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ESP NEWSLETTER Editor: Roy Pottier Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering The Royal Military College of Canada Kingston, Ont., Canada K7K 5L0 Tel: +1 613 541 6000 × 6046 Fax: +1 613 542 9489 E-mail: [email protected] October 1994
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FROM THE EDITOR'S D E S K I have a new telephone number. It is, as noted on the above letterhead, +1 613 541 6000, extension 6046. In this Newsletter, our German ESP National Representative is featured in our FOCUS section. Also, Solar Light Company, an American Company who has ties with the ESP is featured. Since ozone is discussed by this company, it may be of some interest to our readers to know that in the Guidelines for Sunburn Prevention, as provided at the 20th American Society for Photobiology Meeting (Marco Island, June 20-24, 1992), was found: "Mad dogs, Englishmen and American Tourists go out in the midday Sun!" Also related to ozone is an advertisement that appeared in the Canadian Illustrated News (Vol. 16, 1 September, 1877, p. 135), which reads: PHOSFOZONE. Contains the most valuable compounds o f Phosphorus and Ozone. Certificates received daily from all quarters. The PHOSFOZONE sells well It is a favourite tonic with the ladies. JAMES HAWKES, Place d'Armes Drug Store, Montreal. Pamphlet sent postage free on application to VANS, MERCER & CO, Montreal. This advertisement was next to the news of the death of Virginia Gabriel, the composer. She was flung out of her carriage while the horse was
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(Look for the most recent information in the latest Newsletter). Join the European Society for Photobiology (again!) The ESP membership is still a bargain. You can still receive all 1994 issues of the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology (which is published monthly). This year, in order to assure timely distribution of the Journal, the deadline for renewing the 1995 ESP Membership Dues is the
30th of October, 1994. Payment is very simple, for example by using one of the credit cards mentioned below. The annual membership dues include a subscription to the biology section of the Journal o f P h o t o c h e m i s t r y and Photobiology (the official Journal of the European Society for Photobiology). The annual membership dues are Dfl. 80 (Dutch Florin = Netherlands Guilder). Exceptions: (a)The hard currency fee for East European members, including the Journal, is Dfl. 60. The balance, Dfl.20, is to be paid in local currency to national representatives. (b)The student fee is Dfl. 60, including the Journal (or Dfl. 20 for the Newsletter only). Student members should provide a note from their supervisor with details of the Ph.D. programme in which they are enroled.
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I wish to renew/apply for membership in the European Society for Photobiolgy. I enclose the 1995 membership fee (or proof of payment for Dfl. 80). For East Europeans see (a) in Newsletter. For Students see (b) in Newsletter. Family Name: First Name: Full Address:
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Membership Dues Payment Membership dues may be paid by: 1. Eurocheque (payee: European Society for Photobiology). Do not forget to mention your card number on the back and to sign. Send your cheque directly to the ESP Treasurer, Dr. Gerard M. J. Beijersbergen van Henegouwen, Department of Medicinal Photochemistry, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 71 274 652, Fax: +31 71 274 537. 2. Credit Card. Send to the treasurer at the above- mentioned address, a letter containing the following: I, the undersigned authorise the European Society f o r Photobiology to debit my credit card: [] American Express [] Eurocard [] Carte Bleue [] Visa
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Complete Card No.: Expiry date: For the sum of Dfl.: Amount Dfl. in words: Name: Address: Postal Code: Country: Signature: 3. Bank order to ABN.AMRO bank in Oegstgeest, the Netherlands (Swift address: ABNANL2A), Acc. No.
56.70.48.403 of European Society for Photobiology. If you pay by bank order, please ensure that the bank includes your name and address so that the source of payment can be easily identified. Send proof of payment to the ESP Treasurer, above mentioned address. 4. A bank cheque guaranteed by an official bank (payee: European Society for Photobiology; no personal cheques). If you choose this option you must pay Dfl. 20 more to cover bank charges for cashing this cheque. Send your cheque directly to the ESP Treasurer, above mentioned address.
LETTERS From the Ex-Treasurer's Cave As many of you know, I retired as ESP's first Treasurer last year after 7 years; not only because of increasing commitments, but also because the time was ripe for new blood (and sweat and probably tears). Furthermore, my primary task, which was to set up the Society with a healthy balance book, had been achieved. Our assets have increased almost linearly with time so that in August '93, ESP had a sound capital, 80% of which is invested in high yield ECU bonds (see Figure). The Maintenance of this capital is clearly a key factor in the health of the Society and an essential buffer for an entity which, with the best will in the world has nothing concrete to mortgage if it lands on the wrong square. In my final Treasurer's report I recommended that we maintain this capital build up at least until the end of the present Journal contract in December 1996. A major goal of the treasury has been to provide secure financial backing for the editorial operations of the Journal of
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Rex M. TYRRELL, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Ch. des Boveresses 155, CH-1066 S/Lausanne, SWITZERLAND.
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Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology. Most members are probably not aware that the subscription price we pay to Elsevier for the Journal per member is rising during the contract period to SFr. 55, just short of the current Swiss Franc membership fee of SFr. 60. However, there is an understanding that the membership fee will not be raised from its current level until at least the end of 1996 (for 1997). So how do we keep afloat? Well, we receive substantial royalties from Elsevier which, together with bond income, currently just about covers the subscription and running costs of the Journal. This then frees a substantial portion of membership fees for other scientific activities, directory production and the general running expenses of the Society. These latter expenses have been extremely low until now because of the close to zero running expenses of the offices of the President, Secretary and Treasury. Providing that these are maintained at a low level, there is certainly room for modest increase in student support to attend ESP biennial meetings and other meetings sponsored by ESP. This was reflected in decisions made at the latest ESP Executive Committee meeting in Paris in May. Indeed with careful planning and budgeting, we are in a good position to expand the scientific activities of ESP. Another firm financial policy of ESP is that the biennial meetings do not run at a loss. Indeed all the meetings so far for which figures are available and which include Grenoble (1986), Padova (1987), Budapest (1989) and Amsterdam (1991) have run at a profit. This was particularly admirable for the Budapest meeting for which the organizers shrewdly agreed to allow registrations to be paid in hard currency through the Treasurer's office in Switzerland. This is an important tradition to maintain since deficit spending for Society meetings can have devastating effects on the budget. So, in a nutshell, these have been the general lines of ESP financial policy over the early years - essentially conservative. Although an accounting nightmare, a flexible system of multiple currencies was maintained for payment of subscriptions. This was partly aimed to help and encourage our American colleagues who are often daunted by the complexities of European money and the very high costs of transfer. This problem should by partly resolved by the i n t r o d u c t i o n of credit card facilities.
SOCIETY NEWS Joint ESP-ASP Symposia As a result of discussions held by the Presidents of the European and American Societies for Photobiology, a proposal has been made to hold j o i n t E S P - A S P symposia at the Societies' Congresses. It has also been proposed that the proceedings of these joint symposia are to be published as special issues in either the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B:Biology [the European Journal], or in Photochemistry and Photobiology [the American Journal]. Starting with the 6th ESP Congress (Cambridge, UK, 2-9 September, 1995), the subject for the first joint symposium will be on Photomorphogenesis, and it is planned that the proceedings of such a symposium will be published in a special issue of this journal to appear early in 1996. Both Societies feel a need for enhanced promotion in this area and it is hoped that such a joint symposium will help in this respect.
