BIGSS

BIGSS 2026

The tenth Biophotonics and Imaging (BIGSS 2026) Summer School will be held in Kylemore Abbey, Galway, Ireland this year, from the 3rd to the 7th of August. This a five ECTS accredited course with leading professors teaching to give a substantial grounding in the main topics of Biophotonics. BIGSS 2026 will include five days of lectures by world leaders in Biophotonics and Imaging, as well as highly interactive poster sessions.

Steve Jacques (U. Washington) and Thomas O’Sullivan (Notre Dame) - Tissue Optics and Laser-Tissue Interactions

Caroline Boudoux (Montreal) – Endoscopy-Microscopy

Ben Cox (UCL) – Photoacoustics Tomography-Microscopy

Rainer Leitgeb (Vienna) - Optical Coherence Tomography-Microscopy

Brian Pogue (Dartmouth) - Optics in Surgery & Radiation Therapy - photochemistry/radiochemistry

Jessica Ramella-Roman (Florida) - Polarization-Microscopy

Lothar Lilge (Toronto) - Photo Medicine, Radiation Medicine and Nano Medicine

Jana Kainerstorfer (Carnegie-Mellon) – Diffuse Optics

Abstracts and enquiries to: BIGSS@universityofgalway.ie 

Early submission date for planning, visa and funding decisions: February 28

Regular submission date: April 30

Organising Committee:   

     Éanna Johnston, Conor Byrne, Rajib Dey, Mahendra Kusuma Nugraha, Sergey Alexandrov