Full Programm

Date	Time	Event / Talk	Speaker	Location
Sunday, 11th	17:00 - 18:30	Registration	Drinks	Operon - Foyer
	18:30 - 18:45	Welcome	G.F. Brakenhoff Ernst H.K. Stelzer	Operon
	18:45 - 19:30	Opening Lecture Chromosome dynamics in living human cells	Kevin F. Sullivan	Operon
	19:30 - 20:15	Carl Zeiss & Royal Microscopical Society - Ernst Abbe Lecture	Heinz Gundlach Kai Simons Ernst H.K. Stelzer	Operon
	20:15 - 22:00	Get Together Party	Buffet	Operon - Foyer

Monday, 12th	09:00 - 10:30	Plenary Session
	09:00 - 09:45	Multi-photon fluorescence microscopy: a new window into brain	Winfried Denk	Operon
	09:45 - 10:30	Multiphoton Microscopy: pushing the limits of speed and resolution	Stefan W. Hell	Operon

	10:30 - 11:00	Break	Coffee	Operon - Foyer

	11:00 - 12:30	Plenary Session
	11:00 - 11:45	Cellular response to ultrashort laser pulses in multiphoton microscopes	Karsten König	Operon
	11:45 - 12:30	3D-microscopy with vibrational contrast: Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS)	Andreas Zumbusch	Operon

	12:30 - 14:00	Lunch		Canteen

	14:00 - 15:40	Parallel Sessions
		Instrumentation - Chair: G.J. Brakenhoff
	14:00 - 14:20	Development of a high speed, high resolution confocal system, using multibeam scanning	Terry Mc Cann	Large Operon
	14:20 - 14:40	CARS microscopy: non-linear optical spectroscopy at high spatial resolution	Michiel Müller	Large Operon
	14:40 - 15:00	Tomographic Interference Microscopy of Living Cells	Gennady Vishnyakov	Large Operon
	15:00 - 15:20	High-resolution cytometry of FISH-stained interphase nuclei	Michal Kozubek	Large Operon
	15:20 - 15:40	Confocal Theta Microscopy: what it is and how it works	Jim Swoger	Large Operon
		Image Processing - Chair: Andres Kriete
	14:00 - 14:20	Multi-image-stack browser: navigation through n-dimesional data sets from confocal laser scanning microscopy	Werner Zuschratter	Small Operon
	14:20 - 14:40	Spectral volume visualization of multi parameter microscopic data	Herke Jan Noordmans	Small Operon
	14:40 - 15:00	Visualization of nonisotropic spaced microscopic volume data	Felix Margadant	Small Operon
	15:00 - 15:20	Measurement of center line position and diameter of line-structures in 3D biological and medical images	Geert Streekstra	Small Operon
	15:20 - 15:40	3D Nomarski DIC imaging made possible using local energy and neural net feature extraction techniques	Carol Cogswell	Small Operon
		Biological Applications - Chair: Heinz Gundlach
	14:00 - 14:20	Beta-2-adrenergic ligands and receptor quantity alter the cellular distribution of GS-alpha protein	Alp Can	R 202
	14:20 - 14:40	Three-dimensional microscopy of the Chlamydomonas flagellar cytoskeleton	Guy Cox	R 202
	14:40 - 15:00	Imaging of in situ DNA sensitivity to denaturation during the cell cycle by confocal microscopy	Jurek Dobrucki	R 202
	15:00 - 15:20	The use of albumin as drug carrier in the treatment of cancer	Andreas Wunder	R 202
	15:20 - 15:40	Correlative microscopy applied to microbial biofilm research	Robert Palmer	R 202

	15:40 - 16:10	Break	Coffee	Operon Foyer

	16:10 - 17:50	Parallel Sessions
		Multiphoton Technology - Chair: Winfried Denk
	16:10 - 16:30	Three-dimensional third-harmonic generation (THG) imaging in biological specimens and materials	Michiel Müller	Large Operon
	16:30 - 16:50	Imaging properties of high aperture multiphoton fluorescence microscopes	Peter Török	Large Operon
	16:50 - 17:10	Two-photon fluorescence microscopy through tissue-like turbid media	Min Gu	Large Operon
	17:10 - 17:30	Confocal two-photon excitation fluorescence microscopy for real-time imaging	Katsumasa Fujita	Large Operon
	17:30 - 17:50	Ca2+ imaging with pico- and femtosecond two-photon excitation: signal and photodamage	Helmut J. Koester	Large Operon
		Live Cell Microscopy - Chair: Daniele Zink
	16:10 - 16:50	Dynamics of chromatin condensation in living cells	Eric Manders	Small Operon
	16:50 - 17:10	Illuminating cellular structure and function in the early secretory pathway	Rainer Pepperkok	Small Operon
	17:10 - 17:30	Confocal fluorescence recovery after photobleaching of GFP-tagged DNA repair proteins in living cells	Adrian Houtsmuller	Small Operon
	17:30 - 17: 50	The analysis of splicing snRNP localization and trafficking in living cells using GFP-protein fusions	Judith Sleeman	Small Operon
		Advanced Optical Methods - Chair: Ernst-Ludwig Florin
	16:10 - 16:30	Vibrational-infrared near-field microscopy	Fritz Keilmann	R 202
	16:30 - 16:50	Multi-angle evancescent wave microscopy	Alexander Rohrbach	R 202
	16:50 - 17:10	Improvement of transversal resolution by lateral modulation	Rainer Heintzmann	R 202
	17:10 - 17:30	In vivo imaging of cells in the photonic force microscope tapping mode	Ernst H.K. Stelzer	R 202

