Updated scientific program

PLENARY LECTURE | Chair: Hinke Mulhaupt

Toyoshi Fujimoto

“New Roles of Lipid Droplets: A Histochemical Journey”

Parallel session A

Chair: Masahiko Harata, Serap Arbak

Structure of the cell, tissues and pathogenesis

Invited speakers:

• Vilmos Péter
• Ciler CELIK OZENCI

Parallel session B

Chair: Karel Smetana, Marco Biggiogera

Cancer biology

Invited speakers:

• Karel Smetana

PLENARY LECTURE | Chair: Klara Weipoltshammer

Ohad Medalia

Robert Feulgen Lecture titled: “From actin to lamins by in situ structural biology”

PLENARY LECTURE | Chair: Zbigniew Kmiec

Bozena Kaminska

„Dissecting heterogeneity and roles of brain macrophages in brain tumors: when guardians turn enemies”

COMPANY PRESENTATION

TESCAN

SCIENTIFIC SESSION | Chair: Stephen Hewitt

Cancer Stem Cell Niches (HCS session, inspired by the December 2021 special issue of the Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry)

Invited speakers:

• Ron Van Noorden
• Stephen Hewitt
• 2 TBA

Parallel session A

Chair: Romina Mancinelli, Vlada Filimonenko

Sample processing, probes, histopathology and quantitative approaches (SfH session)

Invited speakers:

• Takehiko Koji (HCB lecture)
• Christian Mühlfeld

Parallel session B

Chair: Luca M. Neri

Cell physiology, immunology and infectious diseases

Invited speakers:

• Lucio Cocco
• Luca M. Neri
• Carolina Simioni

KEYNOTE LECTURE | Chair: Pavel Hozak

Stefan Hell

David Glick Award Lecture titled: “MINFLUX nanoscopy and related matters”

PLENARY LECTURE | Chair: Serap Arbak

Alev Erisir

“Serial EM Image Reconstructions in Studying Selectivity and Network Properties of Synaptic Inputs”

SCIENTIFIC SESSION | Chair: Charles Frevert, Paul Goodwin

Immunocytochemistry workshop: ‘Just Do It Right’ (HCS session)

Invited speakers:

• Franklin Peale
• Charles Frevert
• Paul Goodwin
• Stephen Hewitt

This session will highlight the development of multiplex immunohistochemical assays to answer scientific questions (rather than just make pretty pictures). The topics covered would include design| data concepts of multiplex assays, validation of antibodies and reagents in multiplex immunocytochemistry and the challenges in multiplex immunocytochemistry.

Parallel session A

Chair: Bozena Kaminska, Lucio Cocco

Synaptic plasticity and Neuroscience

Invited speakers:

• TBA

Parallel session B

Chair: Christian Schöfer, Roberta Di Pietro

Stem cell biology and regenerative medicine + Cell differentiation and developmental biology

Invited speakers:

• Roberta Di Pietro

COMPANY PRESENTATION

JEOL

SCIENTIFIC SESSION | Chair: TBA

Young Histochemist Award session

SCIENTIFIC SESSION | Chair: Joseph L. Cheatwood, Anne S. Davis, Liliana Schaefer

Meet the Histochemical Society (HCS session)

Invited speakers:

• Margarida Barosso
• Joseph L. Cheatwood
• Anne S. Davis
• Roberto Mota Alvidrez

Join HCS members for scientific presentations demonstrating the use of histochemical techniques to test hypotheses about disease mechanisms or gene functions using in vivo or in vitro models. Several different fields of study will be represented to demonstrate the variety in research and expertise across our membership. Topics may include: Cellular and Molecular Pathogenesis, Multiscale Imaging of cancer cell biology, and Neuroscience