The "Kick-off Symposium of Kento Imaging Support Center" was held at the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center.

     To commemorate the opening of the Kento Imaging Support Center, which provides a place where many researchers can learn and use cutting-edge microscopes and imaging techniques, we invited some of the most advanced researchers in this field to speak on the theme of "The Thin Microscopic World".
     The lecturers spoke in an easy-to-understand manner about the characteristics of each microscope, new imaging methods for seeing what could not be seen, sample processing, development of new technologies, microscopes under development, and a variety of other topics in line with their research.

Opening day and time: Wednesday, September 7, 2022, 13:00 -17:00
Number of participants: 102

     At Kento Imaging Support Center, we also hold user training sessions for first-time users of super-resolution microscopes, light-sheet microscopes, confocal laser scanning microscopes, multiphoton microscopes, and other microscopes, as well as providing information on the use of each microscope.
     We will continue to strive for further development of the Kento Imaging Support Center to support researchers in the future.

On the day of the event

commemorative photograph

Symposium

presenter

Keisuke Ota

(Professor, Center for Advanced Imaging Research, Kurume University School of Medicine)

theme
"Micro-Volume Imaging."

presenter

Yasushi Okada

(Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)

theme
"Shin Live Cell Imaging"

presenter

Li-Kun Phng

(Team Leader, RIKEN Center for Frontier Biosciences)

theme
"Imaging blood flow and endothelial cell mechanics during zebrafish vascular morphogenesis"

presenter

Atsushi Miyawaki

(Team Leader, RIKEN Neuroscience Research Center and Photonics Research Center)

theme
"Continuity in Space and Time"

presenter

Yu Ishii

(Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University)

theme
"Immuno-inflammatory dynamics and discovery of new pathogenic cells by in vivo multiphoton excitation imaging."