ABOUT ICON
“There are many optical microscopy and photonics conferences out there. So do we really need another one?
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I feel that we do and that there is a distinct need for a specialized super-resolution microscopy conference, especially after the 2014 Nobel-prizes. In this sense, the creation of ICON in 2015 was timely”
Markus Sauer
1st chair of ICON (2016), University of Würzburg
What is ICON?
ICON is intended as a specialized platform in which scientists, both developers and users, engineers, and manufacturers can meet to present the latest developments and applications, to discuss caveats and potential problems, to develop novel ideas, and forge new and strengthen existing collaborations.
Currently ICON focuses on fluorescence-based super-resolution microscopy (SRM) and its application in scientific research and takes place every 2 years. In the future an alternating timeline may be possible in which a fluorescence-based SRM ICON alternates with an ICON that focuses on label-free and white light SRM.
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See also the conference reports in Nature Photonics:
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THE ORGANIZERS
Local Organizers
Christian Eggeling
Lothar Schermelleh
Rainer Heintzmann
Friedrich Schiller University
Leibniz IPHT
(Germany)
Biochemistry Department
University of Oxford
(United Kingdom)
Friedrich Schiller University
Leibniz IPHT
(Germany)
Series Organizers
Gregor Drummen
Assistant
Conference Series Organizer
Exxilon Scientific Events (Germany)
Advanced BioImaging
Bio&Nano Solutions
(Germany)
Conference Assistant (TBD)
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Exxilon Scientific Events (Germany)
THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Markus Sauer
Oliver Biehlmaier
Christian Eggeling
Alberto Diaspro
Sara Abrahamsson
Theodor Boveri Institute
University of Würzburg (Germany)
Imaging Core Facility Biozentrum
Basel University (Switzerland)
Friedrich Schiller University
Leibniz IPHT
(Germany)
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genoa
(Italy)
Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz (USA)
Erik Manders
Lothar Schermelleh
Ulrike Endesfelder
Joerg Bewersdorf
Thomas Huser
Confocal.nl
Amsterdam
(Netherlands)
Department of Biochemistry
University of Oxford
(UK)
MPI Terrestrial Microbiology and SYNMIKRO Marburg (Germany)
Department of Cell Biology
Yale University
(USA)
Biomolecular Photonics University of Bielefeld (Germany)
Peter McCourt
Hari Shroff
Lydia Danglot
Peter Dedecker
Vascular Biology Research Group, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø (Norway)
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (USA)
NeurImag Imaging Facility
Inserm U894 Paris
(France)
Lab for Nanobiology
University of Leuven
(Belgium)
Edoardo Charbon
Kseniya Korobchevskaya
Name
Name
Dept. of Microelectronics
Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
CERVO Brain Research
(Canada)
Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology
University of Oxford
(UK)
Affiliation
Affiliation