We are pleased to announce Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on New Advances in Optical Imaging of Live Cells and Organisms which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday December 7, and will conclude after lunch on December 11, 2015. The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.