CONFERENCE SPONSORS

CONFERENCE HOST UNIVERSITY AND GOLD SPONSOR:

Purdue University
Vice President, Office of Research
Bioinformatics Core

SILVER SPONSORS:

Indiana University
University Information Technology Services
Department of Biology
School of Informatics and Computing

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University of Michigan, Dept of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics

BRONZE SPONSORS:

The Research Division
of Ohio University
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Eck Institute for Global Health
Complex Networks Lab
University of Notre Dame

EXHIBITOR SHOWCASE SPONSOR:

Cincinnati Childrens’s Hospital Medical Center
Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of Cincinnati

POSTER AWARDS SPONSOR:

Faculty of 1000

BEST PAPER AWARD SPONSOR:

Springer

INDUSTRY SPONSOR:

University of Michigan Bioinformatics Core
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PerkinElmer

GENERAL SPONSOR:

Purdue University
Agricultural Research

2018 ISCB Art in Science Competition

Marwan Abdellah
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

In Silico Brainbow

In silico brainbow optical section of a neocortical slice (920 × 640 × 1740 μm3) created with a virtual light-sheet fluorescence microscope (LSFM).

The simulation of the LSFM is performed on a physically-plausible basis using Monte Carlo ray tracing and geometric optics. The tissue model is reconstructed in a three-step process: 1) converting the morphological skeletons of the neurons into piecewise surface meshes that represent their membranes, 2) reconstructing a volumetric model of the tissue using solid voxelization and finally 3) tagging the neurons with the optical properties of the neocortical tissue and also the spectroscopic properties of different fluorescent dyes.

The slice is virtually-tagged with six different fluorescent proteins (GFP, CFP, eCFP, mBanana, mCherry and mPlum) and illuminated at the maximum excitation wavelength of each respective dye.