Invited speakers

FIBER OPTIC SOLUTIONS FOR BIOMEDICINE
Olga Bibikova
art photonics GmbH, Berlin, Germany

OPTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR BLOOD MICRORHEOLOGY ASSESSING: RED BLOOD CELLS DEFORMABILITY, AGGREGATION AND THEIR INTERRELATION
Andrei E. Lugovtsov
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

COMPARISON OF RBC AGGREGATION PARAMETERS MEASURED IN VIRTO AND IN VIVO FOR ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE PATIENTS
Yury I. Gurfinkel
Medical Research and Education Center of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

DIAGNOSIS OF GLIOMA MOLECULAR MARKERS BY TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY
Olga P. Cherkasova
Institute of Laser Physics Siberian Branch of the RAS, Novosibirsk,
Institute on Laser and Information Technologies – Branch of the Federal Scientific Research Centre "Crystallography and Photonics" of RAS, Russia

TIME-DOMAIN NEAR-INFRARED OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY OF NEONATAL BRAIN
Alexander Kalyanov
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

THE EFFICIENCY OF THE REFRACTIVE INDEX MATCHING MECHANISM IN VARIOUS BIOLOGICAL TISSUES – A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE ULTRAVIOLET AND THE VISIBLE-NIR REGIONS
Luís Oliveira
Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

HIGH-POWER MID-INFRARED QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS
Grigorii S. Sokolovskii
A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

SOLID-STATE CR2+:ZNSE LASER FOR OCT IMAGING IN THE FOURTH NEAR-INFRARED OPTICAL WINDOW
Vladimir A. Lazarev
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia

PHOTOCONDUCTIVE THZ DETECTOR FEATURING AN ARTIFICIALLY STRAINED INGAAS/INALAS SUPERLATTICE
Dmitry S. Ponomarev
Institute of Ultra High Frequency Semiconductor Electronics of RAS, Moscow, Russia
Prokhorov General Physics Institute of RAS, Russia

SAPPHIRE FIBER BUNDLES FOR TERAHERTZ IMAGING WITH SPATIAL RESOLUTION BEYOND THE ABBE LIMIT
Kirill I. Zaytsev
Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia
Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov University, Russia

SAPPHIRE CAPILLARY NEEDLES OF DIFFERENT TYPES FOR LASER THERAPY AND TARGETED DELIVERY OF MEDICINES
Irina N. Dolganova
Institute of Solid State Physics ofRAS, Russia
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia
Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Sechenov University, Russia

OPTICAL COHERENCE ELASTOGRAPHY AND BRILLUIOIN SPETROCOPY FOR BIOMECHANIOCAL MAPPING OF TISSUES
Kirill V. Larin
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, USA

BIMODAL OPTOACOUSTIC & FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR THERANOSTICS
Dmitry A. Gorin
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skoltech, Moscow, Russia

СOMBINED USAGE OF OCT-ELASTOGRAPHYI AND OCT-ANGIOGRAPHY FOR QUANTITATIVE IN VIVO ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTIONAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL ALTERATIONS IN MODEL TUMORS TREATED BY PDT AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Vladimir Yu. Zaitsev
Institute of Applied Physics RAS & Privolzhsky Research Medical University,, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia

IN VIVO RAMAN AND AUTOFLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY FOR SKIN CANCER CLASSIFICATION
Ivan A. Bratchenko
Samara National Research University, Samara, Russia

DEVELOPING NOVEL PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY PROTOCOLS WITH ASSISTANCE OF OPTICAL MONITORING
Mikhail Yu. Kirillin
Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

MECHANISMS OF PHOTOSTIMULATION OF LYMPHATIC CLEARANCE OF TOXINS FROM THE BRAIN
Oxana V. Semyachkina-Glushkovskaya
Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia

DIODE-PUMPED YB:CALGO LASER WITH CONICAL REFRACTION OUTPUT
Sergey Sokolovski
Optoelectronics and Biomedical Photonics Group, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

RELAXATION AND OSMOTIC-INDUCED SLOW STRAIN MAPPING IN BIOLOGICAL TISSUES BY OPTICAL COHERENCE ELASTOGRAPHY
Yulia A. Alexandrovskaya
Institute of Photon Technologies, Federal Scientific Research Center “Crystallography and Photonics”, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia
Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

