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OWLS 2012

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Alberto Diaspro, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and University of Genoa, Italy
Francesco Baldini, National Research Council, Florence, Italy
Paolo Bianchini, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy
Francesca Cella Zanacchi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
Valeria Delle Cave,Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
Zeno Lavagnino, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and University of Genoa, Italy
Mattia Pesce, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
Manuela Rigano, University of Genova, Italy
Manuela Salvatori, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
Federico Tixi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
Cesare Usai, National Research Council, Genova, Italy

PROGRAM
Alberto Diaspro, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and University of Genoa, Italy
Silvio Aime, University of Turin, Italy
Francesco Baldini, National Research Council, Florence, Italy
Gert von Bally, University of Muenster, Germany
Paolo Bianchini, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy
Francesca Cagnoni, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
Halina Rubenstein-Dunlop, University of Queensland, Australia
Hans-Jochen Foth, Technical University of Kaiserslauter, Germany
Min Gu, Swinburne University, Australia
Partha Pratim Mondal, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Stephen Morgan, University of Nottingham, UK
Colin JR Sheppard, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Cesare Usai, National Research Council, Genova, Italy
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Exhibit Area
2nd Floor
G       Nikon Instruments Spa
H       IIT - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia / LANIR.EU
I       Physik Instrumente (PI) S.r.l.
L       HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS ITALIA
M       Till Photonics GmbH
N       Fianium Limited

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3rd Floor
A     OLYMPUS ITALIA SPA
B     VUTARA Inc.
C     TOPTICA Photonics AG
D     Bitplane AG
E-F   Leica Microsystems Srl

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OWLS 2012

            Tuesday, July 3rd - 7.00pm
                 Inaugural Ceremony
            Sala del Maggior Consiglio, Palazzo Ducale
                      www.palazzoducale.genova.it

                 Alberto Diaspro, OWLS President
Roberto Cingolani, Scientific Director, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

                       “Lettura Magistrale”
                    Scott E. Fraser, Caltech, CA

Imaging the Molecular and Cellular Dynamics of Embryogenesis

               Welcome Cocktail kindly offered by
                Camera di Commercio di Genova
                     Leica Microsystems
                           Bitplane

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Wednesday, July 4th
   9.00 - 9.30   Magazzini del Cotone - Congress Center
                 http://www.portoantico.it
                 Scirocco-Libeccio Room
                 OWLS 2012 Opening Lecture
                 Karsten Konig, Saarbrucken University, Germany
                 Clinical Multimodal Hybrid Multiphoton/CARS Tomography of In Vivo Human Skin
                                                                                     Chair: A. Diaspro
                 Parallel Sessions
  9.30 - 10.00 Scirocco - Libeccio Room                        Ponente Room
               David Sampson                             Gertrude Bunt
               University of Western Australia, AustraliaUniversity of Goettingen, Germany
               Optical elastography - high-resolution    Visualization of multiple coupled signal-
               imaging of tissue mechanical properties.  ing events in a single cell by fluorescence
                                     Chair: G. Scarcelli lifetime pattern analysis.
                                                                                    Chair: R. Bizzarri
 10.00 - 10.45 Optical application to biomedicine        Advanced imaging techniques I
                                      Chair: G.Scarcelli                            Chair: R. Bizzarri
                 Andrea Curatolo                             Barbara Storti
                 University of Western Australia, Australia  NEST, Pisa Italy
                 Portable 3D optical coherence elastogra-    Multiplexing correlation spectroscopy
                 phy for applying microscopic imaging of     and resonance energy transfer unveils dy-
                 tissue mechanical properties in the clinic. namical interactions between transient
                 George A. Stanciu                           receptor potential vanilloid 1 (trpv1) and
                 University Politehnica Bucharest, Romania microtubules at nanoscale in living cells.
                 Electrical charge on the hydroxyapatite Dominika O. Trembecka-Lucas
                 surface investigated by laser scanning Jagiellonian Universit. Poland
                 microscopy.                                 Interaction between HP1 dimer and
                 S. Beke                                     PCNA in DNA replication and repair, as
                 Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Gen- revealed by bimolecular fluorescence
                 ova, Italy                                  complementation assay (BiFC), and
                 Excimer laser-based stereolithography FRET/FLIM.
                 for rapid fabrication of rigid biodegrad- Simona Rodighiero
                 able photopolymer scaffolds for tissue Fondazione Filarete, Milan, Italy
                 engineering.                              FRET study of 4.1R, ICln and actin inter-
                                                           actions: a link between cell morphology
                                                           and cell proliferation.