First European Inter-University Course on Photobiology Using Interactive Videoconference Technology Thanks to the tremendous efforts made by Dietrich AVERBECK, our Society President, as well as a host of other persons too numerous to mention by name, the first European InterUniversity course on Photobiology was realized during 5-16 September, 1994. Five European Universities acted as coordination sites: University of Orleans [together with the University of Nantes, Paris VI and Grenoble (France)], University of London (UK), University of Erlangen (Germany), University of Padova (Italy) and the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). Dietrich AVERBECK (together with Thierry PATRICE, Paul VIGNY, Louis DUBERTRET), Antony YOUNG, Donat-P. H.~DER, Johan VAN der LEUN, Giulio JORI (together with Franceso DALL'ACQUA) acted as local coordinators at different sites. The University course (50 hours of special lectures in Photobiology (completed by a stay of research and final examinations) is accredited towards a University diploma for the par-
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ticipating students (approximately 20 students per site). The course was designed for students with a Masters degree and/or 1st year undergraduate and first-year graduate students who want to obtain a specialization in Photobiology, to prepare for a European Ph.D. in Photobiology and more generally, would like to consider a professional career in this domain. In total, over 30 University professors and lecturers (from France, UK, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Canada and Poland) participated. The course was aimed at the promotion of photobiology in general and to mobilise students for interaction with professors and research laboratories working in this field at the European level. 6th ESP Congress to be held at Cambridge As mentioned in Newsletter No. 61 (April 1994), the 6th ESP Congress will be held at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK, 29 September, 1995. 400 rooms have been reserved for participants' accommodation. For further information on this Congress, contact Dr. Antony R. YOUNG, Department of Photobiology, St. John's Institute of Dermatology, St. Thomas's Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, UK, Fax: +44 71 928 1650. Future Sites of ESP Congresses Italy has tentatively been chosen as the host country for the 7th ESP Congress in 1997. More details on the exact location will be provided when available. Possible host countries for the 8th ESP Congress (1999) are Scandinavia or Portugal. ESP Financial Matters As of the end of March 1994, about 400 ESP members had renewed their memberships. While the changeover to the new method of Annual Dues payment seemed to have created some initial difficulties, especially in North America, the newlyacquired possibility to pay by credit card has now made such a process very easy. At present, the ESP Treasury has approximately 130 000 Swiss Francs in bonds, with annual yields of about 7%. On a yearly basis, about 20 000 SFr. have to be given to Elsevier Science, 10 000 SFr. are required to cover editorial expenses, and 5 000 SFr. are needed as salary for the Editor's secretary. In order to promote Photobiology, the ESP has budgeted a maximum of 9 000 SFr. per year (limit of 3000 SFr. per sponsorship) to be applied towards the organizational expenses of related international Congresses, with the caveat that such meetings include a stand with the ESP Journal and membership application forms. The ESP will continue to sponsor the participation of students to ESP Congresses and NATO Schools in Photobiology, to the extent permitted by its financial standing at the time. The possibility of increased Society revenues via advertisements by private industry in the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B:Biology is currently being explored. Members are reminded that the deadline for payment of Annual ESP Dues is 30 October, 1994. For your convenience, a special application/payment form is included on p. 106 of this newsletter. ESP Logo: the Search Continues The ESP is still searching for a representative and distinguishing logo. If you have any ideas for such a work of art, please contact the ESP President, Dietrich AVERBECK.
ESP Publication Committee Activities The chairperson of the ESP Publication Committee, Antony YOUNG, informs us that the next ESP book to come out will carry the title FUNDAMENTAL BASIS OF PHOTOTItERAPY. This book is scheduled to appear by the end of 1995. The ESP Publication Committee will also be involved with any joint ESP-ASP meeting symposia publications. ESP Council of National Representatives Individual countries have the freedom/responsibility to elect their own ESP National Representatives. Not all countries have done so. Accordingly, the President of CNR, Tom DUBBELMANN, will be coordinating elections in countries that have not yet elected National Representatives. To this end, a commission, consisting of the President Elect (G. JORI), the Officer (T. VIDOCZY) and the CNR President (T. DUBBELMANN), has been set up to seek prospective candidates for National Representatives in countries for which there are currently none. Persons wishing to be candidates for the CNR should contact Tom DUBBELMANN. ESP as a Legal Entity The past ESP Treasurer (also known as the Ex- Treasurer, or simply ET), informs us that the ESP is only one signature away from having the status of Legal Entity. He has promised to keep us informed on this point. ESP Membership Directory The last ESP Membership Directory dates back to the fall of 1993. The preparation of an updated Directory is currently in progress. During this past summer, a tentative directory was sent to the National Representatives, whose task it was to check for any errors, and to send corrections back to the ESP Secretary. Call for Nominations of Candidates - ESP Executive A call is hereby made for nominations of candidates for the 1996-1997 term of office for the following ESP Executive members: President Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and two Auditors. Names of candidates can be proposed by the Council of National Representatives and by petition signed by at least four Individual Members. Send all nominations to: Professor Tom M. A. R. DUBBELMANN, Chairperson, Council of National Representatives, State University of Leiden, Sylvius Lab., Department of Medical Biochemistry, Wassenaarseweg 72, NL-2333, AL LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS. Tel: +31 71 27 6053, Fax: +31 71 14 2582. Voting shall be by mail ballot, and the newly elected Executive Committee Members will be announced at the 6th ESP Congress in Cambridge (2-9 September, 1995). DATABASE for ESP When we need information on any ESP mimed matter, be it a telephone number of a colleague, or the names of photobiologists working in a particular sub-speciality of Photobiology, we normally refer to the ESP Membership Directory. The Directory is updated every two years. In spite of honest efforts made by the ESP Secretary and the National Representatives, some errors in name spelling, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, do manage to creep in. Also, since individuals move, the information in the Membership Directory can be outdated by nearly two years. In order to remedy this situation, our ESP Officer, Tamas
VIDOCZY, is currently working on a practical proposal for having a “real time directory and information concerning ESP members and photobiological laboratories and actors” in the form of a DATABASE FOR ESP. A questionnaire is now being prepared on this proposed DATABASE, and will be addressed to all ESP members.
22nd Annual American Society for Photobiology Meeting This year’s 22nd Annual ASP meeting was held on 25 29 June in Scottsdale, AZ. A hardy group of conference attendees braved the 50 OC temperatures to make the conference one of the best attended ever. More than 40 sessions were held, including symposia, poster sessions, contributed paper sessions, special lectures and courses, in such areas as UV radiation effects, photodynamic therapy, molecular photobiology. photoimmunology, photosynthesis, photosensitization, sensory receptors, bioluminescence and photomedicine. The Society hosted many convivial social functions, including the conference banquet, a cookout held under the stars in a Western-style “ghost town” environment. The ESP President, Dietrich AVERBECK spoke eloquently, but unfortunately largely inaudibly due to the poor acoustics, to the assembled crowd. Michael RODGERS, the outgoing ASP President, hosted the President’s Reception around the pool (into which a past ASP President, Tom COOHILL, “inadvertently” fell) at the ASP suite in the resort, as well as an unconventional President’s lecture in which he encouraged the audience to assert their justification for continuing to perform basic research in Photobiology. At the General Meeting, a major concern was voiced as to how to best dispose of the large surplus of funds in the ASP coffers which has accrued in the last year since the ASP became its own publisher for Phozochem. Phorobiol. Various possibilities (some of them legal) were considered, including providing some form of financial support for young photobiologists, and undoubtedly further suggestions would be welcomed by the incoming ASP Executive Committee. This year the ASP Research Award was presented to John HEARST, past ASP President, while Carl BAUER received the
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not identify the “object” presented to Homer, but I was later informed that he received a model of Ra, the Sun God. Eva GUDGIN DICKSON, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ont., CANADA.
