Microscopy, Biomedical Spectroscopy and Advanced Imaging (OWLS-A)

• Spectroscopy and Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Raman Microscopy, Hyperspectral and Multimodal Imaging, Diagnostics of Skin Cancer
• Advanced Imaging and Microscopy in Life Sciences: Superresolution Microscopy, Localization Techniques, Lattice Light Sheet Microscopy, Phase-Contrast Techniques, Quantitative Phase Imaging, Label-Free Biomedical Imaging, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging, Photoacoustic Microscopy, Aberration Correction, Novel Molecular Probes, Agents and Labels, Big Data Instrumentation, Deep Neural Networks
• Nonlinear Microscopy: Multiphoton Microscopy, CARS-Microscopy, Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Imaging
• Tomographic Imaging: Optical Coherence Tomography, Photoacoustic Methods, Diffuse Spectroscopy and Imaging, Optical Diffraction Tomography
• Clinical and Translational Biophotonics, Therapy, Brain Imaging, Tissue Optics, Tissue Engineering, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Tracking Cancer

Biomechanics, Optical Elastography and BioBrillouin (OWLS-A)

• Optical Trapping, Optical Tweezers and Stretchers, Dynamic Methods for Characterizing Tissue Vibration, Biomechanics in Developmental Biology, Micro-Rheology Measurements, OCT-Based Elastography, Photoacoustics, Cell Biomechanics, Longitudinal Tension Measurement, Mechanochemical Self-Organization, Physics of Life
• In Vivo Elastography and Applications, Confocal Brillouin Microscopy, Spontaneous and Stimulated Brillouin Scattering for Three-Dimensional Mechanical Mapping

Biomedical Optics (OWLS-B)

• Clinical Laser Applications: Lasers in Dentistry, Ophthalmic Technologies, Optical Biopsy/Real-Time Diagnosis, Photo Therapeutics, Laser Tissue/Cell Interactions, Photodynamic Diagnosis and Therapy, Nephrology, Cardiovascular and Intravascular Applications, Cancer Imaging, Modeling of Light Propagation in Tissue, Flow Cytometry
• Guiding Surgery and Biopsy, Ophthalmic Applications, Vision, Imaging and Applications, Laser Systems in Regenerative Medicine
• Light Delivery for In Vivo Applications, Minimal Invasive Monitoring and Stimulation, Endoscopic Imaging, Biomedical Micro-Optical Devices, µLED/OLED Array Based Devices
• New Components and Systems: X-Ray-Microscopy, Imaging, Tomography and Spectroscopy
• HEALTH Aspects: Tele-Medicine, Optical Sensors for Medical Diagnostics, Point-of-Care Diagnostics, Lighting for Health and Amenity, Photonic Diagnosis and Treatment of Infections and Inflammatory Diseases

Biophotonics, Optogenetics and Nanosensing (OWLS-B)

• Neurophotonics, Optogenetics and Manipulation of Cellular Systems, Instrumentation for Optogenetic Stimulation, Functional Imaging, Optically-Controlled Delivery and Gene Expression, Stem Cell Research, Optics and the Brain
• Nanosensing: Nanoparticles for Biophotonic Applications, Colloidal Nanoparticles, Reporters, Markers, Dyes, Nanoparticles, Plasmonics-Based Sensing, Molecular Probes, Targeting with Subcellular Resolution