BRICS Workshop on Biophotonics II

MAY 16-18, 2023, SARATOV, RUSSIA

 

PROGRAM OF BRICS 2023

 

Organized by

Chairs:

Secretaries:

Organizing/Program Committee:

   Co-chairs:

Elina A. Genina (SSU, Russia), Dan Zhu (HUST, China), Cristina Kurachi (Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil), Nirmalya Gosh (Indian Inst. of Sci., Edu. and Research, Kolkata, India), and Michael Hamblin (Univ. of Johannesburg, RSA)

   Members:

Isabella A. Serebryakova, Vadim D. Genin, Michael M. Slepchenkov, Daria K. Tuchina (SSU, Russia); Dmitry A. Gorin (Skoltech, Russia); Qian Liu (Hainan University, China), Qingyu Lin (Sichuan University, China); Sebastião Pratavieira, Fernanda Alves, Lilian Moriyama (University of São Paulo, Brazil); Nirmal Mazunder, Jijo Lukose (MAHE, Manipal, India)

 

BRICS Workshop on Biophotonics II will be held online, on 16-18, May 2023, and is intended to bring together young scientists, engineers and clinical researchers from the BRICS countries and countries candidates working in various fields of science involved in the application of optics, photonics and imaging technologies to solve urgent problems of biology and medicine. The scope of this Forum ranges from basic research to instrumentation, preclinical and clinical research, mainly in those areas where researchers from the BRICS countries and countries candidates are world leaders. The topics are extensive and will cover, but are not limited to the following:

Official language of the meeting is English.

Conference papers will be published as:

 

 

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

BRAZIL:

 

Photodynamic for microbiological control and breakdown of resistance to antibiotic

Vanderlei S. Bagnato

University of São Paulo, IFSC, Brazil

 

 

 Optical Coherence Tomography and Photoacoustics: applications in dentistry

Anderson Gomes

Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

 

 

 

 

RUSSIA:

 

Multimodal imaging and Liquid/Gas Biopsy: recent achievements and challenges

Dmitry A. Gorin

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skoltech, Moscow, Russia

 

 

 

New achievements in tissue optics and optical clearing in a wide spectral range from deep UV to terahertz

Valery V. Tuchin

Saratov State University, Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control of the RAS, Saratov; National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk; А.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discovering novel fluorophores in the human organism: deep learning prediction of optical properties

Evgeny Shirshin

M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

 

 

 

 

 

INDIA:

 Microscopy for futuristic diagnostics: from microbubble lithography to bio-inspired waveguide sensors

Ayan Banerjee

Department of physical sciences, Member of board of directors, Rise foundation iiser, Indian Insitute Of Science Education And Research, Kolkata, India

 

 

 

 

Design and Development of Non-invasive Optoelectronic Biosensors for Primary Healthcare and Diagnostics

Sangeeta Kale

Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune, India

 

 

 

 

CHINA:

 

Enhancing stimulated emission depletion imaging through optical methods, probes and deep-learning

Junle Qu

College of physics and optoelectronic engineering, Shenzhen University, China

 

 

 

 

In vivo surface-enhanced transmission Raman spectroscopy

Jian Ye

School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

 

 

 

 

Enhanced photodynamic therapy

Buhong Li

School of Science, Hainan University, China

 

 

 

 

 

SOUTH AFRICA:

 The sensitive cytosensor based on fiber optic local surface plasmonic resonance

Heidi Abrahamse

Laser Research Centre, NRF/DSI SARChI Chair: Laser Applications in Health, University of Johannesburg, RSA

 

 

 

 How is photonics potentiating the combinations of photodynamic therapy with other non-invasive therapeutic technologies for enhanced efficacy and selectivity

Sandile Phinda Songca

University of KwaZulu-Natal, RSA

 

 

 

 Clinical applications of transcranial Photobiomodulation therapy for brain disorders

Mike Hamblin

Laser Research Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, RSA; Harvard Medical School Wellman Centre for Photomedicine, Boston, USA

 

 

 

 

INVITED SPEAKERS:

BRAZIL:

 

 

Strategies to improve topical photodynamic therapy efficacy using animal models

Mirian Denise Stringascis

University of São Paulo, IFSC, Brazil

 

 

 

 

 

PDT and PTT efficacy in cutaneous melanoma model

Cristina Kurachi

University of São Paulo, IFSC, Brazil

 

 

