Events

Conferences, workshops, and seminars attended, lectured, or organized by staff and students of the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics (LFD):

Upcoming Events

• Watching the Cellular Nanomachinery at Work. New Developments in Super-Resolution and Single-Molecule Microscopy.
  Monday, November 9–10, 2009. The Rockefeller University, New York.

  Enrico Gratton: Nanometer-scale imaging of microvilli in opossum kidney cells by the modulation tracking method.

• American Academy of Optometry - Academy 2009 Orlando.
  Wednesday, November 11–14, 2009. Orlando World Center Marriott, Orlando, FL.
• Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series.
  Friday, November 13, 2009. 12:15 PM. Department of Mechanical Engineering, 114 Spencer Lab, University of Delaware.

  Enrico Gratton: Observing single molecules in cells: the fluctuation approach.

• Image Correlation User Group Meeting.
  Tuesday, November 17, 2009. 3:00 PM. Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.

  RSVP your attendance to Cely Dean <http://directory.uci.edu/index.php?uid=adean>

• 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology.
  Saturday, December 5–9, 2009. San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA.

2010

• 54th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.
  Saturday, February 20–24, 2010. San Francisco, California, USA.

Past Events

• 4th LFD Workshop in Advanced Fluorescence Imaging and Dynamics.
  Monday, October 26–30, 2009. Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine, USA.
• Cell Migration Consortium Annual Meeting.
  Wednesday, October 7–8, 2009. Reston, VA.
• 2nd South-American Workshop on Advanced Fluorescence Techniques.
  Tuesday, September 22–26, 2009. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• International Symposium - Analysis of Biomolecular Machines in the Nanometer Range.
  Sunday, September 20–23, 2009. Rosensäle, Jena, Germany.
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  Enrico Gratton: Imaging nanometer structures using modulation tracking (opening lecture).

• Principles of Fluorescence Techniques 2009 Madrid.
  Monday, September 14–17, 2009. Madrid, Spain.
• 11th International Conference on Methods and Applications of Fluorescence: Spectroscopy, Imaging and Probes.
  Sunday, September 6–9, 2009. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
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  Enrico Gratton: Measuring obstacles to diffusion by spatial cross correlation.

  Michelle Digman: Stoichometry of molecular complexes in live cells by 2-color correlation and amplitude analysis.

• The Science of Bio-Imaging Forum 2009.
  Tuesday, August 4–7, 2009. Confocal Bio-Imaging Faciltiy (CBIF), Hawkesbury Campus, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
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  Enrico Gratton: Visualising molecular interactions in live cells.

  Michelle Digman: Detection & analysis of protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases.

• 7th European Biophysics Congress.
  Saturday, July 11–15, 2009. Genoa, Italy.
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  Enrico Gratton: Measuring diffusion by spatial-cross-correlation.

  Michelle Digman: Determining stoichiometry of molecular complexes in live cells.

• COSMOS: Tissue and Tumor Biology and Mathematical/Computer Modeling.
  Tuesday, June 30 – July 9, 2009. Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics (LFD) and Optical Biology Center (OBC), University of California, Irvine.
• Proteins Gordon Research Conference.
  Sunday, June 21–26, 2009. Holderness School, Holderness, NH.
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  Enrico Gratton: Perspectives on, and challenges of, visualization of proteins in the cell.

• Optical Biology Facility Mini-Workshop Series.
  Thursday, May 28, 2009. 11:00 AM–11:45 AM. 4248 McGaugh Hall, University of California, Irvine.
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  Colocalization: acquisition and analysis.

• Optical Biology Facility Mini-Workshop Series.
  Thursday, May 21, 2009. 11:00 AM–11:45 AM. 4248 McGaugh Hall, University of California, Irvine.
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  Spectral unmixing of fluorophores.

• Thesis Defense by Molly J Rossow.
  Wednesday, May 20, 2009. 12:15 PM. Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
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  Molly J Rossow (Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine): Analysis of flow using spatial-temporal correlation.

• International Conference of the American Thoracic Society.
  Friday, May 15–20, 2009. Convention Center, San Diego, CA.
• Frontiers of Cellular Imaging.
  Monday, May 11, 2009. Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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  Enrico Gratton: Detecting protein complexes in living cells using RICS (2:00- 2:50 PM).

