Conference

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BIOCOMM 2025 at a Glance

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Program subject to change.

Monday, May 5

Tuesday, May 6

Wednesday, May 7

Thursday, May 8

Friday, May 9

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Registration
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm	BIOCOMM Welcome Reception
	Dinner on your own

7:00 am - 8:00 am	Optional group tour of Westward Look Nature Reserve
8:30 am - 9:00 am	Registration
8:45 am - 9:00 am	Coffee/Tea
9:00 am - 9:15 am	Welcome Gale Spring, Program Director
9:15 am - 10:45 am	Maria Ikenberg Lindberg Keynote Address Getting the Word Out: My Life Photographing Wildlife Research Bruce Taubert, PhD
10:45 am - 11:00 am	Break
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	BioImages Awards Presentation Nathan Pallace, Chair
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Welcome Lunch (included in registration)
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Hands-On Flash Photography Workshop Tom Vadnais
	Dinner on your own

7:00 am - 8:00 am	Optional group tour of Westward Look Nature Reserve
8:00 am - 9:15 am	Field Photography Workshop Chip Hedgcock (Danielle Edwards and Gale Spring assisting)
9:15 am - 9:30 am	Coffee/Tea
9:30 am - 10:00 am	Independent Documentary Filmmaking: From Idea to Distribution Keven Siegert
10:05 am - 10:25 am	Lighting for Video in a Hospital Setting Alan Goldstein
10:30 am - 10:40 am	Micro-Spectrophotometry in Forensic Applications José Manuel Martínez López
10:45 am - 10:55 am	Close Up / Macro Photography in Police Forensics Andrew Vivaldo
10:55 am - 11:10 am	Break
11:10 am - 12:00 pm	Moderated Breakout Session Current issues in imaging: AI, forensic, education, ethics, etc.
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch on your own
2:00 pm - 2:10 pm	Gold Street Studios – Embracing Alternative Photography Ellie Young
2:10 pm - 2:20 pm	Producing a Book Series to Enhance Language in Australia Julie Murray
2:25 pm - 2:35 pm	Lumen Printing – Or what to do with old photographic paper Danielle Edwards
2:40 pm -2:50 pm	How Low Can You Go? The Ground Pod Bob Turner
2:55 pm - 3:05 pm	Made in the SHADE! Bob Turner
3:05 pm - 3:20 pm	Break
3:20 pm - 3:30 pm	Filters for Fluorescence Gale Spring
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Fluorescence Demonstration Chip Hedgcock & Gale Spring
	Dinner on your own

8:45 am - 9:00 am	Coffee/Tea
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Microscopy and Art José Manuel Martínez López
9:35 am - 10:05 am	My Carbon Footprint Ellie Young
10:10 am - 10:30 am	Digilogue: A Photographic Journey Danielle Edwards
10:30 am - 10:50 am	Break
10:50 am - 11:00 am	A Snapshot into Educating and Training Clinical Photographers in Wales Amy Lake
11:05 am - 11:25 am	Natural Science Images Bob Turner
11:25 am - 12:00 pm	Group Photo
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch on your own
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Moderated Breakout Session Current issues in imaging: AI, forensic, education, ethics, etc.
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Fundamentals of Astrophotography James Hayden
	Dinner on your own
7:30 pm	Astrophotography Demonstration James Hayden

8:45 am - 9:00 am	Coffee/Tea
9:00 am - 9:10 am	Creating a Teaching Video John Yeats
9:15 am - 9:45 am	A Foray into Medicine: The Vishniac-Sawyer Thrombosis Research Films Howard Radzyner
9:50 am - 10:10 am	Round table - Patient Privacy in the Public Domain Moderator: James Koepfler
10:10 am - 10:25 am	Break
10:25 am - 10:55 am	Clinical Photography: Thriving or Fading Away? Kathy McFall
11:00 am - 11:30 am	Telling a Story: The Publication of a New Clinical Photography Textbook Simon Brown & Amy Lake
11:35 am - 12:05 pm	Insights into Surgical Photography Techniques and Protocols Nathan Pallace
12:05 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch on your own
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Anne Shiras Pioneer Lecture The Natural World: One Photographer's Journey Chip Hedgcock
6:00 pm	Honours Reception and Honours Banquet (included in registration)

Saturday, May 10 8:00 am - 10:00 am	Optional trip to Sweetwater Wetlands