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10.45 - 11.15 Giuliano Scarcelli                          Ranieri Bizzarri
              Harvard Medical School, USA                 National Research Council, Italy
              Brillouin microscopy to study the           Novel probes and strategies for high-res-
              bio-mechanical properties of cornea and     olution fluorescence imaging in living
              lens.                                       cells.
                                    Chair: D.Sampson                                 Chair: G.Bunt
 11.15 - 11.45 Coffee break
11.45 - 12.15 Scirocco-Libeccio Room
              Monika Ritsch-Marte
              Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Austria
              Applications of spatial light modulators in biophotonics: from optical tweezers to
              advanced microscopy.
                                                                                    Chair: F.Difato
              Parallel Sessions
12.45 - 13.30 Scirocco - Libeccio Room                 Ponente Room
              Plasmonics                               Advanced imaging techniques II
                                 Chair: E. Di Fabrizio                    Chair: A. Periasamy
             Emanuela Esposito                    Antonella Battisti
             CNR-ICIB Napoli, Italy               NEST, Pisa, Italy
             Lab-on-Fiber Technology: Nanophoton- Intracellular pH measurements made
             ics Within Optical Fibers.           simple by genetically-encoded fluo-
             Fang Liu                             rescent probes and phasor approach to
             Tsinghua University, Beijing         FLIM.
             Integrated Bio-Sensor based on Hybrid Ottavia Golfetto
             Coupler with Surface Plasmon Polariton University of California, Irvine, California
             and Dielectric Waveguide.              Laurdan fluorescence lifetime as a bi-
             Ranjeet Kumar                          osensor for membrane fluidity.
             Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi,    Deo R. Singh
             India                                        University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA
             Clustering of Au-NPs near plasmon ex-        Quaternary structure of wild type and
             citation and enhanced scattering based       mutated rhodopsin at room and body
             in-vitro detection of Ehrlich ascites car-   temperature using spectral FRET.
             cinoma cells.
13.30 - 15.30 Lunch, posters, exhibition, Job corner.

              Company Presentations
14.00 - 15.00 Scirocco - Libeccio Room                    Ponente Room
             Olga Levai                                   Maria Marosvölgyi
             Leica Microsystems                           Till Photonics
             Opening the gate to Super-Resolution.        Combining advanced fluorescence imag-
                                                          ing techniques on the same living sample:
                                                          spinning disk confocal, TIRF, FRAP(PA)
                                                          and FRET.
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15.30 - 16.00 Scirocco - Libeccio Room
               Anthony Watts Oxford University, UK
               Realizing bio-imaging potential: Enhancing bacteriorhodopsin-mediated
                 molecular scale, wavelength-selective photoswitching.
                                                                                   Chair: A. Periasamy
                 Parallel Sessions
 16.00 - 16.30 Scirocco - Libeccio Room                        Ponente Room
               Ilaria Testa                                    Arthur Chiou
               Max Planck Institute Goettingen, Germany        National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
               RESOLFT Nanoscopy in Life Sciences:             (R.O.C.)
               unraveling the mysteries with low light         Optical Tweezers Based BioMicrorheology
               levels                                                                  Chair: D. Cojoc
                                  Chair: G. Vicidomini
 16.30 - 17.15 Single molecule and super-resolution Optical Tweezers
                                         Chair: I.Testa                                Chair: A. Chiou
                 Paolo Annibale                           Francesco Difato
                 EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland              Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova,
                 Towards accurate dual color PALM im- Italy
                 aging.                                   Position and Force-clamp interferometric
                 Francesca Cella Zanacchi                 tracking of an optically trapped probe to
                 Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, study cytoskeleton dynamics of devel-
                 Italy                                    oping mouse neuron.
                 Super-resolution microscopy of large Pasquale Bianco
                 biological samples within a light sheet Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
                 based architecture.                       The energy landscape of DNA over-
                 Davide Mazza                              stretching transition determined with a
                 Fondazione S.Raffaele, Milano, Italy      Dual Laser Optical Tweezers under force
                 Measurement of binding in living cells by clamp.
                single molecule tracking. A benchmark Dan Cojoc
                for protein/scaffold interactions.    Materials Technology Institute, Trieste,
                                                      Italy
                                                      Local delivery of small numbers of attrac-
                                                      tant and repulsive guidance molecules to
                                                      neuronal cells by optical manipulation
                                                      techniques.
  17.15 - 17.45 Mike Heilemann                        Maria Luisa Calvo Padilla
                Wuerzburg University, Germany         Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
                Quantitative Single Molecule Biology Holography and its applications.
                with Photoswitchable Fluorophores.                               Chair: A.Chiou
                                              Chair: I.Testa

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17:45 - 18:15 Coffee break
18:15 - 18:45 Scirocco - Libeccio Room
              Brad Amos Cambridge, UK
              A laser-scanning microscope for optical sectioning of large-volume specimens such
              as mouse embryos using a Mesolens.
                                                                           Chair: C.J.R. Sheppard
              Parallel Sessions
18.45 - 19.30 Scirocco - Libeccio Room                Ponente Room
              Optical tomography                      Optical application to biomedicine II
                               Chair: C.J.R. Sheppard                    Chair: K. Braeckmans
             Stephen P Morgan                           Wei Zhang
             University Park, Nottingham, UK            Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
             Pulsed ultrasound modulated optical to-    Trace level multi-gas sensing in mid-in-
             mography of tissue                         frared hollow-core Bragg fiber supporting
             Maria Pogorelova                           multi-wavelength transmission
             Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian   Tadelech
             Federation                                 Laser-Induced Breakdown and X-Ray
             Optical microtomography of early mouse     Fluorescence Spectroscopic Techniques
             embryo with laser scanning microscopy      in Detection of Elements in Tea Leaves
            Ludovico Silvestri                          Tewfik Soulimane
            University of Florence, Italy               University of Limerick, Ireland
            Whole-brain neuroanatomy on the mi-         Photosterilisable Textiles for Improved
            cron-scale with confocal light sheet mi-    Hospital Hygiene
            croscopy
19.30-20.00 Martin J. Booth                            Dayong Jin
            Oxford University, UK                      Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109,
            Adaptive optics for high resolution bio-   Australia
            logical microscopy                         Novel coding and decoding in suspension
                                Chair: C.J.R. Sheppard arrays for accelerated biomolecular dis-
                                                       covery and personalized medicine.
                                                        Shan Shan Kou
                                                        EPFL, Lausanne, CH-1015 Switzerland
                                                        Three-dimensional (3D) Monte Carlo
                                                        Simulation of Born’s Diffractions for Cel-
                                                        lular Analysis

