With the goal of improving gender diversity of life science faculty, the Leading Edge Symposium provides outstanding women and non-binary postdocs in biomedical research a platform to share their work and connect with one another, both professionally and personally. Attendees will give short research talks, participate in lively discussions and network with both junior and senior investigators. A panel of carefully selected world leaders in biomedical research will provide mentorship and career development training, and representatives from institutions interested in recruiting and supporting a diverse faculty will be invited. 

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Hosted by Teng-Leong Chew, this 14-day bootcamp course is designed to demonstrate how biological queries and hypotheses steer experimental designs on various microscopy platforms and across length scales from molecules to small animals.

Participants will receive didactic instruction and hands-on experience with localization super-resolution microscopy, structured illumination microscopy, STED, pixel-reassignment methods for enhanced resolution, expansion microscopy, various light sheet microscopy methods, and label-free nonlinear microscopy. Participatory lab sessions will be conducted with biological samples from single cells to various model organisms, on commercial instruments as well as pre-commercial instruments developed at Janelia, including iPALM, MOSAIC, and SiMView. The course will put a strong emphasis on image processing and quantitative analyses using open source software, as well as proper methods for handling big data. 

For many years, our understanding of early mammalian development has been limited by the inability to visualize development as it happens. Technical limitations, physical inaccessibility, and complex computational problems have all hindered our ability to answer long-standing questions in the field of mouse development. Recent advances in cutting-edge light microscopy and computational tools have catapulted the field forward and presented us with new avenues and opportunities to address outstanding questions. 

The third iteration of this workshop, which alternates between Janelia and EMBL Heidelberg, brings together members of the mouse developmental community with experts in the latest imaging technologies, computational image analysis and more broadly quantitative biology fields, with the goal of raising awareness about available tools and techniques, unresolved questions or challenges, while fostering discussions on how best to utilize these tools and what tools are still needed. The intimate nature of Janelia meetings fosters an interactive and collaborative environment, and we look forward to open conversations on advancing this small (but growing) field, how best to analyze and share large datasets and how to utilize the massive amount of information new imaging systems will provide. 

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Organized by Hannah Haberkern, Vivek Jayaraman, Basil el Jundi, and Katherine Nagel, this will be the sixth in a series of Janelia-hosted meetings on this fascinating and highly conserved insect brain region. Much progress has been made in recent years towards understanding the anatomical structure, dynamics, and behavioral involvement of central complex circuitry. We aim to facilitate ongoing discoveries by bringing together researchers utilizing a variety of experimental and theoretical approaches in a range of species. As with previous editions, this small conference will incorporate vertebrate researchers, roboticists, theorists, and tool builders whose work is relevant to the study of the central complex. The meeting will feature a series of thematically organized sessions comprised mainly of short talks selected from submitted abstracts. Emphasis will be placed on featuring unpublished work from both junior and senior researchers.

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Led by Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Janelia launches its 15-year 4D Cellular Physiology (4DCP) research program in September, 2022. With expertise in cell biology, neuroscience, physiology and imaging, our 4DCP labs will collaborate with Janelia’s current research scientists, tool builders, and experts in microscopy, computation and theory to bridge the fields of cell biology and physiology in exploring how cells build and maintain organs and organisms.

This exciting kick-off symposium will be held in a hybrid format, with onsite participation by our current and incoming 4DCP Lab Heads, our 4DCP Advisory Board, members of the wider Janelia community, and junior and senior researchers from around the world working in related areas. Much of the event will be broadcast via Zoom, with talks and discussions open to everyone. We look forward to active participation from our remote audience near and far!

We encourage applications from trainees, particularly graduate students, who are interested in 4DCP-related research areas and would like to join us in-person and present a poster. In addition to being able to share their research with a broad community of experts, trainees will also have the opportunity to learn more about our 4DCP program and explore all that Janelia has to offer both in and out of the lab. While we welcome applications from anyone in a training position (i.e., not running an independent research program), ideal applicants are current graduate students hoping to pursue a postdoctoral position in the next two years. 

Applicants must submit a research abstract and a brief interest statement about why they wish to participate. Travel support is available to those in need, with the option to apply in the online application.

For questions or more information about 4DCP, visit 4DCPJanelia.org. To learn more about Janelia’s scientific programs, support services and campus amenities, visit Janelia.org.

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If you wish to join the symposium virtually, sign up HERE for updates, including a detailed schedule and Zoom link when they become available.  Add this event to your calendar.

Organized by Emily Dennis, Rob Johnson, Sue Ann Koay, Gabriela Michel, Marius Pachitariu, Michael Reiser, and Vanessa Ruta, this Junior Scientist Workshop provides an exciting opportunity for graduate students and recent PhDs interested in the mechanistic basis of cognition to present their research to a diverse audience and discuss ideas for the future, while also discovering potential independent early-career options at Janelia.

Organized by Ann Hermundstad, Sandro Romani, and James Fitzgerald, this workshop is intended as a "by the students, for the students" meeting. Participants will include only students and postdocs doing theoretical neuroscience research.