Thursday, 1 October 2015

08:00

Registration & Coffee

08:55

Opening Welcome – Kattesh V. Katti - Director, Institute of Green Nanotechnology / Radiology / Cancer Nanotechnology Platform, University of Missouri


Cell Image Analysis

09:00

Kattesh V. KattiKeynote Presentation

Theranostic Gold-198 Nanoparticles In Nanomedicine: Implications In Concurrent Molecular Imaging and Tumor Therapy
Kattesh V. Katti, Director, Institute of Green Nanotechnology / Radiology / Cancer Nanotechnology Platform, University of Missouri, United States of America

10:00

Correlation of Kinetic Inhibitory Ligand Binding with 3D Tumor Invasion for the Evaluation of anti-Metastatic Effects of CXCR4 Inhibitors
Peter Banks, Scientific Director, BioTek Instruments Inc, United States of America

10:30

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

11:15

SOM Analysis of individual cellular fingerprints in High Content Images
Martin Daffertshofer, Director Strategic Marketing Imaging Informatics, Perkin Elmer Cellular Technologies GmbH, Germany

11:45

DENZ BIO-Medical GmbHTechnology Spotlight:
Enhancing the functionality of Bioimaging devices
Harald Denz, CEO, DENZ BIO-Medical GmbH

12:15

BrukerTechnology Spotlight:
Mass Spectrometric Imaging and Tissuetyping for the Analysis of Proteins and Metabolites in Tissue
Sören-Oliver Deininger, MALDI Imaging Product Specialist, Bruker

12:45

Lunch Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

13:15

SelectBioFree Workshop
Going multiplex with the Chemotaxis assay : label-free cell tracking, growth and morphometry of slowly migrating cancer cells with quantitative phase microscopy


Model Organisms

14:15

Jayakumar PerumalKeynote Presentation

Frontiers in optical Imaging in Translational Medicine
Jayakumar Perumal, Senior Scientist , Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC), Singapore

In this talk, I will be focusing on our recent advancement in the field of SERS as an ultrasensitive and molecular specific bio-sensing platform, specifically for the detection of various biomarkers and in the development of bio-assays. SERS detection relies on the giant amplification of the vibrational ‘fingerprint’ of the Raman scatter signal when the analyte is in a close proximity to nano-roughened silver or gold coated substrates/colloids. SERS biosensor platforms are developed using novel nanomaterial concepts integrated with substrates or optical fiber platforms. In vivo biomarker detection in animal model using SERS-active nanoparticles will also be discussed.

15:15

Sciencewerke Pte LtdTechnology Spotlight:
Transcending modalities: Bridging the in vitro and in vivo gap
Roeswita Leono, Senior Application Specialist, Bio-Imaging, Sciencewerke Pte Ltd

15:45

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area


Light Microscopy

16:30

Upconverting nanoparticles providing means for deep tissue optical imaging and photoactivation
Stefan Andersson-Engels, Director, Lund University Medical Laser Centre, Sweden

17:00

Line scan based microscopy methods for deep tissue imaging
Nanguang Chen, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore

17:30

New Tools for Quantitative Imaging: Camera-Based Flourescence Spectroscopy with Single Molecule Sensitivity
Thorsten Wohland, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore

18:00

End of Day One

Friday, 2 October 2015

08:00

Registration & Coffee


Super Resolution / High Definition Microscopy

09:00

Melissa L. Knothe TateKeynote Presentation

Piecing Together the 106+ Piece Human Body Puzzle: Towards Seamless, Multiscale Imaging and Mapping of Organ Systems, Organs and their Cellular Inhabitants
Melissa L. Knothe Tate, Paul Trainor Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Fellow of AIMBE, ASME, BMES, Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia

10:00

A Robust High Throughput Image Based Screening Assay to Identify Inhibitors of Gastric Cancer Cell Lines
Sravanthy Manesh, Research Scientist, Experimental Therapeutics Centre, Singapore

10:30

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

11:15

Optical diagnostics of skin vascular reactions using the laser speckle imaging contrast technique
Igor Meglinski, IoP Fellow, SPIE Fellow Professor, Director Opto-Electronics and Measurement Techniques Laboratory, University of Oulu , Finland

11:45

Live Cell Super Resolution using Structured Illumination Imaging
Leanna Ferrand, Product Support Leader, Cellular Imaging & Analysis, GEHC Life Sciences, United States of America

12:15

Dassault SystèmesTechnology Spotlight:
From Learning to Deep Learning in Life Science Research Imaging, Towards the Promise of Artificial Intelligence
Tim Moran , Director Life Science Product Management, Dassault Systèmes

12:45

Lunch, Poster Session and Networking in Exhibit Hall

13:15

SelectBioFree Workshop
Going multiplex with the Chemotaxis assay : label-free cell tracking, growth and morphometry of slowly migrating cancer cells with quantitative phase microscopy


Multi-Modal Imaging

14:15

Sambasivam Sendhil VelanKeynote Presentation

Translational Metabolic Imaging - Mice to Man
Sambasivam Sendhil Velan, Head, Metabolic Imaging Group, SBIC, A*STAR, Singapore, SBIC, A*STAR, Singapore

15:15

Micro-imaging cancer morphology, microvasculature and stiffness based on optical coherence tomography
David Sampson, Head, Optical & Biomedical Engineering Laboratory and Director of the Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation & Analysis, University of Western Australia, Australia

15:45

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

16:30

PANEL DISCUSSION

17:30

Close of Conference