Papers are invited for Advanced Photonics, a congress that includes the following meetings: Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nano Photonics (IPR); Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA); Optical Sensors (Sensors); Photonic Networks and Devices (Networks); and Signal Processing in Photonics Communications (SPPCom). Topics to be considered include biomedical optical sensors, nanophotonic and plasmonic biosensors, and optical chemical and biological sensors.