Agenda

Day 1           Monday, February 25, 2019

8:00         Light Breakfast and Registration

8:50         Welcoming Remarks/Convener David Andrews

Education Session 1:

9:00         Imaging Mass Cytometry: High-dimension Imaging, Segmentation and Analysis of Spatially Resolved Single Cells
Hartland Jackson, Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zürich

9:45         Multiplexed Imaging for Multi-protein Analysis at the Single Cell Level in Fixed Tissue (MultiOmyx™ and Cell DIVE™)                                 Fiona Ginty, Biosciences Technology Manager & Principal Investigator at GE Global Research

10:30         3D Models for High Content Analysis
Judi Wardwell, InSphero

11:15         3D Models for Cancer Biology
Shannon Mumenthaler, University of Southern California

12:00-1:30       Lunch – Installation of Cell Profiler and dataset – bring your laptop.

Education Session 2:

Convener:  Mike Mancini

1:30        Rapid Quantification of Protein-protein Interactions in Live Cells
David Andrews, University of Toronto

2:15         Statistical Analysis of High Content Screening Data
Bartek Rajwa, Purdue University

3:15         Break

3:30-5:00         Cell Profiler Workshop
Santosh Hariharan, Pfizer
Bring your own laptop with Cell Profiler installed.

Day 2        Tuesday, February 26, 2019

 8:30         Light Breakfast and Registration

9:00        Welcoming Remarks
Mike Mancini, Baylor College of Medicine
David Andrews, University of Toronto

 Session 1: Nuclear Genomics and Chromatin Organization

Convener: Mike Mancini, Baylor College of Medicine

9:15         Keynote Presentation:
Spatial Genomics: Nascent Transcriptome Profiling by intron seqFISH.
 Long Cai, California Institute for Technology

10:00         3D HCS Imaging Challenges and Solutions for Complex Cell Model Systems
Erez Leiberman, Baylor College of Medicine

10:30         Break

10:45         Microscopic Imaging of Epigenetic Landscape in Single Cells
Alexey Terkskikh, Ph.D., Sanford Burnham Prebys Research Institute

11:15        Nuclear Speckles as a Transcriptional Hub and Amplifier: A Combined Genomic and Live-cell Imaging Approach
Andrew Belmont, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11:45         Selected Abstract:
Imaging Freeze-frame Proteins Identifies Cancer-Protein Functions and Protein Networks of Endogenous DNA Damage
Jun Xia, Baylor College of Medicine

12:00         Lunch and Poster Session

12:45         Presenters at Posters

Session 2: Advanced Cellular Models

Convener: Fabio Stossi, Baylor College of Medicine

1:30        Non-opsin Based Optogenetics to Illuminate Physiology
Yubin Zhou, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center

2:00         The Single Cell Pathology Landscape of Breast Cancer: Tumour Cells and Their Microenvironments
Hartland Jackson, Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zürich

2:30         Multiplex Imaging for Single Cell Mechanistic Analysis of Estrogen Receptor Functions
Mancini/Stossi, Baylor College of Medicine

3:00         Break

3:15         Expansion Microscopy: A novel tool for Single Cell Analysis in Intact Biological Systems
Mahander Dewal, Expansion Technologies, Inc.

3:45          Selected Abstract:
A 3D in vitro Platform for High-Throughput Screening of Diverse Prostate Cancer Patient-Derived Xenograft Models
Lindsey Sablatura, Rice University

Day 3            Wednesday, February 27, 2019

8:00         Light Breakfast and Registration

Session 3: Image Informatics

Convener: David Andrews, University of Toronto

9:00        Keynote Presentation:
Integrating Information from Diverse Microscope Images: Learning and Using Generative Models of Cell Organization
Bob Murphy, Carnegie-Mellon University

9:45         Phindr3D: Data-driven Segmentation-free Phenotyping of 3D Santosh Hariharan, Pfizer

10:15         Spheroid Imaging and Sequencing
Christian Conrad, Berlin Institute of Health, Germany

10:45         Break

11:00         OME’s Bio-Formats, OMERO, & IDR: Open Tools for Accessing, Integrating, Mining and Publishing Image Data @ Scale
Jason Swedlow, University of Dundee

11:30         Magnetic 3D Bioprinting, from Generating Spheroids to Fingerprinting Cell-Types
Glauco Souza, Greiner Bio One

12:00         Bridging the Phenotypic-Genomic Continuum: Case Studies Linking Histology and Genomics
Arvind Rao, University of Michigan

12:30         Lunch and Posters

Session 4: Image-Based Assays for Cancer Research

Convener: Peter Davies, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M Health Science Center

2:00         Image-based Assays Reveal Fibroblast-Mediated Drug Resistance in Colorectal Cancer
Shannon Mumenthaler, University of Southern California

2:30         High Content Chemoresponse Assays for Personalized Management of Cancer
David Andrews, University of Toronto

3:00         Selected Abstract:
3D Modeling Of Chromosomes Territories in Normal and Aneuploid Nuclei
Fatima Merchant, University of Houston

3:15        3D HCS Imaging Challenges and Solutions for Complex Cell Model Systems
Joe Trask, Perkin Elmer

3:45        Break

4:00         Fluorescent multiplex IHC: An integrated approach for high throughput panel- driven and ultra-high-plex multiplexing tissue with single-cell resolution
Grady Carlson, Akoya Biosciences

4:30         Protein Marker Multiplexing and Quantitative Image Analysis for Disease Characterization
Alison Cheung, Sunnybrook Research Institute