 

 

 

High-grade cervical intraepithelial treatment comparing photodynamic therapy protocols

Natalia Mayumi Inada

University of São Paulo, IFSC, Brazil

 

 

 

 

Synergic vascular photodynamic activities by methylene blue-curcumin supramolecular assemblies

Rodrigo Costa

São Carlos Federal University, Chemistry Department, Brazil

 

 

 

 

 

 

Optical technologies for organ transplantation procedures

José Dirceu Vollet-Filho

University of São Paulo, IFSC, Brazil

 

 

 

 

 

 

Strategies for an individualized light dosimetry

Lilian Tan Moriyama

University of São Paulo, IFSC, Brazil

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photodynamic therapy and combined treatments

Amanda Surur

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, São Paulo State University, Brazil

 

 

 

 

 

Phase II clinical trials in photodynamic therapy of pharyngotonsillitis

Kate Blanco

São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil

 

 

 

 

Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy in the treatment of oral candidiasis

Ewerton Garcia de Oliveira Mima

São Paulo State University, FOAr, Brazil

 

 

 

 

RUSSIA:

 

 

Alterations of blood microrheology and microcirculation at cardiovascular diseases

Alexander V. Priezzhev

Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

 

 

 

 

Photodynamic inactivation of vegetative and dormant forms of the causative agent of tuberculosis in vitro and inside macrophages in the presence of 5-aminolevulinic acid

Margarita Shleeva

A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Center "Fundamentals of Biotechnology" of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

 

 

 

 Recent achievements and challenges in high-resolution THz imaging of biological tissues

Nikita Chernomyrdin

Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

 

 

 

 

INDIA:

 

Science and Innovations in Non-invasive Diagnostics through Human Exhaled Breath Analysis

Manik Pradhan

S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake Kolkata, India

 

 

 

 

 

Bessel beam from optical fiber tip and bioimaging

Samir K. Mondal

Micro and Nano Optics Centre (µ-NOC), CSIR-CSIO, India

 

 

 

Using Opto-thermal Gradients for Optical Trapping

Pavan Kumar

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India

 

 

 

 

Near Infrared Optical Window for Theranostics

Sharad Gupta

Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, MP, India

 

 

 

Bio-imaging using noise: Application of laser speckles for deep tissue blood flow imaging

Hari Varma

Biosciences and Bioengineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

 

 

 

 

 Stokes Mueller based polarization microscopy for biomedical applications

Nirmal Mazunder

Department of Biophysics, School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

 

 

 

 

 

3D printable artificial optical skin for healthcare application

Abhijit Chandra Roy

DST Inspire Faculty, Department of Physics IISc Bangalore, Karnataka, India

 

 

 

 

 

Raman stable isotope probing for metabolomics applications

Surya Prathap Singh

Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, Dharwad, Karnataka, India

 

 

 

 Probing fractal properties of refractive index fluctuations in biological tissues using backscattering spectral interferometry

Nandan Kumar Das

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

 

 

 

 

CHINA:

 Single-Molecule Localization Super-Resolution Microscopy and Its Applications

Leiting Pan

The Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics of Education Ministry, School of Physics and TEDA Institute of Applied Physics, Nankai University, China

 

 

 

 

Image-guided Near Infrared Spectral Tomography for Breast Cancer Diagnosis Jinchao Feng

Jinchao Feng

Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China

 

 

 

 

Instrument Development and Applications of Laser Spectroscopy/Mass Spectrometry

Yixiang Duan

School of Mechanical Engineering, Sichuan University, China

 

 

 

 

High throughput 3D imaging and its application in neuroscience

Wei Gong

Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China

 

 

 

Organ-PAM: photoacoustic microscopy of whole-organ multiset vessel systems

Lei Xi

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

 

 

 

 

Probing the interactions between nanoparticles and cells through darkfield imaging and Raman spectroscopy

Rui Hu

Center for Biomedical Photonics & College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems, Shenzhen University, China

 

 

 

 

Research on synergistic immunotherapy triggered by phototherapy

Chengbo Liu

Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

 

 

 

 

Research on synergistic immunotherapy triggered by phototherapy

Wen Song

School of Biomedical Engineering, Hainan University, China

 

 

 

 A Through-Intact-Skull (TIS) chronic window technique for cortical structure and function observation in mice

Dongyu Li

School of Optical and Electronic Information-Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Advanced Biomedical Imaging Facility, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

