Bio-Optics: This topical meeting will focus on design, fabrication, instrumentation, and applications of optical technologies for the life sciences. Topics cover general bio-optics in research and clinical application. Themes include but are not limited to visual optics, eye imaging and sensing, bio-inspired optics, optical biochip, optofluidics, biomedical and drug discovery imaging, biosensors, and other novel optical technologies for diagnosis and treatment. This conference is intended to be a highly interdisciplinary forum of discussion for researchers and engineers from academia and industry to discuss the design and application of bio-optics in life science.