Invited Speakers: 1. Total Internal Reflection Microscopy
2. 2-Photon Excitation Fluorescence Microscopy
3. Confocal Microscopy
Program:
10:00 W. Almers,Max Planck, Heidelberg, Transport, docking and exocytosis of single secretory granules observed in live chromaffin cells
10:35 Kazu Oiwa, Kansai Research, Centre, Japan, Single-molecule kinetics using a total internal reflection fluorescence microscope:Application to myosin ATPase Microscopy
11:40 Clive Bagshaw, Biochemistry, Leicester, Measurement of ATP turnover by single myosin molecules and tracks using TIRF microscopy.
12:15 Karel Svoboda, Bell Labs, NJ, USA, Seeing is believing: imaging synaptic and dendritic function in vivo Excitation
12:50 David Ogden, NIMR, London. Two-photon photolysis of caged neurotransmitters.
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Mark Cannell,St. George's Med.School, London, Calcium sparks and application of two-photon imaging to the cardiac t-tubular system.
15:05 Brad Amos, LMB, Cambridge, Imaging with a compact mode-locked YLF laser.
15:40 Tea
16:20 Keith Matthews, Pharmacology, Cambridge, Fluorescence correlation microscopy: molecular dynamics from spatially defined reaction volumes.
16:55 Ian Parker, UC Irvine, CA, USA, Elemental events of Ca2+ signalling in oocytesand heart - and building a microscope to see them.
Registration :
25 UK pounds for members of the British Biophysical Society
or other European Biophysical Societies (adherent to EBSA).
40 UK pounds for non members. This includes lunch. A 10 pound
surcharge applies to all registrations received after 1 April 1997.
Deadline for Abstracts: 1 April 1997
Email for Requests and Registration: m-ferenc@nimr.mrc.ac.uk