Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Session: Quantum Mechanics in Biology and Imaging |
| Discussion Leader: William Roach (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA) |
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm | Warwick Bowen (University of Queensland, Australia) "Quantum Constraints to Biological Measurement, and How to Overcome Them" |
8:00 pm - 8:05 pm | Discussion |
8:05 pm - 8:25 pm | Ronald Walsworth (Harvard University, USA) "Magnetic Imaging Using Quantum Defects in Diamond: From Single Atoms to Whole Organisms" |
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Leonid Krivitskiy (Data Storage Institute, A*STAR, Singapore) "Interfacing Live Retinal Cells with Quantum Light" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Theodore Goodson (University of Michigan, USA) "Entangled Photon Absorption in Bio-Molecules" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Neurophotonics |
| Discussion Leader: Daniel Cote (Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Québec (CRIUSMQ), Canada) |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:05 am - 9:35 am | Kwanghun Chung (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "Deciphering Connectivity and Interactions" |
9:35 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:20 am | Karin Wardell (Linkoping University, Sweden) "Clinical Applications in Functional Neuroscience" |
10:20 am - 10:35 am | Discussion |
10:35 am - 11:05 am | Coffee Break |
11:05 am - 11:35 am | Yves De Koninck (Laval University, Canada) "Optogenetics and the Tools to Probe a Behaving Brain" |
11:35 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:15 pm | Jean-Baptiste Sibarita (University of Bordeaux, France) "Imaging
Interactions in the Smallest Compartments: The Spines and Their Synapses" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Power Hour |
| The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring. |
| Organizer: Anita Mahadevan-Jansen (Vanderbilt University, USA) |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Multi-Scale Imaging |
| Discussion Leader: Melissa Skala (Morgridge Institute for Research, University of Wisconsin, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Kristen Maitland (Texas A&M University, USA) "Combined Fluorescence and Confocal Microscopy" |
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm | Adam de la Zerda (Stanford University, USA) "MOZART and OCT
Molecular Imaging" |
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Benjamin Vakoc (Harvard Medical School, USA) "Wide-Field OCT" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Functional Measurements in Ophthalmology |
| Discussion Leader: Johannes De Boer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Austin Roorda (University of California, Berkeley, USA) "Innovations in Visual Function Testing" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Shy Shoham (Neuroscience Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center, USA) "Holographic Stimulation of the Retina" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Jennifer Hunter (University of Rochester, USA) "Monitoring
Neural Activity in the Retina" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Alfredo Dubra (Medical College of Wisconsin, USA) "Split-Detector
Imaging" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | On the Cusp of Translation |
| Discussion Leader: Stephen Boppart (University of Illinois, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Rebecca Richards-Kortum (Rice University, USA) "High-Resolution Microendoscope for the Detection of Cervical Neoplasia" |
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm | Dvir Yelin (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) "Optical Blood Count" |
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Eman Namati (NinePoint Medical, USA) "Neoplasia Surveillance with Volumetric Laser Endomicroscopy" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Propagation and Imaging Through Turbidity |
| Discussion Leader: Maciej Wojtkowski (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:05 am - 9:35 am | Hui Cao (Yale University, USA) "Mesoscopic Transport of Photons" |
9:35 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:15 am | Wonshik Choi (Korea University, South Korea) "Toward Super-Depth and High-Resolution Optical Imaging" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Alwin Kienle (Institute for Laser Technology in Medicine and Measurement Technique, Germany) "Light Transport in Biological Media" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Monika Ritsch-Marte (Innsbruck Medical University, Austria) "Lensless Imaging and the Computational Approach" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Looking Outside the Box |
| Discussion Leader: Brett Bouma (Harvard Medical School, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Geoffrey Blake (California Institute of Technology, USA) "Precise Detection of Stellar Molecules" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Nergis Mavalvala (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detection" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | James Simmons (Brown University, USA) "Evolved Signal Processing in Bio-Sonar" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am - 9:00 am | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Elastography and Micro-Biomechanics |
| Discussion Leader: Paul M.W. French (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | David Sampson (University of Western Australia, Australia) "Optical Coherence Elastography" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Seemantini Nadkarni (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA) "Micro-Rheology" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Giuliano Scarcelli (University of Maryland, USA) "Brillouin Scattering Elastography" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Amy Oldenburg (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) "Diffusion Sensitive Imaging of Nanoporosity" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Advances in Optical Spectroscopy |
| Discussion Leader: Ton Van Leeuwen (Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:45 pm - 8:05 pm | Christine Hendon (Columbia University, USA) "Automated Optical Cardiac Tissue Classification" |
8:05 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm | Antonio Pifferi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) "Photonics
Challenges for Next Generation Time-Domain Diffuse Optics" |
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:15 pm | Elizabeth Hillman (Columbia University, USA) "Multispectral Optical Intrinsic Signal Imaging" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |