4th CeBiTec Symposium: BioImaging

25.8.2009 - 27.8.2009

- Beyond Optical Microscopy -
- High Resolution Microscopy in Biology -
- From Life Cell Imaging to Systems  Biology -
- Bioimaging Informatics -

Organization:

Prof. Dr. A. Gölzhäuser
Prof. Dr. T. Nattkemper
Prof. Dr. K. Niehaus
Prof. Dr. A. Pühler
Prof. Dr. M. Sauer

Center for Interdisciplinary Research

Location:

Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF)
Wellenberg 1
D - 33615 Bielefeld
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/index.html
 

REGISTRATION

Registration is mandatory, please use our registration form.

 
Please make your hotel reservations at:
Hotel Mövenpick
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Hotel Tulip Inn
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Introduction

Microscopy has contributed immensely to the development of modern biology since 1665 when Robert Hooke published his book "Micrographia" depicting a large number of microscopical sketches and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek simultaneously built the first microscope with a magnification of 260-times. Our present perception of a cell is thankfully greatly owing to microscopical analyses. Inspite of a certain regression in new fields of  applications, microscopy itself has seen a 300 year continual development.
In recent years there is a renaissance of microscopy with totally novel innovative and interdisciplinary approaches. These correspond to the new developments in the fields of biology, physics and bioinformatics. A major breakthrough in biology is the discovery of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) which enables the viewing of single proteins in living cells. The nobel prize for chemistry in 2008 was awarded to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien for the "Discovery and the further Development of the green fluorescence protein". Another important innovation in the field of physics has rendered the generally accepted impossibility of the limits of magnification as possible by the german scientist Stefan Hell from Göttingen. Stefan Hell received the german "Zukunftspreis" in 2006, in 2008 the "Staatspreis" of the state of Lower Saxony and the "Leibnizpreis" of the german research community (DFG) for "Light microscopy with unknown clarity". These methods enable the visualisation of nanoscopic structures in living cells. Similar high magnification microscopic plus latest electonmicroscopic techniques are also being developed in the department of physics at the the University of Bielefeld. A third building block which leads from microscopy to imaging is the automatic image processing using informatics. This boosts the importance of microscopy in the field of functional genome research. Together with the green fluorescence protein , high magnification microscopy and automated image processing it is possible to analyse life processes in unknown geometrical and time related magnification dimensions.

The topics include:

•      Beyond Optical Microscopy
•      High Resolution Microscopy in Biology
•      From Life Cell Imaging to Systems  Biology
•      Bioimaging Informatics

Deadlines

1. *Registration:* OPEN until 15.08.2009 (Registration is not completed before the fee has been transferred. Until 21.7.2009 accommodation can be guaranteed in one of the hotels mentioned above)

2. *Poster abstract submission:* until 15.08.2009. Please send your abstract to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

3. *Note: * The symposium will start on the 25.8.2009 at 14.00 o´clock and will end on the 27.8.2009 at around 17.40 o´clock

Invited speakers

• Wolfgang Baumeister (MPI Martinsried)
  "Cryoelectron microscopy: from molecules to systems"
  
• Stefan Hell (MPI Göttingen)
  "Far-field optical nanoscopy"
• Chris Hawes (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
  "Live cell imaging to explore plant secretory pathway dynamics"
• Walter Schubert (Universität Magdeburg)
  "Toponome imaging microscopy MELC/TIS in cell biology and translational medicine"
• Tim Salditt (Uni Göttingen)
  "Biological imaging with coherent x-rays: lense-less aproaches to high resolution"
• Ivan Vartaniants (DESY Hamburg)
  "Imaging of biological samples with coherent x-rays"
• Axel Rosenhahn (Universität Heidelberg)
  "Digital in-line holographic microscopy of biological samples"
• Larry Scipioni (Carl Zeiss, USA)
  "True surface information in biological imaging: looking at uncoated samples in the helium ion microscope"
• Daniel S. Pickard (National University of Singapore, SG)
  "Bioimaging and nanomanipulation with the helium ion microscope"
• Virgile Adam (KU Leuven, BE)
  
  
•  Christian Eggeling (MPI Göttingen)
  "STED microscopy reveals nanoscale details of membrane dynamics"
• Philip Tinnefeld (LMU)
  "Make them blink: photophysics for super-resolution"
• Jörg Enderlein (Universität Göttingen)
  "Breaking the diffraction limit with dynamic saturation optical microscopy"
• Sebastian van de Linde (Universität Bielefeld)
  "Super-resolution imaging with small organic fluorophores"
• Ernst Stelzer (EMBL Heidelberg)
  "Light sheet based fluorescence microscopy (LSFM, SPIM, DSLM)"
• Thomas Walter (EMBL Heidelberg)
  "Automatic identification and clustering of chromosome phenotypes in the context of high-throughput screening by time-lapse microscopy"
• Theodorus Gadella (Swamerdamm Institut, Amsterdam, NL)
  "Imaging signalling across the plasmamembrane with genetic encoded fluorescent biosensors"
• Jan Regtmeier (Universität Bielefeld)
  "Space- and time-resolved protein dynamics in single bacteria cells observed on a chip"
• Nickels Jensen (Universität Bielefeld)
  "High content analysis of living cells to identify and characterise the cytotoxicity of bacterial extracts"
• Thorsten Seidel (Universität Bielefeld)
  "Visualization of protein complex formation by /in vivo/ FRET"
• Jason Swedlow (University of Dundee, UK)
  "The open microscopy environment: informatics and quantitative analysis for biological microscopy"
• Luis Pedro Coelho (CMU, Pittsburgh, USA)
  "Proteome-scale analysis and modeling of subcellular location"
• Peter Serocka (Max Planck Partner Institut, Shanghai, RC)
  "Visual and statistical analysis tools for multivariate image data"
• Jörg Ontrup (Universität Bielefeld)
  "Web-based visualization and exploration of complex fluorescence microscopy data sets"
• Julia Herold (Universität Bielefeld)
  "Segmentation based exploration of multivariate fluorescence microscopy data from tissue samples"

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