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Plenary Lectures and Keynote Speakers

  • Plenary Lectures Speakers

    • Kristian Berg: “Fortieth anniversary of the European Society of Photobiology. History and significance in the scientific community”

      Kristian Berg, Dept. of Radiation Biology, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
      Professor Kristian Berg has been active in photomedical research for 40 years, has been the President of ESP, involved in ESP activities for more than 20 years and associated editor of PPS since 2008. He has received several awards and distinguished memberships.

    • Sherri McFarland: “Molecules to Medicine: Multidisciplinary Integration of the Photosciences with Metal Complexes”

      Sherri is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Texas at Arlington. She enjoys working in the general areas of synthetic and natural products chemistry, inorganic photophysics, photobiology, and photomedicine. She has a passion for translational research and entrepreneurship. Her research group licensed a ruthenium coordination complex that has advanced to clinical trials for treating bladder cancer patients with photodynamic therapy. Sherri also co-founded a company that has developed a photoantimicrobial product that has been commercialized. She also enjoys developing and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on drug discovery and entrepreneurship.

    • Roberta Croce: “Photosynthesis in the Far-Red: From Cyanobacteria to Plants”

      Roberta Croce is Professor of Biophysics of Photosynthesis and Energy at the Department of Physics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her work focuses on the molecular mechanisms of photosynthesis, combining molecular biology, biochemistry, ultrafast spectro­sco­py and modelling.

    • Guglielmo Lanzani: “Engineering Carbon-Based Phototransducers for Cell Stimulation and Vision Restoration”

      Guglielmo Lanzani is a physicist. Full professor at Politecnico di Milano, and senior researcher at the Center for Nano Science and Technology at Italian Institute of Technology. He studies photoresponsive materials able to induce signaling in biological systems.

  • Keynote Speakers

    • Angela Falciatore: “Light Sensing in Marine Diatoms: from molecular mechanisms to ecosystems”

      Angela Falciatore is a marine biologist, research director French CNRS at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris.
      She investigates light-driven processes (photosynthesis and photoperception) and plastid biology to explore the biology, evolution, and ecological success of microalgae in marine environments.

    • Franz Trautinger: “Photodermatology - Quo Vadis?”

      Franz Trautinger is professor of dermatology and chairman of the Department of Dermatology and Venereology at the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences and founder and head of the Karl Landsteiner Institute of Dermatological Research, both in St. Poelten, Austria.
      He is specialist, researcher, and university teacher in dermatology, venerology and allergology. His scientific interests concern clinical and experimental dermatology with a special emphasis on photodermatology, photoimmunology, and dermato-oncology.
      He has served as president of the European Society for Photobiology and is member of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Photobiology. He is chair of the Ownership Board and Associate Editor to the journal Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the German Society of Dermatology.

    • Young Investigator Awardee

    • To Be Announced