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The outgoing ASP President. Michael KUtXP;KS (Ien), chats wtb Libby FISHER at the President’s Reception, one of the StudentfGreybead mingling events held during the 2nd ASP Meeting in Scottsdale. courtesy of David KESSEL.
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The Solar Light Co. of Philadelphia was midwifed at the Dermatology Department of the Temple University of Medicine, all in Philadelphia. It was at that Dermatology Department, under the leadership of Dr. Frederick LJRBACH, that projects were initiated to create a solar-like light source which would enable clinicians to reproduce the effects of outdoor sunlight in the clinic and to find the relationship between skin cancer and solar radiation. Professor Daniel BERGER took up the technical challenges. The first goal was achieved with the Solar UV Simulator which has brought biologically effective ultraviolet radiation into clinics and testing laboratories around the world. The simulator uses a xenon arc lamp, whose output in the UV and in the visible
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is like extraterrestrial sunlight. With a then newly developed UV reflecting dichroic mirror, simulated solar UVA and UVB at the earth's surface was obtained. Several hundred of these simulators attest to the utility of this source for dermatologists, material testers, and, primarily, for the sunscreen industry which uses simulators to determine SPF (sun protection factor). The second goal required a meter with a spectral response like that of skin erythema. Meter characteristics had to be closely reproducible, and stable under outdoor conditions. A stable, reproducible UV meter had been a vainly sought-for goal since at least 1911 when Dr. DORNO in Arosa began measuring ultraviolet radiation. Fortunately, Dr. Don ROBERTSON of Queensland University had finally solved that problem by 1960. Using his deceptively simple concept and adding several functional improvements, a meter was produced that has come to be known as the Robertson-Berger (RB) sunburn UV meter. The basic concept of the RB sunburn meter relies on a phosphor whose excitation spectrum mimics the erythema action spectrum. As suspected at the time, the erythema and carcinogenic action spectra are quite similar. The RB meter itself was used in the experimental derivation of the carcinogenic action spectrum. The RB meter was replicated to form a global network as part of the CIAP study. Skin cancer incidence was related to UV; a UVB climatology was elucidated; a 12, year UVB trend through 1985 was determined. The result was that, at all stations, evaluated UVB showed a small annual decrease in spite of a small stratospheric ozone decrease. Subsequent analysis corroborated the reasonableness of the trend, since only wintertime stratospheric ozone decreases were significant, resulting in negligible UV change. At the same time, tropospheric pollutants were significantly increasing for all seasons during the measurement period. Studies in the USA and in Finland indicate that the RB meter, with its unparalleled stability, may be the only instrument able to provide the accuracy for the multi-decade trend measurement needed while stratospheric CFC washes out. Solar UV simulators have not only enabled dermatologists to confirm diagnoses but have enabled the sunscreen industry to
determine realistic sun protection values for the products that a large public, with more leisure time and more knowledge about the aging and carcinogenic effects of sunlight, seeks. The simulator was the basis for the founding of the Solar Light Co. in 1967. The rewarding relationship that, at its best, can exist between academia and business, and is exemplified here, has not been completely described even for the small company being commented upon. In 1990, propelled by harsh political winds, a gifted worker at the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Science, joined Solar Light Company. In Marian MORY's capable hands, temperature stabilization of the RB meter was added as well as state of the art computer compatibility. The Solar Light Co. has developed other devices in addition to the original equipments; a novel meter that measures both the sunburning effect of UV and UVA power; and a UV hazard meter that measures in the UVC and in the UVA. Under development is a single meter that can include the functions of the aforementioned meters and any other radiant spectrum, i.e., sunburn UV, UVA, hazardous UV, damaging blue light, visible, photosynthetic active, bilirubin lysis, etc. This meter will use a separate detector for each spectrum. Plugging in the detector will set the meter's sensitivity and the dimension of the readout. The original UV simulator with a single I cm diameter output has been joined by a simulator with six outputs, all with adjustable intensity. By utilizing more of the lamp's output energy, multiple output ports are made possible in order that tests, which generally require a series of graded doses, can be done simultaneously. Automatic dose controllers have been developed for both types of simulator. Seemingly departing from a line of UV Meters and Sources is the development of a xenon lamp switching power supply. When the previous power supply source stopped production, Solar Light Co. designed their own power supply to run lamps used in the solar simulators, and now offer their own supply for general sale. Another example of the child wandering from its parent's shadow is the display board with a unique driver developed for a European customer who wanted that type of readout for the sunbum UV biometer. The driver's uniqueness stems from its capability of continuously updating the display, as well as presenting a series of messages. The multiplication of apparatus initiated at Temple University and at the University of Queensland has been of benefit to the world community. This could not have happened without the cooperation of the Universities and the dedication of those who, with minimal remuneration but much effort, brought in-house creations to commercial realization. Dan BERGER, Solar Light Company Inc., 721 Oak Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19126-3342, USA. Tel: +1 215 927 4206, Fax: +1 215 927 6347.
Don ROBERTSON (left) and Dan BERGER, co-developers of the RB Sunburn Meter, reunited in Australia in 1992. They are holding the successor meter, the 501 UV-Biometer.
Editor's Note: The Solar Light Company, while being an American Company, has several European connections. Their main engineer, Marian MORY, is originally from Poland. The company has been active throughout Europe in their quest to monitor worldwide solar energy fluences. [I have a copy of a postcard signed by five members o f the Italian Istituto Dermatologico San Gallicano, that reads: "1 think the 5D meter
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Photonics East (SPIE's International Symposia), Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA, USA. Contact: Judy Leger at Laser Focus World, Tel: +1 603 891 9113, Fax: +1 603 891 0574
Nov. 9-13
7th International Congress of the European Laser Association. Barcelona, Spain. Contact: Technical Secretariat, Pacifica, S.A., Enric Granados, 44, pral., 08008, Barcelona, Spain, Tel: +34 93 454 54 00, Fax: +34 93 451 74 38.
Dec. 5-7
Colloque Annuel de la Soci~t~ Franqaise de Photobiologie Nouveau Horizons en Photobiologie, Carr6 des Sciences, 1 rue Descartes, Paris, France. Contact: Dr. Jocelyne Blais, LPCB, Section Physique et Chimie, Institut Curie, 11 rue P. et M. Curie, 75231 Paris Cedex 05. Tel: +33 40 51 67 98, Fax: +33 40 51 06 36.
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USA. Contact: Prof. L. McElwee-White, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. Tel: +1 904 392 8768, Fax: +1 904 846 0296, E-mail: [email protected].
Marian Mory (front and Dan Berger, testing meters at Solar Light Company.
has reached its maximum altitude (over 5000 m.t) with excellent results". The Italian scientists were part of the Kilimajaro "94 spedizione scientifia.] Finally they support ESP Congresses, where they regularly display their products. Some of Solar Light's detailed posters are sometimes used for educational purposes in photoecology courses throughout the world. This company is thus looked upon as an international collaborator and we are pleased to feature them in the F O C U S section of our Newsletter.
Jan. 8-14
3rd International Conference on Solar E n e r g y S t o r a g e a n d Applied Photochemistry, Cairo, Egypt. Contact: Dr. M . S . A . Abdel-Mottaleb, Photoenergy Centre, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Avvassia, Cairo, Egypt. Fax: +202 244 7683 or +202 822284, E-mail: solar @egfrcuvx.bitnet.
