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  • " Frontiers in Bioimaging "
    Organizers: Jan Ellenberg, EMBL, Heidelberg
    Naoto Ueno, NIBB
    Venue: Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan
    Date: March 22 (Wed) - 23 (Thu), 2006

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Program
March 22nd
Speaker Affiliation Time Title
Registration
8:40- Registration
Opening Remarks
Yoshitaka Nagahama 9:05-9:15 Opening Remarks
Session1: Imaging diffusion & activity     Chair: Yasushi Hiraoka
Atsushi Miyawaki RIKEN, BRI, JAPAN 9:15-9:50 Visualization of the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Intracellular Signaling
Kai Johnsson ISIC, EPFL, SWITZERLAND 9:50-10:25 Protein Chemistry in Living Cells
    10:25-10:50 Coffee break
Tom K Kerppola Univ. Michigan, USA 10:50-11:25 Visualization of Protein Interactions and Modifications in Living Cells using Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Analysis
Philipe Bastiaens EMBL, GERMANY 11:25-12:00 Reaction-Diffusion Cycles in the Spatial Organization of Cellular Signaling and Morphogenesis
    12:00-13:00 Lunch
Session2: Emerging technologies     Chair: Peter T.C.So
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz NIH, USA 13:00-13:35 Deciphering Protein Turnover, Topology and Transport in Living Cells
Masataka Kinjo Hokkaido Univ., JAPAN 13:35-14:10 Analysis of Microenvironment of Nucleus Using Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
Robert H. Singer Yale Univ., USA 14:10-14:45 Following Single mRNAs in Living Cells
Akihiro Kusumi Kyoto Univ., JAPAN 14:45-15:20 Single Molecule Tracking at the Cell Surface: Transient Signal Transduction by Engaged GPI-Anchored Receptors
    15:20-15:40 Coffee break
Session3: Bioluminescence     Chair: Tom K Kerppola
Susumu Terakawa Hamamatsu Med. Univ., JAPAN 15:40-16:15 Exocytosis and Endocytosis in Neuronal Cells Visualized with Ultra High NA Lens
Tarik Issad INSERM, FRANCE 16:15-16:50 The Use of BRET (Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer) for the Study of Tyrosine-kinase Receptors
Takeaki Ozawa IMS, JAPAN 16:50-17:25 Methods for Identifying Organelle-Targeting Proteins
Session4: Networks & Screening     Chair: Philippe Bastiaens
Tobias Meyer Stanford, USA 17:25-18:00 Fluorescence Microscopy Approaches for Dissecting Signaling Networks
Jan Ellenberg EMBL, GERMANY 18:00-18:35 Microscopy-Based RNAi Screening and Quantitative Imaging of Chromosome Structure to Identify and Define the Function of Mitotic Genes

19:00-21:00 Mixer and Poster session

March 23rd
Speaker Affiliation Time Title
Session5: 3D imaging     Chair: Jan Ellenberg / Ernst H.K. Stelzer
Ernst H.K.Stelzer EMBL, GERMANY 9:00-9:35 Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy: Life Sciences Require the Third Dimension
John W Sedat UCSF, USA 9:35-10:10 OMX, A Microscope Platform for the Future?
    10:10-10:30 Coffee break
Winfried Denk MPI, GERMANY 10:30-11:05 Watching the Brain Compute and Tracing Its Wires: New Methods to Solve Old Riddles.
Haruo Kasai NIPS, JAPAN 11:05-11:40 Dynamic Actin Organizations in Single Dendritic Spines of CA1 Pyramidal Neurons Studies with Two-Photon Photoactivation
Peter T.C. So MIT, USA 11:40-12:15 Mechanotransduction: Understanding How Cells Sense Mechanical Signals with Novel Microscopic and Spectroscopic Tools
    12:15-13:00 Lunch
Session6: Mitosis/Trafficking     Chair: Atsushi Miyawaki
Jason Swedlow Dandee Univ., UK 13:00-13:35 Studies of Mitosis in Living Cells and Tissues
Yasushi Hiraoka NICT, JAPAN 13:35-14:10 Live-cell Observation of Chromosome Dynamics in Fission Yeast
Yoshinori Ohsumi  NIBB, JAPAN 14:10-14:45 Molecular Dissection of Membrane Dynamics during Autophagy
    14:45-15:05 Coffee break
Session7: Organism model     Chair: Jochen Wittbrodt / Naoto Ueno
Cornelis Weijer Dandee Univ., UK 15:05-15:40 Chemotactic Cell Movement and Its Role in Morphogenesis
Damian Brunner EMBL, GERMANY 16:15-16:15 Organizing Microtubules in Space and Time
Jochen Wittbrodt EMBL, GERMANY 16:15-16:50 Individual Cell Migration as the Driving Force for Optic Vesicle Evagination
Kei Ito Tokyo Univ. 16:50-17:25 Imaging the Structure of the Neural Circuits Using Molecular-Genetic Techniques
Minoru Tanaka NIBB, JAPAN 17:25-18:00 A Gonadal Field Coordinates Germline and Somatic Precursors to Form a Gonadal Primordium


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