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Focus on Microscopy 2020, Osaka, Japan, April 5- 8, 2020, 1st announcement, FOM 2020.

Announcing FOM2020:

FOCUS ON MICROSCOPY 2020
Osaka, Japan, April 5-8, 2020
incorporating:
33rd International Conference on 3D Image Processing in Microscopy
32nd International Conference on Confocal Microscopy

Dear Colleagues,

After the successful FOM2019 conference held in London, UK earlier this year, it is a pleasure to announce FOM2020: the next in a series of unique interdisciplinary meetings on advanced and multi-dimensional light microscopy and image processing.

The conference will take place at the:
Osaka International Convention Center (also known as Grand Cube Osaka)
5 Chome 3-51 Nakanoshima
Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0005, Japan
Located<https://goo.gl/maps/484KbXG4g1TzHtZG6> adjacent to the underground Nakanoshima Station.

The FOM2020 Osaka conference will start on Sunday morning April 5 with (free) tutorials starting at 10:30 hrs. After lunch, regular sessions commence at 14:00 hrs followed by a flash poster presentation session at 16:00 hrs. The plenary opening session will start around 17:30 hrs followed by a Welcome reception.

For further details please visit the FOCUS ON MICROSCOPY website: www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org<http://www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org> There, in addition to general information, the scientific program of previous FOM conferences – together with PDF’s of presented abstracts - can be found under the link “Past conferences”.

If you wish to be kept informed, please leave your email address at www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org/stayinformed <http://www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org/stayinformed> . The next FOM2020 announcement with more details will follow beginning of November this year.

FOM2020 in Osaka will be the continuation of a yearly conference series (since 1988) on the latest innovations and developments predominantly in optical microscopy and their application in biology, medicine, and the material sciences.

Key topics are:

  *   Theory and practice of confocal and multiphoton-excitation microscopy
  *   Super-resolution, nanoscopy imaging: from PSF engineering (4pi, SIM, STED), fluorescent activation/quenching, stochastic/centroid (PALM, STORM, GSDIM, SOFI and related techniques) to TIRF
  *   3D and 4D live cell and tissue imaging
  *   Adaptive optics for microscopy
  *   Light sheet microscopy
  *   Phase/interference based microscopies
  *   OCT, holographic, endoscopy
  *   Advanced fluorescence imaging/spectroscopy: FRET, FRAP, FLIM, FCS, SOFI
  *   New fluorescence probes, proteins, quantum dots, single molecule imaging
  *   Clearing and expansion techniques.
  *   Coherent non-linear microscopies: SHG, THG, SFG, CARS.
  *   Multi-dimensional fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy imaging
  *   Correlated microscopies - light/electron etc.
  *   Laser manipulation and tracking, photo-activation
  *   OCT, endoscopy
  *   Fast acquisition, automated and high-content microscopy
  *   3D image processing and visualization for multidimensional data


The conference series is in addition known for covering the rapid development of advanced fluorescence labelling techniques for (super)- resolution and multi-photon 3D imaging of -live- biological specimens.

One page abstracts for contributions are invited and can be submitted from
Friday, October 25, 2019 onwards via the website: www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org<http://www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org> where also format information etc. is available.

A technical exhibition will be an integral part of the upcoming FOM2020 conference.

Important dates:

Opening submission of abstracts                                        Friday, October 25, 2019
Deadline submission of abstracts                                       Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Acceptance of contributions, draft program on the web     Friday, February 7, 2020
Deadline for early registration                                            Tuesday, March 3, 2020
FOM2020 Conference                                                        Sunday, April 5 - Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Easter Sunday 2020                                                            Sunday, April 12, 2020

Welcoming you to the Osaka  FOM2020 conference and exhibition,
the FOM2020 organizers:

  *   Katsumasa Fujita, Osaka University, Japan
  *   Satoshi Kawata, Osaka University, Japan
  *   Fred Brakenhoff, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands


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