Jan. 22-27
CERLIB Winter Research Conferences 1995 [22-23 J a n - Cellular Adaptation to Oxidative stress: Molecular Mechanism, organized by A. Favier and M. Fontecave; 24-24 J a n - Oxidative DNA D a m a g e : Bioindicators and repair, organized by J. Cadet and A. Favier; 26-27 Jan - Abiotic Models of A n t i o x i d a n t E n z y m e s : from Basic Concept to Potential Applications] Les Deux Alpes, France.
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Contact: Arlett Alcaraz, Laboratoire de Biochimie C, CHU Grenoble B.P. 217, 38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. Tel: +33 76 76 54, Fax: +33 76 76 56 64.
XVI International Cancer Congress 1994, New Delhi, India. Contact: Ms. Gita Shah, Congress Secretariat, XVI I n t e r n a t i o n a l Cancer Congress, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Bombay 400 012, India. Tel: +91 22
7th Inter-American Photochemical Society Winter Conference, Clearwater Beach, FL,
Feb. 4-10
Photonics West (SPIE's I n t e r n a t i o n a l Symposia), San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA.
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Contact: Judy Leger at Laser Focus World, Tel: +1 603 891 9113, Fax: +1 603 891 0574. Mar. 23-29
Keystone Symposium: Repair and Processing of DNA Damage, Taos, NM, USA. Contact: Errol C. Friedburg, Tomas Lindahl or Graham C. Walker, Keystone Symposia, Drawer 1630, Silverthome, CO 80490, USA. Fax: +1 303 262 1525.
Apr. 2-4
15th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, Inc., Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel, San Diego, CA, USA.
Pharmacy, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1068, Blindem, 0316 Oslo, Norway. Tel: +47 22 85 65 93, Fax: +47 22 85 74 94. Jul. 8-13
Contact: Deuxi~me colloque de Radiobiologie Fondamentale et Appliqu6e, c/o John Gueulette, RBNT 5469, Cliniques U n i v e r s i t a i r e s St-Luc, 54, Avenue Hippocrate, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgique. Tel: +32 2 764 54 80, Fax: +32 2 764 94 25. August
Contact: ASLMS, 2404 Stewart Square, Wausau, WI, USA 54401. Tel: +1 715 845 9283, Fax: +1 715 848 2593. Apr. 2-7
Apr. 24-27
209th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA. Contact: Harriet Friedstein, Monroe Community College, 1000 E. Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14623, USA. Tel: +1 716 292 2000, ext. 3053. International Chemical Recovery Conference, Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Ont., Canada.
Enercomp 95, International Conference on Composite Materials and Energy, Montreal Bonaventure Hilton, Montreal, Qne., Canada.
Aug. 14-16
78th Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., Canada.
Aug. 20-25
Conference on Tetrapyrrole receptors, Freising, Germany.
Aug. 20-25
Sept. 2-9
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Contact: Prof. Dr. W. Rtidiger, Botanisches Institut, Universit~it Mtinchen, Menzinger Str. 67, D-80638 Mtinchen, Germany. Tel: +49 89 17861 245, Fax: +49 89 17861 185, Email: ruediger @ b o t a n i k . b i o l o g i e . u n i muenchen.de. Jun. 8-9
Photostability of Drugs. 1st International Meeting. Oslo, Norway. Contact: Prof. Hanne Hjorth T~nnesen, Department of Pharmaceutics, Institute of
Xth International Photosynthesis Congress, Montpellier, France. Contact: Dr. Paul Mathis (Photosynthesis Congress), DBCM-CEA Saclay, B~timent 32, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France. Fax: +33 1 08 87 17
Contact: Diane Goltz, The Chemical Institute of Canada, 130 Slater Street, Suite 550, Ottawa, Ont., Canada KIP 6E2. Tel: +1 613 232 6252, Fax: +1 613 232 5862. Jun. 5-10
41st Canadian Spectroscopy Conference, Windsor, Ont., Canada. Contact: Dr. William E. Jones, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Ave., Windsor, Ont., Canada. Tel: +1 519 253 4232, ext. 2001, Fax: +1 519 973 7070.
Contact: Enercomp 95 Secretariat, 75 Boul. de Mortagne, Boucherville, Que., Canada J4B 6Y4. Tel: +1 514 641 5139, Fax: +1 514 641 5117. May 28-Jun. 1
NATO ARW on Q u a n t u m Optics in Wavelength Scale Structures, Cargrese, France. Contact: Dr. J. G. Rarity, DRA Malvem, St. Andrews Road, Malvem, Worts., WR14 3PS, UK, Fax: +44 684 896270.
Contact: Mr. David Paterson, Technical Section, CPPA, 1155 Metcalf Street, Suite 1900, Montreal, Que., Canada H3B 4T6. Tel: +1 514 866 6621, Fax: +1 514 866 3035. May 8-10
2/~me Colloque de Radiobiologie Fondamentale et Appliqu~e, Spa, Beigique.
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210th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA. Contact: Anna Wilson, B i o c h e m i s t r y Department, Purdue U n i v e r s i t y , West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. Tel: +1 317 494 1644.
6th Congress on the European Society for Photobiology. Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. Contact: Dr. A. R. Young, Department of Photobiology, St John's Institute of Dermatology, St T h o m a s ' s Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK. Fax: +44 71 928 1650.
Symposium on Biologic Effect of Light, Atlanta, GA, USA. Contact: Dr. Michael F. Holick, Boston University School of Medicine, 80 E. Concord Street, M-1013, Boston, MA 02118, USA. Tel: +1 617 638 4545, Fax: +1 617 638 8882.
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6th International Photodynamic Association Biennial Meeting, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
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Contact: Prof. Andrew H. Kaye, Clinical Neurosciences Centre, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville 3050, Vic., Australia. Tel: +61 3 345 3799, Fax: +61 3 347 8832. May 7-9
1997 Jun. 1-5
1998 May 31-Jun. 4
Contact: Prof. Dr. W.R.G. Baeyens, Symposium Chairman, University of Ghent, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Lab. of Drug Quality Control, Harelbekestraat 72, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. Fax: +32 9 221 41 75. Tel: +32 9 221 89 51. Jun. 23-27
79th Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Memorial University, St. John's, Nfld, Canada.
12th International Congress on Photobiology, Hofburg Congress Center, Vienna, Austria. Contact: ICP '96, c/o Vienna Academy of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Alser Strasse 4, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. Tel: +43/1 42 13 83 13, Fax: +43/1 42 13 83 23.
81st Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Contact: Diane Goltz, The Chemical Institute of Canada, 130 Slater Street, Suite 550, Ottawa, Ont., Canada K1P 6E2. Tel: +1 613 232 6252, Fax: +1 613 232 5862.
1999 May
Contact: Diane Goltz, The Chemical Institute of Canada, 130 Slater Street, Suite 550, Ottawa, Ont., Canada KIP 6E2. Tel: +1 613 232 6252, Fax: +1 613 232 5862. Sept. 1-6
80th Canadian Society for Chemistry and Exhibition, Windsor, Ont., Canada. Contact: Diane Goltz, The Chemical Institute of Canada, 130 Slater Street, Suite 550, Ottawa, Ont., Canada KIP 6E2. Tel: +1 613 232 6252, Fax: +1 613 232 5862.
VIIth International Symposium on Lumin-
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82nd Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Toronto, Ont., Canada. Contact: Diane Goltz, The Chemical Institute of Canada, 130 Slater Street, Suite 550, Ottawa, Ont., Canada KIP 6E2. Tel: +1 613 232 6252, Fax: +1 613 232 5862.
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50th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Montreal, Qu6., Canada. Contact: Diane Goltz, The Chemical Institute of Canada, 130 Slater Street, Suite 550, Ottawa, Ont., Canada KIP 6E2. Tel: +1 613 232 6252, Fax: +1 613 232 5862.
