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Dear friends
the website of the OWLS XII conference - www.owls2012.org  - related to Optics Within Life Sciences - Biophotonics for Human is open for abstract submission and early registration. 
Do not miss such a Conference!
All the best
Alberto Diaspro
(President  of OWLS and Conference Chairman).

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OWLS 2012, Genova, Italy -   3 and 4-6 July 2012

Conference site: Magazzini del Cotone, Genoa, Italy (www.portoantico.it)

Inaugural Ceremony: July 3, 2012 (www.palazzoducale.genova.it)
7 p.m. Sala del Maggior Consiglio, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
Scott E. Fraser, Caltech, CA, USA

Opening Lecture: July 4, 2012 (www.portoantico.it)
8.30 a.m. Magazzini del Cotone, Genoa, Italy
Karsten Koenig, Saarbrucken University, Germany

Social Dinner: July 5, 2012 (www.villalozerbino.it)
8.30 p.m. Villa dello Zerbino, Genoa, Italy

Registration fee includes: Scientific material, daily lunch and coffee break, Social Dinner and “at least, one new idea back to your lab”.

Invited speakers (random order): 
Scott E. Fraser, Caltech, USA
Karsten Konig, Saarbrucken University, Germany
Enrico Gratton, University of California Irvine, USA
Scarcelli Giuliano, Harvard Medical School, USA
Tony Wilson, Oxford University, UK
Anthony Watts, Oxford University, UK
Amitabha Chattopadhyay, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology Hyderabad, India
Andreas Zumbusch, Universitat Konstanz, Germany
Paul O' Shea, University of Nottingham, UK
Ernst Stelzer, Goethe University Frankfurt , Germany
David Sampson, Univeristy of Western Australia, Australia
Gail McConnell, University of Strathclyde, UK
Ammasi Periasamy, University of Virginia, USA
Sudipta Maiti, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
Ilaria Testa, Max Planck Institute Goettingen, Germany
Enzo Di Fabrizio, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Daniel Farkas, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA
Colin Sheppard, University of SIngapore, Singapore
Mario Faretta, European Institute of Oncology Milan, Italy
Ranieri Bizzarri, National Research Council, Italy
Maria Garcia Parajo, ICFO- Institut de Ciences Fotonique Barcelona, Spain
Martin Oheim, Université Paris Descartes, France
Arthur Chiou, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Fu-Jen Kao, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Monika Ritsch-Marte, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Austria
Brad Amos, Cambridge, UK
Nicolai Urban, Max Planck Institute Goettingen, Germany
Joerg Bewersdorf, Yale UNiversity, USA
Mike Heilemann, Wuerzburg University, Germany
Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland, Australia

Main Topics, regular updates and information on the Conference website: www.owls2012.org.
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