• LFD Resource Advisory Committee Meeting 2009.
  Tuesday, May 5, 2009. Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine.
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  This event is not open to the public.

• Fluoro 2009. Use of optical spectroscopic and microscopic techniques in biological and biomedical research.
  Sunday, April 19–23, 2009. The University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.
• 34th Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference.
  Saturday, April 18, 2009. 7:30 AM–6:00 PM. Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California.
• Experimental Biology 2009.
  Saturday, April 18–22, 2009. Ernest N Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA.
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  Enrico Gratton: Tracking molecules in the cell: a new frontier for high resolution microscopy and spectroscopy (April 19, 2009, 12:00 PM).

• Principles of Fluorescence Techniques 2009 Chicago.
  Wednesday, April 8–11, 2009. IBD NanoBiology Facility, The University of Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Introductory Course in Fluorescence Techniques, Spectroscopy and Microscopy.
  Monday, March 23–25, 2009. Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
• Fluorescence 2009. Fluorescence in Biology. An International Conference.
  Monday, March 16–19, 2009. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.
• Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series.
  Friday, March 13, 2009. 12:00 PM–1:00 PM. Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
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  Kaveh Azartash: Obtaining quantitative information on the cell-induced deformation of collagen with digital holographic microscopy.

• 53rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.
  Saturday, February 28 – March 4, 2009. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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  Visit the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics' exhibitor booth #802.

• Submission Deadline for the Young Fluorescence Investigator Award 2009. 
  Monday, February 2, 2009. Biological Fluorescence Subgroup of the Biophysical Society and Horiba Jobin Yvon, Inc.
• Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series.
  Friday, January 30, 2009. 12:00 PM–1:00 PM. Natural Sciences II, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
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  Molly Rossow: Scanning Laser Image Correlation (SLIC).

• BiOS 2009. Part of SPIE Photonics West.
  Saturday, January 24–29, 2009. San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA.
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  Enrico Gratton: Multicolor fluctuation spectroscopy in cells (Keynote).

• 6th Annual Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop.
  Wednesday, January 21–23, 2009. Molecular Imaging Center, Cancer Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.
• Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics Colloquium.
  Wednesday, January 14, 2009. 10:00 AM. Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
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  Francesco Cardarelli (Molecular Biophysics, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy): Nanostructuring HIV-1 Tat arginine-rich motif for targeted cellular delivery.

2008

• 48th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology.
  Saturday, December 13–17, 2008. The Moscone Center, San Francisco, California.
• Short Course on Cellular & Molecular Fluorescence.
  Monday, December 1–5, 2008. Center for Commercialization of Fluorescence Technologies, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
• European Workshop on Advanced Fluorescence Imaging and Dynamics.
  Monday, November 17–21, 2008. Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), Institute of Physical Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
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  Recordings at http://lor.switch.ch/channels/LOR:393/

• Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics Colloquium.
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008. 9:30 AM. Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
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  Christian Hellriegel, Valeria Caiolfa and Moreno Zamai (Microscopy and Imaging Unit, Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, Madrid, Spain): uPAR-uPA binding stoichiometry in live cells.

• 2008 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) National Conference.
  Thursday, November 6–8, 2008. Baltimore, Maryland.
• 3rd LFD Workshop in Advanced Fluorescence Imaging and Dynamics.
  Monday, October 27–31, 2008. Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine, USA.
• Frontiers in Optics 2008.
  Sunday, October 19–23, 2008. Rochester Riverside Convention Center, Rochester, New York, USA.
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  Enrico Gratton: Digital frequency-domain FLIM (FWP1).

• EMBL Seminar.
  Wednesday, October 15, 2008. 3:00 PM. Small Operon, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.
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  Enrico Gratton: Fluctuation correlation spectroscopy in the laser scanning microscope.