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Thursday, July 5th
   8.30 - 9.00 Scirocco - Libeccio Room
                 RMS Lecture
                 Tony Wilson Oxford University, UK
                 Making Light Work in Microscopy.
                                                                                        Chair: F. Brakenhoff
                 Parallel Sessions
   9.00 - 9.30 Scirocco - Libeccio Room                          Ponente Room
               Martin Oheim                                      Amitabha Chattopadhyay
               Université Paris Descartes, France                Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
               Non-evanescent excitation light in ob-            Hyderabad, India
               jective-type TIRF microscopy limits to            Organization and Dynamics of the Se-
               quantitative imaging and super-resolu-            rotonin-1A Receptor in Live Cells using
               tion microscopy.                                  Fluorescence Microscopy.
                                        Chair: J. Bewersdorf                         Chair: S. Maiti
  9.30 - 10.15 STED microscopy I                             Advanced Imaging Techniques III
                                        Chair: J. Bewersdorf              Chair: A. Chattopadhyay
                 Giuseppe Vicidomini                             Cosimo Arnesano
                 Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy   University of California Irvine, Irvine, Cal-
                 Towards Low-Intensity STED Microscopy           ifornia
                 by Time Gating.                                 Digital Parallel Frequency-Domain Spec-
                 Lorena Benedetti                                troscopy for Tissue Imaging.
                 University of Milan, Italy                      Stefano Coppola
                 Morphological features of 4.1R overex-          Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy
                 pressing cells characterized with Correla-      Intracellular trafficking of multicompo-
                 tive Light-Scanning Electron Microscopy         nent lipoplexes: a fluorescence micros-
                 and observed with gated-STED nanoscopy.         copy study.
               Tilman Rosales                               Anna Letizia Allegra Mascaro
               National Institutes of Health, USA           University of Florence, Italy
               Instrumentation for super-resolution us-     In vivo imaging of climbing fibers reactive
               ing new low power probes.                    plasticity after laser axotomy.
 10.15 - 10.45 Joerg Bewersdorf                             Sudipta Maiti
               Yale University, USA                         Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
               New Approaches in STED Microscopy:           India
               TIRF and Phase Retrievaly.                   Protein misfolding versus aggregation:
                                            Chair: M. Oheim following the early events with an ultra-
                                                            sensitive fluorescence tool.
                                                                                   Chair: A. Chattopadhyay

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10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
  11.15 - 11.45 Scirocco - Libeccio Room
                Ernst H.K. Stelzer
                Goethe University Frankfurt , Germany
                From the ultramikroskop to theta microscopy to tetrahedral microscopy to light
                sheet-based fluorescence microscopy.
                                                                              Chair: F. Cella Zanacchi
                 Parallel Sessions
 11.45 - 12.30 Scirocco - Libeccio Room                 Ponente Room
               Single Particle Tracking                 Label Free Techniques
                                    Chair: Z. Lavagnino                       Chair: P. O’Shea
                 Hendrik Deschout                            Francesca Romana Bertani
                 Ghent University, Belgium                   National Research Council, Rome, Italy
                 On-chip sheet illumination for sin-         Hyperspectroscopic confocal reflectance
                 gle-particle tracking measurements in       imaging of cultured cells.
                 bio-fluids.                                 Alessandro Candiani
                 Katrien Forier                              University of Parma, Italy
                 Ghent University, Belgium                   Label-free DNA sensor based on optical
                 Single particle tracking microscopy: To-    fiber grating devices.
                 wards nanomedicines for the treatment       Dan Cojoc
                 of chronic pulmonary infections in cystic   National Research Council, Trieste, Italy
                 fibrosis patients.                          Secondary speckle sensing microscopy
               Christelle Rosazza                            for fast detection of malaria.
               University of Konstanz, Germany
               Single Particle Tracking of DNA in cells
               delivered by electroporation.
 12.30 - 13.00 Kevin Braeckmans                             Paul O’ Shea
               University of Ghent, Belgium                 University of Nottingham, UK
               Sizing Nanomatter in Biological Fluids by    Imaging      specific proteins in cells;
               Fluorescence Single Particle Tracking.       time-resolved dynamics and disposition
                                        Chair: Z. Lavagnino without GFP.
                                                                             Chair: A. Chattopadhyay
 13.00 - 15.00 Lunch, posters, exhibition, Job corner.

