The tenth Biophotonics and Imaging (BIGSS 2026) Summer School will be held in Kylemore Abbey, Galway, Ireland this year and we want your help to make new researchers aware of it! This a five ECTS accredited course with leading professors teaching to give a substantial grounding in the main topics of Biophotonics. BIGSS 2026 will include five days of lectures by world leaders in Biophotonics and Imaging, as well as highly interactive poster sessions.
Programme:
- Steve Jacques (U. Washington) and Thomas O’Sullivan (Notre Dame) - Tissue Optics and Laser-Tissue Interactions
- Caroline Boudoux (Montreal) – Endoscopy-Microscopy
- Ben Cox (UCL) – Photoacoustics Tomography-Microscopy
- Rainer Leitgeb (Vienna) - Optical Coherence Tomography-Microscopy
- Brian Pogue (Dartmouth) - Optics in Surgery & Radiation Therapy - photochemistry/radiochemistry
- Jessica Ramella-Roman (Florida) - Polarization-Microscopy
- Lothar Lilge (Toronto) - Photo Medicine, Radiation Medicine and Nano Medicine
- Jana Kainerstorfer (Carnegie-Mellon) – Diffuse Optics
For more details on registration and for the full programme please visit the event website.
Please share with supervisors or researchers who may be interested.
Abstracts and enquiries should be sent to: BIGSS@universityofgalway.ie
Early submission date for planning, visa and funding decisions: 28 February 2026
Regular submission date: 30 April 2026