7th International ELMI Meeting on Advanced Light Microscopy

Location:

National Science Learning Centre, York, UK

Date:

17 April 2007 - 20 April 2007

Contact:

Event Organiser

Tel:

01865 248768

Fax:

01865 791237

Email:

events@rms.org.uk

Website:

http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/biol/tf/ELMI/index.htm

REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED

Event Description

Course organiser: Dr Peter O'Toole  
 
For full details of this meeting please visit http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/biol/tf/ELMI/index.htm 
 
The 7th International ELMI meeting on Advanced Light Microscopy is being administered by the Royal Microscopical Society and on-line bookings are taken via its secure server. 
 
The full registration fee for the residential meeting includes – 
 
• Entry to all lectures and events 
• Three nights accommodation (nights of 17th, 18th and 19th) 
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner each day 
• Drinks reception on 17th 
• The Conference Dinner on 19th 
• Tea and coffee each day 

Event Accommodation

Accommodation is in single en-suite rooms on the University of York campus, in walking distance of all activities during the meeting. It is limited and shall be allocated on a first come first served basis. Thereafter, registrants will be required to find their own accommodation close to the University.

Event Programme

Submitting Abstracts 
We are accepting abstracts, upto 300 words, for this meeting. 
If you would like to submit an abstract for a short oral presentation or for a poster please click here.

Provisional Programme 
Tuesday, 17th April: 
15:00- 17:00 Arrival and registration  
 
Opening Session 
17:00-17:45 Tony Wilson University of Oxford 
Making light work in microscopy 
 
17.45- 18.30 Bas Ploem, Leiden University, The Netherlands 
Early developments in fluorescence microscopy 
 
19.00 - Late Welcome drinks reception and buffet  
 
Wednesday, 18th April: 
Session 1 New Application/Technologies 
 
08:50 - 09:20 Ernst Stelzer, Cell Biology & Biophysics Unit, EMBL, Germany 
Light-sheet based fluorescence microscopy (SPIM) supports a modern approach to a three-dimensional cell biology 
 
09:20 - 09:50 Peter Kner, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF, USA 
Recent Advances in Microscopy at UCSF 
 
09:50 - 10:10 Kate Poole, JPK Instruments AG, Berlin, Germany 
Fully integrated atomic force and optical microscopy- combining nanoscale measurements with far field optics 
 
10:10 - 10:30 Jim Swoger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain 
Optical Projection Tomography (OPT): Multidimensional Imaging of Intact Embryos & Organs 
 
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee/tea break  
 
Session 2 Live cell imaging 
11:00 - 11:30 Erik Manders, Centre for Advanced Microscopy, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
Controlled light exposure microscopy (CLEM) for prolonged live-cell imaging 
 
11:30 – 11:50 Ian Dobbie, Genome Stability Laboratory, Galway, Ireland 
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and fluorescent proteins: measuring diffusion rates, concentrations and protein-protein interactions 
 
11:50 - 12:10 Kota Miura, Centre for Molecular and Cellular Imaging, EMBL, Germany 
Fluorescence Images as the Initial Condition for Stochastic Simulations - studies on the effect of intracellular geometry on the biochemical parameters of ER exit sites 
 
12:10 - 12:30 Adriaan Houtsmuller, Department of Pathology, Josephine Nefkens Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 
Simultaneous FRAP and FRET reveal compartmentalisation of androgen receptor protein-protein interactions in living cells 
 
12:30 – 12:50 Spencer Shorte, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France 
A system and methodology for high-content visual screening of individual intact living cells in suspension 
 
13:00-14:00 Buffet lunch  
 
14:00-15:30 Workshops  
 
15:30-16:00 Coffee/tea break  
 
16:00-17:30 Workshops  
 
Session 3 High content imaging  
17:35 - 18:05 Mike White, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK 
Use of live cell microscopy for analysis of the NF-kB system 
 
