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Keynote speaker: The ECM viscoelasticity controls tissue spatiotemporal dynamics Monday @ 1:55 PM
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Invited Speaker: Anja Hauser Monday @ 11:00 AM
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Visualizing the native cellular organization by coupling cryo-fixation with expansion microscopy (Cryo-ExM) Tuesday @ 2:31 PM
Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Pathak is Professor of Radiology, Oncology, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). He is a member of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT), the Institute for Computational Medicine (ICM), and the Translational Tissue Engineering Center (TTEC). He directs the Image-based Systems Biology Laboratory (www.pathaklab.org) whose mission is to “transform lives via power of images”. Dr. Pathak received his BS in Electronics Engineering from the University of Poona, India. He then received his PhD from the joint program in Functional Imaging between the Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University, where he was a Whitaker Foundation Fellow. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Imaging in the Dept. of Radiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is a globally recognized expert on functional and molecular imaging, and his high-impact research has been recognized by multiple awards such as the Bill Negendank Award from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), and the Career Catalyst Award from the Susan Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, to name a few. Dr. Pathak has served in multiple leadership roles spearheading imaging initiatives, review panels for national and international funding agencies, and journal editorial boards. He has mentored over a 100 award-winning students, staff and junior faculty. He has served on multiple diversity initiatives and is dedicated to mentoring the next generation of thought leaders in imaging. He was the recipient of the ISMRM’s Outstanding Teacher Award and recognized as a 125 Hopkins Hero by the JHU School of Medicine for his “outstanding dedication to the educational and research values of Johns Hopkins University”.Image-based Systems Biology: The Next Frontier in Microscopy Tuesday @ 9:30 AM
BioVisionCenter at the University of Zurich
Virginie Uhlmann is the Director of the BioVisionCenter at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), a newly-created structure that aims to facilitate the development of open-source tools for the processing of complex bioimage datasets. She is also a Research Group Leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK), where she was Deputy Head of Research until early 2024. Her main research interest is quantitative bioimage analysis, with a focus in approximation theory, machine learning, computational geometry, and statistical shape analysis. Aside from research, she is passionate about building bioimage analysis capacity and connecting together the various scientific communities interested in bioimaging.Towards FAIR and scalable bioimage analysis workflows using OME-Zarr Tuesday @ 11:30 AM