                 Company Presentations
  14.00-15.00 Scirocco-Libeccio Room                 Ponente Room
              Luciano Lucas                          Alessandro Cometta
              Bitplane                               Zeiss
              Imaris: the 3D/4D image analysis soft- A super-resolution close-up view: from
              ware                                   SIM to PALM

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15.00 - 15.30 Scirocco-Libeccio Room
               Colin Sheppard
               National University of SIngapore, Singapore and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
               Imaging in the phase contrast microscope.
                                                                                        Chair: P.Saggau
 15.30 - 16.00 Gail McConnell
               University of Strathclyde, UK
               Promising new wavelengths for multiphoton laser scanning microscopy: thinking
               outside the Ti:Sapphire
                                                                                      Chair: P.Saggau
                 Parallel Sessions
 16.00 - 17.30 Scirocco - Libeccio Room            Ponente Room
                 Non Linear/Multiphoton Microscopy Fluorescent Probes/Sensors
                                       Chair: G. McConnell                             Chair: F. Brandi
                 Giulia Borile                         Komal Bagga
                 University of Padova, Italy           Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy
                 Multiphoton fluorescence Ca2+ imaging Laser-based generation of luminescent
                 in acute cardiac slices.              bio-nanomarkers for cell imaging.
                 Albrecht Haase                       Ilaria De Santo
                 University of Trento,Italy           Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Naples, Italy
                 In-vivo morpho-functional imaging of Understanding Drug Localization in Dox-
                 the honeybee brain .                 orubicin Loaded TiO2 Nanotube Arrays
                 B. Leshem                            through Fluorescence Correlation Spec-
                 Paris Descartes University           troscopy analysis.
                 Temporally focused illumination is inher- Joanna L Richens
                 ently robust against scattering.           University of Nottingham, UK
                 Leonardo Sacconi                           Plasmonic-Based Biosensors in Disease
                 National Research Council, Florence, Italy Diagnosis.
                 Optical recording of intracellular action Shu-Han Wu
                 potential propagation in cardiac myo- National Yang-Ming University, Taipei,
                 cytes.                                    Taiwan
                 Godofredo Bautista                        Dynamic Study of Cell Secretion using
                 Tampere University of Technology, Fin-    Microfluidic Traps and Gold Nanoslits
                 land                                      Based Surface Plasmon Sensors.
                 Wide field third-harmonic generation Milena Stephan
                 microscopy of turbid media.             Georg-August University of Goettingen,
                 Neeven A. Hosny                         Germany
                 Imperial College London, Great Britain  Combining Fluorescence Microscopy
                 Viscosity imaging of lipid-based micro- with Reflectometry: Development of a
                 bubbles using fluorescence lifetime im- Biomembrane Sensor.
                 aging (FLIM) of molecular rotors.

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17.30 - 18.00 Scirocco - Libeccio Room
              Francesco S. Pavone
              European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy, University of Florence
              In Vivo Reactive Neural Plasticity Investigation by means of Correlative Light-Elec-
              tron Microscopy.
                                                                                Chair: P. Bianchini
18.00 - 19.15 OWLS Assembly with Coffee break

       20.30 Social Dinner
             Villa dello Zerbino
             http://www.villalozerbino.it/

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Friday, July 6th
   9.00 - 9.30 Scirocco - Libeccio Room
               Enrico Gratton
               University of California Irvine, US
               Super-resolution by feedback imaging: mechanisms of translocation through the
               nuclear pore complex.
                                                                              Chair: P. Bianchini
  9.30 - 10.00 Daniel Farkas
               Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA
               Multimode Optical Molecular Imaging of Disease for Better Diagnosis and
               Treatment.
                                                                                     Chair: P. Bianchini
                 Parallel Sessions
 10.00 - 10.45 Scirocco - Libeccio Room               Ponente Room
               Amyloid Studies                        Optics in the environmental science
                                     Chair: C. Canale                        Chair: F. Baldini
                 Valeria Musi                                Malgorzata Biczysko
                 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,   Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pisa, Italy
                 Switzerland                                 Simulation of optical spectra line-shapes
                 Bloch surface wave optical platform for     for biomolecules in natural environmen-
                 sensing the aggregation kinetics of amy-    tal conditions.
                 loid beta peptides. Towards the early de-
                                                         Sanjaya Thilakarathne
                 tection of Alzheimer’s disease.         Saitama University, Japan
                 Bidyut Sarkar                           Ultra short term growth dynamics of
                 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Soybean and Radish under ozone stress
                 Mumbai, India                           using Statistical Interferometry Tech-
                 Label free dopamine imaging with multi- nique - a comparison with conventional
                 photon ultraviolet microscopy.          ozone assessment measures.
                 Niels Zijlstra                              Dayong Jin
                 University of Twente, Netherlands           Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
                 Establishing the composition of al-         Tuning the Rare-earth Nanoparticles for
                 pha-synuclein amyloid oligomers using       Background-free Biosensing.
                 single-molecule photobleaching.
 10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break
  11.15 - 11.45 Scirocco - Libeccio Room
                Nicolai Urban
                Max Planck Institute Goettingen, Germany
                Dynamic superresolution microscopy deep inside living brain tissue.
                                                                                     Chair: P. Bianchini

