The 7th International BioBrillouin conference will take place from the 11^th until 13^th of September 2024 in Trondheim, Norway.

The aim of the conference is to bring together academic and industrial stakeholders interested in the development and application of Brillouin microscopy in life sciences. It is supposed to serve as a forum to share and discuss new discoveries, identify potential new applications as well as strengthen existing and initiate new collaborations.

Invited distinguished speakers are:

Henrik Jönsson

​​​​​​Henrik received his PhD degree in Theoretical Physics from Lund University, Sweden, where he worked in the Complex Systems group. He continued with post-doctoral work at Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology in the Barbara Wold Laboratory. He became Assistant Professor in 2008 at Lund University, and joined Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University as a group leader in September 2011. In 2014, Henrik was appointed Professor of Computational Morphodynamics and Associate Director at SLCU and then SLCU Director in 2020. His research group is exploring how pectin modifications and cellulose orientation contribute to anisotropic growth in several plant tissues. By combining live imaging and modelling we predict how elastic strain and stress patterns relate to the anisotropic growth of plant cells and organs due to feedback mechanisms to the cell wall material properties.

Francesca Palombo​​​​

Her research is focused on developments of Brillouin, Raman, and Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy methods for applications to biology and medicine. She is interested in the physical and chemical aspects of biological systems at a molecular level, as well as their implications in health and disease. She received her master’s and PhD degrees in Chemistry from the University of Perugia, Italy. She joined the University of Exeter in 2013, where she co-leads the BioSpec laboratories that are focused on the development, application, and translation of light technologies for the clinics. She’s currently Professor of Biomedical Spectroscopy, Director of Global Engagement for Physics and Astronomy, and affiliate investigator of the Living Systems Institute at Exeter.

Markéta Šámalová

Her current research is focused on modulating biomechanical properties of the cell wall during plant growth and development. She is interested in molecular and cellular aspects of plant and fungal system and application of the knowledge to increase the quality of education and life of future generations. She received her PhD degree from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Afterwards she worked as postdoctoral researcher at the Departments of Plant Sciences at Oxford University, UK and Mycology at Pasteur Institute in Paris, France. Subsequently she returned to her Alma Mater with a Marie Curie Fellowship and is currently Associate Professor of Plant Physiology, Principal Investigator of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic and affiliate investigator at Central European Institute of Technology in Brno. In parallel she is bringing together physicists, material and medical scientists developing tools to investigate biomechanical properties of living organisms.

Peter Török

Peter Török has obtained his DPhil in Physical Sciences at the University of Oxford in 1994 and was appointed Lecturer in Photonics at Imperial College London in 2002, where he was promoted Reader in Photonics and Professor of Optical Physics in 2005 and 2009. Peter moved to NTU in 2018 where he has joint appointments with the Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCLESE). At SCELSE he is Director of Imaging and has established the NTU Optical Bioimaging Centre, a joint centre between LKCM and SCELSE where he currently serves as Director. Peter was appointed In 2021 Co-Director of the newly established Institute for Digital Molecular Analytics and Science.

We thank our sponsors for their generous support:

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Stiftelsen

BioPolymer

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