Program

MGS 2019 Program

Monday, February 18
Time	Session/Lecture info
08:30-09:10
08:30-09:00	Registration & coffee
09:00-09:10	Opening Remarks
09:10-11:15	Session 1 Chair: Rita Schmidt, Weizmann Institute of Science
09:10-09:40	Lucio Frydman, Weizmann Institute of Science Rapid and Robust: In vivo imaging in animals and humans by spatiotemporally encoded MRI
09:40-10:10	Willem Mulder, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Integrating nanomedicine and imaging
10:10-10:40	Peter Barker, Johns Hopkins University Recent advances in spectral editing
10:40-10:45	Katrien Vandoorne, Eindhoven University of Technology Flash Talk: Imaging the Vascular Bone Marrow Niche During Inflammatory Stress
10:45-10:50	Eman Akam, Massachusetts General Hospital Flash Talk: Allysine-targeting gadolinium-based MRI probes for imaging lung fibrogenesis
10:50-10:55	Jihyun Kim, Texas A&M University Flash Talk: Selective Signal Enhancements by Polarization Transfer from Hyperpolarized Small Molecules to Protein Targets
10:55-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-14:15	Session 2 Chair: Mikhail Shapiro, Caltech
11:15-11:45	Zhi-Pei Liang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana Ultrafast MRSI: A Marriage of Spin Physics with Machine Learning for Label-Free Molecular Imaging
11:45-12:15	Leif Schröder, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) Hyper-CEST NMR for Molecular Sensing with Hyperpolarized Xenon
12:15-12:45	Amnon Bar-Shir, Weizmann Institute of Science Nanofluorides: ultrasmall nanocrystals as background free MRI tracers
12:45-14:15	Lunch and Poster session
14:15-16:20	Session 3 Chair: Rachel Katz-Brul, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
14:15-14:45	Kevin Brindle, University of Cambridge Imaging tumour metabolism
14:45-15:15	Dimitrios Karampinos, Technische Universität München Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy of lipids
15:15-15:45	Christian Hilty, Texas A&M University Adding a Time Dimension to Magnetic Resonance Using Hyperpolarization of Nuclear Spins
15:45-15:50	Ludger Starke, Helmholtz Association Flash Talk: Localization of Neuroinflammation in the EAE Mouse Model: Compressed Sensing Improves Detection of Fluorine Nanoparticles
15:50-15:55	Alexey Kulpanovich, Weizmann Institute of Science Flash Talk: Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: A Fingerprinting Approach
15:55-16:00	Joshua M. Goldenberg, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Flash Talk: Assessing Response to Therapy Using Simultaneous PET/MRI in Preclinical Model of Pancreatic Cancer
16:00-16:20	Coffee Break
16:20-17:50	Session 4 Chair: Aviv Mezer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
16:20-16:50	Ulrich Flögel, Heinrich-Heine-University 19F Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Unmasking Biomedical Hot Spots from the Background
16:50-17:20	Noam Ben-Eliezer, Tel Aviv University Towards sub-voxel estimation of myelin content using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging
17:20-17:50	Rachel Katz-Brull, Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem What can we learn from studies of hyperpolarized substrate metabolism in rodent brain slices

Tuesday, February 19
Time	Session/Lecture info
08:30-09:00
08:30-09:00	Registration & coffee
09:00-11:05	Session 1 Chair: Leif Schroder, FMP, Berlin
09:00-09:30	Michal Neeman, Weizmann Institute of Science MRI of embryo implantation
09:30-10:00	Uzay Emir, Purdue University Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Tools for Neuroscience Research and Emerging Clinical Applications
10:00-10:30	Mikhail Shapiro, Caltech Proteins, air and water: new mechanisms in biomolecular MRI and ultrasound
10:30-10:35	Hen Amit Morik, FMP Berlin Flash Talk: Keyhole Imaging with Hyperpolarized Xenon
10:35-10:40	Hyla Allouche-Arnon, Weizmann Institute of Science Flash Talk: Nucleoside kinases as MRI reporter genes
10:40-10:45	Anu Meerwaldt, Mount Sinai Flash Talk: Probing myeloid cell dynamics in ischemic heart disease by nanobiologic hotspot imaging
10:45-11:05	Coffee Break
11:05-14:30	Session 2 Chair: Ulrich Flogel, Heinrich-Heine-University
11:05-11:35	Peter Caravan, Harvard Medical School Molecular imaging of fibrosis
11:35-12:05	Assaf Tal, Weizmann Institute of Science Functional Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and the Study of Brain Plasticity
12:05-12:35	Marty Pagel, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Imaging the Tumor Microenvironment
12:35-12:40	Felix Kreis, University of Cambridge Flash Talk: Towards Fast Deuterium Metabolic Imaging
12:40-12:45	Sebastian Temme, Heinrich-Heine University Flash Talk: 19F MRI of neutrophil granulocytes by targeting the cell surface receptor CD177
12:45-12:50	Ricardo Pinto Enes Martinho, Weizmann Institute of Science Flash Talk: Identification of early stage murine pancreatic tumors by a combinatorial approach employing SPEN DWI, FLAIR T1 and hyperpolarized 13C MRI
12:50-12:55	Dominik Weidlich, Technical University of Munich Flash Talk: Spatially resolved measurement of lipid droplet size in white adipose tissue with high b-value stimulated echo-prepared diffusion-weighted 2D single shot TSE
12:55-14:30	Lunch and Poster session
14:30-16:20	Session 3 Chair: Noam Ben-Eliezer, Tel Aviv University
14:30-15:00	Stefan Posse, University of New Mexico On Presurgical Mapping of Metabolism and Resting-State Connectivity in Patients with Brain Tumors
15:00-15:30	Rita Schmidt, Weizmann Institute of Israel Metamaterials for enhancing sensitivity of localized spectroscopy and imaging
15:30-16:00	Aviv Mezer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Whole Brain Detection of Molecular Profiles using MRI
16:00-16:20	Coffee Break
16:20-18:00	Session 4 Chair: Dimitrios Karampinos, Technische Universitat Munchen
16:20-16:50	Thoralf Niendorf, Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine Thermal Magnetic Resonance: A New Instrument to Define the Role of Temperature in Biological Systems and Disease for Diagnosis and Therapy
16:50-17:20	Roland Kreis, University & Inselspital Bern Quality assessments in clinical MRS: of men and machine
17:20-17:30	Poster awards and Closing remarks

Registration is free with Abstract Submission

Organizing committee

Assaf Tal
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Amnon Bar-Shir
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Leif Schröder
FMP Berlin, Germany

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irit.veksler@weizmann.ac.il

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