Imaging 2020 VI: Imaging Biopathways
September 13-17, 2009

Jackson Hole, Wyoming

imagingin2010.com

Future medical therapies will increasingly focus on interrupting and redirecting pathologic biopathways at the genetic and cellular level. Imaging – especially molecular imaging - will play an indispensible role in the understanding of biopathways, the creation of biospecific interventions, and the monitoring and control of new, highly potent interventions.

Future imaging will require significantly greater sensitivity, specificity and quantitative robustness than exists today. The most significant evolution and greatest challenge will be increasing the specificity. To fully integrate imaging into therapeutics and diagnosis, imaging will need to be applicable to screening and interrogating therapeutically useful biopathways. Sessions have been designed around these themes. Discussions will address future advances in engineering and imaging modalities from NIR to X ray, microscopic in vivo imaging, fundamental advances in important biopathways (angiogenesis, metastasis, invasion and resistance, neurodegeneration, et al.), and the future roles of chemistry in imaging.

Key to meeting the challenges inherent in a complex future is open and effective communication among basic and clinical researchers from a wide spectrum of relevant disciplines. The goal of Imaging in 2020 is to catalyze this communication by laying the technical foundation for it, and by providing a format that is intentionally less structured than the traditional scientific meeting, allowing for extensive, meaningful interactions in a casual, comfortable environment. We hope to foster the development of enduring associations that will lead to innovative solutions and applications.

Imaging in 2020 VI will be held at the Jackson Lake Lodge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Its beautiful location in Grand Teton National Forest is easily accessible from Jackson Airport. Breathtaking views of the Grand Tetons provide a colorful backdrop to the meeting. Participants will have the opportunity during the unscheduled afternoons to enjoy a variety of outdoor activities, such as hiking, fishing, boating, horseback riding, or just relaxing in a truly spectacular natural setting.

Sunday, September 13
4:00 - 6:00 pm	Registration and Poster Set-up
6:00 - 7:00 pm	Dinner
7:00 - 7:15 pm	Welcome	Mike Tweedle
7:15 - 9:00 pm	Session I: Engineering
7:15 - 7:30 pm	Session Remarks (1999)	Tom Budinger (Moderator)
7:30 - 8:15 pm	Hardware, Miniaturization, Microfluidics	Greg Auner
8:15 - 9:00 pm	The Future of Today's Modalities	John Gore
9:00 - 10:00 pm	Reception and Poster Session
Monday, September 14
7:00 - 8:00 am	Breakfast
8:00 - 9:45 am	Session II: Chemistry I
8:00 - 8:15 am	Session Remarks (1999)	Mike Tweedle (Moderator)
8:15 - 9:00 am	Supramolecular Chemistry	Akira Harada
9:00 - 9:45 am	Multimodality Imaging Agents	Angelique Louie
9:45 - 10:00 am	Break
10:00 - 12:15 pm	Session III: Biopathways I
10:00 - 10:45 am	Session Remarks/Angiogenesis Pathology	Don McDonald
10:45 - 11:30 am	MRI Angiogenesis	Michal Neeman
11:30 - 12:15 pm	PET Angiogenesis	Markus Schwaiger
12:15 - 1:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 - 6:00 pm	Afternoon free time
6:00 - 7:00 pm	Dinner
7:15 - 8:45 pm	Session IV: Biopathways II
7:00 - 7:15 pm	Session Remarks (2003)	Adrian Nunn (Moderator)
7:15 - 8:00 pm	Metatases & Cell Motility	John Condeelis
8:00 - 8:45 pm	Cancer Invasion and Resistance	Peter Friedl
8:45 - 10:00 pm	Reception and Poster Session
Tuesday, September 15
7:00 - 8:00 am	Breakfast
8:00 - 9:45 am	Session V: Chemistry II
8:00 - 8:15 am	Session Remarks (1999)	Tom Meade (Moderator)
8:15 - 9:00 am	Topic TBD	Brian Hoffman
9:00 - 9:45 am	Topic TBD	Ken Raymond
9:45 - 10:15 am	Group Photo, Break
10:15 - 12:00 pm	Session VI: Pharmaceuticals
10:15 - 10:30 am	Session Remarks	Bradford Navia (Moderator)
10:30 - 11:15 am	Neurodegenerative Disease	Dan Silverman
11:15 - 12:00 pm	Imaging Biomarkers in Cancer	Michael Smith
12:00 - 12:45 pm	Lunch
12:45 - 6:00 pm	Afternoon free time/Bus trip into Jackson Hole
6:00 - 6:45 pm	Reception
6:45 - 7:45 pm	Dinner
7:45 - 7:55 pm	Introduction of Keynote Speaker	Bonnie Sloane
7:55 - 8:55 pm	Keynote Address	Roger Tsien 2008 Nobel Prizewinner for Chemistry
Wednesday, September 16
7:00 - 8:00 am	Breakfast
8:00 - 9:45 am	Sessoin VII: Ultrasound Agents
8:00 - 8:15 am	Session Remarks (1999)	Kathy Ferrara (Moderator)
8:15 - 9:00 am	Targeted Ultrasound Agents	Sasha Klibanov
9:00 - 9:45 am	Advances in Technology for Ultrasound Contrast Imaging	Paul Dayton
9:45 - 10:00 am	Break
10:00 - 11:45 am	Session VIII: Microscopy
10:00 - 10:15 am	Session Remarks	Bob Gillies (Moderator)
10:15 - 11:00 am	Endoscopic Microscopy	Rebecca Richards-Kortum
11:00 - 11:45 am	Microscopy with Gallium Ions	Sriram Subramaniam
11:45 - 12:30 pm	Lunch
12:45 - 6:00 pm	Afternoon free time
6:00 - 7:00 pm	Dinner
7:00 - 8:45 pm	Session IX: Animal Models
7:00 - 7:15 pm	Session Remarks (1999)	Dan Sullivan (Moderator)
7:15 - 8:00 pm	Animal Model Development	Terry Van Dyke
8:00 - 8:45 pm	Animal Models for Optical Imaging	David Kirsch
8:45 - 10:00 pm	Reception and Poster Session
Thursday, September 17
7:00 - 8:00 am	Breakfast
8:00 - 10:15 am	Session X: Imaging Biologicals
8:00 - 8:15 am	Session Remarks	Sarah Nelson (Moderator)
8:15 - 9:00 am	Cell Imaging In Vivo	Joe Frank
9:00 - 9:45 am	Imaging Enzymes	Matthew Bogyo
9:45 - 10:15 am	Meeting Summary & Concluding Remarks	Bonnie Sloane, Mike Tweedle

