ENDOGENOUS BIOPHOTONICS: ULTRA-WEAK LUMINESCENCE FROM BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS IV

Preliminary program

Co-chairs:
Ilya V. Volodyaev, Lomonosov Moscow State University, European Medical Centre, Moscow, Russia 
Elena V. Naumova, Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, Russia 

Secretary:
Elena V. Naumova, Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, Russia (naumova@yandex.ru)

Program Committee:
Yury A. Vladimirov, Honourable Member of the Program Committee, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia
Andrey V. Budagovsky, Michurinsk State Agrarian University, Michurin Federal Scientific Center, Michurinsk, Tambov Region, Russia

Cristiano de Mello Gallep, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

Alexander A. Krasnovsky, Federal Research Center of Biotechnology, Bach Institute of Biochemistry RAS, Russia 

Elena V. Naumova, Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, Russia

Vitaly Yu. Plavskii, B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
Felix Scholkmann, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Kharlampy P. Tiras, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics RAS, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia

Aleksei V. Trofimov, Emanuele Institute of Biochemical Physics RAS, Moscow, Russia

Raif G. Vasilov, Kurchatov Complex of NBICS-Technologies, National Research Center «Kurchatov Institute», Moscow, Russia

Vladimir L. Voeikov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Ilya V. Volodyaev, Lomonosov Moscow State University, European Medical Centre, Moscow, Russia

The main goal of the сonference is to provide the multidisciplinary platform for the presentation and discussion of scientific results on the ultraweak luminescence of biological systems with a particular focus on the ultraweak luminescence in the middle-UV range (mitogenetic radiation) and blood tumor marker quenching it (cancer quencher), radiation hormesis, related phenomena and hypotheses.

Topics:

• Experimental results on ultraweak luminescence of biological and biochemical systems;
  
• Methods and equipment for ultraweak luminescence studies;
• Mechanisms of ultraweak luminescence in chemical and biological systems;
• Ultraweak luminescence studies for monitoring and diagnostics in medicine, agriculture etc.;
  
• Specific features of cancer tissues, physiological fluids and metabolism in cancer, promising for diagnostics by biophotonic methods;
• Mitogenetic radiation, relevant cancer diagnostics, radiation hormesis and related phenomena: experimental results, hypotheses, associated information, prospects.

Three sessions, round-table discussions and a practical workshop are preliminary planned:

• Ultraweak luminescence from biological and biochemical systems;
  
• Cancer applications of biophotonics;
  
• Mitogenetic radiation and relevant cancer diagnostics, radiation hormesis and related phenomena;
• Round-table on mitogenetic radiation, cancer quencher, radiation hormesis and related phenomena;
• Reports and comments offering constructive criticism are appreciated no less than ones supporting and developing the concepts.

The practical workshop is planned as trial joint experiments on the advanced setups for registration of detecting ultra-weak luminescence in single-photon counting mode. All interested conference participants are offered a free opportunity to study their objects (if necessary, directly in their own laboratories within and nearby Moscow). Planned experiments must be coordinated in advance. For information about the technical capabilities of the setups, contacts of the developers etc., please write to naumova@yandex.ru.

Format:
Hybrid (the in-person part will be held at Institute of Cell Biophysics of the RAS (ICB RAS) & Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics of the RAS (ITEB RAS), Pushchino, Moscow region, Institutskaja str., b.3.

Conference Dates:
October 1-3, 2025