18:05 - 18:25 Heimo Wolinski, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University Graz, Austria 
High-content cell-based profiling of peroxisome characteristics in yeast mutants 
 
18:25 - 18:45 
 
19:00-20:30 Dinner  
 
21:00-23:00 Poster session 
 
Thursday, 19th April: 
 
Session 4 Flourescent proteins 
08:50 - 09:20 Alberto Diaspro, Department of Physics, University of Genoa, Italy 
Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) fluorescence after polyelectrolyte caging 
 
09:20 - 09:50 John Runions, School of Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, UK 
Photoactivation of GFP for quantification of intramembrane protein dynamics 
 
09:50 - 10:10 Arne Seitz, Advanced Light Microscopy Facility, EMBL, Germany 
Quantitative measurement of the YFP to CFP photoconversion 
 
10:10 - 10:30 Trygve Bergeland, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Oslo, Norway 
Cell cycle regulated binding kinetics for early endosomal coat proteins 
 
10:30-11:00 Coffee/tea break 
 
Session 5 Sub cellular signalling/Molecular imaging 
11:00 - 11:30 Paul French, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, UK 
Multidimensional Fluorescence Imaging 
 
11:30 - 12:00 Erik Manders, Centre for Advanced Microscopy, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands  
Phototoxicity in live cell imaging 
 
12:00 - 12:30 Philipp Kukura, ETH Zurich, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Switzerland 
Detecting and visualizing the motion of single nano-objects 
 
12:30 – 13:00 Carsten Schultz, EMBL 
Imaging novel aspects of growth factor signaling 
 
 
13:00-14:00 Buffet lunch  
 
14:00-15:30 Workshops 
 
15:30-16:00 Coffee/tea break 
 
16:00-17:30 Workshops 
 
Session 6 Correlative imaging  
17:35 - 18:05 Paul Monaghan, Bioimaging, IAH, Pirbright, UK 
 
18:05 - 18:25 Mark Coles, Immunology and Infection Unit, Department of Biology and HYMS, University of York, UK 
Imaging the early phase immune response to Pneumoniae infection 
 
18:25 - 18:45 Paul Verkade, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK 
Moving EM: Correlative microscopy with high time resolution and optimal structural preservation 
 
 
19:30-late Conference dinner (National Railway Museum) 
 
Friday, 20th April: 
Session 7 Single molecule studies/High resolution microscopy 
 
08:50 - 09:20 Justin Molloy, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK 
Single molecule mechanical and optical studies: in vitro and inside live mammalian cells 
 
09:20 - 09:50 Rainer Heintzmann, Randall Division, King’s College London, UK 
Fluorescence microscopy with the help of computational spectacles 
 
09:50 - 10:10 Mark Leake, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK 
Monitoring number and turnover of stator units in functional rotary flagellar motors of living bacterial cells in real-time using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy 
 
10:10 - 10:30 Yury Belyaev, Advanced Light Microscopy Facility, EMBL, Germany 
A variable incidence angle total internal reflection system with uniform illumination intensity 
 
10:30-11:00 Coffee/tea break 
 
11:00-13:00 Workshops  
 
13:00-14:00 Buffet lunch  
 
Session 8 Analysis/Stereology 
14:00 - 14:30 Sinan Yuruker, Department of Histology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey 
Stereology 
 
14:30 – 14:50 Jeremy Adler, Department of Cell Biology, Stockholm University, Sweden 
Replicate Based Noise Corrected Correlation (RBNCC) for Accurate Measurements of Colocalization  
 
14:50 – 15:10 Timo Zimmermann, Advanced Light Microscopy Unit, Centre de Regulació Genňmica, Barcelona, Spain 
Multiparameter analysis of sensitized emission FRET data  
 
15:10 – 15:30 Mathieu Marchand, Institut Pasteur, Paris & Rockefeller University, New York 
The Pasteur Platform Management System (PPMS): A database orientated web-interfaced software for technical research facility management 
 
Concluding remarks 
 
Please visit the ELMI website for further information.