Third International Workshop on Parallel MRI
Chaminade Conference Center, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
23-26 October, 2009
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OVERVIEW

The field of parallel MRI has evolved rapidly over the past decade, with methodological and technological developments feeding new applications across a broad spectrum of clinical and research areas. This workshop will review developments to date and examine current promising directions and continuing unsolved problems in parallel MRI. It is the aim of the workshop to bring clinicians and basic scientists together for purposes of education and scientific exchange. In addition to lectures outlining the fundamentals of parallel imaging, invited presentations will address topics such as highly parallel MRI, high field parallel MRI, and parallel transmission techniques. Analogies with other imaging modalities and inverse problems will be explored, as will emerging applications of and vendor perspectives on parallel MRI. The meeting will include focused discussions of outstanding issues such as measurement and reporting of signal-to-noise ratio for parallel reception, or challenges needing to be addressed for practical parallel transmission. These discussions are intended to culminate in concrete consensus recommendations for dissemination and possible publication. We will also set aside time at the end of the meeting to catalogue key unsolved problems and unmet needs in parallel imaging, both as a resource for new entrants into our field and as a means of fostering innovative solutions.

AUDIENCE DESCRIPTION

This workshop is designed for clinicians, basic scientists, and MRI Technologists who are new to the field of parallel MRI as well as established investigators in parallel MRI. There will be a strong physics and engineering focus, but we will also be highlighting various applications, including neuroimaging, and the workshop is designed to begin with basic principles and proceed to leading-edge developments, so as to engage anyone with an interest in the field. Students are encouraged to participate.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this workshop, participants should be able to:
Describe the basic operation of and recent developments in parallel reception techniques;
Describe the basic operation of and recent developments in parallel transmission techniques;
Identify current and emerging applications of parallel reception and transmission;
Explain the current limits of performance of parallel MRI techniques; and
Identify important future developments which might allow these limits to be exceeded.

2010 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro

April 14-17, 2010

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

biomedicalimaging.org

The IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances in theoretical and applied biomedical imaging. ISBI 2010 will be the seventh meeting in this series. The previous meetings have played a leading role in facilitating interaction between researchers in medical and biological imaging. The 2010 meeting will continue this tradition of fostering crossfertilization among different imaging communities and contributing to an integrative approach to biomedical imaging across all scales of observation.

