NO & Rex Tyrrell, UK |
Wednesday, September 1 afternoon
DNA damage Chair: Daniel Roca-Sanjuán, ES & Virginie Lhiaubet-Vallet, ES |
Interactions of UV and other environmental factors in regulating plant growth and development Chair: Marcel Jansen, IE & Otmar Urban, CZ |
Photodermatology, Phototherapy and Photodiagnostics Chair: Akimichi Morita, JP & Peter Wolf, AT |
Photosystem II and oxygen evolution Chair: Richard Debus, US |
Thursday, September 2 morning
Light as a sensing tool/molecular and nano sensors Chair: Francesca Giuntini, UK |
Enlightening dental applications Chair: Ellen Bruzell, NO & Peter Fahlstedt, SE |
Epigenetics, pigmentation and melanoma Chair: Lionel Larue, FR & Marie-Dominique Galibert, FR |
PDT and resistance mechanisms in cancer Chair: Valentina Rapozzi, IT & Pål Selbo, NO |
Thursday, September 2 afternoon
Phytochromes Chair: Jonathan Hughes, DE |
Environmental photoscience: climate change and UV radiation Chair: Janet Bornman, AU |
Sunscreens Chair: Yolanda Gilaberte, ES & Henry Lim, US |
PDT combinations Chair: Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, CH |
Friday, September 3 morning
Photopharmacology Chair: Olalla Vázquez, DE & Xavier Rovira Algans, ES |
Photosensitivity diseases Chair: Sally Ibbotson, UK & Lesley Rhodes, UK |
Nano-PDT Chair: Fabienne Dumoulin, TR & Gang Zheng, CA |
Plant circadian session (incl. cyanobacteria) Chair: David Somers, US & Antony Dodd, UK |
Friday, September 3 afternoon
Positive health effects of UV Chair: Prue Hart, AU & Antony Young, UK |
PDT immunology Chair: Sabrina Oliveira, NL & Ferry Ossendorp, NL |
Role of nitric oxide in PDT Chair: Albert Girotti, US & Salvatore Sortino, IT |
Plant UV photoreceptors Chair: Gareth Jenkins, UK |