The Program
Monday, October 21
08:30-09:00 Registrations and Welcome Coffee
Symposium Opening
09:00-09:05 Opening Remarks - Dr Laurène Donati, Exec. Director of the EPFL Center for Imaging
09:05-09:10 Welcome Words - Prof. Martin Vetterli, President of EPFL
09:10-09:15 Scientific Perspectives - Prof. Suliana Manley, EPFL & General Chair and Prof. Andrew Oates, EPFL & General Chair
Session 1: Automation and Adaptation
09:15-09:45 Jan Huisken: Towards smart microscopy with modular, remote-controlled instruments
09:45-10:15 Ilaria Testa: etSTED: a microscope capable of decision making
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 Hari Shroff: New (& old) methods for improving fluorescence microscopy at depth
11:15-11:45 IHB Selected Abstract Session
11:45-12:15 Wesley Legant: Lattice Light Sheet Microscopy - Innovations, Applications, and Future Directions
12:15-14:00 Lunch & Poster Session
Session 2: Smart Microscopy - Applications Part 1
14:00-14:30 Kate McDole: Illuminating mechanisms of mammalian development using adaptive light-sheet microscopy
14:30-15:00 IHB Selected Abstract Session
15:00-15:30 Mustafa Khammash: Cybergenetics: Real-time feedback regulation of genetic systems through automated microscopy
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 IHB Selected Abstract Session
16:30-17:00 Lucia Marucci: Programming cells using cybergenetics and whole-cell modelling
17:00-17:30 Panel Discussion: Future directions for microscopy - What will we be seeing?
17:30-18:30 Aperitif & Poster Session
19:00 Symposium Dinner at Gina
Tuesday, October 22
Session 3: Computation & Machine Learning
09:00-09:30 Loic Royer: From Adaptive Imaging to Discovery Machines
09:30-10:00 IHB Selected Abstract Session
10:00-10:30 Virginie Uhlmann: Turning morphology into numbers and streamlining bioimage analysis at scale
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Robert Prevedel: How computational approaches and artificial intelligence can boost bio-imaging
11:30-12:00 IHB Selected Abstract Session
12:00-13:00 Lunch & Poster Session
Session 4: Smart Microscopy - Applications Part 2
13:00-13:30 Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal: Navigating Neuronal Landscapes with Smart Nanoscopy
13:30-14:00 Jean-Baptiste Lugagne: Investigating bacterial resistance with single-cell optogenetics and data-driven feedback control
14:00-14:30 IHB Selected Abstract Session
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-15:30 Valentina Emiliani: All-optical neuronal circuits investigation by holographic wave front shaping
15:30-16:00 Knut Drescher: Integrating smart microscopy and roboting sampling to obtain spatiotemporal transcriptomes of bacterial communities
16:00-16:15 Closing Words - Prof. Suliana Manley, EPFL & General Chair and Prof. Andrew Oates, EPFL & General Chair
16:15-17:15 Aperitif
Please note that the program is subject to changes.