Invited Speakers

Brad Amos

Tom Brown
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK
Optical Transfection of Mammalian Cells

Rob Cross
Marie Curie Research Institute, Oxted, UK

Jureck Dobrucki
Division of Cell Biophysics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Heterochromatin protein 1 in DNA damage response - recruitment or dissociation from repair sites? 

Elisabeth Ehler
Kings College, London, UK
Using myofibrils as a tool to explore and extend optical resolution 

Margaret Frame
Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Dieter Fürst
Department of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Selective Regulation of Myofibrillar Protein Localisation 

Paul Garside
Center for Biophotonics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Visualising and Analysing Immune Responses in Real Time in vivo 
 
Benny Geiger
Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Molecular Imaging of Focal Adhesions, Using Correlated light/ Electron
Microscopies

Mario Gimona
University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
Podosomes and invadopodia in tissue transmigration 

Alan Hall
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
Rho GTPases in migration and morphogenesis 

Irina Kaverina
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Interplay of Two Microtubule Arrays Drives Golgi Complex Assembly and Organization 

Laura Machesky
Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, UK
The role of small GTPases and filopodia proteins in invasion and invadopodia dynamics 
 
Mike Macdonald
Biophotonics Group, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
Cell sorting in optically produced micro-potential energy landscapes 

Klemens Rottner
Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
Making lamellipodia and filopodia: current concepts and controversies 

Vic Small
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria.
Networking in the Lamellipodium: how actin is organized to push.

Tatyana Svitkina
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Many faces of filopodia 

Jason Swedlow
College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.
The Open Microscopy Environment: Informatics and Quantitative Analysis for Biological Microscopy 
 

Paul Verkade
Department of Biochemistry, School of Medical Sciences, Bristol, UK
The use of High-Pressure Freezing in Correlative Light Electron Microscopy 

Yu-Li Wang
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, USAFluorescence Imaging of Live Cells – Seeing and Understanding Leaves, Trees, and Forests 

Michael Way
CR-UK London Research Institute, London, UK