Next-Generation Fluorescence Microscopy
Day 1 - Friday 18 September, 2026
All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
| 8:30 a.m. | WELCOME REMARKS |
| 8:50 a.m. | Keynote Talk (Chair: Rita Strack, Nature Biomedical Engineering) Biomedical fluorescence imaging in the SWIR/NIR-II window Hongjie Dai, University of Hong Kong, China |
| 9:30 a.m. | Keynote Talk Visualizing Brain-wide Networks at Single-Neuron Resolution with Brain-wide Positioning System Qingming Luo, Hainan University, China |
| 10:10 a.m. | COFFEE BREAK |
Session I: Super Resolution Microscopy I (Chair: Giampaolo Pitruzzello, Nature Photonics)
| 10:40 a.m. | Invited Talk From DNA Nanotechnology to Biomedical Insight - Towards Single-Molecule Spatial Omics Ralf Jungmann, Max Planck Institute, Germany |
| 11:05 a.m. | Invited Talk Smart Microscopy for Adaptive Imaging Suliana Manley, EPFL, Switzerland |
| 11:30 a.m. | Invited Talk All-optical artificial intelligence microscopy for next-generation cellular imaging Min Gu, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China |
| 11:55 a.m. | Invited Talk Polarized super resolution optical microscopy in 3D for structural imaging in biology Sophie Brasselet, Institut Fresnel, France |
| 12:20 p.m. | LUNCH |
| 1:30 p.m. | Keynote Talk (Virtual) (Chair: Liqian Wang, Nature) Fluorescence microscopy: a minimum for maximal spatio-temporal resolution Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute, Germany |
Session II: Super Resolution Microscopy II
| 2:10 p.m. | Invited Talk Capturing the dynamics of neuronal proteins with smart nanoscopy Ilaria Testa, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
| 2:35 p.m. | Invited Talk Splitting light: generative models for spectral and structural unmixing Florian Jug, Fondazione Human Technopole, Italy |
| 3:00 p.m. | Invited Talk Super-resolution structured illumination microscopy: polarization, anisotropy, and lattice Peng Xi, Peking University, China |
| 3:25 p.m. | Invited Talk Smart microscopy: towards volumetric super-resolution, anti-noise and beyond Dong Li, Tsinghua University, China |
| 3:50 p.m. | COFFEE BREAK |
Session III: Biological Applications I (Chair: Hui Qiao, Tsinghua University)
| 4:15 p.m. | Invited Talk Deep-tissue Decoding Biological Complexity: NIR Fluorescent Probes for Dynamic Multiplexed Imaging In Vivo Fan Zhang, Fudan University, China |
| 4:40 p.m. | Invited Talk Tissue clearing and AI-driven 3D imaging of whole mouse bodies at cellular resolution Ali Ertürk, Helmholtz Zentrun München, Germany |
| 5:05 p.m. | Invited Talk MINFLUX for dynamic structural cell biology Jonas Ries, University of Vienna, Austria |
| 5:30 p.m. | Meet-the-Editors |
| 6:15 p.m. | End of day |
Day 2 - Saturday 19 September, 2026
All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
| 8:30 a.m. | Keynote Talk (Chair: Anne Doerr, Nature Biotechnology) In Vivo Optical Imaging of Neurotransmitter Release and Membrane Potential Dynamics Na Ji, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
Session IV: Biological Applications II
| 9:10 a.m. | Invited Talk Reconstructing brain tissue at synaptic resolution with light microscopy Johann Danzl, University of Vienna, Austria |
| 9:35 a.m. | Invited Talk Whole animal super-resolution imaging in live and fixed specimens Hari Shroff, Janelia Research Campus, USA |
| 10:00 a.m. | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:30 a.m. | Invited Talk (Chair: Giampaolo Pitruzzello, Nature Photonics) Unlocking cellular ultrastructure with super-resolution expansion microscopy Markus Sauer, University of Würzburg, Germany |
| 10:55 a.m. | Invited Talk Organoids, cancer immunity models in motion Anne Rios, Princess Máxima Center, The Netherlands |
| 11:20 a.m. | Invited Talk Data-Driven Computational Microscopy of Tumor Microenvironment Dynamics Yuming Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| 11:45 a.m. | Short Talk A chemigenetic far-red norepinephrine sensor for in vivo multiplex imaging Yiwen Cui, Peking University, China |
| 11:55 a.m. | LUNCH |
| 1:30 p.m. | Keynote Talk (Chair: Anita Chandran, Nature Communications) Mesoscale intravital imaging and analysis Jiamin Wu, Tsinghua University, China |
Session V: Mesoscale Imaging I
| 2:10 p.m. | Invited Talk Mesoscale imaging with the Mesolens: from hardware to data analysis Gail McConnell, University of Strathclyde, UK |
| 2:35 p.m. | Invited Talk Flamingo: Modular, portable, high-end microscopy inside and outside the lab Jan Huisken, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany |
