New Advances in Optical Imaging of Live Cells and Organisms
Suzhou, China, May 9 - 13, 2011

Arranged by:

Atsushi Miyawaki, Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan
Sunney Xie, Harvard University, USA
Xiaowei Zhuang, HHMI/Harvard University, USA

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on New Advances in Optical Imaging of Live Cells which will be held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China. The conference will begin at 7.30pm on the evening of Monday May 9, and will conclude after lunch on Friday May 13, 2011.

This conference is similar in design to the famous Cold Spring Harbor meetings series, a program now in its 76th year. The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in optical imaging of live cells and organisms research. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Abstract:

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow’s talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

Stipends:

We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. We have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs. For more details, please visit http://www.csh-asia.org/stipends.html.

Major Topics:

- Super resolution
- Probe Developments
- Nonlinear Coherent Optical Imaging
- Neuron Imaging
- In vivo Imaging
- Single molecule live cell imaging

For the most updated information, please visit our web site at www.csh-asia.org  

Keynote Speaker

Karl Deisseroth, HHMI/Stanford University, USA

Invited Speakers

Emmanuel Beaurepaire, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Heping Cheng, Peking University, CHINA
Ji-Xin Cheng, Purdue University, USA
Bianxiao Cui, Stanford University, USA
Johan Elf, Uppsala University, SWEDEN
Xiaohong Fang, Institute of Chemistry, CAS, CHINA
Scott Fraser, California Institute of Technology,USA
Bo Huang, UCSF Mission Bay Campus,USA
Zhiwei Huang, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
Na Ji, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI, USA
Ulrich Kubitscheck, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, GERMANY
Charles Lin, Harvard Medical School,USA
Qingming Luo, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, CHINA
Atsushi Miyawaki, Riken Brain Science Institute, JAPAN
Shuming Nie, Emory University, USA
Satoshi Nishimura, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN
Mark Schnitzer, HHMI/Stanford University, USA
Paul Selvin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Ernst Stelzer, EMBL, GERMANY
Markus Sauer, Julius-Maximilians-University Wuerzburg, GERMANY
Alice Ting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Jie Xiao, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,USA
Sunney Xie, Harvard University, USA
Ryohei Yasuda, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Toshio Yanagida, Osaka University, JAPAN
Xiaowei Zhuang, HHMI/Harvard University, USA