Aart van Apeldorn
University of Twente, The Netherlands

Lecture Title: Raman microscopy as imaging tool in tissue engineering

Aart van Apeldoorn is assistant professor at Twente University, at the MIRA Institute of Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine (the Netherlands). His main research focus is on developing extra-hepatic beta cell therapies for type 1 diabetes patients using tissue engineering strategies. He is coordinator of reconstructive medicine study at the technical medicine master study and chairman of the steering committee of the diabetes cell therapy initiative in the Netherlands. He has worked in the past on developing confocal Raman microscopy in combination with scanning electron microscopy, which has ultimately led to a spin-off company for commercialization of this technology. In his current work he is using Raman microscopy as an imaging tool besides other imaging techniques for studying single cells, tissues and biomaterials.

Dennis Wirtz
John Hopkins University, USA

Lecture Title: Cancer cell migration in 3D

Dr. Denis Wirtz's research area is Nanotechnology for Cancer Research and has been funded by the NIH, NSF, and the American Heart Association. He is co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoaBioTechnology (INBT), Director of the HHMI graduate training program, Director of the NCI-funded postdoctoral training program in nanotechnology for cancer medicine, and Director of the new NCI-funded Engineering in Oncology Center. Wirtz is author and co-author of 135 peer-reviewed articles published in journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Methods, Nature Materials, Nature Protocols, PNAS, Nature Communications, and Nature Reviews Cancer. His work at Hopkins has been cited > 6,700 times and has an h-index of 48. Wirtz received the NSF Career award in 1995, was named Theophilius H. Smoot Professor of Engineering and Science in 2009, fellow of the Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2007, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009, and fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010. Wirtz received a physics engineering degree from the Free University of Brussels in 1988, and MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in 1993.

Reinhold Erben
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria

Lecture Title: Animal model for unbiased cell tracking in regenerative medicine

Reinhold G. Erben studied Human and Veterinary Medicine in Munich, Germany, and received his MD and DVM degrees from the University of Munich. He is currently Professor of Physiology and Pathophysiology at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria. His research is focussed on the molecular endocrinology of bone and mineral metabolism as well as on bone and cartilage regeneration.

Robert F. Murphy
Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Lecture Title: Image-derived Models of Subcellular Organization over Time and Space

Prof. Robert Murphy is the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology and Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University, and Director (Department Head) of the Lane Center for Computational Biology in the School of Computer Science. He is also Honorary Professor of Biology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany. Dr. Murphy has co-edited two books and three special journal issues on cell imaging, and has published over 180 research papers. He is Past-President of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry, and is a member of the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council and the NIH Council of Councils.
Dr. Murphy's career has centered on combining fluorescence-based cell measurement methods with quantitative and computational methods. In the mid 1990's, his group pioneered the application of machine learning methods to high-resolution fluorescence microscope images depicting subcellular location patterns. His current research interests include image-derived models of cell organization and active machine learning approaches to experimental biology.

Boudewijn Lelieveldt
Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands

Lecture Title: Integrated analysis of multi-modal pre-clinical imaging studies

Boudewijn P.F. Lelieveldt is professor at the Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, where he is heading the Divison of Image Processing (LKEB, www.lkeb.nl). He is also appointed at the Department of Intelligent Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands in the context of the Medical Delta consortium. His main research interest is the integration of a-priori knowledge into image segmentation and registration algorithms, with main applications: cardiac imaging and multi-modal pre-clinical imaging. He serves as a member of the Editorial Board of Medical Image Analysis and the International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, and is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

Daniel Sage
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Lecture Title: Analysis in Live Cell Imaging - ImageJ/Fiji Solutions

Daniel Sage received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control and signal processing from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), Grenoble, France, in 1986 and 1989, respectively.From 1989 to 1998, he was a Consulting Engineer developing vision systems for quality control, then Head of the Industrial Vision Department. In 1998, he joined the Biomedical Imaging Group at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, as the Head of software development. He is involved in numerous image-processing and image-analysis projects dealing with life cell imaging and microscopy. He is also engaged in the development of methods for computer-assisted teaching.

Cristina Lo Celso
Imperial College London, UK

Lecture title: In vivo imaging of normal and malignant haematopoiesis

Cristina Lo Celso is Lecturer in Immunology at Imperial College London. After her PhD in London and a PostDoc at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cristina has recently obtained a Cancer Research UK Career Establishment Award. She has developed an in vivo imaging methodology to visualise transplanted stem cells within the bone marrow space. She continues developing new and improved intravital microscopy approaches to study haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in the bone marrow microenvironment during steady state and in response to perturbations, such as inflammation and leukaemia development.

Pj Chana
Flow cytometry Laboratory, Biomedical Research Centre, Guy's Hospital, UK

Lecture Title: The Image Stream platform and its applications

Pj Chana completed his Bsc in Biological studies and Msc in Immunolgy at King’s College London University. From there he went on to work for an expanding contract research organization based in Cambridge, specializing in biomarker discovery and immune monitoring. He next moved into academic focusing on Flow Cytometry and is currently a Manager at the BRC Flow Cytometry Core Facility based at Guy’s and St. Thomas Hospital London. Here he has concentrated on the introduction and application of the Amnis ImageStreamX platform, integrating the technology into a successful core facility .The areas of its applications include translocation studies, phagocytosis, marker polarization, co-localization, autophagy and cell-cell interactions.