ISBI is a joint initiative of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS). The 2010 meeting will feature an opening morning of tutorials, followed by a scientific program of plenary talks, special sessions, and oral and poster presentations of peer-reviewed contributed papers.

High-quality papers are solicited containing original contributions to the mathematical, algorithmic, and computational aspects of biomedical imaging, from nano- to macro-scale. Topics of interest include image formation and reconstruction, computational and statistical image processing and analysis, dynamic imaging, visualization, image quality assessment, and physical, biological, and statistical modeling. Papers on molecular, cellular, anatomical, and functional imaging modalities and applications are welcomed. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the symposium and will be available online through the IEEExplore database.

Important Dates:
Deadline for submission of 4-page paper:	November 2, 2009
Notification of acceptance/rejection:	January 15, 2010
Submission of final accepted 4-page paper:	February 15, 2010
Deadline for author registration:	February 15, 2010
Deadline for early registration:	March 1, 2010

EMBC 09

Sep. 2-6, 2009

Minnesota, USA

EMBC2009.org

On behalf of the Conference Committee, we would like to welcome you to the website for the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'09). The EMBC'09 will be held during September 2~6, 2009 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the world capital of the medical device industry. The EMBC'09 technical program will consist of plenary and keynote lectures, workshops, symposia, and invited sessions, in which the leading experts from all around the world will present state-of-the-art reviews of rapidly-developing and exciting areas, report the latest significant findings and developments in all the major fields of biomedical engineering, and discuss government and industry related issues. Accepted high-quality original technical papers will be presented in poster and oral sessions, with up to 4-page papers to be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE. A number of student travel awards will also be made available to assist graduate students attending EMBC'09. We cordially invite you to participate in this exciting conference as organizers, exhibitors and/or presenters. We encourage you to share your R&D work with others by submitting a paper (up to 4 formatted pages) by April 23, 2009. If you are interested in organizing a session, you can contact the chairs of the theme that is most appropriate for your session. In case your organization is interested in our commercial and technical exhibition, you can find more information on how to reserve an exhibit booth on this website. In addition to the rich technical program, participants will also be able to interact with program directors of major funding agencies and colleagues, and participate in discussions on various issues ranging from policy and funding to technology transfer/commercialization, education and career development. A number of tours have also been planned, including the Bakken Library and Museum, the University of Minnesota, and several of many medical device companies in the Twin City area. Also, you with your family would enjoy Mall of America, the largest shopping and entertainment complex in U.S. We greatly appreciate your interest in the EMBC'09 and look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to Minneapolis and EMBC'09 in September 2009. Best regards,

Conference Chair Bin He, Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Conference Co-Chair Yongmin Kim, Ph.D. University of Washington

International University Startups Conference
December 2-4, 2009
Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC

The registration for this year's University Startups Conference '09 entitled "Creating Jobs and Powering Innovation with University Startups" has just opened.

The International University Startups Conference will take place December 2-4, 2009 at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC. with an opening reception at the British Embassy on December 2, 2009. The Conference is organized annually by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2.org). This year's University Co-Hosts are the University of Maryland System and the University of Texas System. The Government Co-Hosts are the National Science Foundation (Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnership) and National Institutes of Health (Office of Tech Transfer). The Embassy Host is the British Embassy.

While we are still working on finalizing this year's agenda (see below), I wanted to give you a first glimpse of some of the highlights.

We are continuing our work with over 70 Washington embassies to include more foreign innovation into our conference series. We are again having our very successful Embassy Panel -- Global Innovation: Working With Other Countries To Build A Global University Startups Innovation Community, but with a new list of Washington embassies, including Japan, India, Ireland, Spain and Finland. With the help of the Washington embassies we have identified and are including in the agenda 12 foreign universities doing very innovative things in the creation and funding of university startups from the UK, India, France, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, Austria, and Finland. Again, with the help of the Washington embassies, we are bringing more of the Global 1000 companies to the conference this year with two Global 1000 Strategic Relationship Panels. Given that the Global 1000 are the largest companies interested in working on Open Innovation with universities around the world it makes perfect sense to increase their involvement in the conference. Finally on the foreign front, in conjunction with the embassies we are hosting a By Invitation "Strategic Investors in Global Innovation" Dinner for U.S./International VCs, Private Equity Firms, Global 1000 Corporations, Embassies and University Sponsors attending the conference, which should greatly increase attendance of these highly valued groups over and above the very large number of these attendees represented in prior years.

