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African Seminar Series
Imaging cells to organisms for basic science and medical research
Date: October 20, 2021
Time:
USA (9:00 AM EST and 6:00 AM PT)
Africa (1:00PM GMT, 4:00PM East Africa Time)
Conference link: Zoom link will be sent to registered attendees.
Registration is free.
Seminar Topics:
Microscopy techniques
Electron Microscopy
Confocal Microscpy
Super-resolution Microscopy
Imaging applications
Cell and tissue structure
Disease and pathology
Computational science
Image processing
Data analysis
Health and Diagnostics
Medical imaging
Organizers
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Kwasi Agbleke, PhD
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Andrew Seeber, PhD,
Harvard University.
aseeber@fas.harvard.edu
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Tom Broker, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
broker@uab.edu
Past presentations organized through the African Seminar Series can be assessed on Sena Institute of Technology Youtube Channel above.
Dr. Tom Broker’s inaugural Presentation (Feb 2021):
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Title: Early Electron Microscopic Studies of DNA Structures, Genome Organization and Gene Expression in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes.
Dr. Andrew Seeber, PhD (March 2021),
Harvard Fellow, Harvard Center for Advanced Imaging
Title: Chromatin mobility and precision genome engineering.
Dr. Kim McKim, PhD, Professor
Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, USA
Title: How chromosomes direct their own segregation in Drosophila oocytes.
Dr. Doug Richardson’s Presentation (April 2021):
Director, Harvard Center for Biological Imaging, USA
Title: Clarifying tissue clearing.
Dr. Gisele Miranda’s (May 2021):
Chan-Zuckerberg Imaging Scientist & Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Title: Image Analysis Using Open Software.
Dr. Christian Hellriegel’s (June 2021)
Carl Zeiss Corporation
Title: Super-resolution Optical Microscopy – A review of techniques, theoretical backbones and applications.
Dr. Leila Mostaço-Guidolin, PhD, P.Eng. (July 2021):
Assistant Professor, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Canada
Title: Microscopy, image analysis and 3D-bioprinting: combining tools to understand collagen remodelling