SPAOM


The SPAOM – Spanish Portuguese Meeting for Advanced Optical Microscopy, co-organized by the Portuguese and Spanish Advanced Optical Microscopy networks, aims to promote new insights in microscopy applications, developments and technologies, fostering interactions and collaborations between scientific community and industry.


SPAOM 2023 is expected to attract many researchers and companies.

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Invited Speakers

Luciano Marcon
Luciano Marcon
Andalusian Centre for Developmental Biology (CABD), Spain
Erin Tranfield
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Portugal
Peter
O'Toole
University of York,
UK
Sérgio de Almeida
Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM),
Portugal
Heba
Sailem
King's College London,
UK
Carles
Bosch
Francis Crick Institute.
UK
Samuel Ojosnegros
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain
Cristina Barrias
Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (I3S), Portugal
Hugo
Botelho
Faculty of Sciences, BioISI, University of Lisbon,
Portugal
Hannah Heil

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Portugal
Marti Duocastela
Martí Duocastella
Universitat de Barcelona,
Spain
Tingying Peng
Tingying Peng
Helmholtz AI,
Germany

Organizing Committee

Teresa Matias Correia
Centre of Marine Sciences
Algarve (CCMAR)
Tomás Pais Azevedo
Pattern Institute

Rui Silva    

Algarve Biomedical Center Research Institute (ABC-RI)

Inês Araújo    

Algarve Biomedical Center Research Institute (ABC-RI)
Telmo Pereira
Nova Medical School
NOVA University Lisbon

Nuno Moreno    

Gulbenkian Institute of 
Science (IGC)

Scientific Committee

Ana Oña
National Center for Biotechnology (CNB)
Spain
Gabriel Martins
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Portugal
Hugo Botelho
Faculty of Sciences, BioISI, University of Lisbon,
Portugal

José Rino

Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM),
Portugal

Luisa Cortes

Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology,
Portugal
Maria Calvo
Universitat de Barcelona (CCiTUB), Spain
Paloma Dominguez
Paloma Dominguez
CABIMER, Spain

Paula Sampaio   

Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (I3S), Portugal

Preliminary Programme

October 25th
08:00 Registration And Poster setup
08:30
09:00 Opening session
09:15 Session 1 | Live Imaging: not just the small stuff
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Session 2 | High-throughput microscopy: the more the merrier
12:15 Industry Pitch
12:45 Lunch and Poster Session
14:45 Industry Workshop #1
15:30 Industry Workshop #2
16:15 Coffee Break
16:45 Community Workshop #1tbd Community Workshop #2tbd
17:45 Community Workshop #3tbd Community Workshop #4tbd
18:45 Bus to Faro
19:30 Welcome Reception
October 26th
09:00 Session 3 | Label-free imaging: seeing things just the way they are
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Session 4 | Cryo-Electron Microscopy: the hot new thing
12:15 Platinum Sponsor Talk
12:30 Flash Talks (from posters)
12:45 Lunch and Poster Session
14:45 Industry Workshop #1
15:30 Industry Workshop #2
16:15 Coffee Break
16:45 Community Workshop #5tbd Community Workshop #6tbd
17:45 REMOA PPBI Meeting
18:15 Bus to Faro
19: Sunset cocktail + Conference Dinner
October 27th
09:00 Session 5 | Parallel Visualization and Quantification: I want it all and I want it now
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Session 6 | Microscopy with a little help from AI
12:15 12:15 - 12:30 Closing Remarks
12:30 Conference End
14:30 Satellite EventZEISS Microscopy & Image Processing workshop
17:30
October 28th
09:00 Satellite EventZEISS Microscopy & Image Processing workshop Hands-on
10:30
11:00
12:15
13:00

Our Sponsors

Platinum Sponsor

Izasa Scientific

Gold Sponsors

Evident

Silver Sponsors

Evident

Bronze Sponsors

Agendo
Coherent
Hamamatsu
Iberoptics – PCO Excelitas
AHF analysentechnik
CrestOptics
Abberior
miltenyibiotec
Telstar
ILC

Copper Sponsors

NKT Photonics
Dias de Sousa
enzifarma

Partners

ABC
ccmar
ualg
NMS
igc

Become a sponsor

If you are interested in sponsoring SPAOM 2023, please contact us to learn more about the available opportunities