2015 Program

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Frontiers in Neurophotonics 2015 Scientific Program

Saturday, October 3 2015
13:30 – 17h	Registration
17:00 – 17:15	Welcome remarks
17:30 – 19:30 Session 1	Session Chair: Jean-Baptiste Sibarita 17:30-18:00 Jérôme Mertz, Boston University, USA – Adaptive optics without guide stars 18:00-18:30 Mathias Fink, École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris, France – Ultrasound and Neuroscience 18:30-19:00 David Perrais, Université de Bordeaux, France – Visualizing membrane trafficking in living cells with new pH sensitive fluorescent proteins 19:00-19:30 Istvan Katona, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary – Cell type-specific STORM superresolution imaging of synaptic endocannabinoid signaling
19:30 –	Welcome cocktail + Museum visit (Musée de la Civilisation)

Sunday, October 4 2015
9:00 – 11:00 Session 2a	Session Chair: Valentin Nägerl 9:00-9:30 Sebastian Jähne, University of Göttingen Medical Center, Germany – Super-resolution investigation of synaptic function 9:30-10:00 Markus Sauer, Biozentrum Universität Würzburg, Germany – dSTORM Coming of Age: Applications in Neuroscience 10:00-10:15 – Short talk Paul De Koninck, Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec, Canada – Fluorescence lifetime nanoscopy for measuring FRET in dendritic spines 10.15-10.30 – Short talk Tamas Fuzesi – Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Calgary, Canada –Hypothalamic CRH neurons balance opposing stress behaviours. 10:30-11:00 Jean-Baptiste Sibarita, University of Bordeaux, France – Single-objective Selective-Plane Illumination Microscopy for high- and super-resolution imaging of biological structures
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break at exhibit hall Sponsored by the Centre d’Optique Photonique et Laser
11:30 – 12:30 Session 2b	Session Chair: Valentin Nägerl 11:30-12:00 Takeharu Nagai, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Japan – Genetically-encoded tools to optically control and image neuronal activity 12:00-12:30 David Kleinfeld, University of California in San Diego, USA – Blood flow, brain vascular dynamics, and the basis of resting state connectivity
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch – Poster Sessions
14:00 – 14:05	Special announcement
14:05 – 14.25	14:05 – 14:25 – Industry talk Tatsuo Nakata – Olympus, Senior Manager, R&D/Engineering Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas – New R&D Business Unit: Advancing research through engineering customization
14:25 – 15:10 Session 3a	Session Chair: Paul De Koninck 14:25-15:55 David Boas, Martinos center for biomedical imaging, USA – Optical Imaging of Oxygen Delivery and Consumption : Guiding Interpretation of BOLD fMRI 15:55-15:10 – Short talk Benoit Gosselin – Université Laval, Québec, Canada – A Wireless Headstage for Combined Optogenetics and Multichannel Electrophysiological Recording in Freely Behaving Animals
15:10 – 15:30	15:10 – 15:30 – Industry talk Sead Doric – Doric Lenses – The multimodal evolution of miniature fluorescent microscope
15:30 – 16:45	15:30-15:45 – Short talk Sarah Aufmkolk – Julius-Maximilians University, Würzburg, Germany – Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy of synaptic proteins 15:45-16:15 Tim Murphy, University of British Columbia, Canada – High throughput imaging of mesoscopic functional connectivity in mouse cortex16:15-16:45 Kevin Briggman, NIH-NINDS, USA – Modern 3D electron microscopy for mapping neural circuits
16:45 – 17:15	Coffee break at exhibit hall Sponsored by Huron Digital Pathology
17:15 – 19:00 Session 3b	Session chair: Yves De Koninck 17:15-17:45 Paul Wiseman, McGill University, Canada – New strategies and pitfalls for measuring receptor oligomerization with fluorescence fluctuation methods17:45-18:00 – Short talk Pieter Vanden Berghe – University of Leuven, Belgium – A correlative second harmonic (SH) – electron microscopy (EM) approach to investigate microtubules and intracellular transport phenomena 18:00-18:15 – Short talk Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal -Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec, Canada – Gold nanoparticle-assisted all optical localized stimulation and monitoring of Ca2+ signaling in neurons 18:15-18:45 Nelson Spruston, Janelia Farm, USA – Assessing cell type-specific connectivity in the mouse brain using large-scale array tomography and two-photon microscopy

Monday, October 5 2015
9:00 – 10:30 Session 4a	Session chair: Pierre Marquet9:00-9:30 Yves De Koninck, Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec, Canada – Fibre-optics for in vivo optogenetics; from single cells to hard-to-get-to areas of the nervous system9:30-10:00 Casper C. Hoogenraad, Utrecht University, Netherlands – Monitoring and manipulating intracellular transport 10:00-10:15 – Short talk Benjamin Rappaz – EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland – Image-based label-free screening of GABA agonists, antagonists and modulators 10:15-10:30 – Short talk Antoine Godin, Université de Bordeaux, France – Unraveling live brain tissue nano-structure using single fluorescent carbon nanotubes
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break at exhibit hall Sponsored by Doric Lenses
11:00 – 12:00 Session 4b	Session chair: Pierre Marquet 11:00-11:30 Robert Campbell, University of Alberta, Canada – Red fluorescent protein-based neurophotonic probes for visualization of neuronal activity 11:30 – 12:00 Santiago Costantino, Université de Montréal, Centre de recherche de l’hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Canada – Laser-assisted single-cell tagging and membrane functionalization –
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch – Poster Sessions
14:00-14:30	14:00-14:30 – Industry talk Patrick Myles – Huron Digital Pathology – Advances in Whole Mount Brain Scanning
14:30 – 15:30 Session 5	Session chair: Rainer Friedrich 14:30 – 15:00 Arthur Konnerth, Technische Universität München, Germany – Deep two-photon imaging of neuronal networks in vivo with a red-shifted indicator 15:00 – 15:30 Georg Keller, FMI – Friedrich Miescher Institute, Germany – Visuomotor learning in mouse primary visual cortex
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break in exhibit hall Sponsored by Olympus
16:00 – 17:00 Session 5 (continued)	16:00-16:30 Thomas Oertner, Institute for Synaptic Physiology, Germany – Synaptic plasticity controls synaptic lifetime16:30-17:00 Jason Kerr, Max Planck Institute, Germany – Turning calcium transients into spikes and watching the animal in action
17:15	Departure in front of the Musée towards le Manoir Montmorency (banquet dinner)

Tuesday, October 6
9:00 – 11:00 Session 6a	Session chair: Tim Murphy 9:00-9:30 Rainer Friedrich – Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland – Deconstructing and reconstructing neuronal circuits for olfaction 9:30-10:00 Minoru Koyama, Janelia farm, USA – Synaptic mechanisms underlying integration of early-born and late-born motor circuits 10:00-10:15 – Short talk Pierre Bon – Université de Bordeaux, France – Quantitative Phase Imaging for label-free live-cell cytoskeleton, organelles trafficking and for 3D fluorescence super-resolution 10:15-10:30 – Short talk Masha Prager-Khoutorsky – McGill University, Montreal, Canada – Superresolution imaging reveals unique microtubule structure mediating mechanotransduction in neurons 10:30-11:00 Claire Wyart, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épiniere (ICM), France – Investigation of a novel sensory interface relaying information from the cerebrospinal fluid to motor circuits
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break at exhibit hall Sponsored by Zeiss
11:30 – 12:30 Session 6b	Session chair: Tim Murphy Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA – Recent development in optogenetics
12:30 – 12:45	Closing remarks
12:45 – 14:00	Lunch