Sunday, April 28 |
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| 15:00 – 15:45 | Vendor check-in & setup |
| 15:45 – 16:45 | Attendee check-in |
| 16:00 – 16:45 | Facility Managers Roundtable (invitation only) |
| 17:00 – 17:20 | Welcome, opening remarks |
| 17:20 – 17:45 | Gene therapy for lysosomal storage diseases and the role of imaging biomarkers Heather Gray-Edwards, University of Massachusetts |
| 17:50 – 19:00 | Spotlight: Veterinary Best Practices |
| 17:50 – 18:15 | Imaging of the host-microbe interaction Emma Liechty, Northwestern University |
| 18:15 – 18:40 | Companion animal cancer models used to validate optical imaging agents for cancer detection Maria Cekanova, UT Knoxville |
| 18:40 – 19:00 | Discussion |
| 19:15 | Buses depart for gala dinner |
| 19:30 – 22:00 | Gala dinner at Smylie Brothers sponsored by Bruker Biospin and Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center |
Monday, April 29 |
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| 8:00 – 9:20 | Power Pitch (Vendors) |
| 9:20 – 10:15 | Spotlight: MRI techniques |
| 9:20 – 9:45 | MRI in preclinical brain and spinal cord trauma: Pulse sequence developments and collaboration initiatives Matt Budde, Medical College of Wisconsin |
| 9:50 – 10:15 | Using the water proton resonance to probe the tissue microstructure of postmortem brain tissue Sean Foxley, University of Chicago |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Break |
| 10:40 – 11:35 | Spotlight: Specific Modalities |
| 10:40 – 11:05 | Tracking theranostic nanoparticles using optoacoustic imaging Lacey McNally, Wake Forest |
| 11:10 – 11:35 | Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) molecular oxygen images, why should we be interested?: The answer Howard Halpern, University of Chicago |
| 11:40 – 12:35 | Spotlight: PET Imaging |
| 11:40 – 12:05 | F-18 Tetrafluoroborate as NIS probe Tim DeGrado, Mayo Clinic |
| 12:10 – 12:35 | Attenuation correction for PET/MR Richard LaForest, Washington University |
| 12:40 – 14:05 | Lunch (included) and research & industry poster session, CAMI tour (optional) |
| 14:05 – 15:00 | Spotlight: Machine Learning & Reconstruction |
| 14:05 – 14:30 | AI in medical imaging Maryellen Giger, University of Chicago |
| 14:35 – 15:00 | Model-observer-based image quality metrics for tomographic medical imaging systems development Xiaochuan Pan, University of Chicago |
| 15:05 – 15:25 | Break |
| 15:25 – 17:10 | Breakout sessions |
| 17:15 – 17:50 | New Facility Talks |
| 17:55 – 19:55 | Reception & Facility posters, CAMI tours (optional) |
Tuesday, April 30 |
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| 8:00 – 9:25 | Spotlight: Imaging probes |
| 8:00 – 8:25 | Transition metal contrast agents Janet Morrow, University of Buffalo |
| 8:30 – 8:55 | Modality driven design of ferrite nanoparticles: How MPI Tracers deviate from MRI contrast agents Ben Fellows, UC Berkeley |
| 9:00 – 9:25 | Strategies to Improve Cancer Radioimmunotherapy Kurt Zinn, Michigan State University |
| 9:30 – 9:50 | Break |
| 9:50 – 10:45 | Spotlight: Outside the lab |
| 9:50 – 10:15 | Career Opportunities for Scientists Working in Core Facilities Phil Hockberger, Northwestern University |
| 10:20 – 10:45 | Integrating Imaging Data with Multiple Readouts to Understand Mammalian Adaptation to Spaceflight Martha Hotz Vitaterna, Northwestern University |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Break |
| 11:10 – 12:35 | Spotlight: Commercialization |
| 11:10 – 11:35 | Chicago Biomedical Consortium: Supporting Basic Biomedical and Translational Research Karen Snapp, CBC / Northwestern University |
| 11:40 – 12:05 | Molecular Imaging Start-ups: Lessons learned Jamey Weichert, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 12:10 – 12:35 | Biotech Start Ups: What I wish I knew before… Tom Meade, Northwestern University |
| 12:40 – 13:00 | Closing Remarks Chad Haney, Northwestern University |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch (included), CAMI tour (optional) |
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Exit meeting (invitation only) |