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ASP News 2002 Winter 3.6.02 Winter 2002 (179) Vol. 31, No. 1 IN THIS ISSUE 30th ASP Annual Meeting ......................1 Letter from the Editor .............................3 Current ASP Officers and Councilors. ...4 Candidates for President Elect ................4 Candidates for Secretary .........................6 Candidates for Councilor ........................7 Fairmont Chateau Frontenac, situated on top of the Cap Diamant Cliffs, in the heart of Quebec City. Obituary for Len Grossweiner ..............11 Announcements.....................................12 American Society for Choosing the Right Light......................13 Photofrin-mediated Photodynamic Photobiology 30th Therapy..................................................15 Low maternal Vitamin D and Annual Meeting Schizophrenia in Offspring ...................15 July 13-17, 2002 Upcoming Events ..................................16 Fairmont Chateau Frontenac Quebec City, Canada Refreshments and conversation with a call to order of the annual members' meeting at 6 PM Scientific Program Chair: Woody Hastings ASP 30th Anniversary Reception and Banquet: Highlights of the Program 7 PM Tuesday Welcome and Keynote Lecture: 5:30 PM Saturday Award Lectures Non-visual responses of vertebrates to visible light; the ASP Research Award: evolution of a neglected sensory modality - Michael 1:30 PM Sunday - Masaki Furuya Menaker - ASP Lifetime Achievement Awardee New Investigator Award: Opening Reception: 7 PM Saturday 1:00 PM Tuesday - Toshiyuki Okano and Oded Beja Menaker Reception and Dinner: School Lectures and Speakers 7 PM Sunday - Gene Block, MC The Digital Photobiology Compendium: The Future of Teaching and Learning President’s Lecture: 1:30 PM Monday 8-9 AM Sunday - Dennis Valenzeno Microbial Rhodopsins: Genome-mining and Structure/ Function Relationships in Transport and Signal Biophotonics: What's that? Transduction - John Spudich 8-9 AM Monday - Gerard Marriott President’s Reception and 30th Annual Business Light-induced reactions in photosynthesis Meeting: 5:30 PM Monday 8-9 AM Tuesday - Bridgette A. Barry -1- The Determination of Immune Protection Factors of C2 Inducible Cellular Responses and DNA Repair - Sunscreens Andrew Rainbow and Gerald P Holmquist 8-9 AM Wednesday - Antony Young and Anny Fourtanier C3 DNA Repair: Cellular Signaling and Tumour Suppressors - Elliot A. Drobetsky and Alain Sarasin Publish or Perish: Photochemistry and Photobiology C4 DNA Repair Enzymology - policies, procedures and plans: Darel Hunting and Eric Moon-Shong Tang 5:30 PM Sunday C5 Platform Session Photochemistry and Photobiology editor Tito Scaiano C6 UV-Induced Cell Death - and Associate Editors will entertain an open forum to Girish Shah and Douglas E. Brash answer questions about Photochem Photobiol, ranging C7 Skin Cancer Epidemiology - from editorial policy and refereeing procedures to on- Marc Rhainds and Richard Gallagher line publishing and plans for the future. A new Editor- in-Chief is to be appointed in January 2004, so come Session D with suggestions for that position. D1 Circadian Photoreception and Transduction - Ignacio Provencio and David Berson Grantsmanship Lecture: D2 Phototransduction in the Human Circadian 5:30 PM Tuesday System - Charles Czeisler and George Brainard So you want to be an NIH Grantee - Paul Strudler D3 Platform Session - TBA Symposia and Organizers D4 Blue light receptors in plants and bacteria - 4 parallel sessions, each a half day; AM sessions, odd Wolfgang Gärtner numbers, 9-12 AM; PM sessions, even numbers, 2:30- D5 Photo-Control in Biological Systems - 5:30 PM. Grouped sessions are sequential in the order Bulent Mutus given. D6 Molecular Sensors in Photobiology - David Lawrence Session A D7 Getting Excited by Bioluminescence: A1 Interaction of Climate Change and Ozone Photosynthesis in Reverse - E. A Meighen and Depletion - Drusilla Hufford Shiao-Chun (David) Tu A2 Phototherapy and Photoprotection - Henry Lim A3 Photoimmunology - Poster and Platform Sessions Paul Bergstresser and Margaret Kripke Two Poster sessions will be arranged from submitted A4 Platform Session TBA abstracts. Some proffered abstracts will be selected and A5 Photocarcinogenesis - Hasan Mukhtar scheduled for oral delivery with appropriate symposia. A6 UV Effects in the Aquatic Environment - Other sessions will be scheduled as needed. Patrick Neale and Warwick Vincent Poster Session I: Authors to be present Sunday 5:30 – A7 Photobiology of Melanogenesis - 7 PM. Posters to be setup on Saturday afternoon or Zalfa Abdel-Malek evening and taken down on Monday by noon. Session B Poster Session II: Authors to be present Tuesday 5:30 – B1 Death Mechanisms Associated with PDT: 7 PM. Posters to be setup on Monday afternoon and Apoptosis - David Kessel and Nancy Oleinick taken down Tuesday evening. B2 PDT: Vascular and