Conference Program

You can download the preliminary conference program though we might have to change it until the last minute. Please visit back regularly for the most up to date version.

Thursday, 20th of April

12:30pm	Registration and Welcome Buffet
	Welcome lunch buffet with registration, meet and greet

13:30	Opening Welcome and Introduction
	Caroline Muellenbroich and Godfrey Smith

13:45	Keynote: Gil Bub
	McGill University, Montreal, Canada "High throughput, long duration imaging technologies"

Session 1: Clinical perspectives

14:30	Tobias Brügmann
	Universität Bonn, Germany "Cardiotoxicity screening with pig ventricular slices"

14:50	Francis Burton
	University of Glasgow, Scotland "Analytical techniques applied to optical voltage and Ca signals"

15:10	Elen Tolstik
	Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS – e.V., Germany "Raman spectroscopy of the heart"

Session 2: Light-sheet microscopy and ... suspence!

16:30	Chris Dunsby
	Imperial College, UK "High-speed 3D light-sheet microscopy"

16:50	Richard Walton
	Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France "In vivo multimodal microscopic sub-endocardial imaging using optical catheters in a sheep model of myocardial infarction"

17:10	Jonny Taylor
	University of Glasgow, Scotland "Optical-computational techniques for timelapse imaging of heart structure and function in vivo"

Social

19:00	Welcome Reception

20:00	Social dinner

Friday, 21st of April

08:30	Coffee, breakfast and posters

Session 3: Optogenetics

09:00	Daniël Pijnappels
	Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands "Optical control of bioelectricity to explore biological defibrillation"

09:20	Franziska Schneider-Warme
	Universitäts Herzzentrum, Freiburg, Germany "Optogenetic manipulation of the heterocellular heart"

09:40	Sayedeh Hussaini
	Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen "Temporal modulation of cardiac excitability using optogenetics: exceptional efficacy in terminating cardiac arrhythmia"

Flash presentations and Poster session

Session 4: Correlative Imaging

13:30	Eva Rog-Zielinska
	University of Freiburg, Germany "Ultrastructural Reconstruction of Cardiomyocyte Contraction Dynamics"

13:50	Martin Bishop
	KCL, London, UK "Computational simulation in experimental and clinical cardiac electrophysiological research: interactions with novel optical imaging technologies"

14:10	Leonardo Sacconi
	INO-CNR, Florence, Italy "Correlating electrical disfunction and structural remodeling in Arrhythmogenic Mouse Hearts by advanced optical methods"

Conference wrap-up

15:00 - 15:30	Conference Close and Prize Awards
	Leonardo Sacconi and Caroline Muellenbroich