Thursday October 4 , 2013

Plenary talks :

Optical Nanoscopy and Super resolution microscopy: variations on the theme (invited talk)
Paulo Bianchini¹(speaker) and Alberto Diaspro^1,2

Localization of high aperture beams (invited talk)
Colin J. R. Sheppard
Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy

New architectures in structured illumination microscopy with incoerent light (invited talk)
G. Saavedra (speaker), M. Martinez-Corral, A. Doblas, E. Sanchez-Ortiga, J.C. Barreiro, and A. Llavador
3D Imaging and Display Laboratory, Universitat de València, Spain

Fast scanning single wavelength two-photon excitation stimulated emission depletion
(SW 2PE-STED) nanoscopy (invited talk)
P. Bianchini¹(speaker), B. Harke¹, S. Galiani^1,2, G. Vicidomini¹ and A. Diaspro^1,2
1 Nanophysics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy
2 LAMBS, Dept. of Physics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Friday  October 5, 2013

Plenary talks :

Imaging Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy in Live Specimen (invited talk)
Anand Pratap Singh¹, Jan Krieger², Joerg Langowski², Thorsten Wohland¹ (speaker)
1 Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry and Centre for Bioimaging Sciences, National University of Singapore
2 Division Biophysics of Macromolecules, Heidelberg, Germany

Microbial biofilms studied by high-resolution imaging techniques
Veronica Lazar¹(speaker), Carmen Chifiriuc¹, Luminita Dascalu¹, Marcela Popa¹, Alina Holban¹, Crina Saviuc¹, A. Grumezescu² , Ecaterina Andronescu² and G. Stanciu³
1 Faculty of Biology – Microbiology Dept., University of Bucharest;
2 Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest
3 Center for Microscopy-Microanalysis and Information Processing, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

Appraisal of living cells using a high resolution analytic platform
Mihaela Gheorghiu (speaker), Sorin David, Cristina Polonschii, Szilveszter Gaspar, Dumitru Bratu and Eugen Gheorghiu
International Centre of Biodynamics, Bucharest, Romania

Optical and morphological characterization of electron beam created surface potential microdomains on hydroxyapatite coatings
Radu Hristu (speaker), Stefan G. Stanciu, Denis E. Tranca, George A. Stanciu
Center for Microscopy-Microanalysis and Information Processing, University Politehnica Bucharest, Romania

Towards semi-automated diagnostic of liver fibrosis by two photon excitation and bag-of-(SIFT)-features
Stefan G. Stanciu¹(speaker), Shuoyu Xu², Qiwen Peng², Jie Yan² and Hanry Yu²
1 Center for Microscopy-Microanalysis and Information Processing, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
2 Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology

Histological Quantification of Beta Cell Mass using Image Analysis
Brent M. Witgen (speaker), Jonas Kildegaard, Carsten F. Gotfredsen, Charles Pyke
Diabetes Research Unit, Histology and Delivery, Imaging Team, Novo Nordisk A/S, Måløv, Denmark.

Simultaneous Scanning Electron and Fluorescence Microscopy
S. den Hoedt¹ (speaker), N.Liv², A.C. Zonnevylle², A. C. Narvaez², A. Effting¹, R. F. C. van Tol^1,2, P. Kruit², and J. P. Hoogenboom²
1 DELMIC BV, The Netherlands
2 Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Scattering near-field optical microscopy for gold nano-particles investigations
Denis E. Tranca (speaker), Radu Hristu, Stefan G. Stanciu and  George A. Stanciu
Center for Microscopy-Microanalysis and Information Processing, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania.

The Applicability of Transmission Electron Microscopy in Medicine
Antonella Chesca
Faculty of Medicine, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

Pollen grains examination by advanced microscopic techniques – contribution to botanical research
Gentiana Predan¹ (speaker), Daniela Lazar¹; Radu Hristu², Irina Gostin³; Marin Andrei¹
1 Faculty of Biology, Botany and Microbiology Department, University of Bucharest
2 Center for Microscopy- Microanalysis and Information Processing University "Politehnica" of Bucharest
3 Faculty of Biology, University; A.I. Cuza

Saturday  October 6, 2013

Plenary talks:

Microscopy techniques as a tool in signal transduction studies
Korczyński J (speaker), Pomorski P, Kłopocka W
Department of Biochemistry, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland

Real Time Label Free Nanoscopy Using Infra Red Absorption (LANIR)
Christophe Silien¹, André Peremans², Alberto Diaspro³ , George Stanciu⁴(speaker), Syed A. M. Tofail¹
1 Department of Physics and Energy, and Materials and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
2 Department of Physics, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium
3 NanoPhysics and Superresolution Imaging Laboratory, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy
4 Centre for Microscopy-Microanalysis and Information Processing, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania