“Trends in Microscopy” (TiM), the biennial conference of GerBI-GMB, changes format! In 2020, TiM, alias GerBI-GMB Spring School, will be an intense microscopy training camp offering hands-on workshops and scientific talks from distinguished guest speakers. The program will also cover fundamentals of optics and practical sessions on image analysis.
Round table discussions and presentations by renowned researchers who were funded by the latest large equipment initiative for microscopy of the German Research Foundation (DFG) will round off the event.
Participants will reside at the conference site, a nicely renovated ancient military base immersed in the unspoiled landscape of the Biosphere Reserve Swabian Alb, for the whole week. TiM2020 addresses in particular Ph.D. students and Postdocs.
Plenary Lectures
- Stefan W. Hell, MPI for Medical Research in Heidelberg and MPI for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen (Keynote Lecture)
- Jan Huisken, Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison/Wisconsin (USA)
- Ulrich Kubitscheck, University of Bonn
- Sandrine Leveque-Fort, CNRS/ Univ. Paris Sud (France)
Workshops
| – | Ruth Hans, Hubert Bauch Understanding microscopic image formation: Ernst Abbe’s classic experiments using a vintage diffraction apparatus |
– | Yvonne Stahl, Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters Investigating protein interaction in living plant tissue and human cells by FLIM/ FRET measurements |
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| – | Robert Haase, Deborah Schmidt Bio-Image Analysis Open Space (BIOS) – a temporary core facility and open coworking space for TIM2020 |
– | Aurélie Jost, Sebastian Lotz Out of the Box – Do-it-yourself microscopy using the UC2 Box and «BaKaRoS – Baukasten zur Realisierung optischer Systeme» |
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| – | Astrid Schauss, Christian Jüngst Adaptive illumination schemes and adaptive optics modules for improved confocal and STED microscopy. |
– | Jan Huisken, Michael Weber Hands-on light sheet microscopy with Flamingo, the modular and shareable research microscope. |
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| – | Ulrike Engel, Steffen Dietzel, Christian Feldhaus, Ralph Palmisano Various flavours of microscope perfomance testing |
– | Christian Tischer Big image data visualisation and processing in ImageJ |
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| – | Luis Fernando Delgadillo Silva, Hella Hartmann Glucose stimulated in vivo Ca2+ imaging in zebrafish pancreatic ß-cells |
– | Wouter Masselink, Pawel Pasierbek Establishing rapid tissue clearing in any lab with minimal overhead |
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| – | Gerhard Holst, Fred S. Wouters, Gertrude Bunt Direct FRET imaging with a FD-fluorescence lifetime imaging camera |
– | Ulrich Kubitscheck, Juan Eduardo Rodriguez Gatica, Jens Schweihoff, Martin K. Schwarz Super-resolution imaging achieved by specimen expansion and confocal microscopy |
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| – | Rainer Kurre, Michael Holtmannspötter Single molecule localization and tracking microscopy in living cells |
– | Montserrat Coll, Jim Swoger Clearing & imaging biological tissue with light-sheet microscopy |
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| – | Robin Diekmann Quantitative 3D single molecule localization microscopy hands-on |
– | Hans Fried Building an autocorrelator for pulse width measurements for 2P- and 3P microscopy |
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| – | Petr Walczysko Image data management with the OMERO platform |
– | Sabine Reither, Monika Löschinger Light sheet microscopy of mammalian samples |
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| – | Mike Heilemann, Christoph Spahn STED with exchangeable fuorophores |
– | Holger Lorenz Swelling / live cell expansion microscopy |
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| – | Sebastian Beer Digital cameras – Theory and Technology |
– | Jürgen Schmied, Sebastian Strauss Super-resolution imaging with DNA-PAINT |
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| – | Werner Zuschratter, André Weber, Yury Prokazov Single photon counting made easy |
– | Roland Nitschke Spinning disk live cell imaging with different cameras – sCMOS and EMCCD |
We would like to express our thanks to the workshop providers and companies who, with their ideas, knowledge, equipment, and commitment, are making TiM2020 possible!
Registration and poster abstract submission
The registration fee includes:
- participation in TiM2020
- four nights accommodation including breakfast (if required, see below)
- lunch, dinner and coffee breaks during TiM2020
- social event
- abstract booklet
Posters
We encourage all participants to submit a poster abstract. A poster submission form will be provided at registration.
Cancellation policy
In case of cancellation within 14 days after registration, fees will be refunded. No refund will be possible after this date or for last minute cancellations or no-show. In case of cancellation due to serious illness, a medical certificate will be requested. Cancellation requests must be sent by email to veranstaltungsmanagement@uni-konstanz.de.
DFG Rundgespräch
TiM2020 will include a “DFG-Rundgespräch”, which is also a reference back towards the origins of this conference series
Topics will be:
- Light Sheet Microscopy
- In Vivo Imaging
- Material Analysis
- Superresolution Imaging
- FLIM
Presentations are given by renowned researchers who were funded by the latest large equipment initiative of DFG “Novel Experimental Light Microscopes for Research“.
Contact and Organizers
TiM2020 is organised by German BioImaging – Gesellschaft für Mikroskopie und Bildanalyse e.V. and University of Konstanz.
- Elisa May, University of Konstanz
- Roland Nitschke, University of Freiburg
- Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters, University of Düsseldorf
- Hella Hartmann, Technical University Dresden
- Christian Feldhaus, MPI for Developmental Biology in Tübingen
- Stefan Terjung, EMBL in Heidelberg
- Michèle Quelle, University of Konstanz
- Nadine Utz, German BioImaging in Konstanz
Scientific Program Committee
- Steffen J. Sahl, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen
- Mike Heilemann, Goethe University Frankfurt
- Jan Huisken, Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison/Wisconsin
- Ralf Palmisano, Optical Imaging Center Erlangen