Clinical Effects - Tayyaba Hasan and Chuck Gomer B3 PDT: Oxidative Interactions - Giulio Jori and Albert Girotti B4 ALA-Mediated PDT - Roy Pottier and Johan Moan B5 PDT-Elicited Immune Responses - Published quarterly by Barbara W. Henderson and Mladen Korbelik American Society for Photobiology B6 Phototoxicity Mechanisms: Cellular and http://www.pol-us.net/ Molecular Approaches - Pascale Reinhardt and ⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔⇔ Don Forbes Editor B7 Regulatory Phototoxicology - Peter A. Ensminger Ph.D. Doug Learn and Chris Sambuco 256 Greenwood Place Syracuse, NY 13210 Session C Tel/Fax: 315-478-6024 C1 Photoproduct Formation and Distribution, Email: [email protected] Repair and Mutagenesis - Regen Drouin and Evelyne Sage -2- Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2002 Abstract submission and registration on line via the ASP Letter From the Editor web site http://www.Photobiology.org. A meeting regis- Peter A. Ensminger tration by the same date will be required for an abstract to be accepted. This month’s newsletter features an article on full spec- trum lighting by Dr. Jennifer Veitch of the National Late Breaking Abstracts Deadline: July 1, 2002 Research Council of Canada. While consumers are Abstracts submitted between March 26 and July 1 by being deluged with questionable claims for the health registered delegates will be presented in the "Works in benefits of full spectrum lighting, Dr. Veitch and col- Progress" poster session. Submit on-line via the ASP leagues have shown that there is little or no evidence web site. http://www.Photobiology.org . that full-spectrum lighting provides a benefit. Rules for Abstract Submission Surely no one has made more incredible claims for full A member of the Society (Regular or Associate) may spectrum lighting than Dinshah P. Ghadiali (1877-1966), submit only one contributed abstract for which an oral whose inventions were featured at the Bob McCoy’s presentation is requested. Members may co-author addi- Museum of Questionable Medical Devices (now part of tional abstracts for oral presentation which other mem- the Science Museum of Minnesota in Minneapolis). bers are presenting or sponsoring. Contributed abstracts Ghadiali developed the field of “Spectro-Chrome for poster sessions are not limited. The same rules apply Therapy”, which required patients to lay down naked and to non members, but their submissions must be spon- facing north so that “attuned color waves” could be sored by a member of ASP. Each abstract should be sub- applied to the bare skin. According to Ghadiali, green mitted separately. light is a pituitary stimulant, germicide, and muscle tissue Invited speakers for symposia sessions are asked to sub- builder; yellow light is a digestant, anthelmintic, and mit abstracts of their presentations, following the nerve builder. Red, violet, blue, turquoise, lemon, orange, instructions on the web site, indicating the session in scarlet, magenta, and purple lights also had their specific which it will be, e.g., B4 or D2, etc., as listed in the benefits. By 1940, Ghadiali had made over $1 million Preliminary Program. Such abstracts do not need to be selling his “Spectro-Chromes”. Believe it or not, sponsored, and do not count towards the limitation on Ghadiali’s ideas are still being promoted and are even contributed abstracts. Invited speakers may thus con- being taught at an American university, which offers a tribute an additional abstract for oral presentation and course on Chromotherapy, where students “learn treat- unlimited abstracts for poster presentation. ments of various illnesses with the use of colored light”. For Information Contact: The next issue of ASP News will feature an article about Courtesy Associates: Carla Battle, Shelbie Dumas the marketing plans of Courtesy Associates for the ASP. 2025 M Street, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036 Courtesy Associates will be implementing plans to grow Tel: 202-973-8670; FAX: 202-331-0111 the ASP by 30% over the next three years in terms of email: [email protected] member recruitment and retention, attendance at the www.courtesyassociates.com/ annual meeting, and profitability. An important part of their plans is promotion of the annual meeting. Thus, I Council and Other Activities thus urge you all to read Woody Hasting’s Preliminary Saturday: 10 AM - 4:30 PM - 85th Council meeting Program for the upcoming ASP meeting in Quebec City. Sunday: 12 - 1:30 PM - Mentoring luncheon (by invita- This will surely be an exciting meeting in one of the tion) most beautiful cities of North America. Sunday: 6:30 PM Photochem Photobiol Board meeting and dinner (J.C. Scaiano) Monday: 12 - 1:30 PM - Past Presidents' Luncheon Wednesday: 12 - 4 PM - 86th Council meeting The “Spectro-Chrome Cabinet” for home use, developed
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