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ESP NEWSLETTER Editor: Roy Pottier Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering The Royal Military College of Canada Kingston, Ont., Canada K7K 5L0 Tel: +1 613 541 6000 × 6046 Fax: +1 613 542 9489 E-mail: [email protected] October 1994
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FROM THE EDITOR'S D E S K I have a new telephone number. It is, as noted on the above letterhead, +1 613 541 6000, extension 6046. In this Newsletter, our German ESP National Representative is featured in our FOCUS section. Also, Solar Light Company, an American Company who has ties with the ESP is featured. Since ozone is discussed by this company, it may be of some interest to our readers to know that in the Guidelines for Sunburn Prevention, as provided at the 20th American Society for Photobiology Meeting (Marco Island, June 20-24, 1992), was found: "Mad dogs, Englishmen and American Tourists go out in the midday Sun!" Also related to ozone is an advertisement that appeared in the Canadian Illustrated News (Vol. 16, 1 September, 1877, p. 135), which reads: PHOSFOZONE. Contains the most valuable compounds o f Phosphorus and Ozone. Certificates received daily from all quarters. The PHOSFOZONE sells well It is a favourite tonic with the ladies. JAMES HAWKES, Place d'Armes Drug Store, Montreal. Pamphlet sent postage free on application to VANS, MERCER & CO, Montreal. This advertisement was next to the news of the death of Virginia Gabriel, the composer. She was flung out of her carriage while the horse was
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(Look for the most recent information in the latest Newsletter). Join the European Society for Photobiology (again!) The ESP membership is still a bargain. You can still receive all 1994 issues of the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology (which is published monthly). This year, in order to assure timely distribution of the Journal, the deadline for renewing the 1995 ESP Membership Dues is the
30th of October, 1994. Payment is very simple, for example by using one of the credit cards mentioned below. The annual membership dues include a subscription to the biology section of the Journal o f P h o t o c h e m i s t r y and Photobiology (the official Journal of the European Society for Photobiology). The annual membership dues are Dfl. 80 (Dutch Florin = Netherlands Guilder). Exceptions: (a)The hard currency fee for East European members, including the Journal, is Dfl. 60. The balance, Dfl.20, is to be paid in local currency to national representatives. (b)The student fee is Dfl. 60, including the Journal (or Dfl. 20 for the Newsletter only). Student members should provide a note from their supervisor with details of the Ph.D. programme in which they are enroled.
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I wish to renew/apply for membership in the European Society for Photobiolgy. I enclose the 1995 membership fee (or proof of payment for Dfl. 80). For East Europeans see (a) in Newsletter. For Students see (b) in Newsletter. Family Name: First Name: Full Address:
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Further information on membership can be obtained from: Dr. Paolo GIACOMONI L'OREAL 188, rue Paul Hochart B.P. 553 94152 CHEVILLY-LARUE Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 1 49 79 61 85 Fax: +33 1 49 79 50 47
Membership Dues Payment Membership dues may be paid by: 1. Eurocheque (payee: European Society for Photobiology). Do not forget to mention your card number on the back and to sign. Send your cheque directly to the ESP Treasurer, Dr. Gerard M. J. Beijersbergen van Henegouwen, Department of Medicinal Photochemistry, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 71 274 652, Fax: +31 71 274 537. 2. Credit Card. Send to the treasurer at the above- mentioned address, a letter containing the following: I, the undersigned authorise the European Society f o r Photobiology to debit my credit card: [] American Express [] Eurocard [] Carte Bleue [] Visa
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Complete Card No.: Expiry date: For the sum of Dfl.: Amount Dfl. in words: Name: Address: Postal Code: Country: Signature: 3. Bank order to ABN.AMRO bank in Oegstgeest, the Netherlands (Swift address: ABNANL2A), Acc. No.
56.70.48.403 of European Society for Photobiology. If you pay by bank order, please ensure that the bank includes your name and address so that the source of payment can be easily identified. Send proof of payment to the ESP Treasurer, above mentioned address. 4. A bank cheque guaranteed by an official bank (payee: European Society for Photobiology; no personal cheques). If you choose this option you must pay Dfl. 20 more to cover bank charges for cashing this cheque. Send your cheque directly to the ESP Treasurer, above mentioned address.
LETTERS From the Ex-Treasurer's Cave As many of you know, I retired as ESP's first Treasurer last year after 7 years; not only because of increasing commitments, but also because the time was ripe for new blood (and sweat and probably tears). Furthermore, my primary task, which was to set up the Society with a healthy balance book, had been achieved. Our assets have increased almost linearly with time so that in August '93, ESP had a sound capital, 80% of which is invested in high yield ECU bonds (see Figure). The Maintenance of this capital is clearly a key factor in the health of the Society and an essential buffer for an entity which, with the best will in the world has nothing concrete to mortgage if it lands on the wrong square. In my final Treasurer's report I recommended that we maintain this capital build up at least until the end of the present Journal contract in December 1996. A major goal of the treasury has been to provide secure financial backing for the editorial operations of the Journal of
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Rex M. TYRRELL, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Ch. des Boveresses 155, CH-1066 S/Lausanne, SWITZERLAND.
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Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology. Most members are probably not aware that the subscription price we pay to Elsevier for the Journal per member is rising during the contract period to SFr. 55, just short of the current Swiss Franc membership fee of SFr. 60. However, there is an understanding that the membership fee will not be raised from its current level until at least the end of 1996 (for 1997). So how do we keep afloat? Well, we receive substantial royalties from Elsevier which, together with bond income, currently just about covers the subscription and running costs of the Journal. This then frees a substantial portion of membership fees for other scientific activities, directory production and the general running expenses of the Society. These latter expenses have been extremely low until now because of the close to zero running expenses of the offices of the President, Secretary and Treasury. Providing that these are maintained at a low level, there is certainly room for modest increase in student support to attend ESP biennial meetings and other meetings sponsored by ESP. This was reflected in decisions made at the latest ESP Executive Committee meeting in Paris in May. Indeed with careful planning and budgeting, we are in a good position to expand the scientific activities of ESP. Another firm financial policy of ESP is that the biennial meetings do not run at a loss. Indeed all the meetings so far for which figures are available and which include Grenoble (1986), Padova (1987), Budapest (1989) and Amsterdam (1991) have run at a profit. This was particularly admirable for the Budapest meeting for which the organizers shrewdly agreed to allow registrations to be paid in hard currency through the Treasurer's office in Switzerland. This is an important tradition to maintain since deficit spending for Society meetings can have devastating effects on the budget. So, in a nutshell, these have been the general lines of ESP financial policy over the early years - essentially conservative. Although an accounting nightmare, a flexible system of multiple currencies was maintained for payment of subscriptions. This was partly aimed to help and encourage our American colleagues who are often daunted by the complexities of European money and the very high costs of transfer. This problem should by partly resolved by the i n t r o d u c t i o n of credit card facilities.
SOCIETY NEWS Joint ESP-ASP Symposia As a result of discussions held by the Presidents of the European and American Societies for Photobiology, a proposal has been made to hold j o i n t E S P - A S P symposia at the Societies' Congresses. It has also been proposed that the proceedings of these joint symposia are to be published as special issues in either the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B:Biology [the European Journal], or in Photochemistry and Photobiology [the American Journal]. Starting with the 6th ESP Congress (Cambridge, UK, 2-9 September, 1995), the subject for the first joint symposium will be on Photomorphogenesis, and it is planned that the proceedings of such a symposium will be published in a special issue of this journal to appear early in 1996. Both Societies feel a need for enhanced promotion in this area and it is hoped that such a joint symposium will help in this respect.
