- Email: [email protected]
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ESP NEWSLETTER Editor: Neil K. Gibbs Photobiology Unit Ninewells Hospital & Medical School University of Dundee, Dundee, DDl 9SY, SCOTLAND Tel: 44-1382-632250 Fax: 44-1382-646047 e-mail: [email protected]
February 1999
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK Thisedition of the Newsletter is dominated
by information about our next Congress to be held this year in Granada between 3-8th September. Over the winter, members of the Congress Organising Committee have visited Granada to check out its accommodation, cuisine, Flamenco dancing and wine! It was a tough job, but someone had to do it!
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The call in the last Newsletter for photographic contributions was not in vain! The result is to be seen in the Caption Competion below! I am grateful to Johan MOAN for the photography and to Roy PO’ITIER for sending the photo on. Neil K. GIBBS
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S I hope
{photo reproduced by kind permission of Pace Sa’nchez; www.expofoto.com/flamenco www.argopolis.com/fotoshow) Later in the Newsletter you will see that the Scientific Committee have not been idle and have managed to put together a diverse programme that should have something for everyone.
Elsevier Science S.A.
DESK
by now all of you have received the First Announcement of the 1999 ESP Congress in Granada. Regrettably, due to a weird mishap in the distribution process, the delivery of the First Announcement has been severely delayed. This should not happen again with the Second Announcement, which includes registration. abstract and accommodation forms, contains preliminary Scientific Programme, gives important deadlines, provides information for presenters and describes the rules for Fellowship application. The Second Announcement has been sent for printing and it will be distributed at the end of February - beginning of March. It is also shortly be available on the Congress web page on POL (address given below) where it will be constantly updated. Very recently, several members of the ESP Congress Organizing Committee visited Granada and have been highly impressed by the Congress Venue and the city itself. Without doubt, facilities of the Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos, where our Congress will take place, are of the highest standard with convenient lecture rooms and plenty of space for exhibition of posters which will be displayed throughout the meeting. As most of you will know, Granada is a world-renowned city with a history that spans over thousand of years. It has a strong Moorish tradition. It is located in the center of the region of Andalucia which is famous for its architecture, culture, music and culinary delights. On behalf of the European Society for Photobiology, I am delighted to invite you to Granada to participate in our 8ih Congress which will be held from 3-8 September, 1999. Many distinguished experts in the various fields of photobiology have already accepted invitations to paticipate and I am sure that their contribution together with those of many pther participants, will make the Congress most successful yet.
Tadeusz SARNA
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CAPTION COMPETITION Sth ESP CONGRESS GRANADA, SPAIN SEPT 3rd-8th 1999
What is going on here? What is being said? Is it legal? E.mail a caption to the Newsletter editor and tell us?
SCIENTIFIC
PROGRAMME
Plenary Lectures: I am delighted to announce that the prize for the first ESP Caption Competion is a bottle of fine Scottish single malt whisky that has been donated by Hitachi (Nissei Sangyo Co Ltd, UK). With the expectation that sharing will be easier. this will be awarded at the ESP business meeting in Granada.
SOCIETY NEWS AWARDS IN PHOTOBIOLOGY The Association Intemationale de Photobiologie (AIP) seeks nominations of distinguished researchers who made distinguished contributions to the science of photobiology. Each nomination must accompany the nominee’s CV, one nomination letter and at least two supporting letters, all of which should be sent to: Professor Pill-Soon Song, President/AIP, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 68588-0304, USA. For more information, phone (01) 402-472-2749; fax (01) 402-4723404; e-mail at [email protected]. The deadline for completed nomination files is July 1, 1999. The awards will be presented at the 13th International Congress on Photobiology. July 1-6, 2000, San Francisco, sponsored by Association intemationale de Photobiologie (AIP): Finsen Medal-for distinguished career in photobiological research (one in photomedicine and related area, and one in basic photobiology area) Finsen Award Lectureship-for an outstanding photobiology researcher to present a Finsen Lectureship at the San Francisco Congress Edna Roe Award Lectureship-for an outstanding woman photobiology researcher to present an Edna Roe lecture at the San Francisco Congress ESP MEMBERS
LIST ON POL
A membership list has been put on the ESP site in below). Miguel MIRANDA, The secretary requests bers check their details there and e-mail him qim.upv.es) with any corrections/updates that should
POL (address that all mem(mmiranda@ be made.