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Parallel Sessions
11.45 - 12.30 Scirocco - Libeccio Room              Ponente Room
              Sted Microscopy II                    Novel Techniques
                                    Chair: B. Harke                              Chair: E. Gratton
                Paolo Bianchini                               Cristophe Silien
                Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy University of Limerick, England
                Single wavelength 2PE-STED nanoscopy. Chemical Imaging with Super Resolution
                Brian R. Rankin                               Infra-Red Absorption.
                Mobius Photonics, CA, USA               P. Nandakumar
                A new laser for STED                    BITS Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus, India
                Jay R. Knutson                          Laser scanning photothermal microscopy.
                National Institutes of Health, USA       William M. Whelan
                A new class of low-power probes for mul- Atlantic Veterinary College, Canada
                ticolor nanoscopy.                       Frequency spectrum analysis in pho-
                                                         toacoustic tissue characterization.
12.30 - 13.00 Peter Saggau                     Ari T. Friberg
              Baylor College, Texas, USA       National Institute of Advanced Industrial
              Advanced Optical Imaging for Re- Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
              verse-Engineering the Brain      Classical Ghost Imaging of Phase Objects
              Chair: B. Harke                  and through Phase Aberrations
                                                        Martijn Stopel
                                                        University of Twente, Netherlands
                                                        Room temperature excitation spectros-
                                                        copy of single quantum dots
13.00 - 15.00 Lunch, posters, exhibition, Job corner.
15.00 - 15.30 Scirocco - Libeccio Room                    Ponente Room
              Maria Garcia Parajo
              ICFO- Institut de Ciences Fotonique Barcelona, Spain
              Cell surface nanoscopy using single molecule optical nanotools
                                                                             Chair: M. Heilemann
15.30 - 16.00   EBSA Lecture
                Andreas Zumbusch
                Universitat Konstanz, Germany
                Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Scattering microscopy of intracellular dynamics
                                                                             Chair: M. Heilemann

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Parallel Sessions
 16.00 - 17.30 Scirocco - Libeccio Room                          Ponente Room
               Nanoparticles & Smart Materials                   Force Microscopy
                                         Chair: M. Lorenzoni                                Chair: C. Canale
                 Athanassia Athanassiou                          Marco Capitanio
                 Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy   European Laboratory for Non-linear Spec-
                 Nanocomposite surfaces with photoin-            troscopy, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
                 duced wettability gradient for directional      Ultrafast force-clamp spectroscopy of
                 growth of cells.                                single biomolecules
                 Francesco Baldini                               Josè L.Toca-Herrera
                 National Research Council, Floresnce, Italy     University of Natural resources and Life
                 PMMA-nanoparticles for molecular bea-           Sciences Wien, Austria
                 con delivery in cells for survivin mRNA         Delivering mechanical and interfacial
                 detection.                                      sample properties by combining optical
                 Despina Fragouli                                and atomic force microcopies
                 Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Lecce, Italy   Jenu Varghese Chacko
                 Rendering cellulose sheets antibacterial        Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy
                 using silver nanoparticles formed by a          AFM STED: Targeted probing with high
                 laser ablation technique.                       spatial precision
                 Alemu Kebede                                    Raman Spectroscopy
                 Addis Ababa University, Etiopia                                            Chair: R. Proietti
                 Controlled Synthesis, Characterization    Riccardo Cicchi
                 and Application of Iron Oxide Nanopar-    European Laboratory for Non-linear Spec-
                 ticles for Oral Delivery of Insulin.      troscopy, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
                 Enrico Rampazzo                           A combined fluorescence-Raman spec-
                 Università di Bologna, Italy              troscopic probe for the diagnosis of
                 Fluorescent Silica-Core/PEG-Shell Nano- melanocytic lesions
                 particles with Tunable emission for Imag- Anna Chiara De Luca
                 ing and Labeling.                         Institute of Protein Biochemistry, Naples,
                 Laura D’Alfonso                                 Italy
                 Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca,       Modulated Raman spectroscopy: a
                 Milan, Italy                                    promising biophotonics tool for early
                 Intracellular diffusion of Gold Branched        cancer diagnosis
                 Nanoparticles.                                  Nicholas Smith
                                                                 Osaka University, Japan
                                                                 Raman imaging and analysis: from quan-
                                                                 tification of cellular morphology to RNA
                                                                 structure and intramolecular interac-
                                                                 tions.

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17.30 - 18.00   Closing Ceremony
                Scirocco-Libeccio Room

                OWLS 2012 Closing Lecture
                Satoshi Kawata
                Osaka University, Japan
                Plasmons, Raman, nano and 3D, all in together.
                                                                                      Chair: A. Diaspro

18.00 - 18.30   Poster prizes
                Sponsored by OWLS, Université Laval Québec, Camera di Commercio
                di Genova

                Farewell with Focaccia and white wine
                Sponsored by Camera di Commercio, Leica Microsystems, Bitplane

                Friday, July 6 2012 8.30pm
                City Lights by LAMBS
                www.lambs.it
                Piazza De Ferrari, Genova (De Ferrari Square)

                Saturday, July 7 2012 Full Day
                Cinque Terre Tour
                www.cinqueterre.it

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OWLS 2012
                       Poster Session
“An insight of NoBoDys PerFect” Exhibition

