Frontiers in Biological Fluorescence 2016

Agenda

Friday, September 30, 2016

• 08:00 – Registration and Buffet Breakfast.
• 08:30-08:40 – Bill Mantulin: Welcome.
• Keynote Speech
• 08:40-09:20 – Rick Horwitz (Executive Director, Allen Institute for Brain Science): The Allen Institute for Cell Science: a next step in the post genomic era.
• Session 1: Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• Chair: David Piston
• 09:20-09:40 – Peter So (Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology): High throughput structured-light spectral-resolved image cytometry.
• 09:40-10:00 – Gerard Marriott (Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley): Engineering human platelets for tumour-targeted in vivo imaging and drug-delivery.
• 10:00-10:20 – Moshe Levi (School of Medicine, Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado): My 26 years with Enrico: from cuvette to microscopy: from high resolution single molecule imaging in physiology to tissue imaging for pathophysiology.
• 10:20-10:40 – Sergey Tetin (Abbott Laboratories, Diagnostics Division, Core R&D Biotechnology)): Expanding innovative fluorescence techniques in applied research and technology.
• 10:40 – Break.
• Session 2: NIR Optical Spectroscopy
• Chair: Bruce Tromberg
• 11:00-11:20 – Sergio Fantini (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts Univeristy): Coherent hemodynamics spectroscopy: another example of the power of phasors.
• 11:20-11:40 – Gabriele Gratton (Division of Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Human brain physiology revealed with diffuse optical imaging.
• 11:40-12:00 – Chen Yuan Dong (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University): Nonlinear optical imaging of cornea: potentials in clinical disease diagnosis and the understanding of corneal physiology.
• 12:00 – Lunch.
• Session 3: Fluorescence Microscopy and Dynamics
• Chair: Francesco Cutrale
• 13:30-13:50 – Kandice Tanner (Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute): Real time visualization of organ colonization in the Danio rerio.
• 13:50-14:10 – Elizabeth Hinde (Single Molecule Science, University of New South Wales, Australia): Biophysics of nuclear organisation.
• 14:10-14:30 – Michelle Digman (Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine): Protein dynamics events, moments in history, and actions leading to spatial location of the proteins at every instant in time.
• 14:30-14:50 – Joachim Mueller and Yan Chen (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota): Looking on the bright side of fluorescence: our journey with Enrico.
• 14:50 – Break.
• Session 3 continued: Fluorescence Microscopy and Dynamics
• Chair: Beniamino Barbieri
• 15:10-15:30 – Sua Myong (Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University): Untangling the DNA knots: G-quadruplex unfolding mechanism revealed by single molecule fluorescence.
• 15:30-15:50 – Chiara Stringari (Laboratory for Optics and Biosciences, Ecole Polytechnique, France): Efficient multicolor two-photon imaging of endogenous fluorophores in live tissues by wavelength mixing.
• Plenary Talk
• 15:50-16:10 – David Piston (Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University in St Louis): FCS of protein-protein interactions, only 20 years behind the LFD.
• Keynote Speech
• 16:10-16:50 – David Jameson (Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Hawaii): Photons, frequencies and phasors: forty years of fluorescence with Enrico.
• Gift Presentation and Response
• 16:50-17:20 – Enrico Gratton (Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine): Response.
• 17:20 – Conclusion of the meeting.