Our Summer School was again a full success: The upper limit of the number of students who could be taken up at all expressed their fascination about this eight-days introduction into biophotons and biophotonics. Many of them came from foreign countries, among them Brasilia, Korea, USA, New Zealand, and European countries like England, France, Romania, Slovenia and Russia. The faculties Physics, Medicine and "Life Sciences" were presented by most of the participants. It was decided that irrespective of the International Biophotonics Conferences in China (in October 2003) and Russia (next year), the Summer School will become a permanent Institution in the IIB-Institute over the next years. The greatest scientific Publishing House of the world agreed to take this topic "Biophotons and Biophotonics" up in future by relying on the advisory board of the IIB. Convince yourself of the success by reading representative comments of the participants.
We start now also to publish step by step the summaries of the recent Summerschool lectures on this homepage.

• Topics
• Program

• Physics of biophotons
• Use of biophotons in basic biological research
• Use of biophotons in agriculture
• Biophotons and health care

Sunday, August 24th:

19:00 Common Dinner

Monday, August 25th:

9:00-9:10 Belousov L.: Openning speech

9:10-10:10 Bischof M.: Historical development and context of biophoton research.
From the discovery of mitogenetic radiation by Alexander G.Gurwitsch to the work of Fritz Popp and the International Institute of Biophysics.
The biological context of the discovery: The vitalism-mechanism and the Driesch-Roux controversies, organismic biology, and biological field theories.
The wider context in the transition from mesmerism and other paraphysical developments to the beginnings of bioelectromagnetics.

10:30-11:30 Klimek W.: Biophotonics - a review

11:30-12:30 Popp F. A.: The concept of biophotons and coherence in biology.
Evidence of the existence of biophotons
Electromagnetic regulation of biochemistry and biology
Classical coherence and quantum coherence: regulation mechanisms
Experimental Evidence

14:00-15:00 Demonstration of the methods of biophoton detection: photomultiplier and MCP-imaging system, photocounting statistics.

15:30-16:30 Soh K. S.: Applications of biophotons in acupuncture.
Brief introduction of acupuncture meridians will be given with their physiological function, diagnostic value and their anatomical basis, Bonghan ducts, as optical guides for biophotons. For diagnostic applications we compared biophoton emission rates from palm and back of both hands. Long term (10 months) studies, case studies with paralytics, effects of drug have been done with this. Other miscellaneous biophoton measurements in connection with acupuncture will be presented.

17:00-18:00 Bajpai R. P.: Biophotonic indicators of the quantum nature of biological systems -Part I: experimental results.

Tuesday, August 26th:

9:00-10:00 Belousov L.: Biophotons and development of organisms.
Among the most exciting and up to now poorly understood characters of the developing organisms are their holistic properties. In the classical science, however, they can only be revealed by more or less damaging methods. The registration of biophoton emission opens quite new, and largely non-invasive possibilities to study these properties. I will describe some experiments with the eggs and embryos of a hen, frogs and fishes illustrating how this can be done.

10:30-11:30 van Wijk R.: Food quality concept.
Different food quality concepts
Towards a unified concept of food quality in consumer health
Schrödinger: What is Life
Food quality: order in growth, differentiation and integration
Consumer health: order in metabolic degradation
Application of delayed luminescence in the unified food quality concept: a general approach and a few examples

11:30-12:30 Bajpai R. P.: Biophotonic indicators of the quantum nature of biological systems - Part II: possible scenario.

14:00-15:00 Experiments: Measurements of spontaneous emission (SE), delayed luminescence (DL), chemiluminescence and bioluminescence.

15:30-16:30 van Wijk E.: Influences of physiological and psychological states on biophoton emission of human beings.
Biophoton emission of human skin: A review
Spectral analysis of light induced and spontaneous emission
Whole body biophoton emission pattern
Physiology and biophoton emission
Psychology and biophoton emission
Biophoton emission and the biofield

17:00-18:00 Niggli H.: Biophotons and fibroblastic differentiation.
Fibroblasts' role in skin aging, skin carcinogenesis and wound healing
Fibroblastic differentiation and bone growth factors
Biophoton emission from fibroblastic cell culture
Relationship between pyrimidine dimers and biophoton emission

Wednesday, August 27th:

9:00-10:00 van Wijk R.: Biophoton emission from cells.
Biophoton emission and delayed luminescence
Comparative studies on emission characteristics of plant and animal cells
The problem the source of photon emission and delayed luminescence
Biophoton emission and the developmental aspects of growth and differentiation.
Biophoton emission and stress

10:30-11:30 Slawinski J.: Biophotons and physiological processes under extreme conditions.

