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The late Shinya Inoué, pioneering live-cell microscopist and С����Ƶ Distinguished Scientist for nearly four decades, was honored with a memorial symposium on August 2 at the annual meeting of the Microscopy Society of America in Portland, Ore.

The abstract for the symposium, , was written by several С����Ƶ scientists who collaborated with Inoué or who were indirectly influenced by Inoué's great contributions to biological imaging: Abhishek Kumar, Louis Kerr, Michael Shribak, Rudolf Oldenbourg, and Nipam Patel.

, former director of the advanced imaging course (AQLM) Inoué founded at С����Ƶ in 1979, co-organized the symposium along with and , who have also served as faculty or directors of С����Ƶ imaging courses. Kumar, Oldenbourg, Watkins,   (a member of С����Ƶ’s Imaging Committee), (former Brown University-С����Ƶ PhD student), Bonnie Howell (AQLM alumna) and one of Shribak’s collaborators, Yujin Bao, were among the presenters.

Shribak and (co-director of С����Ƶ’s Optical Microscopy and Imaging in the Biological Sciences course) are currently working to combine super-resolution microscopy with their Inoué-inspired technology, OI-DIC (orientation-independent differential interference contrast microscopy). They recently published

Below, С����Ƶ Senior Scientist Rudolf Oldenbourg presents at the Microscopy Society of America's Shinya Inoué Memorial Symposium on August 2.