First European Inter-University Course on Photobiology Using Interactive Videoconference Technology Thanks to the tremendous efforts made by Dietrich AVERBECK, our Society President, as well as a host of other persons too numerous to mention by name, the first European InterUniversity course on Photobiology was realized during 5-16 September, 1994. Five European Universities acted as coordination sites: University of Orleans [together with the University of Nantes, Paris VI and Grenoble (France)], University of London (UK), University of Erlangen (Germany), University of Padova (Italy) and the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). Dietrich AVERBECK (together with Thierry PATRICE, Paul VIGNY, Louis DUBERTRET), Antony YOUNG, Donat-P. H.~DER, Johan VAN der LEUN, Giulio JORI (together with Franceso DALL'ACQUA) acted as local coordinators at different sites. The University course (50 hours of special lectures in Photobiology (completed by a stay of research and final examinations) is accredited towards a University diploma for the par-
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ticipating students (approximately 20 students per site). The course was designed for students with a Masters degree and/or 1st year undergraduate and first-year graduate students who want to obtain a specialization in Photobiology, to prepare for a European Ph.D. in Photobiology and more generally, would like to consider a professional career in this domain. In total, over 30 University professors and lecturers (from France, UK, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Canada and Poland) participated. The course was aimed at the promotion of photobiology in general and to mobilise students for interaction with professors and research laboratories working in this field at the European level. 6th ESP Congress to be held at Cambridge As mentioned in Newsletter No. 61 (April 1994), the 6th ESP Congress will be held at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK, 29 September, 1995. 400 rooms have been reserved for participants' accommodation. For further information on this Congress, contact Dr. Antony R. YOUNG, Department of Photobiology, St. John's Institute of Dermatology, St. Thomas's Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, UK, Fax: +44 71 928 1650. Future Sites of ESP Congresses Italy has tentatively been chosen as the host country for the 7th ESP Congress in 1997. More details on the exact location will be provided when available. Possible host countries for the 8th ESP Congress (1999) are Scandinavia or Portugal. ESP Financial Matters As of the end of March 1994, about 400 ESP members had renewed their memberships. While the changeover to the new method of Annual Dues payment seemed to have created some initial difficulties, especially in North America, the newlyacquired possibility to pay by credit card has now made such a process very easy. At present, the ESP Treasury has approximately 130 000 Swiss Francs in bonds, with annual yields of about 7%. On a yearly basis, about 20 000 SFr. have to be given to Elsevier Science, 10 000 SFr. are required to cover editorial expenses, and 5 000 SFr. are needed as salary for the Editor's secretary. In order to promote Photobiology, the ESP has budgeted a maximum of 9 000 SFr. per year (limit of 3000 SFr. per sponsorship) to be applied towards the organizational expenses of related international Congresses, with the caveat that such meetings include a stand with the ESP Journal and membership application forms. The ESP will continue to sponsor the participation of students to ESP Congresses and NATO Schools in Photobiology, to the extent permitted by its financial standing at the time. The possibility of increased Society revenues via advertisements by private industry in the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B:Biology is currently being explored. Members are reminded that the deadline for payment of Annual ESP Dues is 30 October, 1994. For your convenience, a special application/payment form is included on p. 106 of this newsletter. ESP Logo: the Search Continues The ESP is still searching for a representative and distinguishing logo. If you have any ideas for such a work of art, please contact the ESP President, Dietrich AVERBECK.
ESP Publication Committee Activities The chairperson of the ESP Publication Committee, Antony YOUNG, informs us that the next ESP book to come out will carry the title FUNDAMENTAL BASIS OF PHOTOTItERAPY. This book is scheduled to appear by the end of 1995. The ESP Publication Committee will also be involved with any joint ESP-ASP meeting symposia publications. ESP Council of National Representatives Individual countries have the freedom/responsibility to elect their own ESP National Representatives. Not all countries have done so. Accordingly, the President of CNR, Tom DUBBELMANN, will be coordinating elections in countries that have not yet elected National Representatives. To this end, a commission, consisting of the President Elect (G. JORI), the Officer (T. VIDOCZY) and the CNR President (T. DUBBELMANN), has been set up to seek prospective candidates for National Representatives in countries for which there are currently none. Persons wishing to be candidates for the CNR should contact Tom DUBBELMANN. ESP as a Legal Entity The past ESP Treasurer (also known as the Ex- Treasurer, or simply ET), informs us that the ESP is only one signature away from having the status of Legal Entity. He has promised to keep us informed on this point. ESP Membership Directory The last ESP Membership Directory dates back to the fall of 1993. The preparation of an updated Directory is currently in progress. During this past summer, a tentative directory was sent to the National Representatives, whose task it was to check for any errors, and to send corrections back to the ESP Secretary. Call for Nominations of Candidates - ESP Executive A call is hereby made for nominations of candidates for the 1996-1997 term of office for the following ESP Executive members: President Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and two Auditors. Names of candidates can be proposed by the Council of National Representatives and by petition signed by at least four Individual Members. Send all nominations to: Professor Tom M. A. R. DUBBELMANN, Chairperson, Council of National Representatives, State University of Leiden, Sylvius Lab., Department of Medical Biochemistry, Wassenaarseweg 72, NL-2333, AL LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS. Tel: +31 71 27 6053, Fax: +31 71 14 2582. Voting shall be by mail ballot, and the newly elected Executive Committee Members will be announced at the 6th ESP Congress in Cambridge (2-9 September, 1995). DATABASE for ESP When we need information on any ESP mimed matter, be it a telephone number of a colleague, or the names of photobiologists working in a particular sub-speciality of Photobiology, we normally refer to the ESP Membership Directory. The Directory is updated every two years. In spite of honest efforts made by the ESP Secretary and the National Representatives, some errors in name spelling, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, do manage to creep in. Also, since individuals move, the information in the Membership Directory can be outdated by nearly two years. In order to remedy this situation, our ESP Officer, Tamas
VIDOCZY, is currently working on a practical proposal for having a “real time directory and information concerning ESP members and photobiological laboratories and actors” in the form of a DATABASE FOR ESP. A questionnaire is now being prepared on this proposed DATABASE, and will be addressed to all ESP members.
