Seeing is Believing: The Future of Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging
Seeing is Believing: The Future of Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging
Duke University
French Family Science Center
Agenda
Sunday, March 11, 2007
2:00PM-4:00PM
Registration and Poster Setup
French Family Science Center Foyer
4:00PM-4:20PM
Introduction and Welcome French Family Science Center Auditorium
Warren S. Warren, Director, Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging
Duke University
4:20PM-6:10PM
Finding New Sources of Contrast
French Family Science Center Auditorium
4:20PM-4:50PM
Eliminating the Background in MR Imaging: The Future Looks Bright
Thomas J. Meade, Northwestern University
4:50PM-5:20PM
High-resolution NMR of Proteins in Living Cells
Gary J. Pielak, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
5:20PM-5:50PM
Development of Functionalized Nanoparticles for Early Detection and Treatment of
Cancers and Metastatic Disease
Carola Leuschner, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Influence of Size and Shape of SPIONs on Contrast Enhancement in MRI
Challa Kumar, Louisiana State University
5:50PM-6:10PM
Novel Structural and Functional Contrast Mechanisms for High-resolution,
Nonlinear Optical Tissue Microscopy
Martin C. Fischer, Duke University
6:10PM-8:00PM
Poster Session and Reception
French Family Science Center Foyer
Monday, March 12, 2007
8:00AM-9:00AM
Continental Breakfast
French Family Science Center Foyer
9:00AM-10:40AM
Advances in Imaging Technology
French Family Science Center Auditorium
9:00AM-9:20AM
Free Electron Laser Photoelectron Emission Microscopy (FEL-PEEM) of Melanosomes
John D. Simon, Duke University
9:20AM-9:50AM
Soft X-ray Nano-tomography of Biological Cells
Carolyn A. Larabell, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
9:50AM-10:20AM
The Spallation Neutron Source: New Directions in Neutron Spectroscopy and Imaging
Ian S. Anderson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
10:20AM-10:40AM
Medical Imaging through Neutron Stimulated Emission Computed Tomography (NSECT)
Anuj Kapadia, Duke University
10:40AM-11:00AM Break French Family Science Center Foyer
11:00AM-12:50PM
Molecular Imaging in Pharmaceutical Development
French Family Science Center Auditorium
11:00AM-11:30AM
Molecular Imaging in Drug Discovery
Susanta Sarkar, Glaxo-Smith-Kline
11:30AM-11:50AM
A Stochastic, Cantilever Approach to the Evaluation of Solution Phase
Thermodynamic Quantities
Eric J. Toone, Duke University
11:50AM-12:20PM
In Vivo Optical Imaging Enabled by Soft-matter Analogs of the Quantum Dots
Michael Therien, University of Pennsylvania
12:20PM-12:50PM
Imaging Lipid Metabolism with PET
Timothy DeGrado, Indiana University School of Medicine
12:50PM-2:00PM
Lunch and Poster Session
French Family Science Center Foyer
2:00PM-3:40PM
Clinical and Diagnostic Applications
French Family Science Center Auditorium
2:00PM-2:20PM
Imaging and the Development of Targeted Cancer Therapies
H. Kim Lyerly, Duke University
2:20PM-2:50PM
Imaging: The NIH Perspective
Daniel C. Sullivan, National Institutes of Health
2:50PM-3:20PM
Human Brain Function Investigation by Magnetic Resonance: New
Multi-modal Perspectives
Bruno Maraviglia, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
3:20PM-3:40PM
Intermolecular Multiple Quantum MR Thermometry
Gigi Galiana, Princeton University
3:40PM-4:00PM
Break
French Family Science Center Foyer
4:00PM-5:00PM
Translating Imaging Technologies
French Family Science Center Auditorium
4:00PM-4:20PM Physiologic, Metabolic, and Structural Alterations in Breast Cancer: Assessment
via Optical Technologies
Nimmi Ramanujam, Duke University
4:20PM-4:40PM Optical Biosensing and Imaging
Tuan Vo-Dinh, Duke University
4:40PM-5:00PM
Advanced Imaging at the Center for in vivo Microscopy
G. Allan Johnson, Duke University
5:00PM-6:00PM
Lab Tours: Fitzpatrick, CIVM, French
6:15PM-7:00PM
Reception
Washington Duke Inn
7:00PM
Dinner
After Dinner Program:
Peter Lange, Provost, Duke University
Andrew Conrad, Chief Scientific Officer,
North Carolina Research Campus at Kannapolis
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Session organized jointly with the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics
8:00AM-9:00AM
Continental Breakfast
French Family Science Center Foyer
9:00AM-10:20AM
Advances in Optical Microscopies
French Family Science Center Auditorium
9:00AM-9:30AM
Long-term and Portable Cellular Level Imaging of the Mouse Brain Using
Fluorescence Microendoscopy
Mark Schnitzer, Stanford University
9:30AM-10:00AM Activating Your Microscope – Optical Transfection of Mammalian Cells
C.T.A. Brown, St. Andrews University
10:00AM-10:20AM
Nonlinear Absorption Provides New Contrast in Multiphoton Microscopy of Tissue
Dan Fu, Princeton University
10:20AM-10:50AM
Break
French Family Science Center Foyer
10:50AM-12:00PM
Commercial Imaging Technologies
French Family Science Center Auditorium
10:50AM-11:10AM
Molecular Imaging Using Coded Aperture Spectroscopy
David Brady, Duke University
11:10AM-11:40AM
From Microscopes to Mice: Multispectral Imaging for Brightfield, Fluorescence,
and Small-Animal Imaging
Richard Levenson, Cambridge Research Instrumentation
11:40AM-12:00PM Optical Coherence-based Imaging and Sensing in Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Joseph Izatt, Duke University
12:00PM-1:00PM
Adjournment and Boxed Lunch
French Family Science Center Foyer
Registration Information
Upon receipt of the full registration fee, each participant will receive
a confirmation notice.
Conference Fee: Preregistration by March 1, 2007, is free to qualified participants (undergraduate and graduatae students from all universities, academic scientists, and industrial scientists with research interests related to molecular imaging). Onsite registration is $25.00. The conference will include conference materials, continental breakfasts,
two lunches, a reception and dinner. Onsite registration will not guarantee dinner seating.
To register by phone, please
call Ms. Wynn at 919-681-2691.