Perspectives in Biophotonics: a special issue in honor of the International Graduate Summer School on Biophotonics

Tutorials from lecturers and organizers of the International Graduate Summer School on Biophotonics1 have been given biannually since 2003 on the island Ven in Sweden. In honor of the 10th edition of the summer school, JBO has published a virtual special issue “Perspectives in Biophotonics,” featuring updates to those tutorials as perspective articles: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/biophotonics-tutorials.

This special issue is meant to complement the large number of tutorial and review papers in previous special sections in JBO from past schools and also be forward-looking to highlight opportunities and unmet needs to consider for researchers in our field. This special issue came out of the Covid pandemic postponing the 10th summer school in this series.

The global pandemic lockdowns made us reach out to the lecturers at the school to ask whether they were willing to write a perspective paper in their field of expertise for this special issue in JBO. These ten perspective papers will hopefully serve the field well and will become preparation reading for the participants appropriate for the upcoming 10th Biophotonics School.