22nd Annual American Society for Photobiology Meeting This year’s 22nd Annual ASP meeting was held on 25 29 June in Scottsdale, AZ. A hardy group of conference attendees braved the 50 OC temperatures to make the conference one of the best attended ever. More than 40 sessions were held, including symposia, poster sessions, contributed paper sessions, special lectures and courses, in such areas as UV radiation effects, photodynamic therapy, molecular photobiology. photoimmunology, photosynthesis, photosensitization, sensory receptors, bioluminescence and photomedicine. The Society hosted many convivial social functions, including the conference banquet, a cookout held under the stars in a Western-style “ghost town” environment. The ESP President, Dietrich AVERBECK spoke eloquently, but unfortunately largely inaudibly due to the poor acoustics, to the assembled crowd. Michael RODGERS, the outgoing ASP President, hosted the President’s Reception around the pool (into which a past ASP President, Tom COOHILL, “inadvertently” fell) at the ASP suite in the resort, as well as an unconventional President’s lecture in which he encouraged the audience to assert their justification for continuing to perform basic research in Photobiology. At the General Meeting, a major concern was voiced as to how to best dispose of the large surplus of funds in the ASP coffers which has accrued in the last year since the ASP became its own publisher for Phozochem. Phorobiol. Various possibilities (some of them legal) were considered, including providing some form of financial support for young photobiologists, and undoubtedly further suggestions would be welcomed by the incoming ASP Executive Committee. This year the ASP Research Award was presented to John HEARST, past ASP President, while Carl BAUER received the
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The Solar Light Co. of Philadelphia was midwifed at the Dermatology Department of the Temple University of Medicine, all in Philadelphia. It was at that Dermatology Department, under the leadership of Dr. Frederick LJRBACH, that projects were initiated to create a solar-like light source which would enable clinicians to reproduce the effects of outdoor sunlight in the clinic and to find the relationship between skin cancer and solar radiation. Professor Daniel BERGER took up the technical challenges. The first goal was achieved with the Solar UV Simulator which has brought biologically effective ultraviolet radiation into clinics and testing laboratories around the world. The simulator uses a xenon arc lamp, whose output in the UV and in the visible
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is like extraterrestrial sunlight. With a then newly developed UV reflecting dichroic mirror, simulated solar UVA and UVB at the earth's surface was obtained. Several hundred of these simulators attest to the utility of this source for dermatologists, material testers, and, primarily, for the sunscreen industry which uses simulators to determine SPF (sun protection factor). The second goal required a meter with a spectral response like that of skin erythema. Meter characteristics had to be closely reproducible, and stable under outdoor conditions. A stable, reproducible UV meter had been a vainly sought-for goal since at least 1911 when Dr. DORNO in Arosa began measuring ultraviolet radiation. Fortunately, Dr. Don ROBERTSON of Queensland University had finally solved that problem by 1960. Using his deceptively simple concept and adding several functional improvements, a meter was produced that has come to be known as the Robertson-Berger (RB) sunburn UV meter. The basic concept of the RB sunburn meter relies on a phosphor whose excitation spectrum mimics the erythema action spectrum. As suspected at the time, the erythema and carcinogenic action spectra are quite similar. The RB meter itself was used in the experimental derivation of the carcinogenic action spectrum. The RB meter was replicated to form a global network as part of the CIAP study. Skin cancer incidence was related to UV; a UVB climatology was elucidated; a 12, year UVB trend through 1985 was determined. The result was that, at all stations, evaluated UVB showed a small annual decrease in spite of a small stratospheric ozone decrease. Subsequent analysis corroborated the reasonableness of the trend, since only wintertime stratospheric ozone decreases were significant, resulting in negligible UV change. At the same time, tropospheric pollutants were significantly increasing for all seasons during the measurement period. Studies in the USA and in Finland indicate that the RB meter, with its unparalleled stability, may be the only instrument able to provide the accuracy for the multi-decade trend measurement needed while stratospheric CFC washes out. Solar UV simulators have not only enabled dermatologists to confirm diagnoses but have enabled the sunscreen industry to
determine realistic sun protection values for the products that a large public, with more leisure time and more knowledge about the aging and carcinogenic effects of sunlight, seeks. The simulator was the basis for the founding of the Solar Light Co. in 1967. The rewarding relationship that, at its best, can exist between academia and business, and is exemplified here, has not been completely described even for the small company being commented upon. In 1990, propelled by harsh political winds, a gifted worker at the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Science, joined Solar Light Company. In Marian MORY's capable hands, temperature stabilization of the RB meter was added as well as state of the art computer compatibility. The Solar Light Co. has developed other devices in addition to the original equipments; a novel meter that measures both the sunburning effect of UV and UVA power; and a UV hazard meter that measures in the UVC and in the UVA. Under development is a single meter that can include the functions of the aforementioned meters and any other radiant spectrum, i.e., sunburn UV, UVA, hazardous UV, damaging blue light, visible, photosynthetic active, bilirubin lysis, etc. This meter will use a separate detector for each spectrum. Plugging in the detector will set the meter's sensitivity and the dimension of the readout. The original UV simulator with a single I cm diameter output has been joined by a simulator with six outputs, all with adjustable intensity. By utilizing more of the lamp's output energy, multiple output ports are made possible in order that tests, which generally require a series of graded doses, can be done simultaneously. Automatic dose controllers have been developed for both types of simulator. Seemingly departing from a line of UV Meters and Sources is the development of a xenon lamp switching power supply. When the previous power supply source stopped production, Solar Light Co. designed their own power supply to run lamps used in the solar simulators, and now offer their own supply for general sale. Another example of the child wandering from its parent's shadow is the display board with a unique driver developed for a European customer who wanted that type of readout for the sunbum UV biometer. The driver's uniqueness stems from its capability of continuously updating the display, as well as presenting a series of messages. The multiplication of apparatus initiated at Temple University and at the University of Queensland has been of benefit to the world community. This could not have happened without the cooperation of the Universities and the dedication of those who, with minimal remuneration but much effort, brought in-house creations to commercial realization. Dan BERGER, Solar Light Company Inc., 721 Oak Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19126-3342, USA. Tel: +1 215 927 4206, Fax: +1 215 927 6347.
Don ROBERTSON (left) and Dan BERGER, co-developers of the RB Sunburn Meter, reunited in Australia in 1992. They are holding the successor meter, the 501 UV-Biometer.
Editor's Note: The Solar Light Company, while being an American Company, has several European connections. Their main engineer, Marian MORY, is originally from Poland. The company has been active throughout Europe in their quest to monitor worldwide solar energy fluences. [I have a copy of a postcard signed by five members o f the Italian Istituto Dermatologico San Gallicano, that reads: "1 think the 5D meter
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7th International Congress of the European Laser Association. Barcelona, Spain. Contact: Technical Secretariat, Pacifica, S.A., Enric Granados, 44, pral., 08008, Barcelona, Spain, Tel: +34 93 454 54 00, Fax: +34 93 451 74 38.
Dec. 5-7
Colloque Annuel de la Soci~t~ Franqaise de Photobiologie Nouveau Horizons en Photobiologie, Carr6 des Sciences, 1 rue Descartes, Paris, France. Contact: Dr. Jocelyne Blais, LPCB, Section Physique et Chimie, Institut Curie, 11 rue P. et M. Curie, 75231 Paris Cedex 05. Tel: +33 40 51 67 98, Fax: +33 40 51 06 36.
1995 Jan. 1-5
USA. Contact: Prof. L. McElwee-White, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. Tel: +1 904 392 8768, Fax: +1 904 846 0296, E-mail: [email protected].
Marian Mory (front and Dan Berger, testing meters at Solar Light Company.
has reached its maximum altitude (over 5000 m.t) with excellent results". The Italian scientists were part of the Kilimajaro "94 spedizione scientifia.] Finally they support ESP Congresses, where they regularly display their products. Some of Solar Light's detailed posters are sometimes used for educational purposes in photoecology courses throughout the world. This company is thus looked upon as an international collaborator and we are pleased to feature them in the F O C U S section of our Newsletter.
Jan. 8-14
3rd International Conference on Solar E n e r g y S t o r a g e a n d Applied Photochemistry, Cairo, Egypt. Contact: Dr. M . S . A . Abdel-Mottaleb, Photoenergy Centre, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Avvassia, Cairo, Egypt. Fax: +202 244 7683 or +202 822284, E-mail: solar @egfrcuvx.bitnet.
Jan. 22-27
CERLIB Winter Research Conferences 1995 [22-23 J a n - Cellular Adaptation to Oxidative stress: Molecular Mechanism, organized by A. Favier and M. Fontecave; 24-24 J a n - Oxidative DNA D a m a g e : Bioindicators and repair, organized by J. Cadet and A. Favier; 26-27 Jan - Abiotic Models of A n t i o x i d a n t E n z y m e s : from Basic Concept to Potential Applications] Les Deux Alpes, France.