• Optical Biology Core Facility Open House.
  Tuesday, October 14, 2008. 3:00 PM–5:00 PM. 4248 McGaugh Hall, Developmental Biology Center, University of California, Irvine, USA.
• Practical Course on Advanced Light Microscopy. Monitoring Biochemical Interactions in Living Cells.
  Monday, October 13–17, 2008. German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
• 3rd IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics 2008.
  Wednesday, October 8–10, 2008. Sofitel Ambassador Hotel, Seoul, Korea.
• 2008 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Fall Meeting.
  Thursday, October 2–4, 2008. Renaissance Grand Hotel, St. Louis, MO.
• Symposium Microspectroscopy in Biology.
  Wednesday, September 24, 2008. MicroSpectroscopy Centre, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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  Enrico Gratton: Multicolor fluctuation spectroscopy in cells: obtaining the stoichiometry of molecular complexes.

• 2008 Biomedical Engineering Department Retreat.
  Friday, September 19–21, 2008. Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego.
• Frontiers in Cell Migration: from Mechanism to Disease.
  Tuesday, September 16–18, 2008. Natcher Conference Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
• 1st Advanced Fluorescence Bio-Imaging Workshop.
  Monday, September 8–12, 2008. Confocal Bio-Imaging Facility (CBIF), Hawkesbury Campus, University of Western Sydney.
• EMC 2008 14th European Microscopy Congress.
  Monday, September 1–5, 2008. Eurogress Centre, Aachen, Germany.
• Principles of Fluorescence Techniques 2008 Genova.
  Monday, June 30 – July 3, 2008. Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy, Bioimaging and Spectroscopy, Genova, Italy.
• Thesis Defense by Ryan Colyer.
  Tuesday, June 24, 2008. 2:00 PM. 464 Loomis Lab, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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  Ryan Colyer (Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Development of a fluorescence lifetime based method to detect and analyze single molecule reactions in solution.

• 9th Annual Systemwide Bioengineering Institute of California Symposium.
  Friday, June 20–22, 2008. Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Riverside.
• Spring Seminar presented by the UCI Department of Pharmacology.
  Thursday, June 19, 2008. 11:00 AM. Irvine Hall Conference Center, University of California, Irvine.
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  Enrico Gratton: Dynamic determination of protein complexes in live cells.

• 7th International Weber Symposium on Innovative Fluorescence Methodologies in Biochemistry and Medicine.
  Friday, June 6–12, 2008. Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club, Lihue-Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
• 13th Annual Structural Biology Symposium.
  Friday, May 16–17, 2008. Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX.
• LFD Resource Advisory Committee Meeting 2008.
  Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine.
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  This event is not open to the public.

• New Frontiers in Micro and Nano Photonics.
  Wednesday, April 23–26, 2008. Palazzo degli Affari, Florence, Italy.
• 36th Course: Multidimensional Optical Fluorescence Microscopy Towards Nanoscopy.
  Saturday, April 19–29, 2008. International School of Biophysics "Antonio Borsellino", Erice (Sicily), Italy.
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  Michelle Digman: Raster image correlation spectroscopy, photon counting.

  Enrico Gratton: FCS, global data analysis.

• Principles of Fluorescence Techniques 2008 Chicago.
  Wednesday, April 9–11, 2008. IBD NanoBiology Facility, The University of Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Experimental Biology 2008.
  Saturday, April 5–9, 2008. San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California.
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  Enrico Gratton: The spatial-temporal identification of protein dynamics with raster scan image correlation spectroscopy (RICS).

• Introductory Course in Fluorescence Techniques, Spectroscopy and Microscopy.
  Tuesday, March 25–27, 2008. Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
• Developmental Biology Center Mini-Symposium.
  Friday, March 21, 2008. 4:00 PM–5:30 PM. Natural Sciences 2, Room 4201, University of California, Irvine.
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  Enrico Gratton: Analysis of dynamics of axolotl explant.

  Elizabeth Rugg: Mechanisms of rapid wound healing and skin regeneration in the axolotl.

• Developmental Biology Center Retreat.
  Sunday, March 16–18, 2008. Warner Hot Springs Resort, Warner Springs, CA.
• CAM/FAPERJ School on Biological Physics.
  Sunday, March 16–21, 2008. Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian Center for Research in Physics.
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  Kandice Tanner: Analysis of 4D dynamics.

• LFD Mini Symposium: Image Correlation Spectroscopy and Particle Tracking.
  Thursday, February 7, 2008. 10:00 AM. Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
• 52nd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.
  Saturday, February 2–6, 2008. Long Beach, California, USA.
• Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics Colloquium.
  Friday, February 1, 2008. 12:00 PM. Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
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  Claus Seidel (Molekulare Physikalische Chemie, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany): Biomolecular function studied by multiparameter fluorescence imaging and spectroscopy.

