Provisional Program
PROGRAM: DAY 1 (Tuesday, May 13)
8:00-8:45 Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks: Jessie Maisano, ToScA North America Chair; Morgan Chase, Local Chair; Farah Ahmed, ToScA President
SESSION 1: Biology/Biomedical Science (Ed Stanley, Session Chair)
9:00-9:30 ANDREW NELSON Revealing the Secrets of Shrunken Heads: Multiresolution Scanning of Tsantsas (Keynote)
9:30-9:45 Karen Osborn MicroCT of Soft-Tissues: Virtual Museum Types (USNM) and Functional Morphology to Study Vision in the Deep-Sea
9:45-10:00 Brian Beatty Nested Ontogeny in Adult Periotics of Odontocetes
10:00-10:15 Ruben Tovar Divergent Morphology and Gene Expression Within the Eye Tissue of Surface and Subterranean Salamander Species from Central Texas (Clade Paedomolge) Through Development
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
SESSION 2: Paleontology (Jessie Maisano, Session Chair)
10:45-11:15 AMY BALANOFF Integrative Neuroanatomy and the Origin of Birds (Keynote)
11:15-11:30 Talia Lowi-Merri Macroevolutionary Diversification of Avian Brain Morphology
11:30-11:45 Thomas Dudgeon The Evolution of Feeding Mechanics in Iguanodontia (Ornithopoda)
11:45-12:15 Lightning Talks
12:15-1:45 Lunch, Posters, and Trade Exhibition
SESSION 3: Community Resources/Initiatives (Morgan Chase, Session Chair)
1:45-2:00 *Katherine Wolcott Morphology 3.0 - Discovery Through 3D Imaging and Big Data of Cacao and Its Relatives (Malvaceae: Byttnerioideae) (Student Travel Award Recipient)
2:00-2:15 Alan Kastengren Synchrotron Tomography at the Advanced Photon Source in the APS-U Era
2:15-2:30 Lauren Simonitis See-through Science: Bridging K-12 Education and University Research through CT Imaging
2:30-2:45 Gideon Chinamatira Revolutionizing Paleontological Research in South Africa through X-ray CT Imaging
2:45-3:00 Jaimi Gray Unveiling the Vertebrates: How the openVertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network Increased the Impact of Vertebrate Scientific Collections
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
SESSION 4: Methods I (Stuart Stock, Session Chair)
3:30-4:00 OLGA ANTIPOVA Integrated Laminography Instruments at Advanced Photon Source (Keynote)
4:00-4:15 Verena Pietzsch Overcoming Imaging Challenges: Visualizing Soft Tissues in Wet Specimens with Dragonfly 3D World (Dragonfly Gold Sponsor)
4:15-4:30 Qinyi Tian Machine Learning Enhancement for Micro-CT Geomaterial Imaging
4:30-4:45 Henrik Lauridsen Silver-diceCT: A Double Staining Method to Generate Contrast Between Mineralized Tissues and Iodine Stained Soft Tissues
4:45-5:00 Rachna Parwani Latest Developments in Laboratory Based High Resolution X-ray Microscopes (Zeiss Gold Sponsor)
5:15 Group Photo
5:30 Board buses to Banquet Cruise
6:30 Banquet Cruise Boarding
7:00-9:30 Banquet Cruise
PROGRAM: DAY 2 (Wednesdsay, May 14
8:00-8:45 Continental Breakfast
SESSION 5: Materials (Ria Mitchell, Session Chair)
8:45-9:15 RICH JOHNSTON Correlative Imaging as a Prospecting Tool for Biophysics and Bioinspiration (Keynote)
9:15-9:30 Ivana Lezcano Using the Axial Skeleton as Armor: The Structure-Function Relationship of Sea Turtle Shell Bone
9:30-9:45 Stuart Stock Mineralized Tissue of Shark Vertebral Centra Studied with MicroCT Under In situ Load
9:45-10:00 *Sadegh Tale Predicting Air-Entrained Porosity in Cement Paste Using Micro-CT and Molecular Characteristics of Nonionic Surfactants via a Multilayer Machine Learning Approach (Student Travel Award Recipient)
10:00-10:15 Catherine Desrosiers CT Simulation for Automated Porosity Segmentation in 3D-printed parts
10:15-10:30 Timothy Burnett The Application of Lab and Synchrotron Nanoscale X-ray CT to Understand the Processing-Microstructure-Property Relationships in Graphene Reinforced Nanocomposites