Rex Tyrrell (UK); “The Two Faces of UVA” M El-Sayed (USA) “Interesting Photophysical Properties of Matter Confined in Space (nm) and Time (fs)” R Knobler (Austria) “Extracorporeal Photo-immunotherapy: Past, Present and Future” M A de la Rosa (Spain) “Structural and Functional Features of Moelcular Recognition between Soluble Proteins and Membrane-Embedded Photosynthetic Complexes” S B Brown (UK) “A Century of Photodynamic Therapy” Symposia (organisers): Photobiology is an Ultrafast Science: M A J Rodgers Photodynamic Therapy: S B Brown Phototoxicity of Drugs: G M J Beijersbergen van Henegouwen, M Miranda Photobehaviour of Micro-Organisms: Photosensors and Phototransducting Mechanisms: F Lenci, W Nultsch Primary Photoprocesses in Retinal Proteins: M El-Sayed DNA Photodamage and UV Mutagenesis: E Sage Photomorphogenesis: P-S Song, H Senger Spectroscopy and Electron Transfer Processes: M Abdel-Kader Photo-Protection: T Sarna, F Boehm Primary Processes in Photosynthetic Bacteria: J Amesz UVA as a Biological Oxidant and the Potential for Antioxidant Intervention: R Tyrell NeM: Developments in Cosmetic Tanning with the Phillips CLEO Natural Lamp: B Diffey Photosensitisation: G Jori Lycopene and other Carotenoids: Excited States and Radical Ions: G Truscott The Effects of flsible Light on the Human Immune Response: J Roberts Excited States and Free Radicals in Biological Systems: D McGarvey Antioxidants in Photoprotection: G M J Beijersbergen van Hengouwen Sunscreens: Before 2000: A Fourtanier Photoimmunology: M Norval Anitnal Models for Human Skin Photobiology: A R Young
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ALA-based Photodynamic Therapy (Joint Symposium of the ESP and ASP): K Berg, A Oseroff Photodermatology - What is New in Phototherapy?: J Krutman, T Ruzicka Effects of Solar Radiation on Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems: J Bomman, D-P Haeder Optical Dosimetry in Biological Systems: B C Wilson Polymorphic Light Eruption: From Clinic to Applied Photoimmunology: N K Gibbs NEWS FROM THE WEB Photobiology Online (you will find many photobiology-orineted links there). Please note, that the European mirror site of POL has been moved to a new location - please adjust your bookmarks: pol.newi.ac.uk The American site remains at www.kumc.edulPOL/ PDT homepage: http://www.sante.univ-nantes.fr/med/laser/. HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TO US!!!
February 14, 1999 was Photobiology Online’s 4th birthday. To celebrate the event, we are once again giving away some valuable prizes, and all you have to do is send us an e-mail message. Let us tell you what you can win and how to enter. The 1999 Prizes Grand Prizes: 1. One year’s membership in the European Society for Photobiology 2. One year’s membership in the American Society for Photobiology Both membership’s include a full year’s subscription to the journal of that society, Photochemistry and Photobiology for ASP and the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology: B Biology for ESP, and to each society’s newsletter. Additional Prizes: 3. An attractive ceramic photobiology 4. A photobiology tee shirt. 5. A photobiology tote bag.
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To enter, simply send an e-mail message to [email protected]. IMPORTANT: The subject line of your e-mail message must read POL CONTEST and must be all upper case (capital) letters. This subject line may change at any time, so you will have to check back to make sure that your entry will be valid. (It’s our way of getting you accustomed to checking Photobiology Online. We like it when you visit!) You may enter multiple times, but no more than once a day. Entries with incorrect subject lines, or multiple entries in one day wili be discarded. ILLUMINATING
INFORMATION
New CIE Standard: CIE S 007/E-1998: Erythema Reference Action Spectrum and Standard Erythema Dose The CIE undertook a major review of its official recommendations on photobiological effects, their dose relationships and measurement. Based on these investigations the present standard describes present day knowledge of the erythemal effect. The problem of dosimetry in skin photobiology lies in the fact that the ability of ultraviolet (UV) radiation to elicit erythema in human skin depends strongly on wavelength, encompassing a range of four orders of
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magnitude between 250 nm and 400 mu. Thus a statement that a subject received an exposure dose of 1 J cm-2 (104 J m-2) of UV radiation conveys nothing about the consequences of that exposure in terms of erythema. If the radiation source was a UVA fluorescent lamp, no erythemal response would be seen apart from in people exhibiting severe, abnormal pathological photosensitivity. The same dose delivered from an unfiltered mercury arc lamp or fluorescent sun-lamp would result in marked violaceous erythema in most white skinned individuals. Consequently, photobiologists have long recognised the need to express the exposure as an erythemally-weighted quantity. Recently the term minimal erythema dose (MED) has been used widely as a ‘measure’ of erythemal radiation. This is unreasonable because the MED is not a standard measure of anything but, on the contrary, encompasses the variable nature of individual sensitivity to ultraviolet radiation, Variables which affect the MED include optical and radiometric characteristics of me source; determinants of the exposure such as dose increment and field size; nature of the skin such as pigmentation, previous light exposure, and anatomical site; and observational factors such as definition of the end point, time of reading after exposure, and ambient illumination. To avoid further confusing misuse of the term MED, we propose that this term be reserved solely for observational studies in humans and other animals, and that a new term, the standard erythema dose (SED) be used as a standardized measure of erythemogenic UV radiation.Tbis Standard specifies the erythema reference action spectrum s(er)(l), and the Standard Erythema Dose. This Standard has been approved by the National Committees of the CIE and supersedes the recommendations made in Publication CIE 10614 - 1993 (reprint from CIE-Journal60 1722 1987) A reference action spectrum for ultraviolet induced erythema in human skin.This new CIE Standard may be obtained from the CIE National Committees or the Central Bureau of the CIE. A French (CIE SOO7/F-1998) and a German (CIE SOO7/G-1998) translation is also available. CIE Central Bureau, Kegelgasse 27, A-1030 Vienna, Austria. fax: +431-713083818 [email protected] http:Nwww.cie.co.atlcie/ RECENT
ESP/ICP
PUBLICATIONS
CD ROM ‘Light and Life’. 2nd edition ‘The Fundamental Bases of Phototherapy’ ‘Photodiagnostic and Phototherapy Techniques in Medicine’ ‘Measurements and Trends of Terrestrial UVB Radiation in Europe’ ‘Landmarks in Photobiology’ Proceedings 96 ICP (Vienna Congress) These books are available from: OEMF International srl Via Palizzi 88. PO. Box 10434 20157 MILAN0 Italy Tel.: 39-2-332201 Fax: 39-2-33.210.200/201 E-mail: [email protected] BENEFACTORS PHOTOBIOLOGY
OF THE
EUROPEAN
SOCIETY
FOR
“Benefactor” is an ESP category of supporting membership. In order to be a benefactor, an organisation or individual must contribute a minimum of 7500 ECU per year to the Society in support of its programmes. Philips [Philips Lighting BV P.O. Box 80020, 5600 JM Eindhoven and Philips Domestic Appliances BV, PO.
