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.