Montagna Symposium on the Biology of Skin--Light and Skin: Mechanisms, Applications and Diseases

Program Chairs: Paul Bergstresser, R. Rox Anderson, Steven L. Jacques Areas of study: Light effects on biology: DNA effects, photodynamic therapy, laser treatment; biostimulation, photobiology and immunology, environmental change and planetary biomedical science; pulsed laser thermal effects, photoacoustic effects; low level visible and near-IR effects. II. Biology effects on light - optical imaging and live microscopy; diagnostics: technological tools (fluorescence, optical coherence tomography, Doppler techniques, optical and Raman scattering as contrast mechanisms); application areas (blood perfusion, oxygen utilization, redox potential, imaging with calcium-sensitive dyes, high-throughput screening e.g. of circulating tumor cells); imaging of skin cancer; deep skin optical imaging; sub-diffraction limit resolution, functional/molecular optical probe design