CRG Core Facility Technology Symposium: Super-Resolution Microscopy

Barcelona, 14th December 2010
Organized by the Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)

Symposium overview
In microscopy it has for more than a century been accepted as an unchangeable fact that spatial resolution in a microscope is limited by diffraction. Especially in cellular and molecular biology, many of the processes going on at the cellular level were thus left impossible to image in detail. Only in the last years has this view been challenged and in the last generation of light microscopes it has actually been overcome. Even though the fundamental ideas behind the different super-resolution approaches are very different they have in common that they are truly innovative. Super-resolution light microscopy is thus becoming available for biological research.

The symposium aims to give an overview over several of the technologies in this very recently established field. The potential of these methods will be illustrated in a variety of biological applications and address the intrinsic challenges in spatial resolution, multiple labels and imaging speed.

Program

10:00 Lothar Schermelleh
LMU Biozentrum, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

10:50 Audrey Constals
Bordeaux Neurosciences Institute, Bordeaux, France

11:40 Coffe Break

12:00 Melike Lakadamyali
Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO), Castelldefels, Spain

"Super Resolution Imaging and Its Application to Biology"

12:50 General Discussion & Conclusions

13:00 End of Symposium

Organizers
Timo Zimmermann (visit the Advanced Light Microscopy Unit)
Doris Meder (visit the CRG Core Facilities main page)

Venue
Room 473.10
CRG - Centre for Genomic Regulation
Dr. Aiguader, 88
08003 Barcelona, Spain
www.crg.eu

Registration
Participation to the symposium is free of charge and open to all PRBB staff as well as external scientists. Participants should use the link on the right framework of this page for registration.
This symposium is limited to 72 participants (registrations will be managed on a first come, first served basis)

Contact person
Blanka Wysocka
CRG - Centre for Genomic Regulation
Dr. Aiguader, 88
08003 Barcelona, Spain
Tel. +34 93 316 01 45
Fax +34 93 316 00 99

Language: All lectures will be in English