22nd Annual Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop
January 21 – 23, 2025
aim2025.eventbrite.com
Registration now open!
The Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop (AIM) is a 3-day event hosted by the CRL Molecular Imaging Center at UC Berkeley. AIM features new and emerging microscopy techniques and their applications in the biological sciences. We bring together internationally-renowned researchers in a broad variety of fields including biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, probe design, cellular biology, neuroscience, optics, metabolism and more. Past speakers have included six Nobel Laureates: Roger Tsien, WE Moerner, Stephen Hell, Eric Betzig, Steven Chu, and Carolyn Bertozzi.
AIM has a particular focus on time-resolved techniques, such as time-correlated single photon counting and fluorescence lifetime imaging, as well as live cell and multiphoton microscopy.
In addition to invited talks from scientific leaders, AIM2025 will include demonstrations on-site and on campus, tours of UC Berkeley imaging facilities, lunch and coffee breaks, and evening receptions. There will also be a poster session and vendor fairs – both with prizes!
AIM includes lunch on-site each day, coffee breaks, and plenty of opportunities for interactions among participants. Registration is now open on Eventbrite: aim2025.eventbrite.com
Please reach out to us to Sponsor AIM 2025!
Speakers:
- Shagufta Alam, University of Virginia
- Margarida Barroso, Albany Medical College
- Wolfgang Becker, Becker & Hickl, GmbH
- Michale Börsch, University of Stuttgart
- Michelle Digman, Univeristy of California, Irvine
- Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute
- Viren Jain, Google
- Na Ji, University of California, Berkeley
- Evan Miller, University of California, Berkeley
- Jay Nadeau, Portland State University
- Ammasi Periasamy, University of Virginia
- Cristina Rodríguez, Yale University
- Angelika Rück, University of Ulm
- Colleen Scott, Mississippi State University
- Melissa Skala, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Gokul Upadhyayula, University of California, Berkeley
- Laura Waller, University of California, Berkeley
Organizers
- Holly Aaron, Molecular Imaging Center, University of California, Berkeley
- Luis Alvarez, Molecular Imaging Center, University of California, Berkeley
- Wolfgang Becker, Becker-Hickl, Germany
- Feather Ives, Molecular Imaging Center, University of California, Berkeley
- Adeela Syed, Optical Biology Facility, University of California, Irvine
- Gokul Upadhyayula, Advanced BioImaging Center, University of California, Berkeley
Last Year’s Event Info:
21st Annual Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop
January 23 – 25, 2024
aim2024.eventbrite.com
Full Agenda Agenda at a Glance Abstracts Map
Sessions 2024:
California All-Star Microscopists
- Uri Manor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
- Loic Royer, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
- Laura Waller, University of California, Berkeley
Cellular interactions
- Michael Böersch, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- Thomas Gensch, Forschungszentrum Jülich- Institute of Complex Systems
- Angelika Rück, Ulm University
Chemistry in Motion
- Alexander L. Ayzner, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Neville Dadina, University of California, Berkeley
- Steve Vogel, National Institutes of Health
Clearing and Expansion Microscopy
- Joerg Bewersdorf, Yale University
- Sarah Calve, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Sunil Gandhi, University of California, Irvine
- Piero Sanfilippo, University of California, Los Angeles
Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
- Wolfgang Becker, Becker-Hickl
- Klaus Suhling, King’s College London
Image Analysis
- Jordao Bragantini, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
- Hannah Jeckel, California Institute of Technology
Microscopy in Industry
- Meredith Calvert, Denali Therapeutics
- Amine Driouchi, Eikon Therapeutics
- Kayley Hake, Calico Labs
New Technologies (Brought to you by PAIR-UP)
- Edwin Fohtung, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Moussa Ngom, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Optimizing Quantitative Histology
- Caroline Miller, Histology & Imaging Consultancy
Photo-ablation and uncaging studies
- Cody Depew, Pennsylvania State University
- Criss Hartzell, Emory University School of Medicine
- Justin Williams, University of California, Berkeley
- Vivien Tran, University of California, Berkeley
Pre-clinical Imaging
- Margarida Barroso, Albany Medical College
- Yousuf Mohammed, University of Queensland
- Ammasi Periasamy, University of Virginia
- Melissa Skala, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Probing the environment
- Ahmed Heikal, University of Minnesota Duluth
- Katie Link, National Institutes of Health
- Jay Nadeau, Portland State University
- Susanna Yaeger-Weiss, University of California, Berkeley
Raster Imaging Correlation Spectroscopy
- Michelle Digman, University of California, Irvine
- Matthew Ferguson, Boise State University
- Falk Schneider, University of Southern California
Scientific Outreach
- Gisele Giorgi, Merritt College Microscopy Program
- Feather Ives, Merritt College Microscopy Program
- Anand Varma, Anand Varma Photography
- Ariel Waldman, National Geographic Explorer
Spatial Genomics
- Petros Giannikopoulos, Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley
- Gowoon Son, University of California, San Francisco
Sponsors
Organizers
Holly Aaron, Molecular Imaging Center, University of California, Berkeley
Luis Alvarez, Molecular Imaging Center, University of California, Berkeley
Wolfgang Becker, Becker-Hickl, Germany
Alexander Ehrenberg, University of California, Berkeley
Feather Ives, Molecular Imaging Center, University of California, Berkeley
Danielle Jorgens, Electron Microscope Lab, University of California, Berkeley
George Langford, PAIR-UP Imaging Science Program, Syracuse University
Rick Mannello, Boston Electronics
Denise Schichnes, Biological Imaging Facility, University of California, Berkeley
Adeela Syed, Optical Biology Facility, University of California, Irvine
Our previous events:
20th Annual Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop
January 24 – 26, 2023
POSTERS DEMOS
AIM 2022 online: https://hopin.com/events/advanced-imaging-methods-workshop-2022/registration
4D Advanced Microscopy of Brain Circuits Course – on hold until further notice
A collaborative effort between the CRL-Molecular Imaging Center, the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley faculty and graduate students, and Zeiss Microscopy, the inaugural 4D Advanced Microscopy in Brain Circuits course, held from January 10-15, 2016, was a huge success! Sixteen students from around the country participated in lectures and hands-on labs where they had access to state-of-the-art instruments.
4DAMBC is currently on hold.
Please contact brainmic@berkeley.edu for more information.
The 2017 course was May 21-27, 2017. More information here: official course website.
