Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Challenges and Emerging Solutions in Biophotonics Research
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Opening Remarks
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm
"Human Performance for Airmen"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
"Content-Aware Image Restoration and Quantitative Downstream Analysis with Deep Learning"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
"Successes and Pitfalls in Commercializing Biophotonics Technologies: One Entrepreneur's Story"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
New Directions in Cancer Care
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Melanoma: A Case Study for Progress and Persistent Challenges in Cancer"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"From Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging to a Laser Based System: A Transition to Practice"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Cancer Therapeutics: What Do Photochemical Strategies Bring to the Table?"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Tumours, Translation, Trials and Tribulations: Developing Serum Based Spectroscopic Diagnostics"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Light for Drug Discovery and Delivery
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
"Shedding Light on Drug Discovery"
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
"A New Technique that Can Perform 0.8 Million Frames per Second"
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
"Pharmacokinetic Tomography: Exploring Drug Uptake with Advanced Microscopy"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Transforming Forensic Science with Light
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"New Technologies: Identifying Areas of Need in Forensic Science"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"The Detection, Identification and Age Estimation of Biological Traces in a Forensic Context Using Optical Spectroscopy"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"CSI:PIT: Forensic Investigation at Bristol-Myers Squibb"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Food Forensics: Spectroscopic Technologies for Food Authentication"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Tools for the Global Underserved Population
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
"Diagnostic Gaps and Clinical Challenges to Provide Patient Centered Care in High Disease Burden Settings"
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
"Optical Point-of-Care Monitoring in Underserved Areas"
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
"Jaundice in Babies: How to Develop a Viable Tool that Anyone Can Use"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Maternal/Fetal Medicine and Biophotonics
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Premature Infants and the Need for New Devices that Can Aid in Survival"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Optical Tools for Studying Congenital Defects"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Inside the Lactating Breast"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Optical Imaging for Assessing Cervical Collagen Network Integrity and Associated Preterm Birth Risk"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Immunology and Infectious Diseases
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
"Where Immunology Meets Therapy"
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
"A Local Intervention of Laser Irradiation and Immunological Stimulation to Induce Systemic Anti-Tumor Immunity"
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
"Optical Interrogation of In Vivo Bacterial Biofilms and Their Implications in Disease"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Beyond the BRAIN Initiative
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Engineering Solutions to the Needs in Functional Neurosurgery"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Relation Between Structure and Function in Brain Disease: A Focus on Stroke"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Imaging Myelin Plasticity in the Live Mammalian Brain with Spectral Confocal Reflectance Microscopy (SCoRe)"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Multi-Colour Laser Imaging of Macular Pigment Optical Density: Effects of Aging and of Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Human Performance and Wellness
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
"Fatigue and Performance: Perspectives from Exercise Physiology"
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
"Enhancing Human Performance with NIR Light"
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
"Wearable Biomarker Analysis Platforms for Human Performance Monitoring"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure