Wolfgang Baumeister
Max Planck Insitute of Biochemistry
Germany
First EMBL Imaging Centre Symposium
This conference will take place at EMBL Heidelberg.
Update to Covid-19 requirements for this event: Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or recovery or administered rapid antigen test is required for on-site attendance.
The rapid developments of imaging technologies in the last two decades have led the scientific community to achieve biological and medical discoveries at an ever-increasing pace. Today, outstanding advances in electron (EM) and light microscopy (LM) enable us to directly visualise the molecular machinery of life at an unprecedented level of detail.
To make the most advanced technologies available to the broad research community, EMBL has established a new service facility at the Heidelberg campus, the EMBL Imaging Centre. A synergistic portfolio of imaging services including structural imaging via cryo-electron microscopy, the latest super-resolution microscopy techniques, and organismal imaging via multi-photon microscopy is offered to international users from both academia and industry to enable new ground-breaking research that crosses the scales of biology. Services include bespoke support in sample preparation, image acquisition and image data analysis, tailored to address the biological questions studied by the visiting researchers.
The EMBL Imaging Centre training activities are generously supported by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation.
Max Planck Insitute of Biochemistry
Germany
Columbia University
USA
Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences and DKFZ Heidelberg
Germany
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
UK
EPFL
Switzerland
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
UK
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Time | Speaker | Location |
08:30 – 09:30 | Arrival and registration | ATC Registration Desk |
09:30 – 10:00 | Opening remarks and IC introduction | ATC Auditorium |
10:00 – 10:30 | Fluorescence microscopy at molecule-size resolution Stefan Hell – MPI Göttingen and DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany | ATC Auditorium |
10:30 – 11:00 | Biophysical mysteries and insights into organelle structure and dynamics Suliana Manley – EPFL, Switzerland | ATC Auditorium |
11:00 – 11:30 | Morning refreshments | ATC Foyer |
11:30 – 12:00 | Future trends in cryoEM Richard Henderson -MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK | ATC Auditorium |
12:00 – 12:30 | Better, faster, cheaper: recent advances in cryo-EM Bridget Olivia Carragher – Columbia University Irving Medical Center, USA | ATC Auditorium |
12:30 | Transition time to Imaging Centre | |
12:45 – 14:45 | Lunch including tours of the Imaging Centre and industrial partners’ technology | Imaging Centre |
12:45 – 14:45 | Lunch with industry displays & Imaging Centre tours (detailed below) | Imaging Centre Atrium & Lecture Hall |
13:15 – 14:00 | Imaging Centre Tours | Imaging Centre |
14:00 – 14:45 | Industrial partners’ tours | Imaging Centre |
14:45 | Transition time to ATC | |
15:00 – 15:30 | Structural Biology in situ or The Power of Seeing the Whole Picture Wolfgang Baumeister – Max Planck Institute, Germany | ATC Auditorium |
15:30 – 16:00 | Imaging and reconstructing early mouse development using light-sheet microscopy Kate McDole – MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK | ATC Auditorium |
16:00 – 16:30 | Afternoon refreshments | ATC Foyer |
16:30 – 17:00 | Structural cell biology of cilia and eukaryotic flagella Gaia Pigino – Structural Biology Center, Human Technopole, Italy | ATC Auditorium |
17:00 – 17:30 | Recent Advances in Correlative Microscopy and Super-Resolution Imaging of Coronavirus Infection W.E. Moerner – Stanford University, USA This talk is remote via Zoom | ATC Auditorium |
17:30 | Closing remarks | ATC Auditorium |
17:45 | Transition time to Imaging Centre | |
18:00 – 19:30 | Poster session with wine & cheese | Imaging Centre Atrium & Lecture Hall |
18:00 – 18:45 | Industrial partners’ tours | Imaging Centre |
18:45 – 19:30 | Imaging Centre Tours | Imaging Centre |
19:30 | End of symposium |
On-site registration fees include admission, conference materials, COVID-19 safety measures, meals and coffee breaks. Participants are expected to book and pay their own accommodation and travel expenses.
On-site Academia | €50 |
On-site PhD Student | €50 |
On-site Industry | €75 |
Registration will be on a first come, first served basis. Your place can only be confirmed after payment of the registration fee.
