(独)科学技術振興機構:
 FOM2008において"Beyond the Limit Technology" セッションを開催

独立行政法人 科学技術振興機構(JST)は、Focus On Microscopy 2008 (FOM2008)において、"Beyond the Limit Technology"セッションを開催します。本セッションでは、高分解能顕微鏡をはじめとした、既存技術の限界を超えたフォトニクスに主眼をおいた研究発表がおこなわれ、それに関連した戦略的創造研究推進事業(CREST)の研究内容も紹介されます。

会場: 兵庫県立淡路夢舞台国際会議場 ( http://www.yumebutai.co.jp/ )
会期: 2008年4月13日(日)〜 15日(水)
FOM2008ホームページ: http:/www.focusonmicroscopy.org/

Program of JST "Beyond the Limit Technology" session in FOM2008
Sunday, April 13

Session I : 16:00-18:10 (Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center)

  • S. Kawata
    Opening Remark
  • O. Shimomura
    "Discovery and evolution of GFP"
  • T. Wilson (University of Oxford)
    "Making light work in microscopy"
  • A. Ben-Yakar (University of Texas)
    to be announced

Monday, April 14

Session II : 08:30-09:50 (Main Hall)

  • H. Hamaguchi (University of Tokyo)
    to be announced
  • H. Shroff (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus)
    "Technical and Biological Applications of Photoactivation Localization Microscopy (PALM)"

Session III : 10:10-12:10 (Main Hall)

  • S. Kawata (Osaka University)
    "Imaging beyond the plasmonics: New aspects in tip-enhanced Raman microscopy"
  • J. Hofkens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
    "A stroboscopic approach for fast photoactivation-localization microscopy with Dronpa mutants: S-PALM"
  • P. Dedecker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
    "Subdiffraction imaging through the selective donut-mode depletion of the fluorescent protein Dronpa"
  • E.H. Rego (University of California, San Francisco)
    "Nonlinear structured-illumination microscopy with photoswitchable molecules"
  • O. Haeberlé (University of Haute-Alsace)
    "Saturated structured subtraction microscopy (S3M) with theoretically unlimited resolution"
  • T. Yano (Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University)
    "Tip-pressurized Raman microscopy for molecular nano-imaging"

Session IV : 14:00-16:00 (Main Hall)

  • S.W. Hell (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry)
    "Breaking Abbe's barrier: fluorescence microscopy with diffraction-unlimited resolution"
  • J. Schröder (Leica Microsystems CMS GmbH)
    "In vivo labeling method for nanoscale resolution microscopy"
  • E. Auksorius (Physics Department, Imperial College London)
    "STED microscopy with supercontinuum source, holographic PSF control and FLIM"
  • G.C. Cox (Unikversity of Sydney)
    "Super-resolution imaging of Fts-Z in Bacillus subtilis during interphase and cell division"
  • M. Yamanaka (Department of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University)
    "Spatial resolution improvement in confocal fluorescence microscopy by using saturated excitation"
  • S. Kawano (Department of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University)
    "Imaging properties of saturated-excitation fluorescence microscopy"

Tuesday, April 15

Session V : 08:30-09:50 (Main Hall)

  • T. Ando (Kanazawa University)
    "High-speed AFM and video shooting of dynamic biomolecular processes"
  • L.V. Wang (Washington University, St. Louis)
    "Super-depth photoacoustic microscopy"