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: The Power of 19F MRI
13:00 - 14:30 Chair: Philipp Boehm-Sturm 
13:00    Mangala Srinivas - Cell-fie Time: Capturing Cells in Action with 19F MRI
13:30    Eric T. Ahrens - Small animal 19F MR studies can inform clinical cell therapy fate: Example in T cell cancer immunotherapy
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
Frauke Alves

Session 2: Beyond Hydrogen   
15:30 - 17:30 Chair: Tor Memhave
15:30    Franz Schilling - Imaging life and death - using MRI to detect cellular function and metabolism
16:00    Lucio Frydman - From hyperpolarized 13C metabolic imaging to 2H MRI - and back
16:30    Michael Seitz - Spheracryptates - New Synthetic Platform for X-Nuclei MR
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 & Networking Reception
18:00 - …

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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024

Morning Meet & Greet
8:00 - 8:30

Session 3: Neuroimaging - Structure and Beyond  
08:30 - 10:30 Chair: Brian Hansen
08:30   Ileana Jelescu - Novel diffusion MRI approaches to map brain microstructure and activity: from rodents to humans
09:00   Rakshit Dadarwal - Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping of the Brain
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: Neuroimaging - Function
11:00-13:00 Chair: Dominik von Elverfeldt 
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: Beyond the Brain - MR on the Move
14:00-15:30 Chair: Uli Flögel
14:00   Gustav Strijkers - On the application of MRI self-gating and acquisition acceleration to study placenta and diaphragm function
14:30   Verena Hörr - Multiparametric MRI of kidney function and tissue changes during sepsis-induced acute kidney injury
15:15   Christian Bock - Observations of cardiac performance and mitochondrial oxidative capacity in scallops using CINE MRI and 31P-NMR spectroscopy

Session 6: Metabolism unchained: MR Edition
16:00-18:00 Chair: Lucio Frydman
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

Evening Event 
 

 

 

Wednesday, December 4th, 2024

Session 7: Expanding Horizons - Multimodal Imaging
09:00-10:45 Chair: Władysław Węglarz
09:00 Shi Jia Teo - Beyond MRI: how Preclinical Research Accelerates Clinical Results
09:30 Frauke Alves - Optical imaging to preclinically evaluate novel therapeutic strategies 
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
Panel discussion: Frauke Alves, Claudia Oerther, Cornelius Faber, Noam Shemesh

Farewell and Awards 
12:30-13:00
 

Small lunch (to stay or to go)