• Environmental and Biological Applications of Lasers 2008.
  Saturday, January 19–28, 2008. Cairo, Egypt.
• 5th Annual Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop.
  Wednesday, January 16–18, 2008. Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley.
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  Enrico Gratton: Enhancing the detection and quantitation of FRET with the FLIM-phasor approach (Keynote Address, Jan. 17, 5:30PM, VLSB 2050).

• Keystone Symposium on Molecular Basis for Biological Membrane Organization.
  Saturday, January 12–17, 2008. Big Sky, Montana, USA.
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  Enrico Gratton: Detecting membrane transient zones using scanning fluctuation correlation spectroscopy.

• UC Riverside Bioengineering Colloquium.
  Wednesday, January 9, 2008. 11:00 AM. Engineering Building II, University of California, Riverside.
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  Enrico Gratton: Revealing ultrastructures in biological systems by single particle tracking.

2007

• Submission Deadline for the Gregorio Weber International Prize in Biological Fluorescence.
  Friday, December 14, 2007. Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics.
• Submission Deadline for the Young Fluorescence Investigator Award 2008. 
  Friday, December 14, 2007. Biological Fluorescence Subgroup of the Biophysical Society and Horiba Jobin Yvon, Inc.
• 30th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
  Thursday, December 13–16, 2007. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
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  Shwayta Kukreti, A E Cerussi, V W Tanamai, B J Tromberg, M Rita, H David, and Enrico Gratton: Intrinsic near-infrared spectroscopic biomarkers applied for evaluation of final pathological response to neaoadjuvant chemotherapy.

• Child Development Center Colloquium.
  Thursday, December 6, 2007. 2:30 PM–4:30 PM. Child Development Center, University of California, Irvine.
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  Enrico Gratton: Principles of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) of the brain.

  Enrico Gratton: A demonstration of BoxyRead software for acquisition and analysis of near-infrared spectroscopy data.

• Thesis Defense by Claudia Y Lee.
  Monday, December 3, 2007. 4:00 PM. Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
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  Claudia Y Lee (Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine): FLIMBox, a novel fluorescence lifetime approach for the confocal microscope.

• Short Course on Cellular and Molecular Fluorescence.
  Monday, November 26–30, 2007. Center for Commercialization of Fluorescence Technologies, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth.
• 2nd Advanced Optical Imaging Workshop.
  Monday, November 26–28, 2007. The Ultrafast and Microspectroscopy Laboratories, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Australia.
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  Enrico Gratton: Digital frequency-domain FLIM.

• 96th International Titisee Conference. Trends in Biological Optical Microscopy.
  Wednesday, November 14–18, 2007. Treschers Schwarzwaldhotel, Titisee, Germany.
• Theodor Förster Lecture Series on Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy.
  Monday, November 12, 2007. 3:30 PM. Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.
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  Enrico Gratton: Tracking protein-coated particles in 3D.

• 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
  Saturday, November 3–7, 2007. San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California.
• 2007 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) National Conference.
  Thursday, October 25–27, 2007. Nashville Convention Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
• 2nd LFD Workshop in Advanced Fluorescence Imaging and Dynamics.
  Monday, October 22–26, 2007. Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine, USA.
• 2007 Biomedical Engineering Department Retreat.
  Saturday, October 20–21, 2007. Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego.
• Inserm 180. Protein Interaction Networks: from bioinformatics to cellular dynamics. Phase I. Critical assessment.
  Thursday, October 4–5, 2007. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recerche Médicale, La-Londe-Les-Maures, Toulon, France.
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  Enrico Gratton: The phasor approach to FLIM analysis of FRET in live cells.

  Michelle Digman: In vivo cell dynamics by spatio-temporal correlation techniques.

• Annual Dutch meeting on Molecular and Cellular Biophysics.
  Monday, October 1–2, 2007. NH Koningshof, Veldhoven, The Netherlands.
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  Enrico Gratton: Mapping the number of molecules and brightness in the laser scanning microscope.