On-site participants: Types of payments accepted are international bank transfers and credit card payments.
Only participants registering to attend the on-site event are eligible to submit an abstract.
After registration you can submit your abstract via a separate link that will be provided in the email confirmation. Alternatively, you can access the link on the confirmation page directly after registering. The same login credentials are used for both processes.
Please note:
Abstract body: The limit of 2000 characters refers to manually typed text and excludes spaces. If an error occurs try using a different web browser (preferably Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox).
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Authors and affiliations: Please fill in the author’s details as requested in the online form. The compulsory fields are: First Name, Last Name, Organisation Name (Affiliation or Company), Country and Email.
Kindly mark only one author in the role of First Author and please don’t forget to indicate who will be the Presenter.
Please enter your co-authors correctly via the system by adding accounts together with their organisation/institute. Do not copy-paste them into the body of the abstract text, as they will not be indexed in the abstract book.
Please check our FAQs pages for further information on how to submit an abstract.
Accommodation is not included in the conference registration fee.
As further changes in our events are possible due to COVID-19, you should book flights, trains and hotels with flexible options and favourable cancellation conditions.
As a guide we have included a list of hotels you may want to consider should you require overnight accommodation:
Address: EMBL, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany. For further information on getting to EMBL Heidelberg visit Public Transportation to the Venue. For information about accommodation and local transportation please refer to the FAQ page.
All meals and coffee breaks are included in the registration fee. Our catering staff will prepare a wide variety of vegetarian meals, meat and fish dishes, soups, pasta, fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as a variety of desserts.
Please wear your badge at all times when serving yourself.
No food or drinks are allowed in the auditorium.
A Covid-19 safety policy specific to this one day event is in place:
Do not smoke in any EMBL building.
Eating and drinking is prohibited in the Auditorium and all laboratories.
Do not enter any restricted areas or the laboratories unless instructed to do so.
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There are lockers available on-site to store your luggage, which require a 2 EURO coin to operate. There is another luggage room on level E0, which is free to use but remains unlocked during the conference.
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There is the public bus 39A that serves the EMBL campus and taxis can be easily booked at any time. More detailed information on travelling to EMBL can be found on our Travel Information page.
Hello | Hallo |
Goodbye | Auf Wiedersehen |
Good morning | Guten Morgen |
Good afternoon | Guten Tag |
Good evening | Guten Abend |
Good night | Gute Nacht |
I’m sorry | Tut mir leid |
Excuse me… | Entschuldigen Sie |
How are you? | Wie gehts? |
I’m fine thanks. And you? | Mir geht es gut , danke, und dir/Ihnen? |
What is your name | Wie heisst du? Wie heissen Sie? |
My name is | Ich heisse |
Do you speak English | Sprechen Sie Englisch? |
I don’t understand | Ich verstehe nicht |
Please speak more slowly | Können Sie bitte langsamer sprechen |
Thank you | Dankeschön |
Where is the toilet? | Wo ist die Toilette? |
Please call me a taxi | Bitte rufen Sie mir ein Taxi |
How do I get to….? | Wie komme ich zum/zur…..? |
A beer/two beers please | Ein Bier/zwei Bier bitte |
A glass of red/white wine please | Ein Glas Rot/Weisswein bitte |
The menu, please | Die Speisekarte, bitte |
Is there a local speciality? | Gibt es eine Spezialität aus dieser Gegend? |
I’m Vegetarian | Ich bin Vegetarier |
It was delicious | Es war hervorragend |
The bill, please | Die Rechnung, bitte |
I have a headache | Ich habe Kopfschmerzen |
I have a sore throat | Ich habe Halsschmerzen |
My stomach hurts | Ich habe Magenschmerzen |
I’m allergic to | Ich bin allergisch gegen |
I need a doctor who speaks English | Gibt es einen Arzt, der Englisch spricht? |
We thank our industry collaboration partners for sponsoring this symposium. EMBL IC training activities are generously supported by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation.
Date: 31 May 2022
Location: EMBL Heidelberg
Time: 08:30
Venue: EMBL Imaging Centre & EMBL ATC
Deadline(s):
Registration: Closed
Contact: Christopher Stocks