Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Volume Electron Microscopy of Organelles, Organs, and Organisms
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm
"High Throughput Volume EM: Wherefore, and Where To?"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm
"vEM and CMI: Towards Imaging From Patient to Protein"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:25 pm
"vEM and Neuronal Connectomics in Marine Zooplankton Larvae"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:25 am
"Using Volume Electron Microscopy in Cancer Early Detection"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
"Mitochondrial Architecture of Cytotrophoblast and Syncytiotrophoblast in Placenta"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
"Mapping Glycogen Aggregates and Identifying Ultrastructural Changes in a Lafora Disease Mouse Model"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
"Characterising the Blood Nerve Barrier using SEM Array Tomography"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
"Using vEM Techniques to Catch Nanoparticles in the Act: Toxicology and Pharmacology"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:25 am
"Subcellular Connectomic Analyses of Energy Networks in Striated Muscles"
11:25 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
"Reading the Engram in the Larvae of Drosophila with Enhanced FIBSEM and Connectomics"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
"Cell Size Matters: Comparing Cellular Ultrastructure Between Rotifers and Paramecium"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
"Characterizing the Ultrastructural Determinants of Collective Behavior in Choanoeca Flexa Through Volume FIB-SEM"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sample Preparation Challenges in vEM
6:00 pm - 6:25 pm
"Recent Progress in En Bloc Tissue Staining for Volume Electron Microscopy"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
"Carbon Black Conductive Resins for vEM: Key Features and Recent Applications"
6:40 pm - 6:45 pm
Discussion
6:45 pm - 6:55 pm
"Resin Type-Dependent Deformation Characteristics in Ultra-Thin Sections for Array Tomography"
6:55 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:25 pm
"EasyCLEM with VP CLEM KIT"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
"Rapid High-Pressure Freezing for Improved Brain Tissue Preservation"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
"Expanding Access to Cryo-EM: Evaluating Chemically Fixed Samples for Cryo-Volume Imaging"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
High Speed, High Volume, High Fidelity vEM
9:00 am - 9:25 am
"Faster Volume Electron Microscopy with 64 Electron Beams and Optical Transmission Detection"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
"Microcircuits in the Marmoset Prefrontal Cortex with a Large Volume Electron Microscopy, ATUM-Blade-TEM"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
"vCLEM to Target Organelles in Adherent Cells"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
"Rewiring of Organelle Ultrastructure and Interactions in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Revealed through Volume Electron Microscopy"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
"FIB-SEM and Array Tomography Workflow Enhanced by Correlative Light-Electron Microscopy for Precise Targeting of Regions of Interest in Cells and Tissue"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:25 am
"Array Tomography Tissue Libraries Enable the Multimodal Visualization in Neuropathology Research"
11:25 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
"AI-Driven Adaptive Scanning provides Accelerated, Efficient and Contextual Data Acquisition for Volume Electron Microscopy using Plasma FIB-SEM"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
"3D Targeting in Cryo-Volume Imaging of High-Pressure Frozen Samples"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
"FAST-ET: Fast Automated Serial Tape-Enabled Electron Tomography"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Analysis and Quantitation in vEM
6:00 pm - 6:25 pm
"Multimodal Lung Cell Atlas at the Nanometre Scale"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
"From Connectomics to Cellomics: Reconstructing a Whole Animal Using Deep Learning Methods"
6:40 pm - 6:45 pm
Discussion
6:45 pm - 6:55 pm
"Volume EM by FIB-SEM Enables Quantitative 3D Characterization of Coxiella Burnetii Infection"
6:55 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:25 pm
"Deciphering the Subcelular Architecture of Metabolic Tissues using FIB-SEM"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
"High-Throughput Quantification of Membrane Contact Sites on Large-Scale Electron Microscopy Imaging"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
"From Volume Electron Microscopy Datasets to Model Segmentation and Feature Quantification"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Tools to Accelerate, Smooth and Widen the vEM Pipeline
9:00 am - 9:25 am
"Foundation Models for Electron Microscopy Image Analysis"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
"A Lightweight Pipeline for Automatic Classification and Segmentation of 3D Textural Patterns"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
"SynapseNet: Deep Learning for Automatic Synapse Reconstruction"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
"Development of a Pipeline to Characterize Hepatic Organelles in Disease Models"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
"Probing the Structure and Function of the Healthy and Diseased Brain with X-Rays, Electrons and Light"
11:10 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:25 am
"Automating SBF-SEM Imaging Based on X-Ray Maps"
11:25 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
"Enabling High-Resolution Cryo-FIB-SEM Volume Imaging through Specialized Serial Acquisition"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
"Advanced Scan Control for Dose Efficient Imaging to Accelerate Cryo-Volume Electron Microscopy"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Visualizing and Sharing Big vEM Data
6:00 pm - 6:25 pm
"Understanding Cellular Architecture with Interactive Machine Learning"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
"Automated Detection of Nuclear Pores in 3D Electron Microscopy Data of Mammalian Cortex"
6:40 pm - 6:45 pm
Discussion
6:45 pm - 7:10 pm
"Correlative Big Image Data Sharing, Registration and Exploration"
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:25 pm
"Cavalieri Principle for Fast and Straightforward Volume EM Data Analysis"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
"CebraEM: A Workflow for Efficient 3D Organelle Segmentation in Volume SEM"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Combining and Correlating vEM with Other Technologies
9:00 am - 9:25 am
"FIB-SEM of Biomineralized Tissues"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
"Megakaryocytes use Podosomes to Penetrate the Endothelial Barrier of Bone Marrow Sinusoids"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
"Integration of 3D Elemental Mapping with SBF-SEM"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
"Illuminating Protein Aggregate Clearance by Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy in Tokuyasu Cryo-Sections"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
"Deciphering Dinomitosis: A vCLEM Approach"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:25 am
"Correlative CryoFIB/SEM Volume Imaging of Native Cells"
11:25 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
"Excavating Growth Cone Architecture from the Developing Neocortex with VolumeEM"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
"3D Chromatin Architecture By Volume EM"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
"Automated Registration for Joint Analysis of 3D smFISH Gene Expression Data and Electron Microscopy"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Nascent Technological Forays in vEM
6:00 pm - 6:25 pm
"Industrial Scale Brain Mapping"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
"EMcapsulins: An Expanded Volume EM Reporter Platform for Correlative Cell and Brain Imaging"
6:40 pm - 6:45 pm
Discussion
6:45 pm - 6:55 pm
"Investigation of Signal Generation in Optical STEM for Multibeam Applications"
6:55 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:25 pm
"Postmitotic Cilia Deconstruction in the Cerebellum: A New Model of Cilia Disassembly"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
"Combining Synchrotron-Based microCT with Plasma FIB-SEM for Targeted Volume EM"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
"Unveiling the 3D Architecture of Human Retinal Cone and Rod Cells Using Cryo-Volume Electron Microscopy"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure