Programme

The symposium starts with a pre-meeting and workshops on the 9th of April, focusing on the practicalities of running imaging facilities. 

The main conference will be held from the 10th to the 12th of April.

Abstract book (pdf)

Cell

Photo: NorMIC Imaging Facility

Tuesday 9th - Facility talks and industry presentations:

13:00 - 15:00

Arrival and Lunch

15:00 - 15:05

 

15:05 - 15:30

Welcome: Oddmund Bakke

 

Sylvie Le Guyader

  • Title: Improving light microscopy training routines with proven pedagogical methods. 

15:30 - 16:15

Tech Talk Sponsors 6 X 5 minutes

Chairman: Hans Blom

  • Inter Instruments/Nikon
  • ChipNano imaging
  • Abberrior
  • Milteny Biotec
  • Telight
  • Oxford Instruments/Andor

16:15 - 17:15

Tech Talk Sponsors x 3 

Chairman: Hans Blom

  • Holger Hartmann 
  • Zeiss 
  • Ortomedic/Leica 

17:15 - 17:45

 

17:45 - 19:30

Coffee break

 

Workshop Session 1

19:45 - 20:30

Timo Zimmermann, EMBL Heidelberg

21:00 -

Dinner

 

Wednesday 10th - Super-resolution and Volumetric Imaging:  

09:00 - 09:10

Welcome and introduction to BNMI: Oddmund Bakke

09:10 - 11:00

Session 1: Super-resolution

Chairman: Jonathan Brewer

09:10 - 10:00

Invited speaker:

Rainer Heintzmann - Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany

  • Linear- and non-linear super-resolution microscopy, an overview

10:00 - 11:00

William Louch - University of Oslo / Oslo University Hospital

  •  Understanding cardiomyocyte structure: function relationships with super-resolution microscopy 

Yenisleidy de las Mercedes Zulueta Diaz - University of Southern Denmark, Odense

  • Exploring Angiotensin Type 1 Receptor Organization at the Single-Molecule Level: Insights into Actin Networks Using Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy 

Jakub Pospisil - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø,

  • FiberSIM: Revealing cellular nanostructures and dynamics using a highly compact and cost-effective structured illumination microscope
     

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00

Session 2: Volumetric Imaging

Chairman: Rainer Heintzmann

11:30 - 12:30

Invited speaker: 

Ernst Stelzer - Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  • Optical Sectioning - The basis for dynamic three-dimensional fluorescence light microscopy

12:30- 13:00

Joachim Mossige - University of Oslo

  • Light sheet microscopy: Opening a window into early mammalian development
     

Eija Jokitalo - Electron Microscopy Unit Institute of Biotechnology University of Helsinki

  • How to choose the right volume EM technique

13:00 - 15:30

Lunch and activities

15:30 - 17:30

Workshops

17:30 - 18:00

Coffee break

18:00 - 20:00

Welcome drink and Poster session

20:00

Dinner 

 

Thursday 11th - Applied microscopy, Electron and Correlative Microscopy:

09:00 - 11:00

Session 3: Applied microscopy

Chairman: Oddmund Bakke

09:00 - 10:00

Invited speaker

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz - Janelia Research Campus, USA

  • Looking under the hood of cells: from whole cell organelle reconstructions to single molecule dynamics to atomic reconstructions of macromolecules

10:00 - 11:00

Kay Oliver Schink - Dep Molecular Medicine, University of Oslo.

  • Phosphoinositide switches controlling early macropinocytosis

Morten Nielsen - Aarhus University

  • Delivery of therapeutic antibodies across the Blood Brain Barrier

Anna Lång - Oslo University Hospital

  • Microscopy-based analysis of collective cell migration

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00

Session 4: Multimodal Microscopy

Chairman: Dag Kristian Dysthe

11:30 - 12:15

Invited speaker:  

Balpreet S. Ahluwalia - University of Tromsø

  • Title: Multi-modal and high-throughput chip-based super-resolution optical microscopy for life sciences

12:15 - 13:00

 Joby Joseph - Optics and Photonics Centre, IIT Delhi, India

  • Optical microscopy beyond diffraction limit through structured illumination

Andreas Brech - Oslo University Hospital

  • Characterizing intracellular traffic using CLEM in combination with tomography

13:00 - 17:00

Lunch, activities and apres-ski

18:00 - 18:45

Invited speaker: 

Chairman: Eirikur Steingrímsson

Pawel Burkhardt - Michael Sars Centre, University of Bergen

  • Tracking the deep evolutionary origins of neurons.        

19:00

Dinner and party

 

Friday 12th - Label free imaging and image analysis:

09:00  - 10:00

Session 5: Label free imaging

Chairman: Xian Hu 

 

Dag Kristian Dysthe - Njord center Department of Physics University of Oslo

  • Quantitative phase imaging of epithelial monolayer dynamics

 


 

 

Thorsten Hamann - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

  • Life under pressure - developing tools to investigate plant cell mechanics in vivo

Thomas Combriat - University of Oslo, Hybrid Technology Hub, Institute of Basic Medical SciencesUniversity of Oslo, Department of Physics, Njord Centre

  • Acoustic wave‐induced stroboscopic optical mechanotyping of adherent cells

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break, finalize check out.

10:30 - 12:00

Session 6: Image analysis

Chairman: Camilo Guzman

10:30 - 11:15

Invited speaker: 

Guillaume Jacquemet - Åbo Akademi University, Finland 

  • Studying cancer cell metastases in the era of deep learning for microscopy.

11:15 -11.45

Alberto Diez - CMIC-NTNU

  • Title: Deep Learning in Microscopy: A Multi-faceted Approach to Intestinal Cancer Detection

Matúš Kalaš - Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, and ELIXIR Norway

  • FAIR imaging - findable and reusable image data and tools, enabled by the EDAM Bioimaging ontology.

11:45 - 12:00

Final remarks

12:00 - 14:00 

Lunch and departure       

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