 

 

 

The sensitive cytosensor based on fiber optic local surface plasmonic resonance

Zewei Luo

Research Center of Analytical Instrumentation, School of Mechanical Engineering, Sichuan University, China

 

 

 

SOUTH AFRICA:

 Modulation of Cellular Responses to Ionising Radiation by Radiofrequency Fields: Potential Mechanisms

John Akudugu

Department of Radiation Biology, University of Stellenbosch South Africa, RSA

 

 

 

 

 

Photobiomodulation Improves Wound Healing Through Activation of the Ras/MAPK and PI3K/AKT Pathway

Nicolette Houreld

Laser Research Centre, University of Johannesburg, RSA

 

 

 

 Group 13-15 coordinated porphyrinoids as photosensitizers for photodynamic anticancer and antimicrobial chemotherapy

John Mack

Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology Rhodes University, RSA

 

 

 

 

 

Biophotonics and Artificial Intelligence for Improved Diagnostics: Application in Health, Pharmaceuticals and Agriculture

Patience Nthunzi-Kufa

CSIR, RSA

 

 

 

 

ORAL PRESENTATIONS:

RUSSIA:

 

Diatom optics: unlocking the potential of biogenic photonic crystals

Julijana Cvjetinovic

Skolkovo institute of science and technology, Moscow, Russia

 

 

 

 

 

IN situ monitoring of layer-by-layer assembly surface modification of nanophotonic-microfluidic sensor

Aleksei Kuzin

Skolkovo institute of science and technology, Moscow, Russia

 

 

 

 

Investigation of the influence of thermally-induced methemoglobin in the skin layers on the efficiency of laser sclerosing of telangiectasias

Chuchin V.Yu.

ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

 

 

 

 

Investigation of hair optical properties for its laser coloring

Ermolaev V.M.

ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

 

 

 

 

Machine learning-based reconstruction of blood oxygen saturation: pilot study

A.V. Khilov

Federal Research Center A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

 

 

 

 

The forces of interaction of red blood cells and endothelium: a revised study by laser tweezers

Petr Ermolinskiy

Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

 

 

 

 

 

Study of changes in the attenuation coefficient of tissue with deformation according to OCT data

Evgeny Sherstnev

A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

 

 

 

 

Carrier/Spheroid Match: Investigating Tissue-Specific Targeting of Nano- and Micro-Carriers Using 3D Cell Cultures

Anatolii Abalymov

Science Medical Center, Saratov State University, Russia

 

 

 

 

 

Quantitative assessment of infantile hemangioma using hyperspectral imaging

Sergei Perkov

Skolkovo institute of science and technology, Moscow, Russia

 

 

 

 

INDIA:

 

A study on the flow of cells through microfluidic channel using digital holographic microscopy

Aswathy Vijay

Biomedical Optics Lab, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

 

 

 

 Probing of cellular metabolism for cancer detection with Laser-induced fluorescence

Sanoop Pavithran

Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, Karnataka, India

 

 

 

 Neuromorphic Localisation Microscopy for cell biology

Rohit Mangalwedhekar

Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

 

 

 

 

 

SOUTH AFRICA:

Identifying plant-based natural compounds in Photodynamic therapy

Rahul Chandran

Laser Research Centre, South African Research Chair in Laser Applications in Health, University of Johannesburg, RSA

 

 

 

 

 

 The combined effect of Photobiomodulation and nanoparticle-based biomaterials for the treatment of pathogen-infected wounds

Sathish Kumar

Laser Research Centre, South African Research Chair in Laser Applications in Health, University of Johannesburg, RSA

 

 

 

 

 Photodynamic Therapy enhances the Berberine induced cytotoxicity in lung cancer cells

Paromita Sardibakary

Laser Research Centre, South African Research Chair in Laser Applications in Health, University of Johannesburg, RSA

 

 

 

 

 The influence of photobiomodulation in the visible red light (660 nm) on cell migration, viability and proliferation in diabetic wounded fibroblast cells

Sandy Jere

Laser Research Centre, South African Research Chair in Laser Applications in Health, University of Johannesburg, RSA

 

 

 

 

 Aluminium phthalocyanine-gold nanoparticle conjugates enhance the therapeutic effect of PDT in oesophageal cancer

Christy Didamson

Laser Research Centre, South African Research Chair in Laser Applications in Health, University of Johannesburg, RSA