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
Hongjie Dai, Hainan University, China
9:30 a.m. Keynote Talk
Qingming Luo, University of Hong Kong, China
10:10 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
Session I: Super Resolution Microscopy I
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
Min Gu, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
11:55 a.m. Invited Talk
Sophie Brasselet, Institut Fresnel, France 
12:20 p.m. LUNCH
 1:30 p.m. Keynote Talk
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
The Deep Learning Revolution meets Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy

Yoav Shechtman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
3:00 p.m. Invited Talk
Peng Xi, Peking University, China
3:25 p.m. Invited Talk
Dong Li, Tsinghua University, China
3:50 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
Session III: Biological Applications I
4:15 p.m. Invited Talk
Hari Shroff, Janelia Research Campus, USA
4:25 p.m. Invited Talk
Tissue clearing and AI-driven 3D imaging of whole mouse bodies at cellular resolution

Ali Ertürk, Helmholtz Zentrun München, Germany
4:50 p.m. Invited Talk
MINFLUX for dynamic structural cell biology

Jonas Ries, University of Vienna, Austria
5:15 p.m. Short Talk
 
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
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
Johann Danzl, University of Vienna, Austria
9:35 a.m. Invited Talk
Deep-tissue Decoding Biological Complexity: NIR Fluorescent Probes for Dynamic Multiplexed Imaging In Vivo

Fan Zhang, Fudan University, China
10:00 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
10:30 a.m. Invited Talk
Markus Sauer, University of Würzburg, Germany
10:55 a.m. Invited Talk
Anne Rios, Princess Máxima Center, The Netherlands
11:20 a.m. Invited Talk
Yuming Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
11:45 a.m. Short Talk
 
11:55 a.m. LUNCH
1:30 p.m. Keynote Talk
Photoacoustic, Light-Speed, and Quantum Imaging/Physics

Lihong Wang, California Institute of Technology, USA
Session V: Mesoscale Imaging I
2:10 p.m. Invited Talk
Gail McConnell, University of Strathclyde, UK
2:35 p.m. Invited Talk
Jan Huisken, Georg August Göttingen, Germany
3:00 p.m. Invited Talk
Jiamin Wu, Tsinghua University, China
3:25 p.m. Short Talk
  
3:35 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
4:05 p.m. Invited Talk
David Kleinfeld, University of California, San Diego, USA
4:30 p.m. Invited Talk
Expanding the optical bag of tricks for (neuro)biology

Fabian Voigt, Harvard University, USA
5:55 p.m. Short Talk
 
5:05 p.m. Poster Session
6:30 p.m. End of day

Day 3 - Sunday 20 September, 2026

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8:30 a.m. Keynote Talk
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
10:30 a.m. Invited Talk
Florian Jug, Fondazione Human Technopole, Italy
10:55 a.m. Invited Talk
Anna Kreshuk, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
11:20 a.m. Short Talk
 
11:30 a.m. Short Talk
 
11:40 a.m. Short Talk
 
12:00 p.m. LUNCH
 
Session VIII: AI for imaging II
1:30 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
1:55 p.m. Invited Talk
Vision Foundation Models for Microscopy

Constantin Pape, University of Goettingen, Germany
2:20 p.m. Short Talk
  
2:30 p.m. Short Talk
  
2:40 p.m. Short Talk
  
2:50 p.m. Short Talk
  
3:00 p.m. Short Talk
  
3:10 p.m. Short Talk
  
3:20 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
4:00 p.m. Invited Talk
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
 
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: May 18, 2026.

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