The Helsinki In Vivo Animal Imaging Platform (HAIP) and Doctoral Programme in Biomedicine at the University of Helsinki are organizing the third annual In Vivo Animal Imaging: Methods and Applications minisymposium and course on December 13 2021 – January 17 2022.
The aim of this event is to open up the field of in vivo animal imaging and its use in pre-clinical research applications especially for graduate students and other researchers who might benefit from using in vivo animal imaging for their own studies. The symposium is organized as a small series of webinars in Zoom that are open to all, and the course will include live small-group instrument demos and a study assignment for students.
The course is free of charge and it will cover the principles of in vivo animal imaging modalities including intravital microscopy, optical small animal imaging, microCT and PET/SPECT/CT, as well as examples of in vivo imaging research on cancer, neurobiology, drug development and cardiovascular diseases. In addition, the webinars include several talks from invited international speakers focusing on recent and scientifically exciting applications of a range of in vivo imaging modalities – see the attached program and join us via Zoom:https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/62092213190.
Those who wish to join the demos should register via e-lomake by Dec 9th at: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/114806/lomake.html
More information: Marja Lohela (marja.lohela@helsinki.fi)
Program:
Monday 13.12. Chair: Marja Lohela
14.15 -15.00 Marja Lohela, University of Helsinki
Intravital microscopy and optical whole-body imaging in biomedical research
15.00 -15.30 Mikala Egeblad, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, NY
Intravital imaging methods to reveal the metastatic process
Tuesday 14.12. 2021 Chair: Pipsa Saharinen
14.00-14.45 Heikki Suhonen, University of Helsinki
Principles of X-ray micro-imaging and its biomedical applications
14.45-15.30 Ruslan Hlushchuk, University of Bern, Switzerland
Tentative title: Anatomical imaging of the cardiovascular system
Wednesday 15.12. 2021 Chair: Pipsa Saharinen
15.00-15.45 Mark Richards, Uppsala University, Sweden
Functional imaging of the vasculature
Monday 20.12.2021 Chair: Sari Lauri
15.30-16.15 Natalia De Marco García, Center for Neurogenetics Weill Cornell Medical College, NY
In vivo approaches for the imaging of cortical networks during development
Monday 10.1.2022 Chair: Pipsa Saharinen & Mirkka Sarparanta
15.30-16.15 Natalie Porat-Shliom, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda
Deciphering the mechanisms underlying mitochondrial heterogeneity in vivo
16.15-17.00 Mirkka Sarparanta, University of Helsinki
Principles of radio tracer synthesis and in vivo nuclear imaging
17.00-17.45 Aisling Chaney, Stanford University, CA
PET Imaging in neuroinflammatory disorders
