Lectures as per 19 June 2007

Sunday, 9 September 2007
12:00 – 18:00 Exhibition Build-up
15:00 – 18:00 Registration & Mounting of Posters
(note that posters will be on display for the complete duration of the conference)
17:00 – 17:15 Opening Ceremony
17:15 – 18:00 Manfred AUER (Novartis; Vienna; AT):
Single Bead, Single Compound, Single Molecule, Single Cell Fluorescence: Technologies for Drug Screening and Target Validation
18:30 – 21:00 Welcome Reception (sponsored by Horiba – Jobin-Yvon) at Rosenhügel or Sheraton (depending on weather)
Monday, 10 September 2007
Morning Advances in Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Fluorescent Materials
08:30 – 09:00 Stefan W. HELL (Goettingen, DE):
Breaking Abbe’s Barrier: Dffraction-Unlimited Resolution in Far-Field Microscopy
09:00 – 09:30 Maite COPPEY-MOISAN (Paris; FR):
Picosecond Time-Resolved Imaging of FRET in Live Cells
09:30 – 10:00 Michael S. STRANO (Urbana, US):
Aspects and Applications of Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Photoluminescence
10:00 – 10:30 Jicun REN (Shanghai; CN):
Characterization of Water-Soluble Luminescent Quantum Dots by Single Molecule Methods
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Itamar WILLNER (Jerusalem; IL):
Visualization of Biocatalytic Transformations and DNA-Bases Machines by FRET Processes Stimulated by Quantum Dots and Organic Dyes
11:30 – 12:00 Seung B. PARK (Seoul, KR):
Specific Targeting, Cell Sorting, and Bioimaging with Smart Magnetic Core-Silica Shell Nanomaterials
12:00 – 12:30 Heinz LANGHALS (Munich, DE):
Highly Stable Fluorescent Units, and their Applications in Functional Materials, Solar Energy Systems and Analysis
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30 Poster Sesssion I and Coffee
Afternoon Imaging – Microscopy – Arrays Micro- and Nanomaterials
14:30 – 15:00 Alberto DIASPRO (Genova, IT):
Confocal and Two-Photon Microscopy: Fundamentals, Applications and Advances		 Zoe PIKRAMENOU (Birmingham, UK):
Multi-colored Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes: from Nanoparticles to Biomolecule Recognition
15:00 – 15:30 Alberto BILENCA (Boston, US):
A New Imaging Paradigm: Fluorescence Coherence Tomography		 Joseph R. LAKOWICZ (Baltimore; US):
Plasmon-Controlled Fluorescence: A New Paradigm in Fluorescence Spectroscopy
15:30 – 16:00 Yong ZHANG (National University, Singapore):
NIR-to-Visible Upconversion Fluorescent Nanoparticles for Cell and Animal Imaging 		Mario BERBERAN-SANTOS (Lisbon; PT):
The Fluorescence of Fullerenes: Singularities and Applications
16:00 – 16:30 Gerhard J. SCHUETZ (Linz; AT):
Addressing Plasma Membrane Structure by Single Molecule Microscopy		 Weihong TAN
(Gainesville, US):
Bioconjugated Silica-Coated Nanoparticles: Characterization and Applications
16:30 – 17:00 Jean-Louis REYMOND (Berne; CH):
Substrate Arrays for Fluorescence-Based Enzyme Fingerprinting and High-Throughput Screening		 Suzanne FERY-FORGUES
(Toulouse, FR):
Nanoparticles of Organic Fluorescent Dyes: Self-Organization and Optical Properties
17:00 – 17:30 Margit BALÁZS
(Debrecen, HU):
Array CGH and FISH Analysis Reveal New Genomic Alterations in Malignant Melanomas		 Edin NUHIJI (Melbourne, AUS):
Detection of Unlabelled Oligonucleotide Targets Using Whispering Gallery Modes in Single, Fluorescent Microspheres
17:30 – 19:00 Evening Break and Session of the Permanent Steering Committee
