Tuesday March 20, 2012
12- 6 PM Registration, arrival of participants
6 -7 PM Dinner at MBL
7:30 - 9 PM Welcoming Reception in Loeb Lab Bldg.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
7 - 8 AM

Breakfast at Swope Dining Room

8 - 8:15 AM Introduction to the HCS Annual Meeting
Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
 

Session I:
Chair: Douglas Taatjes, University of Vermont
QSTORM Switchable Quantun Dots and Adaptive Optics for Super Resolution Imaging

8:15 - 9 AM

Plenary Presentation: Probing the Heterogeneity of Protein Kinetics During Vertebrate Organogenesis
Le A. Tren, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA


9 - 9:20 AM

Super-Resolution Microscopy in Thick Samples
P. Kner, Univeristy of Georgia, Athens, GA

9:20 - 9:40 AM

Light-Contolled Quantum Dots for Super-Resolution Imaging
Gang Ruan, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

9:40 - 10 AM

Refreshment Break

10 - 10:20 AM Confocal and Super-resolution Microscopy of Myofilaments in Zebrafish Muscle
E. Brainerd, Brown University, Boston, MA
10:20 -10:40 AM

Computaional Characterization and Analysis of Spatial Temporal Mitochondrial Dynamics in Drosphila Segmental Nerves
G. Yang, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA

10:40 - 11 AM

Shedding Light on Collaborative Research: An Experimental Partnership for Enhancing Interdisciplinary Communication and Education in Biological Imaging
C.L. Alpert, Museum of Science, Boston, MA

11 -11:30 AM Discussion of Morning Sessions
11:30AM - 12:30 PM Lunch at Swope Dining Room
 

Session II:
Co-Chairs: Nancy Sawtell, University of Cincinnati
                      Ulli Weier, Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab.
ImageQuest: Citizens Advancing Biology with Calibrated Imaging and Validated Analysis

12:45 - 1:30 PM Plenary Presentation: Retinal Remodeling
Robert Marc, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
1:30 - 1:50 PM Human-in-the-Loop Annotation of Tracks and Boundaries
R. Pless, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1:50 - 2:10 PM An Object-Based Data Fusion Approach to Urban Forest Mapping
J. O'Neil-Dunne, University of Vermont
2:10 - 2:30 PM Seeing the Forest through the Trees: Augementing Urban Forest Monitors Through Socially Mediated Citizen Science
Ruth West, University of California, San Diego, CA
2:30 - 2:45 PM Refreshment Break
2:45 - :3:10 PM From Mulitple Inaccurate Trajectories to One Accurate Trajectory
S. Kobourov, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
3:10 - 3:30 PM A Segmentation Tool for use by Ordinary People
C. Grimm, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
3:30 - 3:45 PM Discussion of Afternoon Sessions
4:00 - 5:45 PM Poster Session I
6 - 7PM Dinner
7:30 PM Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry Plenary Lecture
Chair: John Couchman, University of Copenhagen; Editor Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
What is Actually in the Extracellular Matrices that You Stain
Richard Hynes, Koch Institute, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Mixer: Swope Center, Meig's Room, immediately following
Thursday, March 22, 2012
7 - 8 AM

Breakfast at Swope Dining Room

 

Session III:
Chair: Douglas Rosene, Boston University
Biological Shape Spaces I: Transforming Shape into Knowledge

9 - 9:45AM Plenary Presentation: Imaging Strategies to Capture Shape and Function Development in the Embryonic Heart
Michael Liebling, University of California Santa Barbara, CA

9:45 - 10:05AM

On Variation of Biological Shape
W. Mio, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

10:05 - 10:25AM Visualization and Data Management of Bioshapes Research Activities
C-R Shyu, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
10:25 - 10:45 AM

Automatically Discovering Relations between Form and Function
C. Fowlkes, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA

10:45 - 11 AM Refreshment Break
11 - 11:20 AM

Nanometer Resolution Characterization of Axonal Cargo Transport in Drosophila Segmental Nerves
G. Yang, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

11:20 - 11:40 AM Improving the Taxonomic Resolution, Speed, and Accuracy of Fossil Pollen and Spore Classification
S.W Punyasena, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL
11:40AM -12PM Discussion of Morning Sessions
12 - 1PM Lunch at Swope
1:00 PM Pleanary Lecture
Chroma Technology Lecture
Chair: Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
1:05 PM Combining Tract Tracing, in situ, and Immunohisochemistry with High Resolustion Histology to Improve the Yield from Complex Mutant Mice
Bernd Fritzsch, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  Session IV:
Chair: Stephen Hewitt, NIH
Biological Shape Spaces II: Transforming Shape into Knowledge
2 - 2:45 PM Plenary Presentation: Evolution of Biological Shape: A Function-Valued Approach
Pat Carter, Washington State University
3:00 - 3:20 PM The Role of Shape in the Biosonar System of Bats
R. Mueller, VA Polytechnic Institute and State University
3:20 - 2:25 PM Using Local Shape Descriptors and Strain to Compare Shape
C. Grimm, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
3:40-4:00 PM Characterization of Cardiac Motion During Early Heart Development
S. Rugonyi, Oregon Helath and Science Univeristy, Portland , OR
4:00 - 4:20 PM Discussion of Afternoon Sessions
5:30 - 6:30 PM Dinner at Swope
7:00 - 9:00 PM Poster Session II and Mixer, Swope Center and Meig's Room
Friday, March 23, 2012
7 -8 AM Breakfast at Swope Dining Room
  Session V.
Co-Chairs: Mark Sanders,
University of Minnesota
                    Jose Serrano-Velez, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
Lillie Award Nominees
8:15 - 9 AM Plenary Presentation: Pursuing Research Excellence through Diversity
Anthony L. DePass, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
9 - 9:20 AM TBA
9:20 - 9:40 AM

TBA

9:40 - 10 AM Refreshment Break
!0 -10:20 AM TBA
10:20 - 10:40 TBA
10:40- 11AM Discussion of Morning Session
11:30 AM- 12:30 PM Lunch at Swope
  Session VI:
Chair: John Shacka, University of Alabama at Birmingham
            Ron Van Noorden, University of Amsterdam
Past-President Symposium
12:45 - 1:30 PM Plenary Presentation: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins in Cell Biology: from Protein, Organelle, and Cell Tracking to Super-resolution Imaging
George Patterson, NIBIB
1:30 - 1:50 PM Correlative Fluorescence and Electron Microscopy in Tissue
John M. Robinson, Ohio State University, Columbus OH
1:50 - 2:10 PM Low Voltage Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Powerful Novel Approach for the Study of Cell Structures
Moise Bendayan, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2:10 - 2:30 PM New Correlative Tools for Untangling the "Impenetrable and Indefinable Jungle' of Neural Circuits
Eduardo-Rosa Molinar, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, San Juan, PR
3 - 5 PM HCS Business Meeting and Awards
5:30 -6:30 PM Dinner
7 - 9 PM Technical Insights
Saturday, March 24 ,2012- Depart MBL
Histochemical Society
2012 Preliminary Meeting Program
HCS Annual Meeting