On behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee:
Jochen Guck (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light & Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin, Germany)
Kareem Elsayad (Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
Robert Prevedel (European Molecular Biology Laboratory - EMBL, Germany)
Francesca Palombo (Exeter University, United Kingdom)
Stephanie Möllmert (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany)
Michael Monaghan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Thorsten Hamann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
PS. The event was originally planned to take place in Boston, USA, yet due to the current political climate has been moved to Europe on relatively short notice. The expected number of attendees from academia are between 50-100 and span all continents (except Antarctica).