Program > List of symposia

List of symposia

Symposia will typically include 4 invited lectures, 4 or 6 oral communications and 3 to 6 flash presentations. Sessions of oral communications and flash presentations of the posters on specific topics have been added.

 Medicine

Ocular photochemistry: positive and negative effects

Melanin: the light and the dark

Impact of UV radiation in Human inflammatory health disorders

Advanced technology for phototherapy

Modulation of pigmentation and melanoma

Keratinocytic skin cancers

Light in dentistry

Industrial

Perspectives and controversies in sun care

Update on physiological effect of sunbeds

Photoprotection

PDT

Combination therapies or "PDT in combinations"

PDT and immunology

Brand new delivery approaches for PDT

Emergent PS in PDT

Human antimicrobial PDT (ESP-ASP symposium)

Environmental

Antimicrobial PDT for environmental applications

Pollution and sun exposure

The impact on sunscreens on aquatic environments

Photosynthesis

Intact organisms and photosythetic biohybrids

Advances on molecular mechanisms in natural and biomolecular biohybrids

Photosystem II and oxygen evolution”

Photofunctional proteins and peptides

Biodiversity in light harvesting and regulation

Photoperception and acclimation to changing light and CO₂ in microalgae

Plants

Plant circadian biology

Plants, UV radiation, and environmental change

Photochemistry

Non-canonical DNA structures: from biological targets to (opto)electronic materials

Photodamage and phototoxicity: a mechanistic view

Ultrafast studies to unravel the dynamics of photoactivated biological processes

Bioluminescence

Sessions devoted to short communications

Communications in health and skin photobiology

Communications in phototherapy and PDT

Communications in physical and chemical photobiology

Communications in photoprotection

Flash presentations in PDT 

Flash presentations on plants and photosynthetic organisms