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The Summer School 2004 was successfully held from 22nd to 27th
August in Neuss, Germany. During this summer school, scientists
from Europe, Asia and America gave lectures about the developments
and new discoveries in Biophotonics and Biophotons. The audience
were from 13 countries all over the world. Prof. Rao Zihe, the director
of the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences was
elected as the new director of the International Institute of Biophysics.
- Extension of Biophotonics to the non-visible spectral ranges.
- Dr. Schlebusch, expert in acupuncture, will demonstrate the
existence of meridians by a special real-time infrared camera
on patients (see,
example).
- Theoretical approach to acupuncture.
- Documentation of Regulation Diagnostics.
- Coherence and Non-local Phenomena in Biology and Medicine.
- Preparation of Summer School 2005 in honor of Herbert Fröhlich
and Similar Conferences (e.g.
CEFBIOS-2005)
- Integration of New Members, new students, new Universities and
Research Groups.
- Physics of biophotons
- Use of biophotons in basic biological research
- Use of biophotons in agriculture
- Biophotons and health care
Sunday, 22nd August:
19:00 Common Dinner
Monday, 23rd August:
9:00-10:30 Chang J. J.: Opening speech
11:00-12:00 Bajpai R. P.: Biophotonic
Clues for Disentangling the Mystery of "Life".
– Historical overview;
– Quantum nature of spontaneous biophoton signals;
– Estimation of the parameters of quantum squeezed states of
different spectral components of a signal;
– Consequences and implications of describing a biophoton signal
as photons in a quantum squeezed state;
– Remote interaction in a living system.
12:00-13:00 Belousov L.: Biophotons
and Organization of the Living Cell.
A modern molecular and cell biology explores the organization of
a cell in great details, but the representations obtained are to
a great extent one-sided and static. We know still very few about
the flows of energy within and between the living cells, although
such flows play undoubtedly a crucial role in regulating cell activities.
A detection and analysis of a biophoton emission can do much in
elaborating these problems. The lecture will start by reviewing
and re-interpreting the classical data of Gurwitsch school in terms
of the modern cell biology and go onto a description of the recent
data obtained in IIB, in which the biophoton emission is used as
a tool for analysing the dynamic organisation of cells and multicellular
embryos.
14:00-15:00 Demonstration
15:30-16:30 Bischof M.: Historical
development and context of biophoton research and integrative biophysics.
17:00-18:00 Chang J. J. (Zhang J.):
Physical properties of biophotons and their functions.
Biophotons are weak photons within or emitted from living organisms.
Biophoton emission now is accepted as an universal phenomenon, it
concerns weak light emission from a few up to some hundred photons
/ s.cm2 and the wave length from 260 to 800 nm. Biophoton
emission originates from a non-localized coherent electromagnetic
field within the living organisms and is regulated by the field.
In this paper based on the experimental results dealing with non-linearity
of biophoton emission, hyperbolic decay of the reemission after
illumination with light and Poisson and sub-Poisson distributions
of photocount statistics, the coherent properties of biophotons
and their functions in cell communication and in biological regulation
were explained. From point of view of the relationship between biological
structures and photon fields some discussions were made on the origination
of biophotons and their functions.
Tuesday, 24th August:
9:00-10:00 Kobayashi
M.: Highly sensitive imaging of biophoton from human bodies
using a cooled-CCD camera system.
10:30-11:30 Lipkind M.: The
concept of field in consciousness theorizing: analysis of the current
models of consciousness.
11:30-12:30 Makino T.: Biophoton
in Plants and Foods.
Plants protect themselves against pathogen such as bacteria, fungi,
nematodes and insects attacks by the development of the defense
system. We carry on studies of relationship between biophoton emission
and activation of defense system in plant. The plant defense genes
encode many oxidative enzymes. Hydrogen peroxide can be generated
on cell membranes from superoxide through several mechanisms, including
constitutive expression of superoxide dismutase. Invasion of pathogens
activate the NAD (P) H-dependent reductase to reduce molecular oxygen
to superoxide which undergoes dismutaton either spontaneously or
enzymatically to hydrogen peroxide. Reactive oxygen intermediates
have been associated with apoptosis of mammalian cells, indicating
a role in cell death during the hypersensitive response in plant.
Small amounts of reactive oxygen metabolites act as signals for
the induction of detoxification mechanism involving superoxide dismutases,
and activation of other defense reaction in neighboring cell. Thus
a plant defense response may trigger chain reaction of active oxygen
species involving many exited molecules. We will discuss biophoton
from plant defense system and their applications with time dependent
spectral analysis, and classify the patterns of photon emission.
14:00-15:00 Demonstration
15:30-16:30 Soh K. S.: Applications
of biophotons in acupuncture; current research results of biophotons
at Seoul National University.
17:00-18:00 Niggli H.: Biophotons
and fibroblastic differentiation.
Wednesday, 25th August:
9:00-10:00 Hyland G. J.: Living
Systems as open, dissipative systems far from equilibrium.
10:30-11:30 Swain J.: State-of-the-art
photon detection.
11:30-12:30 Merchán M.: Quantum-chemical photobiology.
14:00-15:00 Demonstration
15:30-16:30 Popp F. A.: The concept
of biophotons and coherence in biology; basic models of complementary
medicine in terms of integrative biophysics.
17:00-18:00 Schlebusch K. P.: Demonstration of meridians by a special
real-time infrared camera on patients.
Thursday, 26th August:
9:00-10:00 van Wijk R.: Food
quality concept; biophoton emission from cells.
10:30-11:30 Voeikov V. I.: Water:
A Source, Accumulator and Transformer of High Density Energy (Biophotons).
– Water splitting and water oxidation. Free radicals emergence
in water under natural conditions.
– Emergence of energy of electronic excitation in reactions
of free radicals in aqueous systems.
– Spontaneous oxidation of water by oxygen in blood, aqueous
solutions of bioorganic molecules and natural drinking water as
a source of energy for biophoton fields.
– Intrinsic oscillatory patterns of energy generation emerging
in the course of free radical reactions in aqueous systems and their
role in informational processes in living systems.
11:30-12:30 Rothe
G. M.: Origin and meaning of electromagnetic signals in plants.
14:00-15:00 Voeikov V. I.: Outline
of mitogenetic radiation.
15:30-16:30 Rothe
G. M.: Light as trigger of morphogenetic processes in plants.
17:00-18:00 van Wijk E.: Influences
of physiological and psychological states on biophoton emission
of human beings.
Friday, 27th August:
9:00-10:00 von Klitzing L.:
Low-power electromagnetic fields and human health.
10:30-11:30 Hyland G. J.: Non-thermal
influences of exposure to mobile phone radiation: implication for
human health.
11:30-12:30 Zrimec A.: The slow components of delayed luminescence
from photosynthetic organisms.
14:00-15:00 Yan Y.: Biophotons as
a tool in the research of plants.
15:00-16:00 Swain J.: Biophotonics
when the photons aren't really there.
16:30-17:30 You H. R.: Current
research results of biophotons at Seoul National University.
17:30-18:30 General discussion
19:00 Closing dinner
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