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 Pradeep Bhattad 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 Solène Valton Lab microCT : Widen the Scope of Application (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

POSTERS

Austin Bay Intraspecific Variation in Orbit Orientation of Lontra canadensis: Ecological and Functional Implications
Morgan Chase The Universe in a Grain of Sand: CT Scanning Through Small Spaces and Across Deep Time
Carly Dempsey Using Micro-Computed Tomography to Investigate Internal Structure of Tropical Seagrasses: A Case Study from Florida Bay
Meghan Forcellati Sexual Dimorphism and Higher-order Differences in Osteology of Chameleons using CT Scan Data Across the Clade
Romy Hanna Deep Learning Approaches for Denoising of XCT Data of Carbonaceous Chondrites
Jamie Knaub Verte-break it Down: Morphological and Microstructural Variation in the Postcranial Axial Skeleton of Bottlenose Dolphins
Kaitlyn Krinsky Investigating Fossil Seeds of the Paleocene of Sand Draw, Wyoming by Means of Micro-CT Scanning
Denise Maranga Revisiting Richardoestesia: CT Scanning Reveals New Insights into anatomy of an Enigmatic Theropod Dinosaur
Amanda Markee Comparative Morphology of Non-model Insect Silk Glands
Haley Martens 20 Million Specimens on the Shelves: From Buckets to syringes, How to Scan Them All
Arjen Mascini Rising to the Occasion: Dynamic Micro-CT Insights into Bread Dough Baking
Asweel Mehaboob Beyond Research: Virtual Reality Puzzles Using CT Derived Data for Learning Anatomy
Antonio Meza The Interspecific Variation and Sexual Dimorphism of the Shape of the Mandible of Sceloporus
James Michaelson The Use of Micro CT in Assessing Medical Specimens
Ria Mitchell 3D Imaging of Low Z Materials: Contrast Enhancement, Fringe Artefact Removal, and Faster Segmentation
Bita Mohammadlou Nano Computed Tomography (Nano-CT) characterization of MXenes
April Neander Optimizing 3D-Printed Holders for MicroCT
Rachna Parwani Deep Learning Based Reconstruction Technique Significantly Improves Image Quality in a Zebrafish Model
Harrison Todd Characterizing Inclusions in Early Earth Zircons with Micro-Computed Tomography
Carmen Urban The Use of Micro-CT Data for Investigating Ecomorphological Diversification in the Skulls of Anolis Lizards
Shiqi Xu A Laboratory System for High Resolution X-ray Phase Tomography
Christopher Zobek Comparison of DiceCT Muscle Fascicle Tracing Results Between Avizo Xfiber and Goodfibes R Package