Frontiers in Biological Fluorescence 2024
A symposium celebrating Enrico Gratton's Retirement and 38 years of the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics.
Friday, May 10, 2024
University of California, Irvine
Topics on the agenda:
- Fluorescence spectroscopy
- NIR optical spectroscopy imaging
- Advances in dynamic imaging microscopy
Dates and Updates
- Friday, May 10, 2024: Symposium from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM at UCI Research Park, 5301 California Ave, suite 120, Irvine, CA.
- Friday, May 10, 2024: Dinner at 6:00 PM
- March 8, 2024: Online registration for the Symposium opened-- DEADLINE to register Monday May 6th
Registration
- For registration please compleate the form
- Registration has no cost.
Information
- We will facilitate a hybrid session on Zoom to accommodate those unable to attend in person
- We will host a in-person poster session for those who would like to present their work.
- Free Wifi access.
- Parking is Free.
Sponsors and Gifts
- If you would like to send a gift or donationa to support this Symposium and other LFD activities including the workshop please visit this link.
Agenda
Friday, May 10, 2024
- For information on this year's agenda please refer to the 2016 meeting for a similar venue
- 07:50 – Registration and Buffet Breakfast.
- 08:25 – Fabio Gratton Welcome
- 08:30 – David Jameson (University of Hawaii): "Lotta Dura Senza Paura".
- Session 1:
- Chair: Francesco Palomba
- 08:50 – Moshe Levi (Georgetown University): My journey with Enrico and fluorescence.
- 09:10 – Peter So (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Structured light multiphoton imaging: from high throughput neural imaging to volumetric nanofabrication.
- 09:30 – Gabriele Gratton/Monica Fabiani (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): From the heart to the brain and back
- 09:50 – Suzanne Scarlata (Worcester Polytechnic Institute): A lifetime of FLIM measurements – how Enrico’s worked allowed us to discover novel signaling pathways in cells.
- 10:10 – Break/Poster Session.
- Session 2:
- Chair: Lorenzo Scipioni
- 10:30 – Don Lamb (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): A Gratton: The New Scientific Unit.
- 10:50 – Paul Wiseman (McGill University): Get your kICS on route 66: fun with fluorescence fluctuation studies in space, time, and reciprocal space.
- 11:10 – Leonel Malacrida (Institut Pasteur of Montevideo and Universidad de la Republica Uruguay): PhasorPy: a Python open-source library as SimFCS legacy for phasor analysis of FLIM and HSI data.
- 11:30 – Chiara Stringari (ZOOM) (Ecole Polytechnique): Advances in label-free multiphoton imaging of living tissues.
- 11:50 – Jay Knutson (ZOOM) (NIH/NHLBI): 4 Decades of Exponential growth in Exponential decay - and more to do.
- 12:10 – Lunch/Poster Session.
- Session 3:
- Chair: Suman Ranjit
- 13:30 – Marcia Levitus (Arizona State Univeristy): 2-Amino purine as a probe of DNA deformability in damaged DNA.
- 13:50 – Laura Estrada (Universidad de Buenos Aires and Instituto de Fisica de Buenos Aires): Bridging Physics and Molecular Biology by Advanced Fluorescence Techniques: My Journey Alongside Enrico.
- 14:10 – Elizabeth Hinde (University of Melbourne): Biophysics of Nuclear Architecture.
- 14:30 – Jelle Hendrix (Hasselt University): Pair-correlation analysis to characterize home-built microfluidic chips.
- 14:50 – Break/Poster Session.
- Session 4 :
- Chair: Belen Torrado
- 15:20 – Joachim Mueller (University of Minnesota): My trials and tribulations with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.
- 15:40 – Rupsa Datta (University of Wisconsin–Madison): Metabolic Remodeling in Activated Neutrophils Revealed by Autofluorescence Imaging.
- 15:55 – Seth Gammon (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center): Pairing Optical with Nuclear Imaging of RONS: Concept to Human.
- 16:10 – Jenu Chacko (University of Wisconsin–Madison): BioImaging North America (BINA) a network organization for imaging scientists.
- Keynote Speaker
- 16:25 – Sergio Fantini (Tufts University): Diffuse optics, Gordon, and Baggio.
- Final Remarks
- 16:50 – Michelle Digman (University of California, Irvine)
- 17:00 – Conclusion of the meeting.
Dinner
Dinner will be at 6:00 PM
Accommodation
The Atrium Hotel Conveniently located near the Orange County airport, The Atrium Hotel offers comfortable accommodations for our attendees. Guests can call reservations at 1-800-854-3012 or book online at www.atriumhotel.com with the Group Code: UCI.
The Ayres Hotel Costa Mesa/Newport Beach. For those seeking a blend of comfort and convenience, we highly recommend the Ayres Hotel. Located at 325 Bristol St, Costa Mesa, CA 92626, the hotel is just a short distance from the symposium venue. Guests can enjoy a special UCI rate along with complimentary shuttle service to UCI, making your commute hassle-free. Guests can call reservations at 1-714-549-0300 or book online at www.ayreshotel.com with the Special UCI rate.
Contact
Email: mdigman@uci.eduPhone: +1‑949‑824‑7085 (between 8 AM - 4 PM Pacific Time, Monday through Friday)
Facsimiles: +1-949-824-1727
Frontiers Symposium 2024
c/o Michelle Digman
University of California, Irvine
Biomedical Engineering Department
3208 Natural Sciences II
Irvine, CA 92697-2715
USA