Day 1, September 9 – Training School on Multimodal Optical Imaging

Day 1, September 9
8:00 – 9:00	Registration (UCM)
9:00 – 9:05	Workshop Opening Rector of UCM Trnava
9:05 – 9:20	Europe overview – concepts and working modes, COST opportunities Klara Weipoltshammer, Medical University Vienna, Austria

Block I.	INTRODUCTION to SPECTROSCOPY and IMAGING
9:20 – 9:40	Introduction to Multimodal Optical Imaging Alzbeta Marcek Chorvatova, ILC Bratislava and UCM Trnava
9:40 – 10:00	Introduction to cellular structural networks and to mechanobiology of cells and organoids Yannis F. Missirlis, University of Patras, Greece
10:00 – 11:00	PLENARY – Weighing single molecules with light Philipp Kukura, University of Oxford, UK

11:00 – 11.30	Coffee break

Block II.	Analysis of complex data
11:30 – 12:30	PLENARY – Life beyond the pixels: image analysis and machine learning methods for cell profiling. Peter Horvath, Institute of Biochemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, BRC, Szeged, Hungary

12:30 – 13:30	Lunch

13:30 – 14:00	Micro/Nano –patterned surfaces for Cellular Biology & Tissue Engineering Anthi Ranella, FORTH, Greece

Technical Block I	hands on user training
14:00 – 14:15	TECHNICAL PROGRAM – company presentations : Carl Zeiss, Jena
14:15 – 14:30	TECHNICAL PROGRAM – company presentations : Siprogs

14:30 – 16.00	Coffee available

14:30 – 17:30	Hands-on user training, 5 stands: *Zeiss:* Advanced confocal microscopy imaging, *Becker&Hickl:* Time-resolved macroimaging and spectroscopy, *Kvant:* Light spectrometry, *SiProgs:* 3D model creation, visualization and fabrication *Academic writing* (Ljuba Bacharova, ILC Bratislava) : research study protocol preparation, academic writing skills


	Meeting of WG3COST
16:00 – 17:00	Meeting of WG3 COST Pavel Hozak, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic and Klara Weipoltsahammer, Medical University Vienna, Austria
16:00 – 17:00	Meeting of WG3 COST

Parallel Session I	Groundbreaking inventions in optical imaging
17:30 – 18:30	Groundbreaking inventions in multimodal optical imaging: inventions receiving Nobel prizes in 20^th and 21^st century. Selected speakers

19:00 – 22:00	Conference Dinner (at UCM)