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Box 20100,920O CA Drachten, The Netherlands] is a benefactor of ESP during the years 1995 - 2000. Philips is sponsoring three biannual ESP Congresses, starting with the one in Cambridge in 1995.
Tel: l-410-706-8409. Fax: l-410-706-8408. E-mail: [email protected], http://cfs.umbi.umd.edu March 30
Znd International Training - April 4 Workshop on Environmental Photochemistry and 5th Internaional Conference on Solar Energy and Applied Photochemistry, Cairo, Egypt Contact: Prof. Dr. M.S.A. Abdel-Mottaleb, Photoenergy Center, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt, Tel: (202) 248 97 25, Fax: (202) 244 76 83, Email: [email protected].
April 7
British Photodermatology Group, Cardiff, UK Contact: Dr Harry Moseley, Photobiology Unit, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Scotland. Tel: (44) 1382-632240, Fax: 646047. E.mail: [email protected]
April 14-18
American Society for Laser Medicine, 19th Annual Meeting, Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Contact: ASLMS Inc, 2404 Stewart Square, Wausau, WI 54401, USA. Tel: 1-715-845-9283. Fax: 1-715-848-2493. E.mail: [email protected]. Web: http://www.aslms.org.
April 22-24
Society for Cutaneous Ultrastmcture Research, 26fh Annual Meeting, Florence, Italy. Contact: CSS, Viale G. Mazzini 70, 50132 Firenze, Italy. Tel: (39)-055-2480-202. Fax: (39) -055-2480-246. E.mail: [email protected].
May 2-7
Tenth International Symposium on Trace Elements in Man and Animals, Evian, France. Contact: Mme A. Alcaraz, CHU A. Michallon - Laboratoire de Biochimie C, 38043 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France. Tel: 334-7676-5754. Fax: 334-7676-5664. E-mail: [email protected]
May 25-28
European Training Course in Microseparation Techniques and IIIrd. Miniaturisation in Liquid Chromatography versus Capillary Electra-phoresis Conference, Ghent, Belgium. Contact: Prof. Dr. Willy R. G. Baeyens, University of Ghent, Harelbekestraat 72, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. Tel.: 32-9-2648097 Fax: 32-9-2648196 E-mail: [email protected]
Jun 26- Jul 1
13fh ISPPCC, Ineternational Symposium on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Co-ordination Compounds, Isle of Lipari, Sicily, Italy. Contact: Dr. Sebastian0 Campagna, Dept. of Inorganic, Analytical and Physical Chemistry, University of Messina, Via Sperone, 31, I-98166 S. Agata, Messina, Tel: 39 90 676 57 37, Fax: +39 90 39 37 56, Email: [email protected].
June 27-30
Photoprocesses in Molecular Assemblies, Dourdan, France Contact: Dr D. Markovitsi, CEA/Saclay,
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UPCOMING
MEETINGS
WITH ESP INVOLVEMENT
1999 July lo-15
Sept 3-8
ASP Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA Contact: Dr Sherwood Reichard, ASP, Biotech Park, Suite 9, Augusta, Georgia 30901, USA. Tel: (1) - 706-722-7511, Fax: (1) -706-722-75 15. Details also on POL (address above). 8th ESP Congress, Granada, Spain Second Announcement, March 1999, abstract deadline 15” May 1999. Contact: Tad SARNA, Inst of Molecular Biology, Jagiellonian University, Aleja Mickiewicza 3, 31-120 Krakox, Poland. Tel: (48) -12-634-2008, Fax: (48) -12-633-6907, e.mail: [email protected]. Details also on POL (address above).