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
SESSION 6: Platinum and Silver Sponsor Talks (Farah Ahmed, Session Chair)
11:00-11:30 Brett Muehlhauser A Deeper Look Backwards in Time and Space Using Computed Tomography (NSI Platinum Sponsor)
11:30-12:00 various Silver Sponsors
12:00-12:30 ? ? (RX Solutions Platinum Sponsor)
12:30-1:30 Lunch and Trade Exhibition
SESSION 7: Planetary Science/Geology (Romy Hanna, Session Chair)
1:30-2:00 JON FRIEDRICH The Quantitative Examination of Chondritic Meteorites with X-ray Microtomography (Keynote)
2:00-2:15 Evan O’Neal X-Ray Computed Tomography of Diogenite Meteorites to understand their formation and Improve Sample Processing Techniques
2:15-2:30 Scott Eckley X-ray Computed Tomography of Samples Returned from Asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission
2:30-2:45 Richard Ketcham Efficient 3D Size, Shape, and Internal Feature Analysis of Mineral Grain Mounts
2:45-3:00 John Bescup Artic Ice Core Sample Void & Brine Quantification with X-ray CT & Machine Learning Segmentation
3:00-3:15 Maira Lima Micro-CT Assessment of Facoidal Gneiss Conservation in Rio de Janeiro's Built Heritage
3:15-3:45 Coffee Break
SESSION 8: Methods II (Richard Johnston, Session Chair)
3:45-4:00 Adam Doherty Approaches and Applications of Laboratory-based X-ray Dark-field Imaging
4:00-4:15 Khushal Shah Reducing Scan Times in X-ray Phase Contrast µ-Computed Tomography via Denoising
4:15-4:30 Zuzana Stravová Real-Time Characterization of Electrolyte Dynamics in an 18650 Battery via In-Situ CT
4:30-4:45 Dolly Chen Synchrotron Phase Contrast Computed Tomography Denoising Using Noise2Inverse: A Case Study with HiP-CT
4:45-5:00 Evelien Zwanenburg On Your Marks, Get Set, Bake! Observing a Biscuit Baking Process Through High-speed Laboratory In situ Scanning
5:00-5:30 Final Remarks
8:00-8:45 Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks: Jessie Maisano, ToScA North America Chair; Morgan Chase, Local Chair; Farah Ahmed, ToScA President
SESSION 1: Biology/Biomedical Science (Ed Stanley, Session Chair)
9:00-9:30 ANDREW NELSON Revealing the Secrets of Shrunken Heads: Multiresolution Scanning of Tsantsas (Keynote)
9:30-9:45 Karen Osborn MicroCT of Soft-Tissues: Virtual Museum Types (USNM) and Functional Morphology to Study Vision in the Deep-Sea
9:45-10:00 Brian Beatty Nested Ontogeny in Adult Periotics of Odontocetes
10:00-10:15 Ruben Tovar Divergent Morphology and Gene Expression Within the Eye Tissue of Surface and Subterranean Salamander Species from Central Texas (Clade Paedomolge) Through Development
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
SESSION 2: Paleontology (Jessie Maisano, Session Chair)
10:45-11:15 AMY BALANOFF Integrative Neuroanatomy and the Origin of Birds (Keynote)
11:15-11:30 Talia Lowi-Merri Macroevolutionary Diversification of Avian Brain Morphology
11:30-11:45 Thomas Dudgeon The Evolution of Feeding Mechanics in Iguanodontia (Ornithopoda)
11:45-12:15 Lightning Talks
12:15-1:45 Lunch, Posters, and Trade Exhibition
SESSION 3: Community Resources/Initiatives (Morgan Chase, Session Chair)
1:45-2:00 *Katherine Wolcott Morphology 3.0 - Discovery Through 3D Imaging and Big Data of Cacao and Its Relatives (Malvaceae: Byttnerioideae) (Student Travel Award Recipient)
2:00-2:15 Alan Kastengren Synchrotron Tomography at the Advanced Photon Source in the APS-U Era
2:15-2:30 Lauren Simonitis See-through Science: Bridging K-12 Education and University Research through CT Imaging
2:30-2:45 Gideon Chinamatira Revolutionizing Paleontological Research in South Africa through X-ray CT Imaging
