Final Call for Registration - Functional Optical Imaging Conference at Nottingham, UK - 2nd-3rd July 2009

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Dear all,

A final reminder to register for the forthcoming conference on Functional Optical Imaging to be held in Nottingham on 2nd and 3rd July 2009. This meeting is supported by the Wellcome Trust, Nikon, Cairn Research, Photonlines, Newport and Spectra Physics, Olympus and Bridging the Gaps. Final registration is this Friday (12th June 2009) but places are limited and are filling fast. If you wish to register please visit www.nottingham.ac.uk/ibios and follow the FOI link. 

Many thanks.

IBIOS

 

Functional Optical Imaging

Hosted by the Institute of Biophysics, Imaging and Optical Science (IBIOS)

University of Nottingham, UK.

2nd – 3rd July 2009.

 

Organised by Prof. Paul O'Shea and Prof. Mike Somekh

 

Progress in biological sciences has been driven by development in optical imaging. In the early days visualizing the structure of living cells lead to enormous insights. More recently the emphasis of optical imaging has shifted from structural to functional imaging, where very specific biological questions can be addressed at microscopic and, in some cases, nanoscopic scales. The importance of functional imaging has, of course, been recently recognized by the award of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the developments in Green Fluorescent Protein as a unique means to spatially locate processes in cells.

 

Functional imaging is a highly interdisciplinary area bringing together biologists, chemists, physicists and engineers. Our institute of Biophysics, Imaging and Optical Science has recently been established to bring together scientists in these disciplines and the present meeting is the inaugural conference representing this field.

 

We are fortunate to have attracted an extremely eminent range of speakers across many disciplines who will provide exciting visions of their own research which we expect to stimulate lively discussions leading to new research directions.

 

Speakers confirmed to date are:

 

Dr. Brad Amos F.R.S. - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK  "Will optical imaging continue its explosive development? "

 

Prof. Larry Cohen - Yale University, USA  "Widefield and 2-Photon Imaging of Neuron Activity"

 

Prof. Gerard Marriott - University of California, Berkeley, USA "Optical lock-in detection (OLID) imaging microscopy: A new approach for high-contrast imaging of proteins in living cells and organisms"

 

Dr. Justin Molloy - MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK Title TBC

 

Prof. John Girkin - University of Durham, UK "Three Dimensional Optical Microscopy at Depth in Complete Samples"

 

Prof. Angus Silver - University College, London, UK "Development of an AOD-based High Speed 3D 2-Photon Microscope"

 

Dr. Martin Booth - University of Oxford, UK “Adaptive Optics for Microscopy”

 

Prof. Marcus Thelen - Institute of Biomedicine, Switzerland “Functional Imaging of Chemotaxis Mediating Receptors in Migrating Cells”

 

Dr. Martin Oheim - Universite Paris Descartes, France “Imaging Ion Concentration Nanodomains using Targeted FRET-based Nanobiosensors"

 

Dr. Ioan Nottinger - University of Nottingham "Raman Microspectroscopy Imaging of Live Cells and Tissue"

 

Dr. Angus Bain - University College London, UK Title TBC

 

Dr. Rainer Heintzmann - King's College London, UK "Structured Illumination Microscopy"

 

Dr. Gerard Byrne – Merck, UK "Total internal reflection microscopy studies of particle endocytosis by living cells"

 

Dr. Ian Dobbie – University of Oxford, UK Title TBC

 

Dr. Steve Briddon - University of Nottingham, UK “Investigating GPCR Organisation and Pharmacology at the Sub-Cellular Level using Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy”

 

Dr. Mark Leake – University of Oxford, UK “Advanced fluorescence microscopy of single, living cells: using optical proteomics to study native biochemistry one molecule at a time”

 

Dr. Mark Pitter - University of Nottingham, UK “Functional Optical Imaging with Custom CMOS Cameras”

 

Dr. Noah Russell - University of Nottingham, UK “Plasmon Resonance Imaging of Neurons”

 

 

Places are limited. For more information or to register please visit www.nottingham.ac.uk/ibios.

 

Visit the event website www.nottingham.ac.uk/ibios

 

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