Special Scientific Events
Pre-meeting Topical Congress
The 2nd International Symposium
on Biophotonics
Organizer: Gerard Marriott
August 2-3, 2003
San Antonio Convention Center
Additional Fee Required
The Second International Symposium
on Biophotonics will focus on new
developments in biological optical
spectroscopy and microscopy and
their applications in research areas
that interface the biological,
biomedical, biotechnology and
engineering sciences. One of the
goals of the symposium is to
highlight new Biophotonic
technologies for studying biological
reactions and processes in complex
molecular environments such as
within living cells. Special sessions
will also be devoted to single
molecule imaging, optical probes,
intra-vital imaging, and high
throughput and high content
proteomic analyses using biochips.
Second International Symposium on Biophotonics
San Antonio, Texas 2/3 August, 2003
Saturday, 2nd August 2003
8:25-8:30 Welcome and Introduction Gerard Marriott
Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Chair: David Jameson
8:30-9:00 David Jameson, University of Hawai`i
A Nano-History of Fluorescence
9:00-9:30 Luis Bagatolli, University Southern Denmark
Combining Giant vesicle technology and confocal/two-photon excitation microscopy to study lipid/lipid and lipid/protein interactions
9:30-10:00 Robert Clegg, University of Illinois
Fšrster Resonance Energy Transfer: Fundamentals of measuring FRET
10:00-10:30 Theodore Hazlett, University of Illinois
FCS: Extracting Meaning from Noise
10:30-10:45 Coffee
Optical Probes
Chair: Joseph Beecham
10:45-11:15 Achillefs N. Kapanidis, University of California-Los Angeles UCLA
Virtual sorting of single biomolecules using optical probes
11:15-11:45 Tomasz Heyduk, St. Louis Univ. School of Medicine
Probing mechanisms of transcription initiation with optical probes
11:45-12:15 Joseph Beechem, Molecular Probes, Eugene, Oregon
Fluorescence detection methodologies and the biotechnology revolution --- new probes for: Proteomics, Genomics, HTS and Cell Biology
12:15-12:45 J. Matt Mauro, USN Research Laboratory
Quantum Dot-Protein Conjugates: Novel Hybrid Materials as Luminescent Detection Reagents
12:45-14:00 Lunch
Emerging Trends in Fluorescence Microscopy
Chair: Ian Parker
14:00-14:30 Ian Parker, University California-Irvine
Functional imaging from molecules to cells
14:30-15:00 Martin Booth, University of Oxford,UK
Adaptive optics for aberration correction in confocal microscopy
15:00-15:30 Gerard Marriott, University Wisconsin-Madison
Triggering and imaging specific biological processes in complex molecular environments
15:30-16:00 Coffee
Single Molecule Physiology
Chair: Taekjip Ha
16:00-16:30 Daniel Chiu, University of Washington
Nanoscale Bioanalysis
16:30-17:00 Jens-Christian Meiners, University of Michigan
Dynamics of Single DNA Molecules
17:00-17:30 Taekjip Ha, University of Illinois
How to unzip and scramble single DNA molecules
18:00- Cocktails and buffet
Sunday, 3rd August, 2003:
Cell Physiology
Chair: Patricia Keeley
9:00-9:30 David Piston, Vanderbilt University
Photonics approaches to glucose-stimulate insulin secretion
9:30-10:00 Brian Herman, University of Texas-San Antonio
Multiphoton Streak-camera based FLIM
10:00-10:30 Patricia Keeley, University of Wisconsin
Imaging epithelial cell adhesions in relevant 3D matrix environments
10:30-11:00 Coffee
Neuroscience
Chair: Meyer Jackson
11:00-11:30 Winfried Denk, MPI, Heidelberg, Germany
Dendritic processing in starburst cells: how does the retina discriminate motion direction
11:30-12:00 Meyer Jackson, University of Wisconsin
Calcium imaging and voltage imaging in hippocampal slices
12:00-12:30 Vahri Beaumont, MRC, Cambridge, UK
Imaging Calcium Microdomains and Vesicle Fusion using Total Internal Reflection and Interference Reflection Microscopy
12:30-14:00 Lunch
NIR Imaging and Photon Migration Spectroscopy
Chair: Sergio Fantini
14:00-14:30 Atsushi Maki, Hitachi Corp., Japan
Optical topography and its applications for brain science
14:30-15:00 Judith Mourant, Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
Elastic scattering/diffuse-reflectance methods for cancer detection in epithelial tissue
15:00-15:30 Albert Cerussi, University California-Irvine
Applications of diffuse optical spectroscopy in critical care medicine
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-16:30 Thomas Moesta, Humboldt University, Germany
Discriminatory value of optical mammography with respect to current diagnostic modalities
16:30-17:00 Sergio Fantini, Tufts University
Near-infrared spectroscopy of the human brain during electro-convulsive therapy
Emerging areas in Biophotonics
Chair: Gerard Marriott
17:00-17:30 Dennis Matthews, University California-Davis
Application of Biophotonics to Bioscience, Biodefense and Medicine
17:30-18:00 Watt W. Webb, Cornell University
Futures for Biophotonics: nanoscopic to endoscopic
Meeting ends
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