Frontiers in Neurophotonics: an International Summer School on Advanced Cell Live Imaging Techniques

Download the Frontiers in Neurophotonics Summer School 2013 poster: Fins-2013

Frontiers in Neurophotonics is an opportunity to meet fellow researchers and students from around the world, discuss and discover the latest advances in live cell imaging techniques put in perspective by experimental challenges in the field of neuroscience.

The school will combine tutorials given by experts in photonics and neuroscience and hands-on experiments involving advanced optical approaches to measure, manipulate and follow molecular events in living neuronal cells.

2013 Speakers

Antoine Adamantidis (McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada)
Denis Boudreau (Laval Univ., Québec, Canada)
Robert Campbell (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)
Santiago Costantino (Univ. of Montreal, Canada)
Daniel Côté (Laval Univ., Québec, Canada)
Kurt Haas (Univ. British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Richard Kramer (Univ. of California in Berkeley, USA)
Tim Murphy (Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Richard Robitaille (Univ. of Montreal, Canada)
Ed Ruthazer (McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada)
Paul Selvin (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Topics to be covered include:

• Tracking cell migration and maturation in live brain slices. Example
• Video-rate multimodal imaging in vivo. Example
• Coherent Anti-stokes Raman Scattering microscopy. Example
• Imaging protein trafficking in and out of dendritic spines. Example
• Single membrane receptor tracking. Example
• Fluorescence lifetime approaches. Example
• Photobleaching and Photoactivation techniques. Example
• Two-photon calcium imaging in axons and dendrites
• Mapping synaptic connections between neurons
• Super-resolution imaging
• Optical microprobe applications in vivo

The school is supported with funds from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (Neurophysics Training Program Grant), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Canadian Institute for Photonics Innovation.

We hope to see you in Quebec !