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Contact: Arlett Alcaraz, Laboratoire de Biochimie C, CHU Grenoble B.P. 217, 38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. Tel: +33 76 76 54, Fax: +33 76 76 56 64.
XVI International Cancer Congress 1994, New Delhi, India. Contact: Ms. Gita Shah, Congress Secretariat, XVI I n t e r n a t i o n a l Cancer Congress, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Bombay 400 012, India. Tel: +91 22
7th Inter-American Photochemical Society Winter Conference, Clearwater Beach, FL,
Feb. 4-10
Photonics West (SPIE's I n t e r n a t i o n a l Symposia), San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA.
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Contact: Judy Leger at Laser Focus World, Tel: +1 603 891 9113, Fax: +1 603 891 0574. Mar. 23-29
Keystone Symposium: Repair and Processing of DNA Damage, Taos, NM, USA. Contact: Errol C. Friedburg, Tomas Lindahl or Graham C. Walker, Keystone Symposia, Drawer 1630, Silverthome, CO 80490, USA. Fax: +1 303 262 1525.
Apr. 2-4
15th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, Inc., Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel, San Diego, CA, USA.
Pharmacy, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1068, Blindem, 0316 Oslo, Norway. Tel: +47 22 85 65 93, Fax: +47 22 85 74 94. Jul. 8-13
Contact: Deuxi~me colloque de Radiobiologie Fondamentale et Appliqu6e, c/o John Gueulette, RBNT 5469, Cliniques U n i v e r s i t a i r e s St-Luc, 54, Avenue Hippocrate, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgique. Tel: +32 2 764 54 80, Fax: +32 2 764 94 25. August
Contact: ASLMS, 2404 Stewart Square, Wausau, WI, USA 54401. Tel: +1 715 845 9283, Fax: +1 715 848 2593. Apr. 2-7
Apr. 24-27
209th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA. Contact: Harriet Friedstein, Monroe Community College, 1000 E. Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14623, USA. Tel: +1 716 292 2000, ext. 3053. International Chemical Recovery Conference, Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Ont., Canada.
Enercomp 95, International Conference on Composite Materials and Energy, Montreal Bonaventure Hilton, Montreal, Qne., Canada.
Aug. 14-16
78th Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., Canada.
Aug. 20-25
Conference on Tetrapyrrole receptors, Freising, Germany.
Aug. 20-25
Sept. 2-9
Photo-
Contact: Prof. Dr. W. Rtidiger, Botanisches Institut, Universit~it Mtinchen, Menzinger Str. 67, D-80638 Mtinchen, Germany. Tel: +49 89 17861 245, Fax: +49 89 17861 185, Email: ruediger @ b o t a n i k . b i o l o g i e . u n i muenchen.de. Jun. 8-9
Photostability of Drugs. 1st International Meeting. Oslo, Norway. Contact: Prof. Hanne Hjorth T~nnesen, Department of Pharmaceutics, Institute of
Xth International Photosynthesis Congress, Montpellier, France. Contact: Dr. Paul Mathis (Photosynthesis Congress), DBCM-CEA Saclay, B~timent 32, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France. Fax: +33 1 08 87 17
Contact: Diane Goltz, The Chemical Institute of Canada, 130 Slater Street, Suite 550, Ottawa, Ont., Canada KIP 6E2. Tel: +1 613 232 6252, Fax: +1 613 232 5862. Jun. 5-10
41st Canadian Spectroscopy Conference, Windsor, Ont., Canada. Contact: Dr. William E. Jones, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Ave., Windsor, Ont., Canada. Tel: +1 519 253 4232, ext. 2001, Fax: +1 519 973 7070.
Contact: Enercomp 95 Secretariat, 75 Boul. de Mortagne, Boucherville, Que., Canada J4B 6Y4. Tel: +1 514 641 5139, Fax: +1 514 641 5117. May 28-Jun. 1
NATO ARW on Q u a n t u m Optics in Wavelength Scale Structures, Cargrese, France. Contact: Dr. J. G. Rarity, DRA Malvem, St. Andrews Road, Malvem, Worts., WR14 3PS, UK, Fax: +44 684 896270.
Contact: Mr. David Paterson, Technical Section, CPPA, 1155 Metcalf Street, Suite 1900, Montreal, Que., Canada H3B 4T6. Tel: +1 514 866 6621, Fax: +1 514 866 3035. May 8-10
2/~me Colloque de Radiobiologie Fondamentale et Appliqu~e, Spa, Beigique.
Oct. 9-11
210th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA. Contact: Anna Wilson, B i o c h e m i s t r y Department, Purdue U n i v e r s i t y , West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. Tel: +1 317 494 1644.
6th Congress on the European Society for Photobiology. Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. Contact: Dr. A. R. Young, Department of Photobiology, St John's Institute of Dermatology, St T h o m a s ' s Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK. Fax: +44 71 928 1650.
Symposium on Biologic Effect of Light, Atlanta, GA, USA. Contact: Dr. Michael F. Holick, Boston University School of Medicine, 80 E. Concord Street, M-1013, Boston, MA 02118, USA. Tel: +1 617 638 4545, Fax: +1 617 638 8882.
1996 Mar. 10-16
6th International Photodynamic Association Biennial Meeting, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
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Contact: Prof. Andrew H. Kaye, Clinical Neurosciences Centre, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville 3050, Vic., Australia. Tel: +61 3 345 3799, Fax: +61 3 347 8832. May 7-9
1997 Jun. 1-5
1998 May 31-Jun. 4
Contact: Prof. Dr. W.R.G. Baeyens, Symposium Chairman, University of Ghent, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Lab. of Drug Quality Control, Harelbekestraat 72, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. Fax: +32 9 221 41 75. Tel: +32 9 221 89 51. Jun. 23-27
79th Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Memorial University, St. John's, Nfld, Canada.
12th International Congress on Photobiology, Hofburg Congress Center, Vienna, Austria. Contact: ICP '96, c/o Vienna Academy of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Alser Strasse 4, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. Tel: +43/1 42 13 83 13, Fax: +43/1 42 13 83 23.
81st Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Contact: Diane Goltz, The Chemical Institute of Canada, 130 Slater Street, Suite 550, Ottawa, Ont., Canada K1P 6E2. Tel: +1 613 232 6252, Fax: +1 613 232 5862.
1999 May
Contact: Diane Goltz, The Chemical Institute of Canada, 130 Slater Street, Suite 550, Ottawa, Ont., Canada KIP 6E2. Tel: +1 613 232 6252, Fax: +1 613 232 5862. Sept. 1-6
80th Canadian Society for Chemistry and Exhibition, Windsor, Ont., Canada. Contact: Diane Goltz, The Chemical Institute of Canada, 130 Slater Street, Suite 550, Ottawa, Ont., Canada KIP 6E2. Tel: +1 613 232 6252, Fax: +1 613 232 5862.
VIIth International Symposium on Lumin-
escence Spectrometry in Biomedical Analysis: Detection Techniques and Application in Chromatography and Capillary Electrophoresis, Monte Carlo, Monaco
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82nd Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Toronto, Ont., Canada. Contact: Diane Goltz, The Chemical Institute of Canada, 130 Slater Street, Suite 550, Ottawa, Ont., Canada KIP 6E2. Tel: +1 613 232 6252, Fax: +1 613 232 5862.
2000 Oct. 15-18
50th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Montreal, Qu6., Canada. Contact: Diane Goltz, The Chemical Institute of Canada, 130 Slater Street, Suite 550, Ottawa, Ont., Canada KIP 6E2. Tel: +1 613 232 6252, Fax: +1 613 232 5862.