会议安排

11月22日   9:00-12:00:Historical review of optical microscopy (Prof. J. Paul Robinson, Purdue University)

                                      I. History of imaging: from Robert Hooke to modern microscopy

                                      II. Basic microscopy techniques

11月22日 14:00-17:00:Surface Plasmon and SERS in Optical Microscopy and Imaging (Prof. Donghyun

                                      Kim, Yonsei University)

                                      I. Understanding resolution, labels, SPR, and SERS

                                      II. Labeled imaging techniques: Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM) and

                                          Plasmon enhanced microscopy (PEM)

                                      III. Label-free imaging techniques: Surface plasmon microscopy (SPM), Surface enhanced

                                           Raman spectroscopy (SERS) imaging

11月23日   9:00-12:00:Faster, Deeper, and Higher resolution imaging for brain (Prof. Shi-Wei Chu, National

                                      Taiwan University)

                                      I. Why brain imaging is important and what is the current bottleneck?

                                      II. Four important considerations of imaging: contrast, resolution, speed, and depth. 

                                      III. How to reach the dream of whole brain single neuron functional imaging, or even single

                                           synapse imaging? 

11月23日 14:00-17:00:Super-resolution and light-sheet microscopy (Prof. Bo Huang, University of California)

                                       I. Principles of single-molecule-switching-based super-resolution microscopy (STORM, PALM,

                                          etc.)

                                       II. Practical considerations and limitations of STORM/PALM

                                       III. Quantitative interpretation of single-molecule localization images

                                       IV. Light-sheet microscopy

11月24日 9:00-12:00:Phase retrieval and Fourier ptychographic imaging: a tutorial using Matlab (Prof. Guoan

                                    Zheng, University of Connecticut)

                                    # Please bring a laptop with Matlab installed. We will run simulations based on Matlab. Basic

                                       knowledge of Matlab is required.