NIH/NIBIB Center for Label-free Imaging and Multiscale Biophotonics (CLIMB)
Annual Symposium Program
April 10, 2025
8:00 am – 8:30 am Registration, light breakfast, and coffee/tea (Beckman 1005)
8:30 am – 10:00 am NIH/NIBIB Center for Label-free Imaging and Multiscale Biophotonics (CLIMB)
(Beckman Auditorium)
8:30 am – 8:35 am Welcome (Steve Maren, Director, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology)
8:35 am – 8:45 am Overview of CLIMB Progress and Plans (Stephen Boppart)
8:45 am – 9:00 am Quantitative phase imaging with computational specificity for in vivo tissue imaging
TRD 1 Resources and Research (Rohit Bhargava, Yang Liu)
9:00 am – 9:15 am Quantitative clinical and in vivo imaging
TRD 2 Resources and Research (Stephen Boppart)
9:15 am – 9:30 am Computational imaging and intelligent specificity
TRD 3 Resources and Research (Mark Anastasio)
9:30 am – 9:45 am CLIMB Computational Resources (Frank Brooks)
9:45 am – 10:00 am Education and Outreach Programs (Marina Marjanovic)
10:00 am – 10:30 am Coffee break and networking (Beckman 1005)
10:30 am – 10:50 am Kevin Eliceiri, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Computational Imaging of the Tumor Microenvironment
10:50 am – 11:10 am Andrew Smith, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Fluorescence Micrographs of Adipose Tissue
11:10 am – 11:30 am Janani Reisenauer, Mayo Clinic (virtual presentation)
Seeing in the Dark: The Emerging Role of Label-Free Imaging Modalities in Cancer Surgery
11:30 am – 11:50 am Naijia Liu, Northwestern University
Full Coverage, High Density 3D Neural Interface to Organoids
11:50 am – 1:30 pm Box lunches and poster session (Beckman 1005)
1:30 pm – 1:50 pm Manxiu Cui, California Institute of Technology
Iterative Time Reversal Guided by Nonlinearity Toward Deep Tissue Optical Imaging
1:50 pm – 2:10 pm Youngjun Kim, University of Arizona
Label-free Light Sheet Microscopy of Anal Lesions and Remaining Challenges
2:10 pm – 2:30 pm Thomas Zangle, University of Utah
LED Array Microscopy for Label-free Imaging of Cancer Cell Response to Therapy
2:30 pm – 2:50 pm Yang Liu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Functional Insights from Label-free Quantitative Phase Imaging and Machine Learning
2:50 pm – 3:10 pm Coffee break and networking (Beckman 1005)
3:10 pm – 3:30 pm Catherine Best-Popescu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Quantitative Phase Imaging Spatial Histocytometric Morpholomics in Mouse Models of Neurological Trauma and Disease
3:30 pm – 3:50 pm Randy Bartels, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Towards Deep Widefield Nonlinear Microscopy Imaging with Computational Adaptive Optics
3:50 pm – 4:10 pm Kayvan Tehrani, Eleuthra Photonics, Inc.
Beyond H&E: Bridging Nonlinear Optical Imaging from Lab Innovation to Clinical Adoption
4:10 pm – 4:30 pm Laura Marcu, University of California - Davis
NIH National Center for Interventional Biophotonic Technologies
4:30 pm – 4:45 pm Closing remarks
4:45 pm – 5:45 pm Reception and poster session for all attendees (Beckman 1005)
6:00 pm Invited Dinner (Invited Speakers, CPs, SPs, TRDs, IAB & EAB members)
(Fifth Floor Tower Room, Beckman 5269)
- Invited talks – 15 min + 5 min for questions and discussion