• 2007 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Fall Meeting.
  Wednesday, September 26–29, 2007. Los Angeles, CA.
• Alba: A novel FCS/FLIM lifetime imaging acquisition for confocal microscopy.  A workshop sponsored by ISS, Inc.
  Tuesday, September 25, 2007. 9:00 AM–5:00 PM. Developmental Biology Center, Natural Sciences 2, Room 2201, University of California, Irvine.
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  Michelle Digman: Mapping cellular activation of Rac using FLIM in live cells.

• Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics Colloquium.
  Monday, September 24, 2007. 3:30 PM. Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
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  Paolo Minzioni (Postdoctoral scholar, Electronics Department, University of Pavia, Italy): A new approach to single-fiber optical tweezers: an integrated probe for all-optical 3D-trapping, manipulation and analysis.

• 2007 biomedical engineering new graduate student orientation.
  Monday, September 24, 2007. 8:00 AM–1:15 PM. Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
• 10th Conference on Methods and Applications of Fluorescence: Spectroscopy, Imaging and Probes.
  Sunday, September 9–12, 2007. Congress Center, Salzburg, Austria.
• First South-American Workshop on Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques. Dynamics Through the Microscope: Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy.
  Monday, September 3–7, 2007. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 6th International Conference on Biological Physics and the 5th Southern Cone Biophysics Congress.
  Monday, August 27–31, 2007. Montevideo, Uruguay.
• San Diego Kinase/Phosphorylation Workshop. Dynamics of Macromolecular Complexes: From Picosecond to Second Time Scales.
  Thursday, August 2–4, 2007. Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 1120, University of California, San Diego.
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  Theodore L Hazlett: Imaging dynamics of protein-protein interactions in live cells.

• BLI's Got Talent. Farewell party and BLI/BME talent show.
  Monday, July 30, 2007. 11:30 AM. Library of the Beckman Laser Institute. University of California, Irvine.
• 4th Annual NTROI Retreat.
  Thursday, June 28–29, 2007. Hyatt Regency Newport Beach, California, USA.
• Principles of Fluorescence Techniques 2007 and CONFOCAL 9.
  Monday, June 25–29, 2007. Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy, Bioimaging and Spectroscopy, Genova, Italy.
• NIH NCRR/NIBIB P41 Principal Investigator Meeting.
  Tuesday, June 19–20, 2007. Bethesda, MD.
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  Transforming Biomedical Research & Health Care Through Technology Innovation: The Catalyzing Effects of Research Sources

• Workshop on Advanced Multiphoton and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Techniques.
  Wednesday, June 13–15, 2007. Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBMT), St. Ingbert, Germany.
• Frontiers in Biomedical Devices 2007.
  Thursday, June 7–8, 2007. Hyatt Regency Irvine, California.
• Translational Optical Molecular Imaging: Nano to Macro.
  Monday, May 21–23, 2007. Duncan Hall, Rice University.
• 62nd Annual Convention of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. Improving Patient Outcomes in Biological Psychiatry: Discovery, Diagnosis and Treatment.
  Thursday, May 17–19, 2007. Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego, California, USA.
• University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Special Research Conference.
  Thursday, May 10–11, 2007. University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center.
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  Shwayta Kukreti: Intrinsic near-infrared spectroscopic markers of breast tumors.

• LFD Resource Advisory Committee Meeting 2007.
  Monday, May 7, 2007. Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine.
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  This event is not open to the public.

• Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Biological Sciences, 2006-2007, Excellence in Research Program. Bioscience poster presentations.
  Wednesday, April 25, 2007. Steinhaus Hall, University of California, Irvine.
• Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics Colloquium.
  Friday, April 20, 2007. 3:00 PM. Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
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  Yun Chen (Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill): Nanoscale signal transduction across the plasma membrane: how clustered GPI-anchored proteins accomplish transmembrane signalling.

• American Society for Clinical Investigation and Association of American Physicians (ASCI/AAP) 2007 Joint Meeting.
  Friday, April 13–15, 2007. The Fairmont Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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  Shwayta Kukreti: Near infrared tumor spectral signature enhances optical mammography.

• American Physical Society March Meeting 2007.
  Monday, March 5–9, 2007. Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado, USA.
• 51st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.
  Saturday, March 3–7, 2007. Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
• FCS/FLIM Workshop.
  Wednesday, February 14, 2007. 11:30 AM–5:00 PM. Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago.
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  Michelle Digman: Fluorescence lifetime imaging made simple for commercial confocal microscopes.