Another highlight this year is our new SBIR program. Given the heightened interest by universities in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, we are holding a Pre-Conference Workshop on SBIRs for University Technology Commercialization, which will include topics on * Understanding SBIR Programs For Maximum Benefit to University Commercialization Efforts, * Getting University Researchers Commercialization Funding, * Forging Tech Transfer Links Between Funded SBIR Companies And Universities For Optimal University Research Commercialization. There is a separate registration for this pre-conference event, but it promises to be a very helpful and valuable addition to the program.

As usual, there will be presentations from a large number of U.S. universities creating startups and a large number of VCs and angel investors interested in funding them. Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association as he has done the last 3 years (since the beginning of the conference series), will provide a keynote on the state of the VC industry and their increasing interest in working with universities.

There is much more about the conference at the conference website at http://ncet2.org/UpcomingEvents/UnivStartupConf09.

You can register for the conference by going to http://ncet2.org/UpcomingEvents/UnivStartupConf09/Register.

Sponsorship information for the conference is here: http://ncet2.org/Sponsors.

I look forward to seeing you at this year's University Startups Conference.

Best regards,

Tony Stanco
Executive Director
National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer

2009 World Molecular Imaging Congress

September 23-26, 2009 Montreal, Canada

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WELCOME

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to participate in the upcoming 2009 World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC). Organizers from the Academy of Molecular Imaging (AMI), the Society for Molecular Imaging (SMI), the European Society for Molecular Imaging (ESMI), and the Federation of Asian Societies for Molecular Imaging (FASMI) are working together, with input from a scientifically diverse, international program committee, to develop a scientific program which integrates developments in imaging technologies and molecular imaging agents with applications for drug development, basic science investigations, and clinical translation.

The WMIC 2009 program will be constructed primarily on the strength of submitted abstracts. Continuing in the style of last year’s meeting, the Program committee will be integrating many of these abstracts into special sessions that bring attendees from different disciplines together for a comprehensive examination of the role of molecular imaging in particular biomedical problems.

An Excellent Meeting Venue – Montreal, Canada

The joie de vivre and warm hospitality of Montreal is legendary and just a few of the reasons why this city holds so much appeal for attendees from around the globe. The Palais des Congres de Montreal is the perfect size for our meeting. Exhibits will be right next to the educational meeting space and posters.

One-Stop Molecular Imaging Educational Technology Showcase

Industry exhibits will include the latest advances in pre-clinical and clinical imaging applications to create a "one-stop" molecular imaging educational technology showcase. The WMIC will bring together technically distinct and separate research communities that have a shared vision in the molecular imaging sciences. Building on the success of the first World Molecular Imaging Congress in Nice, we expect the attendance for the 2009 WMIC to exceed 2,000 participants from around the globe.

Workshop on “Modelling brain networks in functional and structural MRI data"

MICCAI 2009, London, UK
9:00-12:30, Thursday 24th September
http://www.miccai2009.org

The field of neuroimaging faces key challenges in the coming years. While techniques are readily available to map regions of the brain whose activity increases during specific tasks, there are fundamental questions that are not addressed by standard methodology, despite relevant information being present in the neuroimaging data. In particular, the understanding of interactions between brain regions, and how these relate to underlying connectional anatomy is of central importance for a mechanistic understanding of function.

This workshop aims to bring together cutting edge developments in characterizing brain dynamics and connectivity. These include the use of biophysical models to capture the dynamic interactions between evoked neuronal populations (e.g. Dynamic Causal Modelling), and our current understanding of spontaneous oscillations of neural activity in FMRI and MEG data. Furthermore, we consider the complementary use structural information (e.g. via diffusion MR tractography) as the anatomical basis of functional interactions.

Program (see http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~woolrich/miccai.pdf)

Session 1 – Modeling networks of evoked activity

Chair: Mark Woolrich

9:00 – 9:30 Klaas Stephan, University of Zurich.

“Dynamic causal modeling of neuronal networks.”

9:30 – 10:00 Will Penny, University College, London.

“Weakly Coupled Oscillator Models.”

10:00 – 10:30 Marcus Kaiser, Newcastle University.

“Structural networks and the link to network dynamics.”

10:30 – 11:00 Break

Session 2 – Modeling networks of spontaneous activity

Chair: Saad Jbabdi

11:00 – 11:30 Andreas Kleinschmidt, Neurospin Center, Paris.

“Assessing spontaneous brain activity by EEG and sensory probes.”

11:30 – 12:00 Christian Beckmann, Imperial College London.

“Correspondence of the brain's functional architecture during activation and rest”

12:00 – 12:30 Rolf Kötter, Radboud University, Nijmegen.

"Large-scale models of the 'resting state' of the brain”