The next conference in the FOM series will take place in Shanghai, China from Sunday March 28 to Wednesday March 31, 2010. Please note that this is in the week before Easter 2010. The conference dinner and circus show will take place in the afternoon/evening of the last day of the conference, 31 March.

We are happy to announce that the online registration for FOM2010 and hotel booking has been opened and you will find the links for this under the Registration and hotel booking button left of this page.

The conference will take place at the Shanghai Everbright Convention and Exhibition Center, in the center of Shanghai. This location can be reached easily from the Shanghai International airport, by high-speed magnetic train and taxi/metro. When you wish to be kept informed about the conference please leave your email address here.

After the successful FOM2009 conference held in Krakow, Poland this year, the present Focus on Microscopy 2010 hosted by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University at the Everbright conventioncenter and hotel. It will start around 6 o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday the 28th with a plenary opening session followed by a welcome reception. You can still view the abstracts of the Krakow contributions under the History button on the left, then select 'FOM 2009', followed by 'program'. With the Searchbutton you can in fact search all the contributions presented in the FOM conferences over the last five years.

Focus on Microscopy 2010 is the continuation of a yearly conference series presenting the latest innovations in optical microscopy and their application in biology, medicine and the material sciences. Key subjects for the conference series are the theory and practice of 3D optical imaging, related 3D image processing, and reporting especially on developments in resolution and imaging modalities. The conference series is covers also the rapidly advancing fluorescence labeling techniques for the confocal and multi-photon 3D imaging of -live- biological specimens.

Typical topics of the upcoming FOM conference will include:

• Theory and practice of confocal and multiphoton-excitation microscopy’s • 3D and 4D live cell and tissue imaging • Super-resolution, nanoscopy techniques: from PSF engineering (4pi,SIM, STED), fluorescent activation/quenching, stochastic/centroid to TIRF • Time-resolved fluorescence: FRET, FRAP, FLIM, FCS • Coherent non-linear microscopies: SHG, THG, SFG, CARS. • Multi-dimensional fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy imaging • Laser manipulation, ablation and micro-dissection, photo-activation • Applications in Biomedical Engineering (bio- and nanomaterials, biosensors) • OCT, endoscopy, whole animal fluorescence • Automated and high-throughput microscopy techniques • 3D Image processing and visualization for multidimensional data

A technical exhibition will be a feature of the Shanghai FOM2010 conference. For present exhibitors and sponsors click:Sponsors & Exhibitors

Welcoming you to the Shanghai FOM2010 conference and exhibition,
On behalf of the FocusOnMicroscopy society,

• Qiushi Ren, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Peking University, China
• Fred Brakenhoff, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• 23nd International Conference on 3D Image Processing in Microscopy
• 22th International Conference on Confocal Microscopy