_*Tuesday, September 24, 2013 -- 16:00 h*_ Venue: Read Lecture Theatre, Level 5, Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London *Leica Scientific Forum UK -- London** * _*Advances in Life Science Prof. Mark Ellisman Director of NCMIR and CRBS, University of California San Diego*__* *__*"Multiscale Microscopy of the Brain: Where is the Dark Matter?"*__* *_ Lecture This talk will highlight projects in which development and application of new contrasting methods and imaging tools have allowed us to observe otherwise hidden relationships be- tween cellular, subcellular and molecular constituents of cells, including those of nervous systems. Prof. Ellisman will present * New chemistries for carrying out correlated light and electron microscopy * Recent advances in large-scale high-resolution 3D reconstruction with LM, TEM and SEM based methods. * Next generation cell-centric image libraries and web-based multiscale information ex- ploration environments for sharing and exploring these data 16:00 Welcome & Introduction by Prof. Keith Willison 17:30 Discussion and post lecture reception Scientific Advisory Board UK: Prof. Keith Willison, Prof. Paul French (Imperial College London), Prof. Tony Ng (King's College London), Prof. Antony Galione, Prof. Gero Miesenboeck, Prof. Tony Wilson (Oxford Univ.), Prof. David Klenerman, Dr. Jim Haseloff (Cambridge Univ.), and Dr. Thomas Zapf (Leica Microsystems) The lecture is free. Please kindly register: lsf@leica-microsystems.com Learn more: www.leica-microsystems.com/events/leica-scientific-forum/