Program for 1st BioBrillouin Meeting

 

 

 

13th September

 

 

 Location:  Vienna Biocenter

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 Main Lecture Hall,

Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP),

Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, 1030 Vienna

 16:15  Registration

16:45

Welcome / Conference schedule / etc..

About the “BioBrillouin” Action

Welcome to Vienna BioCenter

Welcome from COST National Coordinator

Kareem Elsayad (VBCF)

Francesca Palombo (University of Exeter)

Andreas Tiran (VBCF, Director)

Nicole Schmidt (FFG – Austrian Research Promotion Agency)

 

17:20

Session on “Mechanics in Biology”

Michael Krieg (ICFO, Barcelona)

 

Longitudinal tension is critical for mechanosensation and stability of C elegans touch receptor

17:45

Daniel Gerlich (IMBA, Vienna)

Chromosome mechanics during nuclear assembly
18:10

Philipp Thurner (Technical University, Vienna)

Mechanics of individual collagen fibrils – influence of disease, age and hydration

18:35

Ana-Suncana Smith (FAU, Erlangen) Cell adhesion – from mimetic systems to tissues
19:00 Reception/drinks+snacks/..

 

 

 

 

14th September

 

 

Location: Natural History Museum

(map)

Vortragssaal,

Natural History Museum,

Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna

9:15

Introduction/schedule for day/general information

 

 9:25

WG3:

Instrument Design & Data Analysis

Peter Török (UK)

 

 

Optical design aspects of Brillouin spectrometers

9:50 Itay Remer (IL) Stimulated Brillouin scattering microscopy
10:15 Jack Maxwell (UK) Refractive Index Tomography using Conical Optical Transmission and Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensing
10:40

COFFEE / REFRESHMENTS

 11:00

WG3 (cont)

Vladislav Yakovlev (USA)

 

Citius, Altius, Fortius! New advancements in Brillouin microscopy

11:25 Giuseppe Antonacci (IT) High-contrast, single-stage VIPA spectrometer by field equalization
11:50 LUNCH
 

13:00

 WG4:

Correlative & Comparative Methods

Daniele Fioretto (IT)

 

 

Brillouin-Raman micro-spectroscopy

 13:25

Silvia Caponi (IT) Correlative Brillouin and Raman micro-spectroscopy in living cells
13:50 Francesca Palombo (UK) A Brillouin spectroscopy study of the elasticity of extracellular matrices
14:15 COFFEE / REFRESHMENTS
 

14:30

WG2:

Phenotyping & Novel Life Science Applications

Thomas Dehoux (FR)

 

Mapping drug mechano-sensitivity in tumour spheroids with Brillouin light scattering

 14:55

loic le Goff (FR)

The interplay between growth and mechanics in the developing Drosophila
15:20 Giuliano Scarcelli (USA) Brillouin microscopy for cell biomechanics
15:45 COFFEE / REFRESHMENTS
 

16:05

WG1:

Medical & Clinical Applications

Kareem Elsayad (AT)

 

 

Brillouin Spectroscopy for complimenting Liquid Biopsies

16:30

 Ricardo Gouveia (UK) Brillouin spectro-microscopy as a new tool to explore epithelial stem cell biomechanics
16:55 Cilian McPolin (UK)  Investigating the Biomechanical Properties of Corneas via Brillouin Microscopy
17:20 Jürgen Czarske (DE) Confocal Brillouin microscopy for three-dimensional mechanical mapping of larval zebrafish spinal cord injuries
17:45 Odrun Gederaas (NO) Photochemical techniques available for BioBrillouin members

 

 

 

 

Conference Dinner: 7:30pm

Burg.Ring1, Burgring 1/1, 1010 Vienna

(website, map)

 

 

 

15th September

 

 

 

 

 

Location: Vienna Biocenter

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Main Lecture Hall,

Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP),

Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, 1030 Vienna

9:00 – 11:30

POSTER SESSION

Parallel Work Group (WG) Meetings:
WG 1: 9:00-9:30

WG 2: 9:30-10:00

WG 3: 10:00-10:30

WG 4: 10:30-11:00

WG 5: 11:00-11:30

 

11:30

Session on other networks/events

Raman4Clinics

Raman Spectroscopies for the clinical diagnostics

(COST Action)

11:50 PortASAP

European network for the promotion of portable, affordable and simple analytical platforms

(COST Action)

Guillaume Erny (Chair of PortASAP)
12:10 EuroBioimaging Andreas Walter (CMI, AT)
12:30 Call for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM)  Thorsten Hamann (NTNU, NO)
12:40 BioBrillouin Training School at EMBL Robert Prevedel (EMBL, DE)
 12:50

Closing Remarks & Announcement of next meeting

Kareem Elsayad, Francesca Palombo
13:00-13:10

COST Reimbursement Rules

 

END OF BIOBRILLOUIN MEETING

 

 Svetlana Voinova (COST)

13:30

Management Committee meeting

(for MC members)