Agenda

Friday, June 1, 2012

8 - 9 am Poster set-up - Atrium, Beckman Institute
8:00 am Registration and Breakfast - Room 1005, Beckman Institute,
(coffee, tea, water, orange juice, pastries)

8:30 am

Opening remarks - Auditorium, Beckman Institute

Stephen Boppart - Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, & Beckman Institute

8:35 am

Welcome - Auditorium, Beckman Institute

Robert Easter - President-designate, University of Illinois

Art Kramer - Director, Beckman Institute

9:00 am

Keynote Lecture - Auditorium, Beckman Institute

Sam Achilefu - Washington University, St Louis
"The role of serendipity in molecular imaging"

10:00 am Break - Room 1005, Beckman Institute
(coffee, tea, water, orange juice, pastries)
Concurrent
Session 1		 Room 2269, Beckman Institute

10:30 am

Biomedical Imaging

Session Chair: Brad Sutton - Bioengineering

Stephen LaConte - Virginia Tech
"Interfacing with the brain through real-time fMRI"
Michael Oelze - University of Illinois
"Quantitative ultrasound: A promising new image mode for diagnostics and therapy monitoring"
Curtis Johnson - University of Illinois
"Quantifying the mechanical properties of brain tissue with magnetic resonance elastography"
Joseph Holtrop - University of Illinois
"Resolving axonal integrity of specific pathways with diffusion weighted imaing in MRI"
Liang Cai - University of Illinois
"Ultra-compact PET/MR and SPECT/MR System with Sub-500µm Resolution"

Concurrent
Session 2		 Room 4269, Beckman Institute

10:30 am

Computational Imaging and Visualization

Session Chair: John Stone - Beckman Institute

John Stone - University of Illinois
"Visualization of petascale molecular dynamics simulations"
Johan Strumpfer - University of Illinois
"Imaging photosynthetic light harvesting"
Yanxin Liu - University of Illinois
" Interactive visualization of protein folding process from molecular dynamics simulations"
Juan R. Perilla - University of Illinois
"Molecular level visualization of the HIV-1 capsid"
John Cole - University of Illinois
"Lattice Microbes" computational imaging of whole cells"

Break  
Noon - 2 pm Lunch Room 1005, Beckman Institute
Poster Session East Atrium
Concurrent
Session 3		 Room 2269, Beckman Institute

2:00 pm

Biological Imaging

Session Chair: Peter Wang - Bioengineering

Peter So - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Elliot Botvinick - University of California-Irvine
"Optical tweezers in the study of mechanobiology"
Jie Sun - University of Illinois
"Simplicity of design principles underlying cis-regulatory plasticity of Shp2 conformation"
Ben Blehm - University of Illinois
"In Vivo optical trapping reveals that kinesin drags dynein"

Concurrent
Session 4		 Room 4269, Beckman Institute

2:00 pm

Imaging Agents and Agent Chemistry

Session Chair: Wawrzyniec Dobrucki - Beckman Institute

Weibo Cai - University of Wisconsin-Madison
"PET imaging of tumor angiogenesis: antibodies and nanoparticles"
Yi Lu - University of Illinois
"Functional DNAs as Selective Agents for Multi-Target and Multi-Modal Imaging and Therapy"
Li Tang - University of Illinois
"Precisely size controlled drug-silica nanoconjugate for cancer therapy"
Oluwatayo (Tayo) Ikotun - Washington University-St. Louis
"Imaging the LAT-1 amino acid transporter with Zr-89 immunoPET"
Wawrzyniec Dobrucki - University of Illinois
"Development and application of a multimodal contrast agent for SPECT/CT hybrid imaging"
3:30 pm Break - Room 1005, Beckman Institute
(coffee, tea, water, orange juice, pastries)

4:00 pm

Keynote Lecture - Auditorium, Beckman Institute

Albert Sinusas - Yale University
"Multimodal imaging of Remodeling Post Myocardial Infarction: Anatomy, Physiology, and Molecular Targets"

4:45 pm

Poster Awards, Closing Remarks, & Future Directions - Auditorium, Beckman Institute

Stephen Boppart - Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, & Beckman Institute
5:00 pm Reception and Poster Viewing - Atrium, Beckman Institute