• Tauric State University (Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine),
• Crimean Scientific Center of the National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and of the Ukrainian Ministry of Education (Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine),
• Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)
• International Institute of Biophysics (Neuss, Germany)

announce the 3rd Alexander Gurwitsch Conference on Biophotons and Coherent Systems in Biology, Biophysics and Biotechnology to be held from September 27th to October 2nd, 2004, in Simferopol and Partenit (Crimea).

Alexander Gavrilovich Gurwitsch (1874-1954), one of the most outstanding biologists of XX century, was in 1918-1924 a Professor of Histology in Tauric University. Right there he made his most important discovery of an ultraweak photon emission from the living systems (which gave rise to the biophotonics) and submitted a first sketch of the morphogenetic field theory. The conference is adjusted to the 130 anniversary of Gurwitsch's birthday and, at the same time, to the 100 anniversary of Academician Gleb Frank, a founder of the Institute of Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences. Attending in 1920-24 the lectures in Tauric University, Frank was one of the closest Gurwitsch's students and made an important contribution o the biophotonics. By a happy occasion, a house of the first Gurwitsch Laboratory in Simferopol is still preserved and will be decorated by a Memory Desk during the opening of the Conference.

Two preceded Gurwitsch Conferences took place in Moscow State University in 1994 and 1999 correspondingly and got a wide international audience. The papers presented at the conferences have been published as the following volumes:

• Biophotonics (L.V.Beloussov and F.-A. Popp eds) BioInform Services, Moscow, 1995.
• Biophotonics and Coherent Systems (L.V.Beloussov, F.-A. Popp, V.L. Voeikov and R. van Wijk eds) Moscow University Press, Moscow 2000.

The contributions to the 3rd Gurwitsch conference will be published by Kluwer publishing house.

The announced Conference will include the following topics:

• Biophotonics - spontaneous and induced ultraweak radiation of the living systems, their physical nature and biological role;
  Biological effects of electromagnetic fields and radiations, both natural and technogenic;
• A problem of coherency (holistic coordination) of the living processes in the developing and steady-state organisms as an elaboration and generalization of the morphogenetic field concept.

The working language of the Conference is English.

The opening and the Plenary session of the Conference will take place in Tauric University (Simferopol). The Conference will continue its work in the rest-house of Partenit, a picturesque place located at the Black Sea shore. Planned are excursions and cultural entertainment. A daily cost (including meals) ranges from 45 to 75 EUR. Registration fee for full participants is 200 EUR, for students and accompanying persons 100 EUR. The fee includes the costs of Abstracts, transportation, excursions and other expenses.

The Organizing Committee of the 3rd Alexander Gurwitsch Conference invites all the interested persons to send their applications before March 1st, 2004, and, in the case of acceptance, to send Abstracts before May 1st, 2004. Planned are both the oral presentations and the posters. The application should be sent by the electronic address csc@science-center.net or by the registration form:

Organizing Committee

L.V.Beloussov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)
V.N. Berzhansky (Vernadsky Tauric National University, Simferopol, Ukraine)
V.S. Martyniuk (Crimean Scientific Center of the National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Simferopol, Ukraine)
F.-A. Popp (International Institute of Biophysics, Neuss, Germany)
N.A. Temuryanz (Vernadsky Tauric National University, Simferopol, Ukraine)
B.M.Vladimirsky (Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Nauchny, Ukraine)
V.L.Voeikov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)
R. van Wijk (International Institute of Biophysics, Neuss, Germany)
Yu Yan (International Institute of Biophysics, Neuss, Germany)