Published in TC News on 1 November 2014 by Deniz Erdogmus, BISP eNewsletter liaison ISBI congratulates the 2014 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry: - Eric Betzig, Plenary Speaker ISBI'2012, Barcelona, Spain Pushing the Envelope in Biological Imaging - Stefan Hell, Plenary Speaker ISBI'2004, Arlington, VA Fluorescence Nanoscopy - W.E. Moerner, Special Focus Speaker, ISBI'2012, Barcelona, Spain Single-Molecule Active Control Microscopy Illuminates Cells Beyond the Diffraction Limit More info on these talks and events can be found at: http://new.biomedicalimaging.org/archive/2004/Summary.html http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6235941 --- International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro April 16-19, 2015 Brooklyn, NY http://biomedicalimaging.org/2015/ Deadlines: 4-Page Paper Submissions: Nov. 10th, 2014 1-Page Abstract Submissions: Dec. 20th , 2014 --- Following a successful inaugural edition of the SP Cup (http://www.icassp2014.org/SP_cup.html) organized by BISP member Carlos Oscar S. Sorzano (CSIC, Spain) at ICASSP'14 in Florence, BISP member Zhilin Zhang will be organizing the 2015 edition (http://www.zhilinzhang.com/spcup2015/). The 2015 SP cup will focus on Heart Rate Monitoring During Physical Exercise Using Wrist-Type Photoplethysmographic (PPG) Signals. IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2015 Call for Participation: http://icassp2015.org/signal-processing-cup-2015/ --- BISP member Bahram Parvin and colleagues at Berkeley lab win 2014 R&D 100 Awards. Presented by R&D Magazine, the R&D 100 Awards recognize the year’s top 100 technology products from industry, academia, and government-sponsored research, ranging from chemistry to materials to biomedical breakthroughs. Parvin and colleagues developed BioSig3D, a computational platform for high-content screening of three-dimensional cell culture models that are imaged in full 3-D volume. http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2014/07/11/rd-100-awards/