2000 Jul l-6
Photobiology 2000: Joint International Congress AIP, ASP and ESP San Francisco, CA, USA Contact: Frank Gasparro, e.mail:fotodoc@ aol.com or [email protected].
CONFERENCECALENDAR 1999 Mar 21-24
4th Photochemistry Congress, Gandia, Spain. Contact: Prof. A. Miranda, Departemento de Quimica, Instituto de Tecnologica Quimica UPVCSCI, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Apartado 22012, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Tel: +34 96 387 78 07, Fax: +34 96 387 78 09, Email: [email protected].
Mar 21-26
4th Winter Research Conference on Free Radicals, Valloire, France. Contact: Dr A. Alcaraz, CHU Grenoble, Lab de Biochimie C-BP217,38043 Grenoble Cedex 09, France. Tel: (33) - 76-765754, Fax: 765664, e.mail: [email protected]
Mar 22-26
Short Course on Time Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. Contact: Dr. J. R. Lakowicz, Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201, U.S.A.
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SCM, CNRS URA331, 91191 Gif-stir-Yvette, France. Tel: (33)-l-69-084644, Fax: 69-083466. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] July 4-9
July 10-14
ISES 1999 Solar World Congress, Jerusalem, Israel. Contact: ISES 1999 Solar World Congress Secretariat, P.O.Box 50006, Tel Aviv 61500, Israel, Tel: +972 3/.514 00 00, Fax: +972 3/5 14 00 77, Email: [email protected]. Photostability ‘99: Third International Conference on the Photostability of Drug Suhstances and Products, Washington D.C., U.S.A. Contact: ASP, Fax: (I) 706 722 7.5 15.
July 17-22
Gordon Conference on Organic Photochemistry, New London, U.S.A. Contact: Ian Gould (chairman), Email: [email protected].
July 18-22
Femtochemistry IV 1999, Leuven, Belgium. Contact: Prof. Dr. F. C. De Schryver, K. U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium, Tel: (32) 16 32 74 OS, Fax: (32) 16 32 79 89, Email:[email protected].
July 22 - 27
XVIII IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, Dresden, Germany Contact: Prof. Silvia Braslavsky, Max Planck Institut fur Strahlenchemie, D-45413 Mtilheim, Germany, Fax: +49 208 306 39 51. Email: [email protected]
Aug 1-6
XIXth International Conference on Photochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A. Contact: Prof. John D. Simon, Dept. of Chemistry, Duke Univ., Durham NC 27708, Email: [email protected], [email protected].
Aug 1-7
XVI International Botanical Congress Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Contact: Secretary General, XVI IBC c/o Missouri Botanical Garden PO. Box 299 St. Louis, MO U.S.A. 63 166-0299 Tel.: 01-314-577-5175 Fax: 01-314-577-9589 E-mail: ibcl6@mobot,org
Aug 22-27
International Workshop on Reactive Intermediates 1999 (IWRI ‘99), Szczyrk, Poland. Contact: Dr. Andrzej Marcinek, Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry, Technical University of Lodz, Zeromskiego 116, PL-90924 Lodz, Poland, Tel: +48 42 631 31 68, Fax: +48 42 636 50 08, Email: [email protected].
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Contact: Prof. Dr. J. Greve, University of Twente, Faculty of Applied Physics, P 0. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands, Phone: 31-53-489-3 157, fax 3 I -53-489-l 105, E-mail: [email protected], http://www.tn.utwente.nl/ecsbm99 Sept 12-15
6th Latin American Encounter for Photochemistry and Photobiology (ELAFOT-6), Teresbpolis, Brasil Contact: Prof. Ira M. Brinn Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, Email: [email protected], http://www.iq.ufrj.br/elafot6
Sept 12-15
56fh International Conference on Methods and Applications of Fluorescent Spectroscopy, Paris, France. Contact: MAFS6, Prof. Bernard Valeur, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, 292 rue Saint-Martin, F-75 14 1 Paris Cedex 03, Tel: (33) - 140272389, Fax: (33) - 140272362, Email: [email protected].
Ott 11-16
6th Course: ‘Vision: the approach of biophysics and neurosciences’, Naples and Isle of Ischia, Italy. Abstract deadline: 15 July 1999. Contact: Dr. Carlo Musio, Istituto di Cibemetica, C.N.R. Dept. of Neurosciences Via Toiano 6,80072 ARC0 FELICE (NAPOLI), ITALY, Tel: (39)-0818534131/113, Fax: (39)-0815267654, e-mail: [email protected], http://potential.ucsd.edu./BiophysicsConferencel
Nov 8-10
9’h RADTECH Europe Conference and Exhibition, Berlin, Germany Contact: Vincentz Verlag, Schiffgraben 43, D-30175 Hannover, Tel: (49) 511 991 02 71, Fax: (49) 5 11 991 02 79.
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Aug 29 Sep 3 8” European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules. University of Twente, the Netherlands.