• 17th Annual Users Meeting of the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS).
  Monday, February 12–13, 2007. Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory, Campinas, Brazil.
• Spectroscopy and Imaging Tools - Fluorescence, UV-Vis, and Infrared.
  Wednesday, January 31, 2007. 9:30 AM–4:00 PM. Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
• Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics Colloquium.
  Friday, January 26, 2007. 2:30 PM–5:30 PM. Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
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  Trevor Smith (Ultrafast and Micro-Spectroscopy Laboratories School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Australia): Time-resolved total internal reflection fluorescence studies of macromolecular adsorption.

  Karsten Koenig (Institute of Anatomy II, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany): Time-resolved multiphoton tomography of human skin.

  Damian Bird (Ultrafast and Micro-Spectroscopy Laboratories School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Australia): Two-photon fluorescence lifetime microscopy of porphyrin photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy.

• SPIE Photonics West.
  Saturday, January 20–25, 2007. San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California USA.
• 4th Advanced Optical Methods Workshop.
  Wednesday, January 17–19, 2007. University of California, Berkeley, USA.
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  Enrico Gratton: Number fluctuations and aggregation in live cells.

• Principios de Fluorescencia. Teoría y Aplicaciones.
  Monday, January 8–11, 2007. Instituto de Química, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile.
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  Susana Sánchez: Sondas fluorescentes in vitro e in vivo.

2006

• 29th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
  Thursday, December 14–17, 2006. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
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  Shwayta Kukreti, Albert E Cerussi, Bruce J Tromberg, and Enrico Gratton: Intrinsic markers revealed by a novel spectral analysis of near-IR spectra of breast tumors.

• 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology.
  Saturday, December 9–13, 2006. San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA.
• Advanced Optical Imaging Workshop.
  Monday, November 20–21, 2006. University of Melbourne, Australia.
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  Enrico Gratton: Raster image correlation spectroscopy (RICS).

  Michelle Digman: Ultrafast analysis of fluorescence lifetime images from the time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) technique using the phasor approach.

• Distinguished Lecture Series at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
  Thursday, November 9, 2006. Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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  Enrico Gratton: Dynamic cell imaging with the conforcor microscope.

• Beckman Laser Institute's 20th Anniversary.
  Thursday, November 9, 2006. 4:30 PM–7:00 PM. Beckman Laser Institute, Irvine, California, USA.
• 1st LFD Workshop in Advanced Fluorescence Imaging and Dynamics.
  Monday, October 23–23, 2006. Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine, USA.
• 2006 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Fall Meeting.
  Wednesday, October 11–14, 2006. Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
• 56th Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting.
  Saturday, October 7–12, 2006. McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois.
• Fluoro 2006: Use of optical spectroscopic techniques in biological and biomedical research.
  Monday, October 2–6, 2006. National Marine Science Center, The University of New England, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia.
• OpticsEast 2006: Advanced Photon Counting Techniques.
  Sunday, October 1 – November 4, 2006. Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts USA.
• CeNS Workshop at Venice International University. Emerging Nanosystems - From Quantum Manipulation to Nanobiomachines.
  Monday, September 25–29, 2006. Venice International University (VIU), Venice, Italy.
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  Enrico Gratton: Particle tracking in 3D. Chromatin structure and dynamics.

• Optical Imaging 2006. 5th Inter-Institute Workshop on Optical Diagnostic Imaging from Bench to Bedside at the National Institutes of Health.
  Monday, September 25–27, 2006. Natcher Auditorium, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland USA.
• XVIII Congresso Nazionale della Societa' Italiana di Biofisica Pura e Applicata (SIBPA).
  Sunday, September 17–21, 2006. Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
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  Enrico Gratton: Tracking protein-coated particles in 3D.

