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  • " Functional Imaging from Atoms to Organisms "
    Organizers: Jan Ellenberg, EMBL Heidelberg
    Kuniaki Nagayama, OIB, Okazaki
    Naoto Ueno, NIBB
    Venue: Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan
    Date: April 20-22, 2009
    Link to  Symposium Website


Program
April 20 (Monday)
09:00-09:20 Registration
09:20-09:30 Opening Remarks   Kiyotaka Okada (Director-General, NIBB) 
Structural Biology and Functional Imaging
09:30-10:00 Stephen Cusack (EMBL Grenoble)
"Imaging Influenza Virus Polymerase in vitro and in vivo"
10:00-10:30 Michael Sattler (Helmholtz Zentrum München & TU München)
"Molecular Recognition and Dynamics of Protein Complexes in Splicing Regulation"
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:20 Masahide Kikkawa (Kyoto Univ.)
"Structure and Mechanism of Microtubule-Based Motors"
11:20-11:50 Kazuhiro Maeshima (NIG)
"How Is Genome DNA Compacted into a Mitotic Chromosome?"
11:50-12:50 Lunch
Electron Microscopy and Functional Imaging
12:50-13:20 Kuniaki Nagayama (OIB)
"Nano-Bioimaging by Phase Contrast Electron Cro-tomography"
13:20-13:50 Achilleas Frangakis (Univ. Frankfurt)
"The Native Organization of Desmosomes"
13:50-14:20 Thomas Müller-Reichert (Max Planck Institute)
"Correlative Light Microscopy and Electron Tomography of the Early C. elegans Embryo"
14:20-14:40 Coffee break
14:40-15:10 Tokuko Haraguchi (KARC)
"Live CLEM: A New Approach for Observing Molecular Dynamics in High Resolution"
15:10-15:25 Xavier Heiligenstein (EMBL Heidelberg)    *Short talk from posters
“High Resolution Map of the Spindle Pole Body from S. Cerevisiae by Electron Tomography of Frozen Hydrated Sections”
15:25-15:35 Short break
Functional Imaging in Live Cells (I)
15:35-16:05 Junichi Nabekura (NIPS)
"Microglia Surveillance of Synapses: in vivo Observation"
16:05-16:35 Akihiko Nakano (Univ. Tokyo / RIKEN ASI)
"High-Resolution Confocal Imaging to Visualize Dynamic Membrane Trafficking in Living Cells"
16:35-16:50 Amanda Cobos Correa (EMBL Heidelberg)    *Short talk from posters
“New Fluorescent Tools to Image MMP-12 Activity in Lung Inflammation”
16:50-17:05 Nobuyuki Shiina (OIB)    *Short talk from posters
“Visualization of Na+ in Neurons Deficient in RNG105, a Factor Involved in Dendritic Local Translation”
17:05-17:20 Naoshi Hattori (Univ. Tokyo)    *Short talk from posters
“Functional Analysis of Arf GAP Family Proteins by Reconstitution of Split Fluorescent Proteins”
17:30-18:30 Exhibition (Hamamatsu Photonics, Nikon, Olympus,Yokogawa Electric)
18:30-20:00 Mixer
April 21 (Tuesday)
Functional Imaging in Live Cells (II)
09:00-09:30 Atsushi Miyawaki (RIKEN BSI / ERATO, JST)
"New Fluorescent Probes and New Perspectives in Bioscience"
09:30-10:00 Carsten Schultz (EMBL Heidelberg)
"Novel Probes to Analyze Cellular Events with Spatial Resolution "
10:00-10:20 Coffee break
Functional Imaging in Whole Animals
10:20-10:50 Ernst H. K. Stelzer (EMBL Heidelberg)
"Light Sheet Based Fluorescence Microscopy in Modern Biology"
10:50-11:20 Norihiro Sadato (NIPS)
"The Neural Basis of Social Reward and Decision-Making"
11:20-11:50 Toshihiko Fujimori (NIBB)
"Analysis of Cell Behaviors in Early Mouse Development"
11:50-12:05 Naoki Hida (Univ. Tokyo)    *Short talk from posters
“Real-Time Imaging of Dual Interaction of Smad Proteins in Xenopus laevis Embryo Using Multicolor Luciferases”
12:05-13:10 Lunch
13:10-13:40 Shigenori Nonaka (NIBB)
"Live Imaging of the Whole Mouse Embryo"
13:40-13:55 Yu Imuta (RIKEN CDB)    *Short talk from posters
“Establishment of Novel Knock-in Mice for Both Live Imaging and Genetic Lineage Tracing”
High-Throughput Imaging
13:55-14:25 Jan Ellenberg (EMBL Heidelberg)
"Phenotypic Profiling of the Human Genome by Time-Lapse Microscopy Reveals Genes with Functions in Cell Division, Survival or Migration"
14:25-14:55 Gohta Goshima (Nagoya Univ.)
"Genome-Wide RNAi Screen Identifies Genes Required for Mitotic Spindle Formation in Animal Cells"
14:55-15:15 Coffee break
15:15-15:45 Philipp J. Keller (EMBL Heidelberg)
"The Virtual Embryo: Automated Reconstruction of Vertebrate Development"
15:45-16:00 Peter Blattmann (EMBL Heidelberg)    *Short talk from posters
“High Content Screening Microscopy Identifies Novel Proteins with a Putative Role in Cholesterol Metabolism and Homeostasis”
16:00-16:15 Annelie Wuensche (EMBL Heidelberg)    *Short talk from posters
“High-Throughput Confocal Time-Lapse Imaging in Living Cells”
16:15-16:25 Short break
Quantitative Image Processing
16:25-16:55 Shuichi Onami (RIKEN ASI)
"Quantitative Cell Division Dynamics Analysis and Prediction of the Mechanism of Development in C. elegans"
16:55-17:25 Takeharu Nagai (Hokkaido Univ.)
"Measurement of Diffusion Coefficient of Biomolecules by Fluorescence Decay After Photostimulation of Photoswichable Fluorescent Proteins in Living Cells"
17:25-17:55 Matthias Weiss (DKFZ)
"Protein Motion in Living Cells - Anomalous Is Normal"
17:55-18:10 Akatsuki Kimura (NIG)    *Short talk from posters
“A Model for Cell-Size-Dependent Spindle Elongation in C. elegans Embryo”
18:10-18:25 Yuki Tsukada (Nagoya Univ.)    *Short talk from posters
“Edge Evolution Tracking: Morphodynamic Analysis for Time-Lapse Images”
18:30-20:00 Poster Session   
20:00-21:00 NIBB Lab Tour
April 22 (Wednesday)
New Techniques in Advanced Microscopy
09:00-09:30 George Patterson (NIH)
"High Resolution Imaging of Protein Localization and Dynamics"
09:30-10:00 Hiro-o Hamaguchi (Univ. Tokyo)
"Can Raman Spectroscopy Image Life?"
10:00-10:30 John W. Sedat (UCSF)
"OMX, a New Microscope Platform for Increased Time and Spatial Resolution"
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:05 Satoshi Shimozono (Riken BSI)    *Short talk from posters
“Diffusion of Large Molecules into Assembling Nuclei Revealed Using an Optical Highlighting Technique”
11:05-11:20 Kenta Saito (Hokkaido Univ.)    *Short talk from posters
“A Mercury Arc Lamp-Based Multi-Color Confocal Real Time Imaging System for Cellular Structure and Function”
11:20-12:20 Poidum Discussion: Next Challenges in Functional Imaging Across Biological Scales (All speakers)
12:20-12:30 Closing Remarks   Jan Ellenberg (EMBL Heidelberg)

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