May 15-17
IXth International Symposium on Luminescence Spectrometry in Biomedical and Environmental Analysis. Spectroscopic and Imaging Techniques, Montpellier, France Contact: Prof. Dan A. Lemer, University of Montpellier, ENSC. 8 Rue de l’Ecole Normale, F-34296 Montpellier cedex 5, Tel: (33) 467 14 43 23. Fax: (33) 467 14 4349, Email: [email protected].
Jun 4-7
Xtb International Symposium on Luminescence Spectrometry - Detection Techniques in Flowing Streams - Quality Assurance and Applied Analysis, Granada, Spain. Contact: Dr. Ana Ma Garcia-Campana, Dept. of Analytical Chemistry, University of Granada, Av. Fuentenueva s/n, E-l 8071 Granada, Spain. Tel.: 34-9-58248594 Fax: 34-9-58243328 E-mail: [email protected]
ESP NEWSLETTER Editor: Neil K. Gibbs Photobiology Unit Ninewells Hospital & Medical School University of Dundee, Dundee, DDl 9SY, SCOTLAND Tel: 44-1382-632250 Fax: 44-1382-646047 e-mail: [email protected]
February 1999
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK Thisedition of the Newsletter is dominated
by information about our next Congress to be held this year in Granada between 3-8th September. Over the winter, members of the Congress Organising Committee have visited Granada to check out its accommodation, cuisine, Flamenco dancing and wine! It was a tough job, but someone had to do it!
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The call in the last Newsletter for photographic contributions was not in vain! The result is to be seen in the Caption Competion below! I am grateful to Johan MOAN for the photography and to Roy PO’ITIER for sending the photo on. Neil K. GIBBS
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S I hope
{photo reproduced by kind permission of Pace Sa’nchez; www.expofoto.com/flamenco www.argopolis.com/fotoshow) Later in the Newsletter you will see that the Scientific Committee have not been idle and have managed to put together a diverse programme that should have something for everyone.
Elsevier Science S.A.
DESK
by now all of you have received the First Announcement of the 1999 ESP Congress in Granada. Regrettably, due to a weird mishap in the distribution process, the delivery of the First Announcement has been severely delayed. This should not happen again with the Second Announcement, which includes registration. abstract and accommodation forms, contains preliminary Scientific Programme, gives important deadlines, provides information for presenters and describes the rules for Fellowship application. The Second Announcement has been sent for printing and it will be distributed at the end of February - beginning of March. It is also shortly be available on the Congress web page on POL (address given below) where it will be constantly updated. Very recently, several members of the ESP Congress Organizing Committee visited Granada and have been highly impressed by the Congress Venue and the city itself. Without doubt, facilities of the Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos, where our Congress will take place, are of the highest standard with convenient lecture rooms and plenty of space for exhibition of posters which will be displayed throughout the meeting. As most of you will know, Granada is a world-renowned city with a history that spans over thousand of years. It has a strong Moorish tradition. It is located in the center of the region of Andalucia which is famous for its architecture, culture, music and culinary delights. On behalf of the European Society for Photobiology, I am delighted to invite you to Granada to participate in our 8ih Congress which will be held from 3-8 September, 1999. Many distinguished experts in the various fields of photobiology have already accepted invitations to paticipate and I am sure that their contribution together with those of many pther participants, will make the Congress most successful yet.
Tadeusz SARNA
ESP Newsletter
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CAPTION COMPETITION Sth ESP CONGRESS GRANADA, SPAIN SEPT 3rd-8th 1999
What is going on here? What is being said? Is it legal? E.mail a caption to the Newsletter editor and tell us?
SCIENTIFIC
PROGRAMME
Plenary Lectures: I am delighted to announce that the prize for the first ESP Caption Competion is a bottle of fine Scottish single malt whisky that has been donated by Hitachi (Nissei Sangyo Co Ltd, UK). With the expectation that sharing will be easier. this will be awarded at the ESP business meeting in Granada.
SOCIETY NEWS AWARDS IN PHOTOBIOLOGY The Association Intemationale de Photobiologie (AIP) seeks nominations of distinguished researchers who made distinguished contributions to the science of photobiology. Each nomination must accompany the nominee’s CV, one nomination letter and at least two supporting letters, all of which should be sent to: Professor Pill-Soon Song, President/AIP, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 68588-0304, USA. For more information, phone (01) 402-472-2749; fax (01) 402-4723404; e-mail at [email protected]. The deadline for completed nomination files is July 1, 1999. The awards will be presented at the 13th International Congress on Photobiology. July 1-6, 2000, San Francisco, sponsored by Association intemationale de Photobiologie (AIP): Finsen Medal-for distinguished career in photobiological research (one in photomedicine and related area, and one in basic photobiology area) Finsen Award Lectureship-for an outstanding photobiology researcher to present a Finsen Lectureship at the San Francisco Congress Edna Roe Award Lectureship-for an outstanding woman photobiology researcher to present an Edna Roe lecture at the San Francisco Congress ESP MEMBERS
LIST ON POL
A membership list has been put on the ESP site in below). Miguel MIRANDA, The secretary requests bers check their details there and e-mail him qim.upv.es) with any corrections/updates that should
POL (address that all mem(mmiranda@ be made.
