| Tuesday, May 16, 2023 |
| 8:15 – 8:45 |
Registration: Coffee & light breakfast |
| 8:45 – 9:00 |
Welcome & Opening Remarks: Laurent Bentolila, ALMS CNSI |
| 9:00 – 10:00 |
Session 1: Biophotonic Sensors Chair: Haley Marks, ALMS CNSI |
| Debjit Roy |
Towards precise optical measurements of steady-state of- and small changes in- resting membrane potentials |
| Yi Chen |
Electrochemical O2 gradient under a confocal microscope |
| Siddharth Srivastava |
Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Extra-Cellular Vesicles using Au-nanopyramid substrates |
| 10:00 – 10:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 11:15 |
Session 2: In vivo Dynamic Imaging Chair: Ivan Lopez, UCLA Medicine |
| Brian Jeong |
4D visualization of angiotropism by metastatic cancers in a zebrafish model |
| Jimmy Hu |
Myosin II powers convergent extension movement during epithelial invagination |
| Jing Wang |
4D imaging to study mechanosensitive cardiac development |
| 11:15 – 12:15 |
Poster Session (Group A) / Lab Tours and Vendor Networking |
| 12:15 – 1:15 |
Session 3: Nanomaterial Characterization Chair: Yi Chen, UCLA Chem&Biochem |
| Haley Marks |
Phasor-FLIM for delineating topical drug releasing nanoparticles from skin autofluorescence |
| Roxanne Castillo |
Overcoming the Biological Barriers of Nanomedicine |
| Amir Nasajpour |
A Tale About Shoaling Bio-inspired Materials Driving Cellular Activity |
| 1:15 – 2:15 |
Lunch Break (on your own) / Vendor Networking |
| 2:15 – 3:15 |
Session 4: Neuroscience Imaging Chair: Brian Jeong, CNSI |
| Jeremie Vitte |
Insights on schwannoma biology using advanced microscopy techniques |
| Ivan Lopez |
Light Sheet Microscopy of the Human Inner Ear |
| Andrew Smith |
Sex Differences in Neurodegeneration in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis |
| 3:15 – 4:15 |
Poster Session (Group B) / Lab Tours and Vendor Networking |
| 4:15 – 5:15 |
Session 5: Label-free Imaging Chair: Esteban Fernandez, CHLA |
| Mike Lake |
Simultaneous Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) imaging of Collagen and Fluorescent Imaging of Elastin in Pig and Rabbit Vocal Chords |
| Zhongying Wang |
Application of Fluorescent Lifetime Imaging Microscopy to evaluate islet cell metabolism in vivo and in vitro |
| Yijie Zhang |
Virtual staining of defocused autofluorescence images of unlabeled tissue using deep neural networks |
| 5:15 – 5:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 5:30 – 6:30 |
Session 6: Cutting-edge Microscopy Chair: Laurent Bentolila, ALMS CNSI |
| Martin Martin |
Localization of Piezo1 in murine enteric smooth muscle cells |
| Javier Carmona |
Large volumetric imaging at near millisecond resolution with Transverse-Sheet Illumination Microscopy |
| Blake Madruga |
Development of Open-Source, High Performance Miniature Multiphoton Microscopy Systems for Freely Behaving Animals |
| 6:30 – 7:00 |
Award Reception: Poster and image contest winners announced |
