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--></style></head><body lang=en-DE link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#595959;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#595959;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#595959;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>The below event may be of interest to you and your interest, as light exposure and more broadly visual experience is emerging as an environmental determinant of visual and ocular health.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#595959;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>A Day in Daylight: Light exposure around the world<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Monday, 3 November 2025 1700-1830 CET via Zoom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>On 22 September 2025 – the equinox, when day and night are nearly equal all around the globe – more than 50 people collected light exposure data from dateline to dateline, with participants from across the globe, including Ghana, Costa Rica, Australia, Turkey, Norway, Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and many more.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Join us as we explore this unique global dataset: discover how light exposure differs across regions and uncover the factors that shape it.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>In this panel discussion, contributors will share their experiences and provide insights into how they encounter and engage with daylight in their daily lives.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Hosts<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Manuel Spitschan PhD | Technical University of Munich & Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Resshaya Roobini Murukesu PhD | TUMCREATE Ltd. (Singapore)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Panelists<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Gabriel Kwaku Agbeshie OD | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Zahrah Alkaff MSc | TUMCREATE Ltd. (Singapore) & Technical University of Munich (Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Lucien Bickerstaff MSc | Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics & Technical University of Munich (Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Kai Broszio PhD | Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Carlyn Patterson Gentile MD PhD | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Hannah Sophie Heinrichs MSc | Technical University of Munich (Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Andrea Sancho Salas MSc | University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Johannes Zauner PhD | Technical University of Munich (Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Organized by the <a href="https://www.tscnlab.org/">Translational Sensory & Circadian Neuroscience Unit (MPS/TUM/TUMCREATE)</a> as part of Daylight Awareness Week 2025 (<a href="https://daylight.academy/daylight-awareness-week-2025/">https://daylight.academy/daylight-awareness-week-2025/</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Register here: <a href="https://tum-conf.zoom-x.de/webinar/register/WN_5kg36iuNRACb18RXr4sqkA" title="https://tum-conf.zoom-x.de/webinar/register/WN_5kg36iuNRACb18RXr4sqkA">https://tum-conf.zoom-x.de/webinar/register/WN_5kg36iuNRACb18RXr4sqkA</a></span></b><b><span lang=DE style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><img border=0 width=506 height=506 style='width:5.2708in;height:5.2708in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01DC4BEA.E3809EC0" alt="cid946675*image002.png@01DC392A.29BA7F10"></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>