Rex Tyrrell (UK); “The Two Faces of UVA” M El-Sayed (USA) “Interesting Photophysical Properties of Matter Confined in Space (nm) and Time (fs)” R Knobler (Austria) “Extracorporeal Photo-immunotherapy: Past, Present and Future” M A de la Rosa (Spain) “Structural and Functional Features of Moelcular Recognition between Soluble Proteins and Membrane-Embedded Photosynthetic Complexes” S B Brown (UK) “A Century of Photodynamic Therapy” Symposia (organisers): Photobiology is an Ultrafast Science: M A J Rodgers Photodynamic Therapy: S B Brown Phototoxicity of Drugs: G M J Beijersbergen van Henegouwen, M Miranda Photobehaviour of Micro-Organisms: Photosensors and Phototransducting Mechanisms: F Lenci, W Nultsch Primary Photoprocesses in Retinal Proteins: M El-Sayed DNA Photodamage and UV Mutagenesis: E Sage Photomorphogenesis: P-S Song, H Senger Spectroscopy and Electron Transfer Processes: M Abdel-Kader Photo-Protection: T Sarna, F Boehm Primary Processes in Photosynthetic Bacteria: J Amesz UVA as a Biological Oxidant and the Potential for Antioxidant Intervention: R Tyrell NeM: Developments in Cosmetic Tanning with the Phillips CLEO Natural Lamp: B Diffey Photosensitisation: G Jori Lycopene and other Carotenoids: Excited States and Radical Ions: G Truscott The Effects of flsible Light on the Human Immune Response: J Roberts Excited States and Free Radicals in Biological Systems: D McGarvey Antioxidants in Photoprotection: G M J Beijersbergen van Hengouwen Sunscreens: Before 2000: A Fourtanier Photoimmunology: M Norval Anitnal Models for Human Skin Photobiology: A R Young
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ALA-based Photodynamic Therapy (Joint Symposium of the ESP and ASP): K Berg, A Oseroff Photodermatology - What is New in Phototherapy?: J Krutman, T Ruzicka Effects of Solar Radiation on Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems: J Bomman, D-P Haeder Optical Dosimetry in Biological Systems: B C Wilson Polymorphic Light Eruption: From Clinic to Applied Photoimmunology: N K Gibbs NEWS FROM THE WEB Photobiology Online (you will find many photobiology-orineted links there). Please note, that the European mirror site of POL has been moved to a new location - please adjust your bookmarks: pol.newi.ac.uk The American site remains at www.kumc.edulPOL/ PDT homepage: http://www.sante.univ-nantes.fr/med/laser/. HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TO US!!!
February 14, 1999 was Photobiology Online’s 4th birthday. To celebrate the event, we are once again giving away some valuable prizes, and all you have to do is send us an e-mail message. Let us tell you what you can win and how to enter. The 1999 Prizes Grand Prizes: 1. One year’s membership in the European Society for Photobiology 2. One year’s membership in the American Society for Photobiology Both membership’s include a full year’s subscription to the journal of that society, Photochemistry and Photobiology for ASP and the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology: B Biology for ESP, and to each society’s newsletter. Additional Prizes: 3. An attractive ceramic photobiology 4. A photobiology tee shirt. 5. A photobiology tote bag.
mug.
To enter, simply send an e-mail message to [email protected]. IMPORTANT: The subject line of your e-mail message must read POL CONTEST and must be all upper case (capital) letters. This subject line may change at any time, so you will have to check back to make sure that your entry will be valid. (It’s our way of getting you accustomed to checking Photobiology Online. We like it when you visit!) You may enter multiple times, but no more than once a day. Entries with incorrect subject lines, or multiple entries in one day wili be discarded. ILLUMINATING
INFORMATION
New CIE Standard: CIE S 007/E-1998: Erythema Reference Action Spectrum and Standard Erythema Dose The CIE undertook a major review of its official recommendations on photobiological effects, their dose relationships and measurement. Based on these investigations the present standard describes present day knowledge of the erythemal effect. The problem of dosimetry in skin photobiology lies in the fact that the ability of ultraviolet (UV) radiation to elicit erythema in human skin depends strongly on wavelength, encompassing a range of four orders of
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magnitude between 250 nm and 400 mu. Thus a statement that a subject received an exposure dose of 1 J cm-2 (104 J m-2) of UV radiation conveys nothing about the consequences of that exposure in terms of erythema. If the radiation source was a UVA fluorescent lamp, no erythemal response would be seen apart from in people exhibiting severe, abnormal pathological photosensitivity. The same dose delivered from an unfiltered mercury arc lamp or fluorescent sun-lamp would result in marked violaceous erythema in most white skinned individuals. Consequently, photobiologists have long recognised the need to express the exposure as an erythemally-weighted quantity. Recently the term minimal erythema dose (MED) has been used widely as a ‘measure’ of erythemal