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THURSDAY, 27 AUGUST
IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES AND CLINICAL TRANSLATION

08.30 Gunilla Widén, Rector of Åbo Akademi University
Opening words and announcement of the Elias Tillandz publication prize

KEYNOTE LECTURE
09.00 Harry Hu, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Metrology in quantitative MRI: Considerations and applications in measuring organ fat and adipose tissue
09.30 Q&A

SESSION I — CLINICAL AND QUANTITATIVE IMAGING
09.40 Vera Schrauwen, German Diabetes Center, Germany
Application of MRI and MRS techniques in metabolic research
10.10 Q&A
10.20 Selected short talk 1

10.35 POSTER SESSION A with coffee, tea and exhibition

11.35 Selected short talk 2
11.50 Esben Søndergaard, Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Metabolic PET imaging in cardiometabolic disease
12.20 Q&A

12.30 LUNCH and exhibition

SESSION II — AI, COMPUTATIONAL IMAGING AND IMAGE ANALYSIS

13.30 Ricardo Henriques, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal
Seeing more with less: Towards the gentle gaze of molecules with AI-enhanced microscopy
14.00 Q&A
14.10 Assaf Zaritsky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Enabling non-invasive, multiplexed, long-term observation of cellular processes via label-free live imaging and in silico labeling
14.40 Q&A
14.50 Selected short talk 3

15.05 POSTER SESSION B with coffee, tea and exhibition

16.05 Selected short talk 4
16.20 Karolina Punovuori, MultivisionDx Oy; University of Helsinki, Finland
Bringing spatial biology from discovery to clinic
16.50 Q&A

17.00 First symposium day ends

FRIDAY, 28 AUGUST
DYNAMIC BIOLOGICAL IMAGING, DISEASE MECHANISMS AND SYSTEMS PHYSIOLOGY

KEYNOTE LECTURE
09.00 Samantha Stehbens, The University of Queensland, Australia
The mechanobiology of metastasis: Integration of bioengineering and live-cell imaging to understand tumour cell survival and invasion
9.30 Q&A

SESSION III — CELL DYNAMICS, MECHANOBIOLOGY AND DISEASE MECHANISMS
09.40 Selected short talk 5
09.55 Jörg Renkawitz, LMU München, Germany
How mechanobiology shapes immune cell function
10.25 Q&A

10.35 POSTER SESSION with coffee, tea and exhibition

11.45 Selected short talk 6
12.00 Teemu Ihalainen, Tampere University, Finland
Imaging ions in action: Probing cellular function
12.30 Q&A

SESSION IV — VESSELS, NEURONS AND ORGANISM-LEVEL IMAGING
12.40 Sinem Karaman, University of Helsinki, Finland
Now you see me, now you don’t: Visualizing adipose tissue capillary loss in obesity
13.10 Q&A

13.20 LUNCH and exhibition

14.10 Selected short talk 7
14.25 Subhojit Roy, University of California San Diego, USA
Who goes there? Unexpected dynamic events in neurons
14.55 Q&A
15.05 Selected short talk 8
15.20 Sally Eldeghaidy, University of Nottingham, UK
Nutritional neuroimaging in obesity and diabetes: Sensory-brain-gut interactions
15.50 Q&A
16.00 Klaus Elenius, BioCity Turku Scientific Director
Closing remarks

Original artwork by Joanna Pylvänäinen, 2025