2:45-3:00 Jaimi Gray Unveiling the Vertebrates: How the openVertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network Increased the Impact of Vertebrate Scientific Collections
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
SESSION 4: Methods I (Stuart Stock, Session Chair)
3:30-4:00 OLGA ANTIPOVA Integrated Laminography Instruments at Advanced Photon Source (Keynote)
4:00-4:15 Verena Pietzsch Overcoming Imaging Challenges: Visualizing Soft Tissues in Wet Specimens with Dragonfly 3D World (Dragonfly Gold Sponsor)
4:15-4:30 Qinyi Tian Machine Learning Enhancement for Micro-CT Geomaterial Imaging
4:30-4:45 Henrik Lauridsen Silver-diceCT: A Double Staining Method to Generate Contrast Between Mineralized Tissues and Iodine Stained Soft Tissues
4:45-5:00 Rachna Parwani Latest Developments in Laboratory Based High Resolution X-ray Microscopes (Zeiss Gold Sponsor)
5:15 Group Photo
5:30 Board buses to Banquet Cruise
6:30 Banquet Cruise Boarding
7:00-9:30 Banquet Cruise
PROGRAM: DAY 2 (Wednesdsay, May 14
8:00-8:45 Continental Breakfast
SESSION 5: Materials (Ria Mitchell, Session Chair)
8:45-9:15 RICH JOHNSTON Correlative Imaging as a Prospecting Tool for Biophysics and Bioinspiration (Keynote)
9:15-9:30 Ivana Lezcano Using the Axial Skeleton as Armor: The Structure-Function Relationship of Sea Turtle Shell Bone
9:30-9:45 Stuart Stock Mineralized Tissue of Shark Vertebral Centra Studied with MicroCT Under In situ Load
9:45-10:00 *Sadegh Tale Predicting Air-Entrained Porosity in Cement Paste Using Micro-CT and Molecular Characteristics of Nonionic Surfactants via a Multilayer Machine Learning Approach (Student Travel Award Recipient)
10:00-10:15 Catherine Desrosiers CT Simulation for Automated Porosity Segmentation in 3D-printed parts
10:15-10:30 Timothy Burnett The Application of Lab and Synchrotron Nanoscale X-ray CT to Understand the Processing-Microstructure-Property Relationships in Graphene Reinforced Nanocomposites
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
SESSION 6: Platinum and Silver Sponsor Talks (Farah Ahmed, Session Chair)
11:00-11:30 Brett Muehlhauser A Deeper Look Backwards in Time and Space Using Computed Tomography (NSI Platinum Sponsor)
11:30-12:00 various Silver Sponsors
12:00-12:30 ? ? (RX Solutions Platinum Sponsor)
12:30-1:30 Lunch and Trade Exhibition
SESSION 7: Planetary Science/Geology (Romy Hanna, Session Chair)
1:30-2:00 JON FRIEDRICH The Quantitative Examination of Chondritic Meteorites with X-ray Microtomography (Keynote)
2:00-2:15 Evan O’Neal X-Ray Computed Tomography of Diogenite Meteorites to understand their formation and Improve Sample Processing Techniques
2:15-2:30 Scott Eckley X-ray Computed Tomography of Samples Returned from Asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission
2:30-2:45 Richard Ketcham Efficient 3D Size, Shape, and Internal Feature Analysis of Mineral Grain Mounts
2:45-3:00 John Bescup Artic Ice Core Sample Void & Brine Quantification with X-ray CT & Machine Learning Segmentation
3:00-3:15 Maira Lima Micro-CT Assessment of Facoidal Gneiss Conservation in Rio de Janeiro's Built Heritage
3:15-3:45 Coffee Break
SESSION 8: Methods II (Richard Johnston, Session Chair)
3:45-4:00 Adam Doherty Approaches and Applications of Laboratory-based X-ray Dark-field Imaging
4:00-4:15 Khushal Shah Reducing Scan Times in X-ray Phase Contrast µ-Computed Tomography via Denoising
4:15-4:30 Zuzana Stravová Real-Time Characterization of Electrolyte Dynamics in an 18650 Battery via In-Situ CT
4:30-4:45 Dolly Chen Synchrotron Phase Contrast Computed Tomography Denoising Using Noise2Inverse: A Case Study with HiP-CT
4:45-5:00 Evelien Zwanenburg On Your Marks, Get Set, Bake! Observing a Biscuit Baking Process Through High-speed Laboratory In situ Scanning
5:00-5:30 Final Remarks