• Fluorescence Workshop - Principles of Fluorescence Techniques.
  Monday, September 11–14, 2006. Natural Sciences 1, Room 1114, and Natural Sciences 2, Room 3201, University of California, Irvine.
• 232nd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition.
  Sunday, September 10–14, 2006. San Francisco, California, USA.
• EMBO Practical Course. Advances in technologies for high resolution in vivo microscopy. From single molecule detection to functional studies.
  Sunday, August 6–18, 2006. Center for Advanced Microscopies, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• New Trends in In Vivo Imaging and Single Molecule Detection.
  Friday, August 4, 2006. Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 3rd Annual NTROI Retreat.
  Thursday, June 22–24, 2006. Hyatt Regency Newport Beach, California, USA.
• Principles of Fluorescence Techniques Course 2006.
  Monday, June 19–22, 2006. Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy, Bioimaging and Spectroscopy, Genova, Italy.
• Workshop on Advanced Multiphoton and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Techniques.
  Monday, June 19–21, 2006. Fraunhofer Institute of Biomedical Technology, St. Ingbert, Germany.
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  Michelle Digman: A new method for FLIM analysis. The phasor approach.

• Natural Sciences II Open House.
  Friday, June 9, 2006. 9:00 AM–11:00 AM. Natural Sciences 2 Courtyard, University of California, Irvine.
• 89th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition.
  Saturday, May 27–31, 2006. World Trade and Convention Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Frontiers in Biological Fluorescence. A symposium to honor Enrico Gratton on the occasion of his 60th birthday and 30-years of service to the University of Illinois.
  Saturday, May 20, 2006. Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
• International Symposium on LifeChips 2006.
  Tuesday, May 16–17, 2006. Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Science and Engineering. University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
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  Lee, Colyer, Gratton: A novel fluorescence microscopy method for skin measurements.

• 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium. Molecular Origin of Life and Dynamics of Information, Energy and Water Flows on Evolving Networks.
  Monday, May 15–18, 2006. Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
• KITP Program: New Physical Approaches to Molecular and Cellular Machines.
  Monday, May 8, 2006. Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
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  Enrico Gratton: Tracking protein-coated particles in 3D using a two-photon microscope.

• LFD Resource Advisory Committee Meeting 2006.
  Friday, May 5, 2006. Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine.
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• Frontiers in Live Cell Imaging.
  Wednesday, April 19–21, 2006. National Institutes of Health, Natcher Conference Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
• Experimental Biology 2006.
  Saturday, April 1–5, 2006. San Francisco, California.
• Optical Society of America, Biomedical Optics.
  Sunday, March 19–22, 2006. Fort Lauderdale Grande Hotel and Yacht Club, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
• American Physical Society March Meeting 2006.
  Monday, March 13–17, 2006. Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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  Enrico Gratton: Tracking protein-coated particles in 3D.

• Microscopy Forum 2006.
  Tuesday, February 21–23, 2006. NIH, Natcher Conference Center, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• 50th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.
  Saturday, February 18–22, 2006. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
• Enrico Gratton: Particle Tracking in the Nucleus.
  Thursday, February 16, 2006. Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University.

2005

• American Society of Nephrology Renal Week 2005.
  Tuesday, November 8–13, 2005. Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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  Enrico Gratton: Probing single molecule diffusion and clustering with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) and photon counting histogram (PCH).

• Saturday Physics Honor Program.
  Saturday, October 15, 2005. Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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  Enrico Gratton: Looking Into the brain with Lasers.

• 55th Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting.
  Saturday, October 8–13, 2005. Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA.
• ME 598: Bio-Interest Group Seminar.
  Wednesday, September 21, 2005. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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  Enrico Gratton: Dynamics in the cell interior by fluorescence microscopy.

• Principles of Fluorescence Techniques Course 2005.
  Tuesday, September 13–15, 2005. Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy, Bioimaging and Spectroscopy, Genova, Italy.
• 2005 Allerton Research Symposium of the UIUC Medical Scholars Program.
  Saturday, August 27–28, 2005. Allerton Park & Conference Center, Monticello, IL.
• Microscopy and Microanalysis 2005.
  Sunday, July 31 – August 4, 2005. San Antonio, Texas.
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  Robert M Clegg: How can one choose the best method for measuring FRET in a microscope with my biological system?

• 6th International Weber Symposium on Innovative Fluorescence Methodologies in Biochemistry and Medicine.
  Friday, July 22–28, 2005. Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
• Inserm Workshop 161: Dynamic and functional imaging of live cells: from the detection of singles molecules to the visualization of tissues.
  Wednesday, June 29 – July 2, 2005. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recerche Médicale, La-Londe-Les-Maures, Toulon, France.
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  Enrico Gratton and Susana Sanchez: FCS, Generalized Polarization and other techniques to probe the membrane organization.

