FOM2012 – FOCUS ON MICROSCOPY – Detailed Program is Now Available

FOCUS ON MICROSCOPY 2012 – Singapore, April 1-4, 2012 incorporates:
25th International Conference on 3D Image Processing in Microscopy
24th International Conference on Confocal Microscopy

The detailed program of FOM2012 is now available on the website www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org where also the registration is open and hotel information available.

Please note the 21 February deadline for reduced fee early registration.

Tutorial workshops are offered before the start of the conference on Sunday 1 April afternoon from 14:00 to 16:45.
Subjects and speakers are:

• Fundamentals of fluorescence imaging
G.C. Cox, University of Sydney, Australia

• Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
T. Wohland, National University of Singapore

• Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) in cellular imaging
F.S. Wouters, University Medicine, Göttingen, Germany

• Time resolved multi-tag single molecule tracking
F.M. Margadant, National University of Singapore

Attendance is free for registered participants. See for details the program on the website.

Authors have been informed individually by email on the placement of their contribution in the program.

After the successful FOM2011 conference held in Konstanz, Germany last year, the upcoming Focus on Microscopy 2012 will take place in Singapore in the week before Easter from Sunday April 1 to Wednesday April 4, 2012.

It is the next in a series of unique interdisciplinary meetings on advanced multi-dimensional light microscopy and image processing. The conference will take place at the Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre, in the heart of Singapore and will be sponsored by the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the Centre of Bioimaging Sciences (CBIS) and the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI).

Focus on Microscopy 2012 is the continuation of a yearly conference series presenting the latest innovations and new trends in optical microscopy and their application in biology, medicine and material sciences.

Key topics are:

– Theory and practice of confocal and multiphoton-excitation microscopy
– 3D and 4D live cell and tissue imaging
– Super-resolution, nanoscopy imaging: from PSF engineering (4pi, SIM, STED), fluorescent activation/quenching, stochastic/centroid to TIRF
– Time-resolved fluorescence: FRET, FRAP, FLIM, FCS
– Coherent, non-linear microscopies: SHG, THG, SFG, CARS
– Multi-dimensional fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy imaging
– Correlative Light/Electron microscopy
– Laser manipulation and tracking, photo-activation
– Bio- and nano-materials, biosensors
– OCT, endoscopy
– Fast acquisition, automated and high-throughput microscopy
– 3D image processing and visualization for multidimensional data

The conference series is, in addition, known for covering the rapid development of advanced fluorescence labeling techniques for the confocal and multi-photon 3D imaging of -live- biological specimens.

Further information on present and previous FOM conferences can be found on the website:

www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org