Program
Monday, December 2nd, 2024
10:00 - 11:30 Organized tours for early arrivals
12:00 - 12:45 Registration and Poster mounting
12:45 - 13:00 Opening remarks
13:00 - 15:00 Session 1: The Power of 19F MRI
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:30 Session 2: Beyond Hydrogen-1
17:30 Poster Session and evening program
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
08:00 - 08:30 Coffee and Welcome
08:30 - 10:30 Session 3: Neuroimaging - Structural
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 13:00 Session 4: Neuroimaging - Functional
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch and futher tours of the DPZ facilities
14:30 - 16:30 Session 5: Beyond the Brain - MR on the Move
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee
17:00 - 18:30 Session 6: Prelude to Tomorrow
19:00 Evening Event
Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
08:30 - 09:00 Coffee and Welcome
09:00 - 11:00 Session 7: Expanding Horizons: Multimodal Imaging
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 13:00 Session 8: Quo vadis preclinical MRI?
13:00 Lunch and departures
Monday, December 2nd, 2024
10:00 - 11:30 Organized tours of the DPZ facilities
12:00 - 12:45 Registration and poster mounting
12:45 - 13:00 Opening remarks
Session 1: 19F 13:00-14:30
13:00 Mangala Srinivas - Cell-fie Time: Capturing Cells in Action with 19F MRI
13:30 Eric T. Ahrens
14:00 Dominik Havlicek - Structure-Optimized Fluorinated Polymers for Advanced 19F MRI: Tumor Visualization and Beyond
14:15 Alvja Mali - Perfluorocarbon-PLGA particle ultrastructure affects pH sensitivity in 19F NMR and MRI
Introduction to ESMI 14:30-14:45
Session 2: X-Nuclei 15:30-17:30
15:30 Franz Schilling - Imaging life and death - using MRI to detect cellular function and metabolism
16:00 Lucio Frydman
16:30 Michael Seitz
17:00 David Červený - Pancreatic islets transplantation into a greater omentum using a decellularized pancreatic tail as an extracellular matrix skeleton
17:15 Sebastian Temme - Modification of neutrophil-specific NPPFCs with fMLP enhances neutrophil effector functions and ameliorates acute DSS-induced colitis in mice
Poster power pitches 17:30-18:00
Poster session with drinks 18:00-
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
Session 3: Structural Neuroimaging 08:30-10:30
08:30 Ileana Jelescu - Novel diffusion MRI approaches to map brain microstructure and activity: from rodents to humans
09:00 Rakshit Dadarwal
09:30 Philip Boehm-Sturm - Metabolic MRI in experimental stroke
09:45 Talia Harris - Studying the Effect of Iron Deficiency on Murine Fetal Development with MRI
10:00 Alfred Anwander - High-Resolution Diffusion MRI and Tractography of the Chimpanzee Brain
10:15 Enrica Wilken - Dynamic 3D single-cell tracking using bSSFP acquisition in time-lapse MRI
Session 4: Functional neuroimaging 11:00-13:00
11:00 Cornelius Faber - Brain states and solute clearance from the brain studied by multimodal MRI
11:30 Noam Shemesh - Ultrafast fMRI for mapping task-evoked and spontaneous information flow in the brain
12:00 Brian Hansen - Challenges and advantages of awake mouse MRI
12:30 Aref Kalentari - Automated quality control of small animal MR neuroimaging data
12:45 Hui-Fen Chen - Short-Term Modulations of Cerebral Processing of Mechanosensation in Incision-Induced Mice as Detected by BOLD fMRI
LUNCH (1 hour)
Session 5: Cardiovascular 14:00-15:30
14:00 Gustav Strijkers - On the application of MRI self-gating and acquisition acceleration to study placenta and diaphragm function
14:30 Verena Hörr
15:00 Martin Meier - MRS in the beating heart, reducing motion artefacts using a self-gated UTE guidance
15:15 Christian Bock - Observations of cardiac performance and mitochondrial oxidative capacity in scallops using CINE MRI and 31P-NMR spectroscopy
Session 6: Spectroscopy 16:00-18:00
16:00 Uwe Himmelreich - Metabolic fingerprint of microorganisms as a tool for the diagnosis and treatment follow-up of brain infections
16:30 Uli Flögel - Magnetic resonance reveals early lipid deposition in murine prediabetes as predictive marker for cardiovascular injury
17:00 Tor Rasmus Memhave - Investigating the noise behavior of LCModel in five species at two field strengths
17:30 Chris Lippe - Model-based analysis of GlucoCEST MRI data
17:45 Daniela Prinz - Imaging the tumor pH gradient in breast cancer: acidoCEST vs. AACID CEST
Session 7a: Multimodal Imaging 18:15-18:45
18:15 André Martins
Evening Event
Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
Session 7b: Multimodal Imaging 09:00-10:45
09:00 Shi Jia Teo
09:30 Frauke Alves
10:00 Michal Franc - Complexes of porphyrin-based star polymers with metal ions and their use as structurally tunable contrast agents for multimodal MR imaging
10:15 Anna Szinyei - Systematic evaluation of adhesives for implant fixation in multimodal functional brain MRI
10:30 Silvester Bartsch - Simultaneous multiparametric [18F]FMISO PET/MRI reveals physiologically distinct intratumoral clusters in breast cancer
Session 8: Quo vadis? Preclinical MRI 11:30-12:30
11:30 Opening statements x4
11:50 Panel discussion
Farewell and awards 12:30-13:00
Small lunch