	18:00	Dinner		Canteen

Tuesday, 13th	09:00 - 10:30	Plenary Session
	09:00 - 09:45	Investigating the functional architecture of cell nuclei by live cell microscopy	Daniele Zink	Operon
	09:45 - 10:30	Deconvolution and nonlinear optimization for near-field microscope images	Satoshi Kawata	Operon

	10:30 - 11:00	Break	Coffee	Operon - Foyer

	11:00 - 12:30	Plenary Session
	11:00 - 11:45	2D/3D deconvolution for subpixel resolution with the scanning laser ophthalmoscope	Timothy Holmes	Operon
	11:45 - 12:30	An image quality measure for 3-D image restoration	Andres Kriete	Operon

	12:30 - 13:30	Lunch		Canteen

	13:30 - 15:30	Poster Session		R 202

	15:30 - 16:00	Break	Coffee	Operon Foyer

	16:00 - 17:20	Parallel Sessions
		Instrumentation - Chair: Tony Wilson
	16:00 - 16:20	Characterising high quality objective lenses	Rimas Juskaitis	Large Operon
	16:20 - 16:40	Characterization of an Optical Sectioning Programmable Array Microscope	Quentin Hanley	Large Operon
	16:40 - 17:00	Axial apodizing filters in confocal microscopy	Colin Sheppard	Large Operon
	17:00 - 17:20	Investigation in 4 dimensions: new approaches for confocal microscopy implemented on Zeiss LSM 510	Ronald Wendenburg	Large Operon
		2D/3D Image Processing - Multiphoton Applications Chair: Timothy Holmes
	16:00 - 16:20	Image deconvolution and restoration in 4Pi confocal microscopy	Matthias Nagorni	Small Operon
	16:20 - 16:40	Image restoration in two-photon and 4Pi/two-photon fluorescence microscopy	Hans van der Voort	Small Operon
	16:40 - 17:00	Time-resolved analysis and visualization of dynamic processes in living cells	Roland Eils	Small Operon
	17:00 - 17:20	3D photochromic memory with Erbium-doped fiber laser and reflection contrast	Satoshi Kawata	Small Operon

	16:00 - 16:20	Room 202 is available for further poster discussions		R 202
	16:20 - 16:40			R 202
	16:40 - 17:00			R 202
	17:00 - 17:20			R 202

	17:45	Conference Dinner

Wednesday, 14th	09:00 - 10:30	Plenary Session
	09:00 - 09:45	A phase-shifiting white light interference microscope	Colin Sheppard	Operon
	09:45 - 10:30	Scanning polarised light microscopy	Tony Wilson	Operon

	10:30 - 11:00	Break	Coffee	Operon - Foyer

	11:00 - 12:30	Plenary Session
	11:00 - 11:45	Near real time X-ray cone-beam microtomography	Ping Chin Cheng	Operon
	11:45 - 12:30	Spatio-temporal photobleaching and photoactivation profiles using single and two photon excitation	Ulrich Kubitscheck	Operon

	12:30 - 14:00	Lunch		Canteen

	14:00 - 15:40	Parallel Sessions
		Live Cell Microscopy - Chair: Philippe Bastiaens
	14:00 - 14:20	GFP-Rab6 defines a new Golgi to ER retrograde transport phatway in live cells	Jamie White	Large Operon
	14:20 - 14:40	Approaches towards 4D microscopy of GFP fusion proteins in Dictyostelium discoideum	Timo Zimmermann	Large Operon
	14:40 - 15:00	Trafficking of viral/cellular proteins in living cells revealed by sensitive real time fluorescence microscopy	Markus Neumann	Large Operon
	15:00 - 15:20	Identification of tubular-saccular organelles as carriers between golgi and plasma membrane	Roman S Polishchuk	Large Operon
	15:20 - 15:40	Dynamics of newly born secretory granules	Hans-Hermann Gerdes	Large Operon
		Near Field Micros./Optical Trapping - Chair: Satoshi Kawata
	14:00 - 14:20	Laser microdissection and laser pressure catapulting: a versatile technique in molecular biology and medicine	Karin Schütze	Small Operon
	14:20 - 14:40	Micromanipulation by light and image processing for the observation of single molecule reactions	Karl Otto Greulich	Small Operon
	14:40 - 15:00	Optical trapping of Rayleigh-Debye particles	Alexander Rohrbach	Small Operon
	15:00 - 15:20	Three-dimensional high-resolution particle tracking for optical tweezers by forward scattered light	Arnd Pralle	Small Operon
	15:20 - 15:40	Mechanical properties of single molecules studied by three-dimensional position fluctuation analysis	Ernst Ludwig Florin	Small Operon
		2D/3D image processing - Chair: Hans van der Voort
	14:00 - 14:20	Experimental imaging properties in two-photon excitation microscopy and in-depth image restoration	Kees de Grauw	R 202
	14:20 - 14:40	Methods of digital measurement of tooth surface and occlusion	Ian Harper	R 202
	14:40 - 15:00	Quantitative analysis of microstructures from 3-D fluorescence confocal images	Geert van Kempen	R 202
	15:00 - 15:20	A multi-purpose imaging approach to fully automated chromosome analysis visualized by multicolor FISH (MFISH)	Kaan Saracoglu	R 202
	15:20 - 15:40	Reconstruction of experimental axialtomographic data from a confocal microscope	Rainer Heintzmann	R 202