radiation. This is unreasonable because the MED is not a standard measure of anything but, on the contrary, encompasses the variable nature of individual sensitivity to ultraviolet radiation, Variables which affect the MED include optical and radiometric characteristics of me source; determinants of the exposure such as dose increment and field size; nature of the skin such as pigmentation, previous light exposure, and anatomical site; and observational factors such as definition of the end point, time of reading after exposure, and ambient illumination. To avoid further confusing misuse of the term MED, we propose that this term be reserved solely for observational studies in humans and other animals, and that a new term, the standard erythema dose (SED) be used as a standardized measure of erythemogenic UV radiation.Tbis Standard specifies the erythema reference action spectrum s(er)(l), and the Standard Erythema Dose. This Standard has been approved by the National Committees of the CIE and supersedes the recommendations made in Publication CIE 10614 - 1993 (reprint from CIE-Journal60 1722 1987) A reference action spectrum for ultraviolet induced erythema in human skin.This new CIE Standard may be obtained from the CIE National Committees or the Central Bureau of the CIE. A French (CIE SOO7/F-1998) and a German (CIE SOO7/G-1998) translation is also available. CIE Central Bureau, Kegelgasse 27, A-1030 Vienna, Austria. fax: +431-713083818 [email protected] http:Nwww.cie.co.atlcie/ RECENT
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Tel: l-410-706-8409. Fax: l-410-706-8408. E-mail: [email protected], http://cfs.umbi.umd.edu March 30
Znd International Training - April 4 Workshop on Environmental Photochemistry and 5th Internaional Conference on Solar Energy and Applied Photochemistry, Cairo, Egypt Contact: Prof. Dr. M.S.A. Abdel-Mottaleb, Photoenergy Center, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt, Tel: (202) 248 97 25, Fax: (202) 244 76 83, Email: [email protected].
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British Photodermatology Group, Cardiff, UK Contact: Dr Harry Moseley, Photobiology Unit, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Scotland. Tel: (44) 1382-632240, Fax: 646047. E.mail: [email protected]
April 14-18
American Society for Laser Medicine, 19th Annual Meeting, Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Contact: ASLMS Inc, 2404 Stewart Square, Wausau, WI 54401, USA. Tel: 1-715-845-9283. Fax: 1-715-848-2493. E.mail: [email protected]. Web: http://www.aslms.org.
April 22-24
Society for Cutaneous Ultrastmcture Research, 26fh Annual Meeting, Florence, Italy. Contact: CSS, Viale G. Mazzini 70, 50132 Firenze, Italy. Tel: (39)-055-2480-202. Fax: (39) -055-2480-246. E.mail: [email protected].
May 2-7
Tenth International Symposium on Trace Elements in Man and Animals, Evian, France. Contact: Mme A. Alcaraz, CHU A. Michallon - Laboratoire de Biochimie C, 38043 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France. Tel: 334-7676-5754. Fax: 334-7676-5664. E-mail: [email protected]
May 25-28
European Training Course in Microseparation Techniques and IIIrd. Miniaturisation in Liquid Chromatography versus Capillary Electra-phoresis Conference, Ghent, Belgium. Contact: Prof. Dr. Willy R. G. Baeyens, University of Ghent, Harelbekestraat 72, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. Tel.: 32-9-2648097 Fax: 32-9-2648196 E-mail: [email protected]
Jun 26- Jul 1
13fh ISPPCC, Ineternational Symposium on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Co-ordination Compounds, Isle of Lipari, Sicily, Italy. Contact: Dr. Sebastian0 Campagna, Dept. of Inorganic, Analytical and Physical Chemistry, University of Messina, Via Sperone, 31, I-98166 S. Agata, Messina, Tel: 39 90 676 57 37, Fax: +39 90 39 37 56, Email: [email protected].
June 27-30
Photoprocesses in Molecular Assemblies, Dourdan, France Contact: Dr D. Markovitsi, CEA/Saclay,
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Sept 3-8
ASP Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA Contact: Dr Sherwood Reichard, ASP, Biotech Park, Suite 9, Augusta, Georgia 30901, USA. Tel: (1) - 706-722-7511, Fax: (1) -706-722-75 15. Details also on POL (address above). 8th ESP Congress, Granada, Spain Second Announcement, March 1999, abstract deadline 15” May 1999. Contact: Tad SARNA, Inst of Molecular Biology, Jagiellonian University, Aleja Mickiewicza 3, 31-120 Krakox, Poland. Tel: (48) -12-634-2008, Fax: (48) -12-633-6907, e.mail: [email protected]. Details also on POL (address above).
2000 Jul l-6
Photobiology 2000: Joint International Congress AIP, ASP and ESP San Francisco, CA, USA Contact: Frank Gasparro, e.mail:fotodoc@ aol.com or [email protected].
CONFERENCECALENDAR 1999 Mar 21-24
4th Photochemistry Congress, Gandia, Spain. Contact: Prof. A. Miranda, Departemento de Quimica, Instituto de Tecnologica Quimica UPVCSCI, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Apartado 22012, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Tel: +34 96 387 78 07, Fax: +34 96 387 78 09, Email: [email protected].
