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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">FOCUS ON MICROSCOPY 2015</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Göttingen, Germany, March 29 - April 1, 2015</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /> 28th International Conference on 3D Image Processing in Microscopy<br /> 27th International Conference on Confocal Microscopy</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Dear Colleagues,</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Abstracts for oral and poster presentations can now be submitted through the conference website: <a href="http://www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org">http://www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org</a> where also the conference registration has opened and hotel information is available.<br /><br />Deadline for abstract submission: Tuesday, January 20, 2015<br /><br />After the successful FOM2014 conference held in Sydney earlier this year, it is a pleasure to announce FOM2015, the next Focus on Microscopy conference. It will take place in the Lokhalle venue, Göttingen, Germany, in the week before Easter from Sunday 29 March – Wednesday 1 April 2015. It will be the next in a series of unique interdisciplinary meetings on advanced multi-dimensional light microscopy and image processing.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For further details please visit the FOCUS ON MICROSCOPY website <span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org">www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org</a></span></span></span>. There, in addition to general information, the scientific program of the previous Sydney and other FOM conferences can be found at the link “Past conferences”. From 2004 onwards together with links in the scientific program to one page PDF abstracts of the contributions presented in that year. Please note also the "Search FOM database " button for full searches over the digital FOM archive over the years.<br /><br />FOM2015 is the continuation of a yearly conference series, started in 1988 presenting the latest innovations and newest trends in optical microscopy, and their application in biology, medicine, and the material sciences.<br /> </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Key topics are:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Theory and practice of confocal and multiphoton-excitation microscopy</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Super-resolution, nanoscopy imaging: from PSF engineering (4pi, SIM, STED), fluorescent activation/quenching, stochastic/centroid (PALM, STORM, GSDIM, SOFI and related techniques) to TIRF</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Advanced fluorescence imaging/spectroscopy: FRET, FRAP, FLIM, FCS</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">New fluorescence probes, proteins, quantum dots, single molecule imaging </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Coherent non-linear microscopies: SHG, THG, SFG, CARS. </span></li>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At the 2015 conference the topic “Super-resolution techniques and applications” will receive special attention, this also in connection with the recently awarded Nobel Prize in this field.<br /><br />The conference series is in addition known for covering the rapid development of advanced fluorescence labeling techniques for confocal and multi-photon 3D imaging of -live- biological specimens.<br /><br />Abstracts for contributions are invited and can already be submitted through the website: <span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org">www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org</a></span></span></span> where further information on the present and previous FOM conferences can be found.</span></div>
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<td><span style="font-size: 12pt;">January 20, 2015</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-size: 12pt;">FOM2015 Conference Göttingen</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Easter Sunday 2015</span></td>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To stay informed about the conference please leave your name and email at<a href="http://www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org/stayinformed"> www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org/stayinformed</a>.<br /> <br /> Welcoming you to Göttingen for the FOM2015 conference and exhibition,</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">the FOM2015 organizing committee:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Gertrude Bunt, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany<br /></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fred Wouters, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fred Brakenhoff, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands</span></li>
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