 P1 - P6                                                                               Page
    P1 Gaser N. Abdelrasoul1,2 , Raffaella Magrassi3, Marco Scotto d’Abbusco1, Alberto 120
        Diaspro1, 2
        1 Department of Nanophysics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy
        2 Department of Physics University of Genova, via Balbi 5, 16126 Genova, Italy
        3 National Research Council (CNR) - Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR), Genova, Italy
       2PE Imaging of Cancer Cells Using PEGylated Gold Nanorods as Biocompatible Con-
       trast Agent.
    P2 Giulio Caracciolo1, Daniela Pozzi1, Anna Laura Capriotti2, Chiara Cavaliere2,                          123
       Francesco Cardarelli3, Angelo Bifone3, Giuseppe Bardi3, Fabrizio Salomone3 and
       Aldo Laganà2
        1 Department of Molecular Medicine, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Viale Regina Elena, 324, 00161,
        Rome, Italy
        2 Department of Chemistry, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, P.le A. Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy,
        3 Center for Nanotechnology Innovation @NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza San Silvestro
        12, 56127 Pisa, Italy
       Protein corona controls the uptake delivery mechanisms of lipid gene vectors in can-
       cer cell
    P3 Tatjana Dramićanin, Lea Lenhardt, Ivana Zeković, Nasta Tanić and Miroslav D.                           128
       Dramićanin
        Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, P.O. Box 522, 11001 Belgrade, Serbia
      Breast Cancer Detection by Support Vector Machine Classification of Synchronous
      Fluorescence Spectroscopy Data
   P4 Ivana Zekovića, Lea Lehnardta*, Tatjana Dramićanina, Miroslav D. Dramićanina                            144
        a Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, PO Box 522, 11001 Belgrade, Serbia
       Application of Supervised Self-Organizing Maps in Skin Melanoma Diagnosis by Total
       Synchronous Fluorescence Spectroscopy
    P5 Elisabetta M. Caspani, Philip H. Crossley, Carolina Redondo-Garcia, Salvador                             *
       Martinez
        Laboratory of Experimental Embryology, Instituto de Neurociencias UMH-CSIC, Alicante, Spain
       Malignopodium: a new player in glioma progression
    P6 Roberto Cighettia, Matteo Piazzaa, Valentina Calabresea, Gaetana Damorea                               124
       and Francesco Peria
        a Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza, 2 – 20126 – Milano, Italy
        New fluorescent molecular tools to investigate LPS recognition

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P16 - P30                                                                                                 Page
 P16 Hanna Beckera,2, Amy Gladfelter3, Rudolf Oldenbourg1                                                  121
      1 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
      2 Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
      3 Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
      Quantitative and high resolution imaging of fluorescence anisotropy is shedding
      light on septin architecture in the yeast bud neck
 P17 Iván, Coto Hernández1,2, Giuseppe, Vicidomini1, Alberto, Diaspro1,2                                   125
      1 Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italia
      2 Universita Degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italia
      Generation Of Super Continuum Source And Its Application In Nanoscopy
 P18 William F. Falco, Joelson Fernandes, Evaristo A. Falcão, Anderson R.L. Caires                        130
      Grupo de Óptica Aplicada, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Dourados, MS, Brazil
      Effects on Photosynthetic Activity of Plants Induced by Silver Nanoparticles: Moni-
      toring by Chlorophyll Fluorescence
 P19 Joelson Fernandes1, William F. Falco1, Samuel L. Oliveira2, Anderson R.L.                             131
     Caires1
      1 Grupo de Óptica Aplicada, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Dourados, MS, Brazil
      2 Grupo de Óptica e Fotônica, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS,
      Brazil
      Changes on Photosynthetic Activity of Herbicide-tolerant Soybean Plants Induced
      by Glyphosate
 P20 Jenni Karttunen1, Sari Mäntynen1, Heli Lehtivuori1, Janne Ihalainen1, Teemu                          138
     Ihalainen1, Jaana K. H. Bamford1 and Hanna M. Oksanen2
      1 Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Nanoscience Center, PO Box 35, 40014
      University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
      2 Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Biosciences, PO Box 56, 00014 University of Hel-
      sinki, Helsinki, Finland
      Protein Localization and Interactions in Bacteria Studied with Confocal Microscopy
      and Fluorescence Lifetime
 P21 Volkan KILIÇ, Gözde AYDOĞAN KILIÇ, Ahmet ÖZATA                                                       140
      Anadolu University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, 26470, Eskişehir, TURKEY
     Light microscopic pathology in Common carp ( Cyprinus carpio L.,1758) from Sa-
     karya River (TURKEY)
 P22 Lea Lenhardt1*, Ivana Zeković1, Tatjana Dramićanin1, Živoslav Tešić2, Dušanka                        143
     Milojković-Opsenica2, Miroslav D. Dramićanin1
      1 Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, PO Box 522, 11001 Belgrade, Serbia
      2 Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 12-16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
      Assessment of Fluorescence and Infrared Spectroscopy Capabilities for the Determi-
      nation of Botanical Origin of Serbian Unifloral Honey

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P16 - P30                                                                                                      Page
 P23 Daniela Pozzi1, Giulio Caracciolo1, Francesco Cardarelli2, Angelo Bifone2, Heinz                           152
       Amenitsch3
        1 Department of Molecular Medicine, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Viale Regina Elena, 324,
        00161, Rome, Italy
        2 Center for Nanotechnology Innovation @NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza San Silvestro
        12, 56127 Pisa, Italy
        3 Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedel-
        strasse 6, A-8042 Graz, Austria
      Confocal microscopy makes visible cholesterol-mediated gene delivery mechanisms
  P24 Liliia Rohoza, Tatyana Dyubko, Sergey Galchenko, Boris Sandomirsky                                        153
        Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine fo the NAS of Ukraine, Kharkiv
      Spectrofluorimetric investigation of interactions of heart peptides with blood serum
      albumin
  P25 Sebastian Tannert1, Peter Kapusta1, Alexander Glatz1, Christian Litwinski1, Uwe                           154
      Ortmann1, Rainer Erdmann1, Katrin Hoffmann2, Ute Resch-Genger2
        1 PicoQuant GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 29, 12489 Berlin, Germany, www.picoquant.com
        2 Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Richard-Willstätter-Str. 11, 12489
        Berlin, Germany)
      On the spectral sensitivity calibration of fluorescence spectrometers: Extension to
      the NIR, polarization and grating effects
  P26 Anatoliy Tatarets1*, Yevgeniy Povrozin1, Olena Obukhova1, Iryna Fedyunya-                                 155
      yeva1, Ewald Terpetschnig2, Leonid Patsenker1,2
        1 State Scientific Institution “Institute for Single Crystals”, NAS of Ukraine, 60 Lenin Ave., 61001
        Kharkiv (Ukraine)
        2 SETA BioMedicals, LLC, 2014 Silver Ct East, Urbana, 61801, IL, USA,
      Novel Squaraine Probes for Proteins and Fluorescence Imaging Applications
  P27 Francesco Urciuolo1, Giorgia Imparato1, Costantino Casale1, Fabio Formiggini1,                           156
      Paolo Netti1,2
        1 Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Health Care@CRIB, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Largo Bar-
        santi e Matteucci n, 53 80125 Napoli
        2 Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Biomaterials (CRIB), University of Naples Federico II, P. Le
        Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy
        Coupling Engineered Living Tissue with Multiphoton Tomography : towards in vitro
        understating of biological phenomena

