Frontiers in Neurophotonics 2007

Download the Frontier in Neurophotonics Summer School 2007 poster (1.9 MB)

 

Program

Monday, June 4t

4:00PM
Badge and attendee's kit pickup at CRULRG

5PM-6PM
Opening session: Overview of Challenges in Neuroscience
(Yves de Koninck; CRULRG)

6PM-7PM
Welcoming cocktail

 

Tuesday, June 5th


9AM-Noon

Lectures session #1
- Overview of genetic tools for imaging and manipulating live cells and tissue (Claude Gravel, CRULRG)
- Synaptic photonics: Using light to study synaptic function
(George J. Augustine, Duke University)
- Live imaging of intracellular signaling events
(Paul De Koninck, CRULRG)
- Monitoring synaptogenesis in vivo (Edward Ruthazer, MNI, McGill University

 

1:30-5PM

Lectures session #2
- Optical approaches for cellular functional imaging
- Two-photon microscopy for imaging synaptic dynamics
(Lisa Topolnik,CRULRG)
- Imaging the activity of neurons and networks at high temporal resolution: new strategies(Stéphane Dieudonné, ENS Paris)
- Optical monitoring of membrane potential
(Jérôme Mertz, Boston Univ.)

 

Wednesday, June 6th


9AM-Noon

Lectures session #3
- Non-photonics techniques for neuroimaging in mice
(Mark Henkelman, MICe, Univ. Toronto)
- 3D optical projection tomography for developmental biology
(Mark Henkelman, MICe, Univ. Toronto)
- An introduction to confocal and nonlinear optical microscopy
(Peter C. So, M.I.T., Boston)
- Two-photon 3D tissue cytometry: High throughput, high content imaging
(Peter C. So, M.I.T., Boston)


1:30-5PM

Laboratory demonstrations (groups) and posters session

 

5PM-6PM

Conference
- Spatial challenges in cellular imaging: new approaches
(Jérôme Mertz, Boston Univ.)


Thursday, June 7th


9AM-11:30

Lectures session #4
- Overview of challenges in molecular tracking in live cells
- New approaches in single molecule imaging
(Laurent Cognet, CPMOH, Bordeaux)
- Single molecule tracking in live cells
(Laurent Groc, IFM, Bordeaux)
- Fluorescence spectroscopy for molecular tracking (FCS, ICS, PCH, etc.)
(Paul Wiseman, McGill Univ.)


1:00-4:30

Laboratory demonstrations (groups) and posters session

 

4:30-5:30

Closing session
- Novel spectroscopies for tissue imaging in situ
(Daniel Côté, CRULRG)

 

News

The Enlightened Brain

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The optrode (the combined probe enabling electrophysiological and optical recordings in vivo) developed by Dr. Yves De Koninck and collaborators has been selected as one of 2011 top 10 discoveries by the Québec Science magazine.

$700,000 over 3 years

for the research being performed in Québec

Optical imaging and biosimulation platforms to speed CNS drug
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