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Thursday, March 24, 2005
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Chan Shun Auditorium, Valley Life Sciences Bldg, Rm 2050




In recent years, vastly improved techniques for labeling cellular structures with fluorescent probes, coupled with 
dramatic improvements in microscopes and software, have had a revolutionary impact on our ability to appreciate 
the intricate organization and dynamic properties of living cells. This one-day symposium will bring together on the 
Berkeley campus world leaders in the development and application of new cellular imaging approaches. The work 
presented provides novel insights into fundamental biological processes and our understanding of human disease 
and its treatment.

 

9am

David Drubin, Conference Chair & Divisional Head, Cell & Developmental Biology

Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

 

1st Session Chair: Zac Cande, UCB, Dept. of MCB

9:10-10am

Roger Tsien, UC San Diego

Keynote Address: "Genetically and proteolytically targeted reporters of cell signaling and pathology"

 

10:00-10:10am

Steve Ruzin, UC Berkeley

"The Golub Microscope Collection: Historical Perspectives"

 

 

10:10-10:40am

Coffee Break and viewing of the Golub Collection

 

 

2nd Session Chair: Ehud Isacoff, UCB, Dept. of MCB

 

10:40-11:25am

Mats Gustafsson, UCSF (Macromolecular Structure Group)

"Fluorescence microscopy at extreme spatial resolution"

 

11:25-12:10pm

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Harvard University

"New advances in optical imaging of live cells"

 

 

12:10-1:30pm Lunch Break

 

 

3rd Session Chair: Rebecca Heald, UCB, Dept. of MCB

 

1:30-2:15pm

Peter Friedl, DFG, Wurzburg, Germany

"Imaging tumor cell adhesion and proteolysis: invasion and escape strategies"

 

2:15-3:00pm

Cindy Adams, Cytokinetics, Inc., South San Francisco

"Large scale automated cell imaging and analysis for drug discovery: from compound classification to the kinetics of mitotic arrest"

 

 

3:00-3:25pm

Coffee break

 

 

4th Session Chair: Ellen Robey, UCB, Dept. of MCB

 

3:25-4:10pm

Mary Dickinson, Cal Tech (Cal Tech Biological Imaging Center)

"Dynamic imaging of cardiovascular development in vertebrate embryos"

 

4:10-4:55pm

Michael Cahalan, UC Irvine

"Imaging the cellular dynamics of the immune response in vivo"

 

4:55-5:00pm

Abby Dernburg, UCB/LBNL, Dept. of MCB

Closing Remarks

 

 

5:00-5:45pm

Reception in the VLSB courtyard - all are invited (if the weather is poor, the reception will be held in the 1st floor atrium, between the Jepson Herbarium and the Biosciences Library)