11:30-12:30 Voeikov V. I.: Biophotons highlight insufficiency of biochemical paradigm of life.
According to Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, biology did not succeed inunderstanding major vital functions, because it focused its attention only on the matter in the form of particles nelecting two matrixes -- water and electromagnetic fields. In this lecture the problem of biophoton fields of living system will be considered in relation to its pumping with high density energy provided by reactions of reactive oxygen species which proceed in structured water.

14:00-15:00 Experiments: Biophotons and food quality (tomatoes, eggs, milk etc.).

15:30-16:30 Kratasyuk V. A.: Biophotonic measurements in environmental protection and medicine.

17:00-18:00 Esimbekova E.: Biophotons and environmental monitoring (quality of potable and industrial water).

Thursday, August 28th:

9:00-10:00 Hyland G. J.: Bio-electromagnetism.

10:30-11:30 Stanciulescu T. D.: Signs of light.
Introduction to an unconventional model of the human body, according to the "biological lasers" theory [Stanciulescu, Manu, 2001]. The biophotonics' perspective allows a coherent explanation of some still controversed bio-psycho-logical processes, such as: the genesis of knowledge and human language, the energetic-informational mechanisms of health & illness states, etc.

11:30-12:30 Yan Y.: Biophotons as a tool in the research of plants.
Photon detection: photomultiplier as an artificial rod cell of human eye.
Spontaneous biophoton emission: a non-invasive way to monitor the activities in living plants.
Light-induced biophoton emission: a non-invasive way to reveal the internal organization of plant cells and tissues.
Data analysis: get the most important information from a large quantity of data.

14:00-15:00 Experiments: Biophoton emission of human body in different states (normal, meditation, electromagnetic stress etc.).

15:30-16:30 Popp F. A.: Basic models of complementary medicine in terms of integrative biophysics
Soft medicine: acupuncture, homeopathy and "coherence medicine"
Biophotons and the "aura" - nonlocal effects
Experimental Evidence
Practical Applications in Medicine.

17:00-18:00 Swain J.: State-of-the-art photon detection.
The current state of the art for the detection of visible and near-visible light at the single photon level is reviewed with emphasis on practical matters, as well as the (very near) future potential of novel semiconductor devices.

Friday, August 29th:

9:00-10:00 Hyland G. J.: Mobile phones and health.

10:30-11:30 von Klitzing L.: Low-power electromagnetic fields and human health.
Since the last years electrosmog becomes of relevant importance because many people are healthy disturbed by immissions of electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields. One of the actual problems is to find out an objective diagnostic method to define this electrosensibility.
Together with a clinic we tested electrosensitive patients by analysing the activity of bioregulation. The tested parameter is the vegetative nervous system, especially the heart rate variability (HRV), because of no possible influence by the tested person itself during the time of analysis. Another source of information are the electric potentials at skin surface. Under optimal bioregulating activity, the characteristic time function of ECG (electrocardiogram) is to find anywhere at very small skin-area, but not under stress-conditions. Additionally, no „skin-signal“ is to detect when electrosensitive persons are exposed to the typical elecromagnetic fields of cell phones.
The data of ECG and skin potentials are processed by Fast-Fourier-Transformation (FFT) and calculation of power spectrum density (PSD). Test parameter is the distribution of upper waves following on the first frequency of ECG R-wave.

11:30-12:30 Yang J. M., Kim J. D. and Lee C. H.: Current research results of biophotons at Seoul National University.

14:00-16:00 Christoph Staude: Piano concert.

16:00-17:00 General discussion

19:00 Closing ceremony and dinner

Saturday, August 30th:

10:00 Free discussion