FABLS Workshop 2008 - Programme

The 4th Annual FABLS Workshop 2008 Programme includes lectures by high profile scientists in the field of fluorescence and its application to life sciences.

The timetable for the event to be held at the IMB Auditorium, (Building 80) University of Queensland, is as follows:

Thursday, February 21st 2008
8:00 - 9:00am	Registration (Building 80, IMB Auditorium Foyer)
9:00 – 9:15	Welcome
9:15 – 10:00	Nanotechnology in Early Disease Detection & Diagnostics	Prof. Matt Trau (IMB, University of Queensland)
10:00 – 10:45	Quantitative Imaging of Organelles in Living Cells	Prof. Jenny Stow (IMB, University of Queensland)
10:45 – 11:15	Break	IMB Foyer
11:15 – 12:00	Time-resolved Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy: Novel Technical Features and Applications for FLIM and FCS	Dr. Volker Buschmann (PicoQuant GmbH)
12:00 – 12:45	Single Photon Fluorescence in Diamond Nanocrystals	Dr. James Rabeau (Physics, Macquarie University)
12:45 – 2:15	Lunch	IMB Foyer
2:15 – 3:45	FABLS AGM 2008
3:45 – 6:00pm	Poster Session and Drinks	IMB Foyer
Friday, February 22nd 2008
9:15 – 10:00am	Laser Microbeams in the Study of Cellular Mechanics, Cell Energetics and Mechano-signalling	A/Prof. Elliot Botvinick (Beckman Laser Institute, USA)
10:00 – 10:45	Using Fluorescence Microscopy to Characterise the Spatio-Temporal Regulation of Cadherin-Cytoskeletal Interactions	A/Prof. Alpha Yap (IMB, University of Queensland)
10:45 – 11:15	Break	IMB Foyer
11:15 – 12:00	Luminescent Energy Transfer Immunoassays for the Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Analyte in Complex Matrices	Dr. Peter Banks (PerkinElmer Pty Ltd)
12:00 – 12:45	Dimers are Forever: New Developments in the Mechanism of the Na+, K+ - ATPase	Dr. Ron Clarke (Chemistry, University of Sydney)
12:45 – 2:15pm	Closing Remarks and Lunch	IMB Foyer

 

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