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P31 - P45                                                                                                   Page
 P31 William Dallari, Marco Allione, Elena Samoylova, Marco Scotto d’Abbusco,                                126
       Alberto Diaspro
      Nanophysics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego, 30, 16163 Genova
     Permanent and rewritable 3D optical data storage through multi-photon absorption
 P32 Silvia Galiani1, Benjamin Harke1, Giuseppe Vicidomini1, Gabriele Lignani2, Fabio                        133
     Benfenati2, Hanako Tsushima2, Evelina Chieregatti2, Paolo Bianchini1, Alberto
     Diaspro1
      1Nanophysics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy
      2Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy
     Optimization of a STED nanoscope
 P33 Manuel Gunkela, Nina Beila, Jürgen Benekea, Slawek Mazura, Jürgen Rey-                                  135
     manna, Bastian Schumachera and Holger Erflea
      a Viroquant-CellNetworks RNAi Screening Facility, BioQuant, University of Heidelberg, Germany
     Automated microscopy in RNAi screening experiments
 P34 Timo Hakkarainen1, Tero Setälä1, Ari T. Friberg1,2,3                                                    136
      1 Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Box 13500, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
      2 Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Eastern Finland, Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu,
      Finland
      3 Department of Microelectronics and Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Elec-
      trum 229, SE-164 40 Kista, Sweden
     Near-Field Imaging of Interacting Nano-Particles
 P35 Christian Jüngst*and Andreas Zumbusch                                                                   137
      Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
     Label-free imaging of Lipid Droplets in living cells
 P36 Marcelle Koenig1, Steffen Ruettinger1, Sebastian Tannert1, Thomas Schoenau1,                            141
     Christian Litwinski1, Olaf Schulz2, Michael Wahl1, Marcus Sackrow1, Kristian
     Lauritsen1, Felix Koberling1, Robert Ros2, and Rainer Erdmann1
      1 PicoQuant GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 29, 12489 Berlin, Germany, info@picoquant.com
      2 Arizona State University, Lab Robert Ros, Physics Department, Tempe, AZ 85287-1504, USA
     Pushing the boundaries of single molecule detection
 P37 Zeno Lavagninoa1, Francesca Cella Zanacchi1, Alberto Diaspro1,2                                         142
      1 Nanophysics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30,16163 Genova, Italia
      2 LAMBS- Dept. of Physics – University of Genoa, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16153 Genova, Italia
     Thick Sample imaging and scattering effects: a phantom sample based characteriza-
     tion of Single Plane Illumination Microscopy performances
 P38 Aimar Namma2, Andres Arend1, Marina Aunapuua,2                                                         146
      1 Department of Anatomy, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
      2 Department of Veterinary Medicine, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Fr Kreutzwaldi 62, 51014
      Tartu
     Computer assisted image analysis in the detection of expression of bone morphoge-
     netic proteins in the neural tube of human embryos
 P39 Marco Zanella1†, Luca Ceseracciu2†, Roberta Ruffilli1, Alberto Diaspro2, Liber-                         158
     ato Manna1
      1 Nanochemistry, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy
      2 Nanophysics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy
      Polarized plasmonic absorption in micrometer long copper(I) selenide nanowires