HGCDTE-BASED QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THZ AND FAR-IR RANGES
Rustam A. Khabibullin
Institute of Ultra High Frequency Semiconductor Electronics of RAS, Moscow, Russia
Institute for Physics of Microstructures of RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF IR AND THZ IMAGING AND MACHINE LEARNING
Yury V. Kistenev
Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia

NUMERICAL SIMULATION IN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY AS A TOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF EMERGING OCT-MODALITIES
Lev A. Matveev
Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia

OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY OF PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT IN VIVO
Irina V. Larina
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

MOLECULAR IMAGING USING ENDOGENOUS NIR FLUORESCENCE
Evgeny A. Shirshin
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

BIOPHOTONIC ANALYSIS OF EMBRYONIC CARDIODYNAMICS
Andrew L. Lopez
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

IMAGING PROCESSING OF LASER SPECKLE CONTRAST IMAGING OF BLOOD FLOW
Pengcheng Li
Huazhong University of Science and Technology,
Hainan University, China

LASER-ABLATED SILICON NANOPARTICLES FOR OPTICAL BIOIMAGING
Stanislav V. Zabotnov
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

SKIN REFLECTANCE: HOW LONG THE PHOTONS TRAVEL UNTIL REMISSION
Janis Spigulis
University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

PLASMONIC PARTICLES FOR INTEGRATION IN FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS AND DEVICES
Fulvio Ratto
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

FLUORESCENCE DIAGNOSTICS OF SOFT TISSUES’ NEOPLASIA
Ekaterina Borisova
Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia

IMAGE FEATURE CHARACTERIZATION FOR IN VIVO SKIN OPTICAL CLEARING USING SPECTRAL-DOMAIN AND LINEFIELD-CONFOCAL OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY
Marine Amouroux
Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

SKIN AUTOFLUORESCENCE MODIFICATIONS DURING OPTICAL CLEARING
Walter Blondel
Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

MULTI-PARAMETER OPTICAL DIAGNOSTICS OF MICROCIRCULATORY-TISSUE SYSTEMS: METHODS AND TECHNICAL MEANS
Andrey V. Dunaev
Orel State University named after I.S. Turgenev

OPTIMIZATION OF SPECTRAL AND SPATIAL LIGHT BEAM DISTRIBUTION OF OPTICAL SYSTEMS FOR PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY
Andrey V. Belikov
ITMO University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

INTERSTITIAL PDT OF GLIOBLASTOMA – STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES
Adrian Rühm and Ronald Sroka
Laser-Forschungslabor, LIFE Center, Department of Urology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

NANODIAMOND PHANTOM MIMICKING HUMAN TISSUE
Malgorzata Szczerska
Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland

DYNAMIC IMAGING OF THE LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE FROM THE EYE IN MICE BY MULTISPECTRAL PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY
Vladislav Yu. Toronov
Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Towards optical and multimodality translational imaging

LIVE BIOPHOTONIC ANALYSIS OF EARLY MAMMALIAN EMBRYONIC PROCESSES
Irina V. Larina
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

IMAGE-GUIDED PRECISION NANOMEDICINE FOR CANCER THERAPY
Dr. Anna Moore
Professor, Departments of Radiology and Physiology,
Director, Precision Health Program
College of Human Medicine
Michigan State University

MOLECULAR IMAGING USING TIME DOMAIN FLUORESCENCE
Dr. Anand T.N. Kumar
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Director of Optical Molecular Imaging Laboratory
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Massachusetts General Hospital

MONITORING OF OPTICAL CLEARING EFFECTS BY FLUORESCENCE AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN VIVO
Dr. Alexei Bogdanov, Jr.
Professor of Radiology and Cell Biology
Department of Radiology
University of Massachusetts Medical School,
Federal Research Center of Biotechnology RAN
Moscow Russia

GENETICALLY ENCODED AUTONOMOUS BIOLUMINESCENCE IN EUKARYOTES
Ilia Yampolsky
Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia

QUANTITATIVE FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMAGING FOR CANCER DETECTION
Anna N. Yaroslavsky
University of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA

TOWARDS THE CREATION OF A MAGIC BULLET: SUPRAMOLECULAR NANOSTRUCTURES FOR ONCOTHERANOSTICS
Victoria Shipunova
Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (IBCh RAS), Moscow, Russia

VISUALIZATION OF HISTONE EPIGENETICS: A NEW WAY TO TRACK SINGLE-CELL PHYSIOLOGY
Konstantin A. Lukyanov
Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia