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Workshops

As part of the educational component of the NIH George M. O’Brien Center award, the Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy provides biennial workshops for renal investigators. The workshops provide formal training and hands-on experience with intravital kidney imaging.

Upcoming Webinars

Spatial Protein Imaging Workshop

May 20-21
10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. EST

  • State-of-the-art talks and discussions
  • Live interactive learning and demos, from imaging to neighborhood analysis and biological interpretation

Registration

Speakers

Andrea Radtke, Victor Puelles, John Hickey, Laura Barisoni, Jovan Tanevski, Seth Winfree, Chetan Poudel, Tarek Ashkar

Agenda

Day 1 — Imaging Foundations and Segmentation

Time Session Speakers
10-10:25 a.m.  Welcome and overview

Amanda Anderson, MD
Professor of Medicine
Vice Chair for Research
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Pierre Dagher, MD 
Professor of Medicine
Director, O'Brien Center
IU School of Medicine

10:30-11:10 a.m. Overview: 2D/3D multiplexed kidney imaging and analytics

Tarek Ashkar, MD
Professor of Medicine 
IU School of Medicine

11:15-11:55 a.m. From methods to movements: The power of open science and shared knowledge in high dimensional tissue mapping
Andrea Radtke, PhD 
Market Segment Manager, Spatial Biology 
Leica Microsystems
12-12:40 p.m. Applications of lightsheet microscopy and 3D morphology analysis in the kidney
Chetan Poudel, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pathology
IU School of Medicine
12:40-1:30 p.m. Break
1:30-2 p.m. Segmentation primer Seth Winfree, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
QXD Diagnostics 
2-3:30 p.m.

Hands-on workshop

  • Image acquisition
  • Image processing and segmentation
  • Cell clustering and annotation
Connor Gulbronson, PhD
Angela Sabo, PhD
Mahla Asghari, PhD

 

Day 2 — Pathomics and Neighborhood Analysis

Time Session Speakers 
10-10:10 a.m. Day 2 introduction NIDDK 
10:15-10:55 a.m. Multicellular neighborhood analysis across biological scales
John Hickey, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
10:55-11:35 a.m. Applications of pathomics Laura Barisoni, MD
Professor of Pathology
Duke University
11:35 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Pathology-oriented multiplexed paves the way for integrative disease mapping
Victor Puelles, MD, PhD
Professor of Complex Tissue Analysis
Aarhus University and University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
12:15-1 p.m. Break  
1-1:30 p.m. Systematic discovery of neighborhoods and spatial relationships in complex tissues

Jovan Tanevski, PhD
Lead Scientist at Heidleberg

1:30-3:30 p.m.

Hands-on workshop

  • Neighborhood analysis
  • Data visualization
Yang Miao
Azuma Nanamatzu, MD, PhD
Malgorzata Kamocka, PhD

Imaging data and codes will be provided before the webinar. Instructions to access will follow.