Dear All, A quick reminder that the submission deadline for the SPIE Photonics West (17-22 January 2026, San Francisco, USA) conference on Optical Elastography and Tissue Biomechanics XIII is approaching in July -- see info below! There is also a conference on Photonic Technologies in Plant and Agricultural Science III that may be of interest to those working on plants. Several of you have been asking about abstract submission and registration for this years’ BioBrillouin Meeting (that has been moved to Berlin, Germany on November 25-27). You have not missed anything: detailed planning/organization is currently underway, and we are working on opening submissions asap. We will share with you as soon as ready in coming weeks and also post big on website (www.biobrillouin.org)! All the best, Kareem SPIE Photonics West (17-22 January 2026, San Francisco, USA) Optical Elastography and Tissue Biomechanics XIII Flyer: https://spie.org/documents/cfp-flyers/PW26/BO404.pdf Photonic Technologies in Plant and Agricultural Science III Flyer: https://spie.org/documents/cfp-flyers/PW26/LA404.pdf ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Read the abstract submission guidelines: https://spie.org/PW/abstract-submission-guidelines SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT: https://spie.org/BO404 (Optical Elastography and Tissue Biomechanics XIII) https://spie.org/LA404 (Photonic Technologies in Plant and Agricultural Science III) Abstracts due: 9 July 2025 Author Notification: 29 September 2025 Poster PDFs due from poster authors: 22 December 2025 Manuscripts due: 29 December 2025 Meeting Dates: 17 - 22 January 2026 Meeting Website: https://spie.org/PW APPLICATION TRACKS Select an application track if it is relevant to your research. All presentations in an application track can be filtered online so they display together in a single view, bringing extra visibility to your work and grouping specific topics of interest together. View the current list of application tracks: https://spie.org/PW/Application-Tracks SUBMISSION AGREEMENT All presenting authors, including keynote, invited, oral, and poster presenters, agree to the following conditions by submitting an abstract: Register for the full meeting and pay the registration fee Agree to receive email messaging for the conference series Oral presenters: the recording and publication of your onsite presentation (slides synched with voice) for publication in the Proceedings of SPIE in the SPIE Digital Library Poster presenters: one person may not present more than two posters in a poster session; submit a poster PDF for preview in the online program (web and app) and for publication in the Proceedings of SPIE in the SPIE Digital Library Submit a manuscript by the advertised due date for publication in the Proceedings of SPIE in the SPIE Digital Library Obtain funding for registration fees, travel, and accommodations Attend the meeting Present at the scheduled time.