2018: Bielefeld - Second ICON
Based on the success of the inaugural ICON in 2016, the second ICON was organized in 2018 by the University of Bielefeld and GFT e.V., Germany, and held at the conference center of the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld (FH Bielefeld) under the patronage of the second ICON chair, Thomas Huser. Once more, we managed to attract a number of top keynote speakers including the 2014 Nobel laureate W.E. Moerner, the NIH Chief Organelle Biologist, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, and Alberto Diaspro, one of the major pioneers of super-resolution microscopy and fluorescence microscopy in general. Furthermore, a large number of major players in the field presented their newest findings and by expanding the number of abstract speakers, we provided a platform for both the beginning and settled scientist and company-based R&D. A large number of exhibitors presented their latest products in the exhibition area and this allowed a direct contact with researchers. These measures resulted in a truly inspiring event with a significant exchange of scientific ideas.
I would therefore like to thank Thomas Huser and his team, the scientific advisory board, the many sponsors, advertisers and exhibitors, and the international group of attendees for contributing towards a successful conference. I sincerely hope to welcome you all in 2020 in Oxford, where we again will have a line-up of top speakers and a wonderful historical venue.
The organizers
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See also the conference reports in Nature Photonics
Scientific Committee
Speakers
2014 Nobel Laureate Department of Chemistry Stanford University (USA)
Section on Organelle Biology National Institutes of Health (USA)
Department of Nanophysics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa (Italy)
Department of Imaging Physics, TU Delft (Netherlands)
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (USA)
MPI Biophysical chemistry, Göttingen (Germany)
Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Institut Curie Paris (France)
Jack Baskin School Of Engineering UC Santa Cruz (USA)
Institute of Physics Georg-August-University Göttingen (Germany)
Molecular Imaging and Bionanotechnology MPI of Biochemistry (Germany)
Lab for Nanobiology University of Leuven (Belgium)
Laboratoire d'Optique Biomedicale EPFL (Switzerland)
Oxford Biological Physics and Gene Machines University of Oxford (UK)
MPI Terrestrial Microbiology and SYNMIKRO Marburg (Germany)
Single Molecule Biophysics Goethe-University Frankfurt (Germany)
Wolfson Imaging Centre University of Oxford (UK)
Synthetic Neurobiology Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Biomolecular Photonics University of Bielefeld (Germany)
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology University of Oxford (UK)
Structural and Computational Biology Unit EMBL (Germany)
Zerial Group MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Germany)
Dept. of Imaging Physics Technical University Delft (Netherlands)
Applied Physics KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
Center for Integrative Biology Light imaging Toulouse CNRS (France)
Central Laser Facility Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK)
NeurImag Imaging Facility Inserm U894 Paris (France)
Applied Physics Scilifelab/Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
Inst. Biological Chemistry/Biophysics/Bioengineering Heriot-Watt University (UK)
Institute of Physical Chemistry RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
Rudolf Virchow Center University of Würzburg (Germany)
Imaging Physics Technical University Delft (Netherlands)
Laser Analytics Group University of Cambridge (UK)
Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology EPFL (Switzerland)
Department of Chemistry KU Leuven (Belgium)
Double Helix LLC (USA)
ISMO Université Paris Sud - CNRS (France)
Neurosciences cellulaires et moléculaires CERVO (Canada)
PicoQuant GmbH (Germany)
Dept. of Physics and Technology Arctic University (Norway)
Cell Biology and Biophysics EMBL (Germany)
Sponsors & Advertisers
Presenters