	15:40 - 16:10	Break	Coffee	Operon Foyer

	16:10 - 17:50	Parallel Sessions
		Optical Theory - Chair: Colin Sheppard
	16:10 - 16:30	Theoretical modelling of a novel wavefront sensor for confocal microscopy	Martin Booth	Large Operon
	16:30 - 16:50	Controlling the illuminating pupil of a confocal microscope for aberration correction and "super-resolution"	Mark Neil	Large Operon
	16:50 - 17:10	A novel method to calculate gain factors of setups with a large soid angle	Stephan Grill	Large Operon
	17:10 - 17:30	Tunable 3D superresolution by annular binary filters. Application to confocal microscopy	Manuel Martinez-Corral	Large Operon
		Instrumentation - Chair: Stefan Hell
	16:10 - 16:30	Narrow-field and wide-field imaging techniques in Video-Confocal Microscopy	Pier Alberto Benedetti	Small Operon
	16:30 - 16:50	4Pi-Multifocal Multiphoton Microscopy	Martin Schrader	Small Operon
	16:50 - 17:10	Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy in biology: visualisation of biomedical reactions in the cell	Philippe Bastiaens	Small Operon
	17:10 - 17:30	Time-gated fluorescence microscopy in cellular biology	Herbert Schneckenburger	Small Operon
	17:30 - 17:50	Spectral presicion distance microscopy: requirements and application to human chromosome structure analysis	Peter U. Edelmann	Small Operon
		Live Cell Microscopy - Chair: Eric Manders
	16:10 - 16:30	Dynamics of intracellular granules with CD63-GFP in rat basophilic leukemia cells	Mamoru Nakanishi	R 202
	16:30 - 16:50	Correlative light-electron microscopic identification of Golgi-to-plasma membrane carriers	Alexander Mironov	R 202
	16:50 - 17:10	Correlative microscopy of transfected and virus infected cells	Thomas Baechi	R 202
	17:10 - 17:30	Imaging of live PC12 and bovine chromaffin cells by multifocal multiphoton microscopy	Phillip Holroyd	R 202
	17:30 - 17:50	Observation of fluorescent probes in intracellular structures using FCS	Jörg Langowski	R 202

	18:00	Dinner		Canteen

Thursday, 15th	09:00 - 10:20	Parallel Sessions
		Instrumentation - Chair: Ulrich Kubitschek
	09:00 - 09:20	CCDiode II: bringing the readout noise down	James Pawley	Large Operon
	09:20 - 09:40	Tomographic imaging of cryogenic biological specimens with the x-ray microscope at BESSY	Daniel Weiß	Large Operon
	09:40 - 10:00	Measurement of thin coatings in the confocal microscope	Guy Cox	Large Operon
	10:00 - 10:20	Two-photon three-dimensional optical data storage under continuous wave illumination	Min Gu	Large Operon
		Multiphoton Technology/Application - Chair: Karsten König
	09:00 - 09:20	Two photon microscopy of fluorescent dyes for cell physiology using a turn-key, low power infra-red laser	Roland Nitschke	Small Operon
	09:20 - 09:40	Two-photon optical beam induced current imaging of InGaN blue LEDs	Fu-Jen Kao	Small Operon
	09:40 - 10:00	Two photon excitation application to energy transfer	Irina Majoul	Small Operon
		Live Microscopy Medicine - Chair: Christoph Cremer
	09:00 - 09:20	Confocal Imaging of Dental Material Maturation and Monitoring Lip Changes in Crohns Disease	Tim Watson	R 202
	09:20 - 09:40	Cytoplasmic and nuclear calcium signalling in human microvascular endothelial cells	E. Marion Schneider	R 202
	09:40 - 10:00	In vivo confocal: I. On-line 3-dimensional imaging of the cornea	H. Dwight Cavanagh	R 202
	10:00 - 10:20	In vivo confocal: II. Thickness and light scattering measurements in eyes	James Jester	R 202

	10:20 - 10:45	Break	Coffee	Operon - Foyer

	10:45 - 12:15	Plenary Session
	10:45 - 11:30	Spectral precision distance microscopy in human genome 3D-nanostructure analysis	Christoph Cremer	Operon
	11:30 - 12:15	Control of microtubule dynamics in Xenopus egg extracts	Anthony A. Hyman	Operon

	12:15	Closing Ceremony		Operon

	13:00 - 14:15	Lunch		Canteen

	14:15	The End

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