Mar 21-26
4th Winter Research Conference on Free Radicals, Valloire, France. Contact: Dr A. Alcaraz, CHU Grenoble, Lab de Biochimie C-BP217,38043 Grenoble Cedex 09, France. Tel: (33) - 76-765754, Fax: 765664, e.mail: [email protected]
Mar 22-26
Short Course on Time Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. Contact: Dr. J. R. Lakowicz, Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201, U.S.A.
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SCM, CNRS URA331, 91191 Gif-stir-Yvette, France. Tel: (33)-l-69-084644, Fax: 69-083466. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] July 4-9
July 10-14
ISES 1999 Solar World Congress, Jerusalem, Israel. Contact: ISES 1999 Solar World Congress Secretariat, P.O.Box 50006, Tel Aviv 61500, Israel, Tel: +972 3/.514 00 00, Fax: +972 3/5 14 00 77, Email: [email protected]. Photostability ‘99: Third International Conference on the Photostability of Drug Suhstances and Products, Washington D.C., U.S.A. Contact: ASP, Fax: (I) 706 722 7.5 15.
July 17-22
Gordon Conference on Organic Photochemistry, New London, U.S.A. Contact: Ian Gould (chairman), Email: [email protected].
July 18-22
Femtochemistry IV 1999, Leuven, Belgium. Contact: Prof. Dr. F. C. De Schryver, K. U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium, Tel: (32) 16 32 74 OS, Fax: (32) 16 32 79 89, Email:[email protected].
July 22 - 27
XVIII IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, Dresden, Germany Contact: Prof. Silvia Braslavsky, Max Planck Institut fur Strahlenchemie, D-45413 Mtilheim, Germany, Fax: +49 208 306 39 51. Email: [email protected]
Aug 1-6
XIXth International Conference on Photochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A. Contact: Prof. John D. Simon, Dept. of Chemistry, Duke Univ., Durham NC 27708, Email: [email protected], [email protected].
Aug 1-7
XVI International Botanical Congress Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Contact: Secretary General, XVI IBC c/o Missouri Botanical Garden PO. Box 299 St. Louis, MO U.S.A. 63 166-0299 Tel.: 01-314-577-5175 Fax: 01-314-577-9589 E-mail: ibcl6@mobot,org
Aug 22-27
International Workshop on Reactive Intermediates 1999 (IWRI ‘99), Szczyrk, Poland. Contact: Dr. Andrzej Marcinek, Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry, Technical University of Lodz, Zeromskiego 116, PL-90924 Lodz, Poland, Tel: +48 42 631 31 68, Fax: +48 42 636 50 08, Email: [email protected].
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Contact: Prof. Dr. J. Greve, University of Twente, Faculty of Applied Physics, P 0. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands, Phone: 31-53-489-3 157, fax 3 I -53-489-l 105, E-mail: [email protected], http://www.tn.utwente.nl/ecsbm99 Sept 12-15
6th Latin American Encounter for Photochemistry and Photobiology (ELAFOT-6), Teresbpolis, Brasil Contact: Prof. Ira M. Brinn Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, Email: [email protected], http://www.iq.ufrj.br/elafot6
Sept 12-15
56fh International Conference on Methods and Applications of Fluorescent Spectroscopy, Paris, France. Contact: MAFS6, Prof. Bernard Valeur, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, 292 rue Saint-Martin, F-75 14 1 Paris Cedex 03, Tel: (33) - 140272389, Fax: (33) - 140272362, Email: [email protected].
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6th Course: ‘Vision: the approach of biophysics and neurosciences’, Naples and Isle of Ischia, Italy. Abstract deadline: 15 July 1999. Contact: Dr. Carlo Musio, Istituto di Cibemetica, C.N.R. Dept. of Neurosciences Via Toiano 6,80072 ARC0 FELICE (NAPOLI), ITALY, Tel: (39)-0818534131/113, Fax: (39)-0815267654, e-mail: [email protected], http://potential.ucsd.edu./BiophysicsConferencel
Nov 8-10
9’h RADTECH Europe Conference and Exhibition, Berlin, Germany Contact: Vincentz Verlag, Schiffgraben 43, D-30175 Hannover, Tel: (49) 511 991 02 71, Fax: (49) 5 11 991 02 79.
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Aug 29 Sep 3 8” European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules. University of Twente, the Netherlands.
May 15-17
IXth International Symposium on Luminescence Spectrometry in Biomedical and Environmental Analysis. Spectroscopic and Imaging Techniques, Montpellier, France Contact: Prof. Dan A. Lemer, University of Montpellier, ENSC. 8 Rue de l’Ecole Normale, F-34296 Montpellier cedex 5, Tel: (33) 467 14 43 23. Fax: (33) 467 14 4349, Email: [email protected].
Jun 4-7
Xtb International Symposium on Luminescence Spectrometry - Detection Techniques in Flowing Streams - Quality Assurance and Applied Analysis, Granada, Spain. Contact: Dr. Ana Ma Garcia-Campana, Dept. of Analytical Chemistry, University of Granada, Av. Fuentenueva s/n, E-l 8071 Granada, Spain. Tel.: 34-9-58248594 Fax: 34-9-58243328 E-mail: [email protected]