2008 Clinical Cytometry Society Meeting and Course - October 10-14, 2008

The annual meeting of the Clinical Cytometry Society will be held October 10-14, 2008 in Portland, Oregon. The early registration deadline is September 10 and the hotel reservation deadline is September 12^th.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to extend a cordial invitation to all members and colleagues of International Federation for Cell Biology to participate in the 9th International Congress on Cell Biology to be convened during October 7~10, 2008 in Seoul, Korea.

This Conference functions as a critical forum as all participants have ample opportunity to attend Scientific Sessions either in delivering paper presentations or listening to a number of outstanding key messages and invited lectures.

The Organizing Committee is also planning unique and colorful social programs through which all participants enjoy fascinating Korean culture and the warm Korean spirit of friendship. The participants may have special experiences in the beautiful autum of Korea.

Cordially,

Hun-Taeg Chung, M.D. Ph.D.

Chairman, Organizing Committee

World Congress on Regenerative Medicine

October 18-20, 2007

Germany Congress Center Leipzig

WCRM General Information – www.regmed.org

Preliminary Program - http://www.regmed.org/scientific/overview.php

Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology

The automatic analysis of microscope imagery plays an increasingly important role in biosciences research. Novel imaging devices such as the confocal and two photon (or multi-photon) electron microscope, automated stages for electron microscopy, and higher resolution electron tomography enable researchers to image biological systems at the cellular and sub-cellular scale. These datasets pose a number of challenges that are very distinct from conventional clinical imagery in their size and abundance, the detail of relevant features and their statistics. Sophisticated algorithms are necessary to process such imagery and extract biologically relevant features and information. The design, development and application of such algorithms are the focus of this workshop.

The first international workshop on Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology, MIAAB 2006 was held in conjuction with MICCAI 2006. Based on the strong interest and high quality of the submissions we decided to hold this workshop as an independent one day event in 2007. Biological datasets pose a number of challenges that are very distinct from conventional clinical imagery in their size and abundance, the detail of relevant features and their statistics. Sophisticated algorithms are necessary to process such imagery and extract biologically relevant features and information.