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P46 - P60                                                                                                      Page
 P46 Abebe Belay                                                                                                122
        Adama Science and Technology University, School of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics,
        P.O.Box, 1888, Adama, Ethiopia,
      The Hetero-Association of Caffeine (CA) with 5-Caffeoyl quinic Acid (5-CQA) and
      Ethidium Bromide (EB) in Aqueous Solution
  P47 Mariagrazia Di Luca1*, Francesco Cardarelli2, Ranieri Bizzarri 1,3                                        127
        1 NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore and Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Piazza San Silvestro 12 - 56127
        Pisa
        2 Center for Nanotechnology Innovation @NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza San Silvestro
        12, 56127 Pisa
        3 Istituto di Biofisica - CNR, via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa
      Fluorescent recombinant virus like particles as nano-carriers of sensors
  P48 Sabato Fusco, Valeria Panzetta, Paolo Antonio Netti                                                       132
        Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Health Care@CRIB, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Largo Bar-
        santi e Matteucci, 53 80125 Napoli
      Cell Mechanical Characterization by Particle Tracking Microrheology in Optical Mi-
      croscopy
  P49 Gallus Lorenzo1*, Ferrando Sara1, Gambardella Chiara1, Amaroli Andrea1,                                  134
      Faimali Marco2, Veronica Piazza2, Bianchini Paolo3, Masini Maria Angela1
        1 Dip. di Scienze della Terra, dell’Ambiente e della Vita (DiSTAV), Univ. di Genova
        2 Ist. di Scienze Marine, ICMM, CNR, Area di Genova
        3 Dipartimento di Nanofisica, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genova
      Aquaporins in cyprid of barnacle Balanus amphitrite (=Amphibalanus amphitrite)
      (Cirripedia, Crustacea)
  P50 Gözde Aydoağan KILIÇ, Volkan KILIÇ, Ahmet ÖZATA                                                           139
        Anadolu University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, 26470, Eskişehir, TURKEY
       Autometallographic localization of heavy metals and immunoperoxidase detection
       of metallothionein induction in Common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.1758) from Sakarya
       River (TURKEY)
   P51 Keurison F. Magalhães1,3, Anderson R.L. Caires1*, Margarete S. Silva2, Samuel L.                        145
       Oliveira3
        1 Grupo de Óptica Aplicada, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Dourados, MS, Brazil
        2 Grupo de Estudo e Desenvolvimento de Materiais, Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul,
        Dourados, MS,Brazil
        3 Grupo de Óptica e Fotônica, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS,
        Brazil
      The Role of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters on Optical Properties of Biodiesel
  P52 Olena Obukhova1*, Anatoliy Tatarets1, Olga Kolosova1, Iryna Fedyunyayeva1,                                147
      Leonid Patsenker1,2, Ewald Terpetschnig2
        1 State Scientific Institution “Institute for Single Crystals”, NAS of Ukraine, 60 Lenin Ave., 61001
        Kharkiv (Ukraine)
        2 SETA BioMedicals, LLC, 2014 Silver Ct East, Urbana, 61801, IL, USA
        Highly Photostable Biomedical Markers Based on Thiosquarylium Dyes

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P53 Silvio Panettieri1 Giovanni Signore2 Ranieri Bizzarri2                                                  148
     1 NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze - CNR, Piazza S. Silvestro 12, 56127 Pisa
     2 Center for Nanotechnology Innovation @NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza San Silvestro
     12, 56127 Pisa
    Synthesis, stereochemical characterization, and photophysical features of an innova-
    tive 3-styryl coumarin acting as polarity/viscosity sensor for bioanalytical use
P54 Leonid Patsenker1,2*, Ewald Terpetschnig2, Anatoliy Tatarets1, Olena Obuk-                              149
    hova1, Olga Kolosova1, Larysa Markova1, Inna Yermolenko1
     1 State Scientific Institution “Institute for Single Crystals”, NAS of Ukraine, 60 Lenin Ave., 61001
     Kharkiv (Ukraine).
     2 SETA BioMedicals, LLC, 2014 Silver Ct East, Urbana, 61801, IL, USA,
    Next Generation Fluorescent Dyes for Biomedical Applications
P55 Alessia Petrelli, Claudio Canale, Alberto Diaspro and Silvia Dante                                      150
     Nanophysics Department, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova (Italy)
    Quantitative evaluation of cell adhesion on patterned surfaces
P56 Ferruccio Pisanello1,2*, Luigi Martiradonna1, Godefroy Leménager3, Alberto                              151
    Bramati3, Massimo De Vittorio1,4
     1 Center for Bio-­Molecular Nanotechnologies @UNILE, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 73010 Arne-
     sano (Lecce), Italy
     2 Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems @UNITN, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 38068
     Rovereto (TN), Italy
     3 Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS UMR 8552, Ecole Normale
     Supérieure, 75005 Paris, France
     4 National Nanotechnology Laboratory, CNR-­‐Nano, Università del Salento, Dipartimento Ingegn-
     eria dell’innovazione, 73100 Lecce, Italy
    Anisotropic colloidal nanocrystals as ultrastable polarized quantum emitters
P57 Kelly-Ann Vere, Joanna Richens and Paul O’Shea                                                          157
     Cell Biophysics Group, Institute of Biophysics, Imaging and Optical Science (IBIOS), School of Biol-
     ogy, University of Nottingham, UK NG7 2RD
     Electrostatic mapping of molecular interactions on the cell surface; identification of
     novel cell-surface receptor systems

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OWLS Member Assembly
July 5th, 2012 in Genoa, Italy (17:30-19:00)

Porto Antico Congress Center – Magazzini del Cotone – Scirocco-Libeccio Room

Agenda
Extra content: Lecture by Francesco Pavone (see program)

1. Discussion of the Agenda
2. President’s Report
3. Update of bylaws
4. Elections
   ❚❚Board
     ❙❙ President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer
     ❙❙ OWLS Representative to ICO
   ❚❚Regional Council Representatives
     ❙❙ Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Europe
   ❚❚Standing Committees
     ❙❙ Bylaws and Regulatory Statutes;
     ❙❙ Technology Transfer, Standardization, and Technology Assessment;
     ❙❙ Finances;
     ❙❙ Education and Ethics
5. Meeting schedule
   ❚❚OWLS 13 Location
   ❚❚Co-Sponsoring
6. Treasurer’s report and decision of formal approval
   ❚❚Financial Report
7. New Members
8. Publications
9. Dues
10. Committee Reports
11. Miscellaneous

Prof. Alberto Diaspro
President of the International Society on Optics Within Life Sciences (OWLS)

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