Workshop on Biological Imaging at PETRA III

11 Sept 2006, 09:00 → 12 Sept 2006, 16:00 Europe/Berlin

201 (DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Bldg. 28c)

PETRA III will be the storage ring with the smallest emittance worldwide. The small source size will enable extremely small photon beam foci as well as ideal conditions for imaging in the harder X-ray regime. The aim of this workshop is to discuss the potential of PETRA III for biological imaging and to compare the expected performance with complementary techniques like optical and electron microscopy.

For this workshop a workshop fee of € 20 will be due for participants. It includes costs for the workshop dinner held on September 11, 2006.

Monday 11 September

1 Welcome and Registration

2 Introduction to PETRA III

Speaker: Edgar WECKERT (DESY, Hamburg)

3 State of the Art and Future Challenges in Biological Light Microscopy

Speaker: Jan ELLENBERG (EMBL, Heidelberg)

10:30 Coffee Break

4 Biological Imaging with Coherent X-Rays

Speaker: Chris JACOBSEN (Stony Brook University)

5 Coherent X-Ray Imaging of Biological Samples

Speaker: Jianwei MIAO (UCLA)

12:30 Lunch

6 Soft X-Ray Zone Plate Microscopy in Biology

Speaker: Gerd SCHNEIDER (BESSY)

7 Imaging Trace Elements in Cells with X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy

Speaker: Stefan Vogt (Argonne National Laboratory)

15:30 Coffee Break

8 Biogeochemistry Studies Using X-Ray Fluorescence Micro(spectro)scopy

Speaker: Kenneth KEMNER (Argonne National Laboratory)

9 Biological Imaging at ESRF

Speaker: Peter CLOETENS (ESRF)

10 Possibilities for X-Ray Optics Using Refractive Lenses

Speaker: Bruno LENGELER (RWTH)

11 First discussion round

19:00 Dinner

Tuesday 12 September

12 Cryo-Electron Tomography - Three-Dimensional Studies of Cells at the Supramolecular Level

Speaker: Jürgen PLITZKO (MPI Martinsried)

13 Far-Field Fluorescence Microscopy with Diffraction-Unlimited Resolution

Speaker: Katrin WILLIG (MPI Göttingen)

10:30 Coffee Break

14 Second discussion round

12:30 Lunch

15 Second discussion round continued (if necessary)