| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Molecular targets: from functional imaging to therapy |
| Chair: Christopher Contag, Stanford University |
| Rebecca Richards-Kortum, University of Texas at Austin
"Using scatter to find molecular targets" |
| Ralph Weissleder, Massachustts General Hospital and Harvard University
"Proteases as targets for imaging and therapy" |
| Eva Sevick-Muraca, Texas A&M University
"Enhancing contrast for in vivo fluorescence imaging of thick tissues" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Optical coherence tomography and coherence imaging methods |
| Chair: Jim Fujimoto, MIT |
| Claude Boccara, ESPCI, Paris
"Ultrashort acquisition time and high resolution full-field OCT" |
| Andrzej Kowalczyk, Nicholas Copernicus University Institute of Physics
"Ultrahigh speed spectral OCT" |
| Stephen A. Boppart, U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Molecular Imaging Techniques for OCT" |
| Matthew Brenner, University of California, Irvine
"Pulmonary Medicine: potential areas for OCT applications" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Optics of Human Skin |
| Chair: J. Stuart Nelson, Beckman Laser Institute, UC Irvine |
| Harry Moseley, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
"Photodynamic therapy for skin disorders: factors affecting clinical outcome" |
| Anna N. Yaroslavsky, Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine, Harvard
"New developments in the optical mapping of nonmelanoma skin cancers" |
| Bernard Choi, Beckman Laser Institute, University of California, Irvine
"Optical clearing of human skin - implications for light-based diagnostic imaging and therapeutics" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Molecular and Structural Origins of Instrinsic Biological signals |
| Chair: Rebecca Richards-Kortum, UT Austin |
| Nimmi Ramanujam, University of Wisconsin, Madson
"Sources of endogenous optical contrast in dysplasia and cancer" |
| Arjen Amelink, Erasmus University, NL
"Measurement of the local optical properties of tissue using differential pathlength spectroscopy" |
| Judy Mourant, Los Alamos National Laboratories
"Biochemical origins of vibrational spectra of cells" |
| Paola Taroni, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
"Investigation of tissue composition and structure by means of in vivo time-resolved reflectance spectroscopy" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Microscopy, microbeams and high resolution imaging |
| Chair: Peter So, MIT |
| Paul Campagnola, Univ. of Connecticut
"Second Harmonic Generation Imaging Microscopy of Normal and Diseased Tissues" |
| Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University
"Visualizing Cellular Entry of Single Viruses" |
| Matthew Lang, MIT
"Force Fluorescence Microscopy of Single Biomolecules" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Optical Signals and the Origin of Brain Activation |
| Chair: David Boas, Harvard Medical School |
| Jens Steinbrink, Charite, Berlin, Germany
"Studying brain physiology and pathology with none-invasive optical imaging -- Technological Challenges" |
| Anna Devor, Harvard Medical School, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital
"Coupling between corticothalamic brain activity and the hemodynamic response: an optical imaging approach" |
| Jonathan Fisher, University of Pennsylvania
"In vivo fluorescence microscopy of neuronal activity in three dimensions using voltage-sensitive dyes" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Mechanisms of pulsed laser tissue ablation - new findings on an intricate problem |
| Chair: Alfred Vogel, Leubeck |
| Alfred Vogel, Medical Laser Center Luebeck, Germany
"Kinetics of phase transitions and recoil-induced material expulsion in pulsed laser tissue ablation" |
| Vasan Venugopalan, University of California, Irvine
"UV versus IR ablation - did we finally solve the puzzle?" |
| Leonid Zhigilei, University of Virginia, U.S.A.
"Advances in molecular dynamics simulations of pulsed laser ablation" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Optics in Physiological Quantification |
| Chair: Brian Pogue, Dartmouth |
| Dick Sterenborg, Erasmus MC-Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, Netherlands
"Breast Tissue Heterogeneity and Variation Measured In Vivo" |
| Sung Chang, University of Texas Austin, U.S.A.
"Understanding Variations in Optical Spectra of Gynecologic Tissue" |
| Richard L. Lieber, University of California and V.A. Medical Centers, USA
"Laser Diffraction Studies of Skeletal Muscles" |
| Rinat Esenaliev, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
"Monitoring Variation of Blood Oxygenation, Hemoglobin and Glucose with Optoacoustic and OCT Techniques" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Optics in Ophthalmology and Vision Science |
| Chair: Reginald Birngruber, Medical Laser Center Luebeck |
| Karen Joos, Vanderbilt University
"Ophthalmic Free Electron Laser Applications" |
| James Jester, UT Southwestern Medical Center
"In vivo 2-photon imaging and confocal microscopy in the cornea" |
| Thomas Schanze, Philipps-University Marburg
"Development and Testing of Retinal Implant" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
