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The workshop will take place in three different groups. Each group is working with a different solution. The groups are limited to 4 persons / group. The allocation to the groups will be done by the organisers of the workshop accordingly to your field of work.

Jacques started his career as a biologist with his diploma thesis at the MPI for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, and received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of Zürich. After his postdoc at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) he performed 11 more years of academic research in Neuroscience until he joined ZEISS as an application specialist for superresolution and lightsheet microscopy in 2007.

Daniel is doing his PhD in the laboratory of Jürgen Knoblich in the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology Austria (IMBA) at the Austrian Academy of Science (OEAW) and is interested in understanding how brain regions start to interact with each other. For this, he started working on neuronal migration (particularly interneuron migration) and is now investigating how brain regions start to interact with each other, with a focus on the human dopaminergic system.

Maëva is interested in the Development, Plasticity and Evolution of tetrapod limbs. She is developing whole-mount immunostaining to visualize the different component of the neuromuscular system in tetrapod limbs but also other proteins involved in limb patterning such as transcription factors and morphogens. She obtained her PhD in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from the University of Toulouse and worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the  McGill University (IRCM, Montreal). From 2017, she moved as a Project Leader in the laboratory of Patrick Tschopp (DUW, University of Basel) where she developed whole mount immunostaining and light sheet imaging.

Brian is developing tools to maximize the applicable scope of LifeCanvas technologies. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto and conducted postdoctoral training at McGill University. In his research career, Brian has developed technologies to increase experimental throughput and provide new ways of analyzing samples.

José graduated in Technological Physics Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon in 1999 and joined the lab of Prof. Maria Carmo-Fonseca at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon in the same year for his PhD, which was focused on the study of dynamics and interactions of nuclear proteins with quantitative photobleaching microscopy.José's postdoctoral research, carried out at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM) in the lab of Prof. Carmo-Fonseca, focused on applying quantitative microscopy methods to study mRNA biogenesis. José is currently Head of the Bioimaging Unit at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes.