On September 26, the Saratov Fall Meeting 2023 international forum opened at Saratov State University. This year, the conference is dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the 95th anniversary of the 6th Congress of the Russian Association of Physicists.
The audience was welcomed by the chair of the SFM Organising Committee, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Research Medical Centre, SSU, Chair of the Department of Optics and Biophotonics Valerii Tuchin and Head of the Laboratory of Laser Biomedical Photonics, the Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Alexnder Priyezzhev.
‘More than 400 scientists from 20 countries are to meet at the Saratov Fall Meeting this year. It is significant that we have had a non-stop Chinese-Russian seminar on biophotonics and biomedical optics. It started in April in China, continued in Samara, and is now taking place here. During these three stages, various scientists from Russia and China have reported at the seminar. We have got acquainted with the research of eminent and novice scientists from both countries. The first persons of biophotonics will speak at the plenary session today,’ Valerii Tuchin said.
Alexander Priyezzhev shared his experience of participating in the SFM. ‘I have been participating at the Saratov Fall Meeting since the very first conference. I am proud that half of my research group at Moscow State University comes to this famous forum every year. I am glad to meet my old friends and colleagues here and meet young scientists. Surely, each of you will enjoy participating in the conference and will return here next year.’
Leading scientists from China made plenary presentations online. Professor Junle Qu from Shenzhen University spoke about the use of multifocal microscopy to obtain images with super-resolution and deeper penetration into tissues. Professor of Soochow University, Suzhou Yao He presented the results of research on optical imaging in eye diseases. Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jian Ye shared a method of safe non-invasive detection of deep lesions using Raman spectroscopy.
Andrei Naumov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Troitsk Separate Division, Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, commented on the advantages and new horizons in spectroscopy of single molecules and nanoscopy. Andrei Zvyagin, Deputy Director of the Institute of Molecular Theranostics, Sechenov Medical University, presented a report on diodegradable nanomedicine for the theranostics of oncological diseases. A scientist of the Research Centre of Genetics and Life Sciences, Sirius University, Alessandro Parodi delivered a report on the impact of nanocarriers on the biology of lysosomes. Professor Paul Campagnola from the University of Wisconsin spoke about the analysis of changes in the structure of collagen in human diseases using SHG microscopy.
At the sponsorship session, Valerii Tuchin presented the Light journal. An engineer of Special Systems. Photonics, LLC, Vitalii Muravyev commented on confocal RAMAN microscopes and hyperspectral cameras for biological applications.
SFM'23 includes the XI International Symposium on Optics and Biophotonics, the XXVII International Interdisciplinary School for Junior Scientists and Students in Optics, Laser Physics and Biophotonics, the Chinese-Russian seminar on biophotonics and biomedical optics, as well as the continuation of the II BRICS Scientific Seminar on Biophotonics.
The XI International Symposium on Optics and Biophotonics is held in several sections – Spectroscopy and Molecular Modelling, Nanobiophotonics, Internet Biophotonics, Low-Dimensional Structures, Biomedical Spectroscopy, Computer Biophysics and Analysis of Biomedical Data, Modern Materials for Optics and Biophotonics, Terahertz Optics and Biotechnology, Laser Physics and Photonics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Microscopic and Low-Coherence Methods in Biomedical and Non-Biomedical Applications, Modern Polarisation Technologies in Biomedicine and Materials Science, as well as Electromagnetism of Microwaves, Submillimetre, and Optical Waves.
High school students, undergraduates, and postgraduates are welcome to participate in the XXVII International Interdisciplinary School. For them, the scientists will hold seminars and panel discussions on technology commercialisation, English as a tool in the scientific community, as well as the history, methodology, and philosophy of optical education.
The research papers of Saratov Fall Meeting will be published in leading Russian and foreign journals, as well as in the Issues of Optical Physics and Biophotonics symposium proceedings.
Saratov Fall Meeting will last until September 29. The main organiser of the scientific congress is the Department of Optics and Biophotonics, Saratov State University. Find the conference programme on the official website.
The forum is part of the strategic project of Saratov State University, The Technologies of Personalised Medicine, of the Priority-2030 programme of the Russian Ministry of Higher Education and Science.