• 2nd Annual NTROI Retreat.
  Thursday, June 2–4, 2005. Hyatt Regency Newport Beach, California, USA.
• 5th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium. Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics.
  Monday, May 16–19, 2005. Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
• LFD Resource Advisory Committee Meeting 2005.
  Monday, April 25, 2005. Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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• Ernst Abbe Symposium: Focus on Microscopy 2005.
  Sunday, March 20–23, 2005. Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany.
• 2005 Annual Workshop on FRET Microscopy.
  Tuesday, March 8–12, 2005. W.M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
• 49th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.
  Saturday, February 12–16, 2005. Long Beach, California, USA.

2004

• 2004 Biophysical Society Discussions Study Book: Probing Membrane Microdomains.
  Thursday, October 28–31, 2004. Asilomar, California.
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  Enrico Gratton: Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy techniques.

• Fluoro 2004: Use of optical spectroscopic techniques in biological and biomedical research.
  Sunday, September 19–23, 2004. National Marine Science Center, The University of New England, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia.
• Principles of Fluorescence Techniques Course 2004.
  Thursday, June 3–5, 2004. Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy, Bioimaging and Spectroscopy, Genova, Italy.
• 1st Annual NTROI Retreat.
  Thursday, June 3–5, 2004. Hyatt Regency Newport Beach, California, USA.
• Understanding Complex Systems. Networks.
  Monday, May 17–20, 2004. Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
• LFD Resource Advisory Committee Meeting 2004.
  Friday, April 30, 2004. Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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• 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for Investigative Dermatology.
  Wednesday, April 28 – May 1, 2004. Providence, RI, USA.
• 2004 Annual Workshop on FRET Microscopy.
  Wednesday, March 10–13, 2004. W.M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
• 48th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.
  Saturday, February 14–18, 2004. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

2003

• Bariloche Protein Symposium. 
  Monday, November 17–21, 2003. San Carlos De Bariloche, Argentina.
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  Enrico Gratton: 3-D particle tracking in a two-photon microscope.

• International Conference on Biophotons and Biophotonics.
  Sunday, October 12–16, 2003. Beijing, P.R.China.
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  Enrico Gratton: Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy in cells.

• 9th International Workshop on "Single Molecule Detection and Ultra Sensitive Analysis in the Life Sciences".
  Wednesday, September 24–26, 2003. WISTA Campus, Berlin-Adlershof, Germany.
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  Enrico Gratton: 3-D particle tracking in a two-photon microscope.

• Microscopy and Microanalysis 2003.
  Sunday, August 3–7, 2003. San Antonio, Texas.
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  Robert M Clegg: Förster resonance energy transfer: Fundamentals of measuring FRET.

• 7th World Congress on Sleep Apnea.
  Sunday, June 29 – July 3, 2003. Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland.
• Intermolecular Associations in 2D and 3D.
  Thursday, June 19–20, 2003. University of Nottingham, UK.
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  Enrico Gratton: Scanning FCS.

• 17th Annual Meeting of the Association of Professional Sleep Societies (APSS).
  Tuesday, June 3–8, 2003. Chicago, Illinois.
• 2nd Symposium on Biological Imaging. New Dimensions in In Vivo Imaging.
  Friday, May 30, 2003. Promega Corporation, Biopharmaceutical Technology Center, Madison, WI.
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  Enrico Gratton: Scanning FCS. Measuring spatio-temporal correlations in the millisecond range in live cells.

• Understanding Complex Systems. Complex Materials and Processes.
  Monday, May 19–21, 2003. Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
• LFD Resource Advisory Committee Meeting 2003.
  Monday, May 5, 2003. Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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• Focus on Microscopy 2003.
  Sunday, April 13–16, 2003. Palazzo Ducal, University of Genova, Italy.
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  Enrico Gratton: Scanning FCS: measuring spatio-temporal correlations in the millisecond range in live cells.

• 2003 Annual Workshop on FRET Microscopy.
  Wednesday, March 5–9, 2003. W.M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.