| 3:00 p.m. | Short Talk Visualising nanoscale interactions across millimetre-scale fields of view through mesoscale FRET Mollie Brown, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK |
| 3:10 p.m. | Short Talk Integrating Multimodal Lattice Light-Sheet Microscopy and Petabyte-Scale Computation for Nanoscale Brain Imaging Xiongtao Ruan, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| 3:20 p.m. | Short Talk Multidimensional single-molecule spectral dynamics imaging Shangguo Hou, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, China |
| 3:30 p.m. | COFFEE BREAK |
| 4:00 p.m. | Invited Talk (Chair: Donato Conteduca, Nature Communications) The brain vascular connectome and neural control of blood flow are revealed by optical imaging and manipulation David Kleinfeld, University of California, San Diego, USA |
| 4:25 p.m. | Invited Talk Expanding the optical bag of tricks for (neuro)biology Fabian Voigt, Harvard University, USA |
| 5:50 p.m. | Short Talk Sparse-view spatiotemporal reconstruction enables analysis-ready terabyte-scale 4D intravital microscopy Xiaoge Wang, Tsinghua University, China |
| 5:00 p.m. | Poster Session |
| 6:30 p.m. | End of day |
Day 3 - Sunday 20 September, 2026
All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
| 8:30 a.m. | Keynote Talk (Chair: Jiamin Wu, Tsinghua University) High-throughput computational microscopy with dynamic samples Laura Waller, UC Berkeley, USA |
Session VI: Mesoscale Imaging II
| 9:10 a.m. | Invited Talk Automated Trans-Scale Imaging for Discovering Rare Cells Hidden in Massive Populations Takeharu Nagai, Osaka University, Japan |
| 9:35 a.m. | Invited Talk Computation in microscopy: How computers are changing the way we build and use microscopes Changhuei Yang, California Institute of Technology, USA |
| 10:00 a.m. | COFFEE BREAK |
Session VII: AI for imaging I (Chair:
| 10:30 a.m. | Invited Talk (Chair: Wenjie Wang, Communications Engineering) The Deep Learning Revolution meets Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy Yoav Shechtman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel |
| 10:55 a.m. | Invited Talk Learning Visual Phenotypes Anna Kreshuk, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany |
| 11:20 a.m. | Short Talk Super-resolution imaging of the whole mouse brain with transparent embedding expansion microscopy (TEEX) Jaiyi Ding, Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing, China |
| 11:30 a.m. | Short Talk Whole dorsal cortex imaging at single-cell resolution in freely behaving mice Yuanlong Zhang, Tsinghua University, China |
| 11:40 a.m. | Short Talk Polarimetric Super-Resolution Microscopy: Boosting Interfacial Photophysics and Single-Shot Biological Imaging Wei Guo, EPFL, Switzerland |
| 12:00 p.m. | LUNCH |
| 1:30 p.m. | Keynote Talk (Chair:Ophelia Bu, Communications Biology） Photoacoustic, Light-Speed, and Quantum Imaging/Physics Lihong Wang, California Institute of Technology, USA |
Session VIII: AI for imaging II
| 2:10 p.m. | Invited Talk Computational phase imaging for label-free 3D microscopy：noninterferometic phase retrieval and intensity diffraction tomography Chao Zuo, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China |
| 2:35 p.m. | Invited Talk Vision Foundation Models for Microscopy Constantin Pape, University of Goettingen, Germany |
| 3:00 p.m. | Short Talk Next-generation fluorescence microscopy based on optically addressable spins in proteins Lisa Krüger, Technical University Munich, Germany |
| 3:10 p.m. | Short Talk Fourier light-field microscopy for 3D single-molecule tracking and diffusional measurements of intermolecular interactions Beichen Zhang, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 3:20 p.m. | Short Talk Elucidating nanoscale architecture and dynamics with 4Pi super-resolution microscopy Yongdeng Zhang, Westlake University, China |
| 3:30 p.m. | COFFEE BREAK |
| 4:00 p.m. | Invited Talk (Chair: Yuanlong Zhang, Tsinghua University） Versatile high-throughput light-sheet microscopy for human-in-the-loop 3D pathology Peng Fei, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China |
| 4:25 p.m. | Invited Talk Towards the gentle gaze of molecules with AI-enhanced Microscopy Ricardo Henriques, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 4:50 p.m. | Short Talk Biologically Grounded Cell Profiling across Microscopy Modalities He Sun, Peking University, China |
| 5:00 p.m. | Short Talk |
| 5:10 p.m. | CLOSING REMARKS |
| 5:30 p.m. | End of day |
Preliminary program – subject to change. Last updated: Sep 2, 2026.
Times are displayed in CST