The IIB, leading group of Biophotonics and Biophotons in the World and - in particular - in Asia and Europe, finished the yearly Summer School in Neuss (Germany), including a Herbert-Fröhlich-Centenary Symposium, on August 21. The two photographs on the right side show the participants (from 19 nations over the whole world) who expressed enthusiastically their enjoyment and gratification. All of them intend to come again to the next Summer School (August 13 to 19, 2006). An example of a response is typical for the satisfaction of the students:

"Thank you to the teachers as well as to all participants, who taught me again that there are no limits but the ones we put to ourselves. I feel that spirit, that the future has already started and I am happy to be able for being so close to it".

• Topics
• Program

• Principles of Biophotonics
• Basic theories of biophotons
• Applications of Biophotonics and Biophotons

Sunday, 14th August:

19:00 Common Dinner

Monday, 15th August:

9:00-10:30 Opening speech

10:30-11:30 Bajpai R. P.: Quantum Attributes of Living Systems: Identification and Implications.
– Classical and quantum attributes.
– Identification of quantum attributes: coherence, non-locality and holisticity.
– Anomalous behaviour of biophoton signals: need of a quantum framework of description.
– Measurable attributes of decaying biophoton signals: decay parameters, spectral profile, and excitation profile; system and situation specific nature of attributes.
– Structure in non-decaying biophoton signals: squeezed state parameters.
– Detecting remote intervention and interaction through quantum attributes.
– New possibilities and speculations.

11:30-12:30 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, 16th August:

9:00-10:00 Hyland G. J.: Living Systems as open, dissipative systems far from equilibrium; Non-thermal influences of exposure to mobile phone radiation: implication for human health.

10:30-11:30 Suzuki S. and Kobayashi M.: Biophoton imaging of cancer.
We attempt to develop a novel technique to determine the physiological properties of carcinoma based on biophoton imaging. Here, we report biophoton imaging of tumor transplanted in mice with using a highly sensitive cooled-CCD camera. Cell line used in the present study was AH109A (rat hepatome cell-line). Cells with the number of 10^7 was subcutaneously injected on the back of nude mice. Biophoton imaging of tumor was carried out at a day before implantation, and at everyday after the implantation to examine the relationship between biophoton and growth activity of tumor.

11:30-12:30 Hiramatsu M.: Applications of Biophotonics to Human Health.
– UWL from human hand: influence of temperature and oxygen concentration on emission.
– Stress measurement by chemiluminescence using saliva.
– Simultaneous measurement of fluorescence and chemiluminescence using neutrophil and neutrophil like culture cells.
– Selective collection of living cells by the combination of FRET method and flow cytometry.
– Early detection and treatment of stomach cancer by Raman scattering.

14:30-15:30 Katsumata M.: Application of delayed luminescence for algal biotest.
– A purpose of our work.
– An image of practical application.
– Background of our study about Delayed Luminescence.
– Long-term behavior of DL from S. platensis under exposure of substances.
– Current topics.

15:30-16:30 Voeikov V. I.: Outline of mitogenetic radiation.

17:00-18:00 Voeikov V. I.: The role of humid air in transmission of electronic excitation.

Wednesday, 17th August:

9:00-10:00 Niggli H.: News and Views in UVA-laser induced ultraweak delayed luminescence of cultured mammalian cells.

10:30-11:30 Rothe G. M.: Electromagnetic field response elements in human DNA - a literature survey.

11:30-12:30 Slawinski J.: Biophotons and physiological processes under extreme conditions.

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, 18th August:

9:00-10:00 Shen X.: Biophotonics: Applications of fluorescent proteins in Life Science.

10:30-11:30 Brizhik L.: Solitons and their importance in biology.

11:30-12:30 Swain J.: State-of-the-art photon detection.

14:00-14:30 Park S. H.: Variation of biophoton emission by external stimulation.

14:30-15:30 van Wijk R.: Biophotons and Food Quality Concept.

16:00-17:00 Lipkind M.: Free will as violation of physical laws: A new concept of volition based on A. Gurwitsch's field theory.

17:30-18:30 Shen X.: Photon emission from "Qi-Gong" masters and masterins.

Friday, 19th August:

9:00-10:00 Hyland G. J.: Non-thermal influences of exposure to mobile phone radiation: implication for human health.

10:30-11:30 von Klitzing L.: Low-power electromagnetic fields and human health.

11:30-12:30 Yan Y.: Biophotons as a tool in the research of plants.

14:30-15:30 van Wijk E.: Influences of physiological and psychological states on biophoton emission of human beings.

15:30-16:30 Swain J.: Biophotonics when the photons aren't really there.

17:00-18:30 General discussion

19:00 Closing dinner