19:00 – 22:00 Dinner at Stieglkeller
Tuesday, 11 September 2007
Morning Fluorescence Correlation and Single Molecule Spectroscopies
08:30 – 09:00 Martin HOF (Prague, CZ):
Principles and Applications of Fluorescence Lifetime Correlation Spectroscopy
09:00 – 09:30 Nancy L. THOMPSON (Chapel Hill, US):
Ligand-Receptor Interactions Measured by Total Internal Reflection FCS
09:30 – 10:00 Gustav PERSSON (Stockholm, SW):
Modulated Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
10:00 – 10:30 Joerg ENDERLEIN (Tuebingen; DE):
Two-Focus Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 David P. MILLAR (La Jolla, US):
Single-Molecule Studies of Biomolecular Folding and Assembly
11:30 – 12:00 Klaus MUELLEN (Mainz, DE):
Photostable Dendrimers for Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy
12:00 – 12:30 Matthew J. LANG (Boston, Mass., US):
Optical Force Fluorescence Measurements for Single Molecule Biophysics
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30 Poster Sesssion II and Coffee
Afternoon Fluorescent Probes, Sensors, and Labels Upconversion, 2-Photon Excitation, Delayed Fluorescence
14:30 – 15:00 Guy DUPORTAIL (Strasbourg, FR):
Revealing the Difference Between Gel and Liquid Ordered (Raft) Phases by Hydration-Sensitive Fluorescent Probes		 Pekka E. HÄNNINEN (Turku; FI):
Two-Photon Excitation Fluorescence Bioassays
15:00 – 15:30 Hatsuo MAEDA (Kobe, JP):
Highly Specific Fluorescent Probes for Reactive Oxygen Species		 Petra SCHWILLE (Dresden; DE):
Two-Photon Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy in Cells and Developing Embryos
15:30 – 16:00 Albin HERMETTER (Graz, AT):
Novel Fluorescent Probes for Lipids and Lipases		 Jean-Claude G. BUENZLI (Lausanne, CH):
Fluorescence Upconversion Using Lanthanide Compounds and Nanoparticles
16:00 – 16:30 Gabor PATONAY (Atlanta, US):
New Fluorophores for Wavelengths Beyond 900 nm		 Markus HAASE (Osnabrueck, DE):
Upconversion Emission in Colloidal Solutions of Lanthanide-Doped Nanocrystals
16:30 – 17:00 Cristina LAGUNAS (Belfast, UK):
Luminescent Au(I) Complexes: Implications for Sensors		 Tero SOUKKA (Turku, FI):
Fluorescence Upconversion Based Enzymatic Assays
17:00 – 17:30 Christoph WEDER (Cleveland, US):
Stimuli-Responsive Photoluminescent Polymer Blends		 Christoph J. FAHRNI (Atlanta, US):
Rational Design of Metal-Ion Sensors for Two-Photon Microscopy
17:30 – 19:00 Evening Break
19:00 – 21:00 Reception by the Mayor of the City of Salzburg, followed by a "Mozart concert"
Wednesday, 12 September 2007
Morning Fluorescence in Bioassays, Biophysics, and Medicine
08:30 – 09:00 Ilkka HEMMILÄ (Perkin-Elmer, FI):
Recent Progress in Time-Resolved Methods for Diagnosis and Proteomics
09:00 – 09:30 Catherine ROYER (Montpellier, FR):
Nuclear Receptors as Studied by Fluorescence
09:30 – 10:00 Markus SAUER (Bielefeld; DE):
Multistep Energy Transfer Processes: Spectroscopy and Applications
10:00 – 10:30 Anita JONES (Edinburgh, UK):
Probing DNA Conformation and DNA-Enzyme Interaction by Time-Resolved Fluorescence
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break; Dismantling of Posters
11:00 – 11:30 Achim WAGENKNECHT (Regensburg, DE):
Fluorescent DNA Base Modifications and Surrogates: Synthesis and Optical Properties
11:30 – 12:00 Christian BLUM (Twente, NL):
The Spectral Versatility of Fluorescent Proteins Revealed by Single Molecule Spectroscopy
12:00 – 12:30 Closing Ceremony, Announcement of MAF-11