SOLVING NATURE’S MYSTERIES USING 

ADVANCED BIOIMAGING APPROACHES

Yerevan, Armenia, 4-6 November, 2024

Conference Venue: Congress Hotel, Ballroom

DAY 1

TimeTopicSpeaker
9.30 – 10.00Coffee time
10.00 -10.05Opening remarksNarine Sarvazyan, GW/AUA/OIPH, USA / Armenia
10.05 – 10.15Host Institute history and Conference logisticsNaira Ayvazyan, OIPH, Armenia
10.15 – 10.30BIO-SEE reportDaniel Polianczyk, OIPH, Armenia
10:30 – 11.15Keynote lecture I: Localized Protein Synthesis in the HeartSandor Gyorke, Ohio State, USA
11:15 – 12.00Keynote lecture II: Technologies for control and visualization of single neuron and neural network activitiesPavel Balaban, IHNA&NPH Institute, Russia
12.00 – 13.00 Lunchtime
Cardiovascular session
13.00 – 13.30Optogenetic control & imaging of cardiac activityEmilia Entcheva, GW SEAS, USA
13.30 – 14.00Imaging of arrhythmia sources across different scales and imaging modalitiesNarine Sarvazyan, GW/AUA/OIPH, USA/Armenia
14.00 – 14.30Two-photon excitation & spectral imaging of mouse aorta in HIV-associated atherosclerosisMichael Bukrinsky, GW, USA
14.30 – 14.45Ultrastructural Remodeling of Cardiomyocytes in Postinfarction MyocardiumEkaterina Baydyuk, ERAC, Armenia
14.45 – 15.00 Coffee time
Neuronal session
15.00 – 15.30Optical imaging of neurons and astrocytes during locomotion in miceAlexey Semyanov, IBCh RAS/Jiaxing University, China
15.30 – 16.00Dynamic tracking of neurodegeneration markersDaniel C Anthony, Oxford, UK
16.00 – 16.30Directed neuroplasticity after neurotraumaPavel Musienko, SUST, Russia
16.30 – 16.45Unraveling morphological, functional & molecular characteristics of neurons using high-resolution imagingDeepika Negi, Univ of Greenwich, UK
16.45 – 17.00Use of single-cell RNA imaging to study neurodevelopmentLiana Hayrapetyan, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, USA