The yearly conference of the members of the International Institute of Biophysics (IIB) took place on August 24^th to 31^st, with presentations of the results of last year‘s work. After the election of two new members from Japan, the IIB has now 22 members in 12 countries, who presented their lectures in the rooms of the splendid new institute building at the former NATO missile lanching site. In addition, Barbara Köhler from the Gesamthochschule Kassel who had started the work for her PhD dissertation several years ago in Popp´s group in Kaiserslautern, presented the results of her recently finished dissertation. She confirmed her earlier finding that there are significant differences between the eggs of caged hens and eggs of free range hens.

After some opening remarks on Friday evening by the president of the IIB, the honorary member Fanchon Fröhlich, the widow of the late Herbert Fröhlich, the president of the IIB, Jiin-Ju Chang and the vice-presidents Lev Beloussov, Roeland van Wijk and Fritz-Albert Popp, the conference started on Saturday morning. The following lectures were presented (Click titles for access to papers).

Saturday, August 25.

• Ke-Hsueh Li: Fundamentals of Coherence.
  
  
• Franco Musumeci: Coherent Electron States and Photoinduced Luminescence from Biological Systems.
  
  
• Xun Shen: The fLMP-Stimulated Chemiluminescence in Whole Blood.
  
  
• Vladimir Voiekov: Analysis of photon emission from human blood and its sedimentation properties argue for its cooperative and non-linear behavior.

Sunday, August 26

• Lev Beloussov: Biophoton Emission from the Eggs and Cell Monolayers: „Photon Sucking, Cooperativity and Oscillatory Regimes".
  
  
• Roeland van Wijk: Studies on Domain Dynamics with Acetabularia.
  
  
• Fritz-Albert Popp: Delayed Luminescence in Terms of Coherent States.

Monday, August 27

• Barbara Köhler: The influence of housing systems, fresh grass and sunlight on the delayed luminescence of hen eggs.
  
  
• Jiin-Ju Chang: Low level and sun light-induced photon emission from chickens.
  
  
• Michael Lipkind: Analysis of the Photon Emission Signal from Virus-Infected Cell Cultures.
  
  
• Rajendra Bajpai: Comparison of Photon Bursts Spontaneously Emitted by Neural and Viral-Infected Avian Cells.

Tuesday, August 28

• Mitsuo Hiramatsu: Some Features of Ultraweak Photon Emission from Hands.
  
  
• Hugo Niggli: Biophotons in Fibroblastic Differentiation: Temperature Dependence.
  
  
• Yu Yan: New Results on Germination Capacity of Seeds and Delayed Luminescence.

On Wednesday, August 29, the conference was interrupted by a boat trip on the Rhine from Rüdesheim to Koblenz.

Thursday, August 30

• Takahiro Makino: Spectral Transition of Biophotons and Chemiluminescence in Plant Cells.
  
  
• Mr. Matsuura: Cell Death and Photon Emission of Melanoma Cells.
  
  
• Andreas Herzog/Fritz-Albert Popp: Experimental Evidence of Squeezed Light in Biological Systems.

Friday, August 31

• John Swain: Latest Results on Cooled High Quantum Efficiency Avalanche Photodiodes.
  
  
• Rajendra Bajpai: The Physical Basis of Life.

The conference was followed by the first IIB summer school on "Biophotons in Life Sciences" given by the members of the IIB on September 2-8, with 16 participants from the USA, Great Britain, Brazil, Germany, Slovenia, South Korea, and India. The IIB plans to hold a summer school every year.