Biophysics Driven by Microscopy

National Institute for Medical Research , National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London
11 July 1997

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