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The Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy (LSFM) International Conference is an annual meeting of developers, users, scientists and companies dedicated to the exchange of the most recent information, developments, and advances in light sheet microscopy.
The organizers would like to thank attendees and participants for a productive and informative event!
LSFM was the 2014 Nature Methods method of the year and since then has made great strides in its development and has widely expanded in usage. A good over view of developments and applications in the past years is available from the SPIM Library. This year in the 4th LSFM International Conference (LSFM2017) we are looking forward to new advances in technology, data and image treatment, and applications. A recent important developments was the development of lattice light sheet microscopy by Nobel laureate Eric Betzig, who will give a plenary lecture during the conference.
As a major field of application of LSFM is Developmental Biology, LSFM2017 will be held directly before the 18th International Congress of Developmental Biology (ICDB) held at the same venue.
We look forward to welcoming you in Singapore in 2017.
Other topics in LSFM2017 include:
- New developments in LSFM
- Light sheet engineering
- Sample preparation for LSFM
- Image treatment and handling of large data sets
- Combination of light sheets with spectroscopic methods
- Networking and open source projects
- LSFM applications
Speakers
The organizers are honored to welcome the following speakers to present at the 4th LSFM International Conference (LSFM2017). The conference is open to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty members interested in all aspects of Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy.
Featured Speaker
Eric Betzig, Plenary Lecture
HHMI, Janelia Research Campus
Eric Betzig develops novel optical imaging tools in an effort to open new windows into molecular, cellular, and neurobiology. Due to its comparatively benign effect on living systems, optical microscopy has been the workhorse for studies of structure and function at the cellular level and below for hundreds of years. Many questions at the forefront of molecular, cellular, and neurobiology remain beyond its current capabilities. The Betzig group collaborates with scientists and engineers across disciplines to extend these capabilities in ways that they hope can be readily adopted by biologists at Janelia and elsewhere. Learn more about Prof Betzig’s research.
Full Speaker List
Veronique Angeli
Department of Microbiology, NUS
Bi-Chang Chen
Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Liangyi Chen
Peking University, Beijing, China
Julien Colombelli
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain
Enrico Gratton
University of California, Irvine, USA
Matthias Gunzer
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Lars Hufnagel
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Ulrich Kubitscheck
Universitat Bonn, Biophysikalische Chemie
Raghuveer Parthasarathy
Department of Physics and Materials Science Institute, University of Oregon, USA
Nadine Peyriéras
Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard, CNRS, France
Stephan Preibisch
Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology, Berlin, Germany
Ernst Stelzer
Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS) Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Melissa Knothe Tate
UNSW, Australia
Pavel Tomancak
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Tanya Whitfield
Bateson Centre and Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, UK
Virgile Viasnoff
Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore
Chris Yip
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto
Organizers
The organizing committee for LSFM 2017 was created from faculty from the National University of Singapore and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research. The conference is funded by NUS, the NUS Centre for BioImaging Sciences, Mechanobiology Institute National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technologyical University and the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE).
Thorsten Wohland
Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, NUS
Timothy E Saunders
Mechanobiology Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, NUS
Lai Guan Ng
Singapore Immunology Network, A*Star