African Seminar Series
Imaging cells to organisms for basic science and medical research
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Date: April 14, 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 and participation is free.
FASEB Conference April 14, 2021
"Imaging cells to organisms for basic science and medical research", April 14, 2021.
In partnership with the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
FASEB Catalyst Conference.
Speakers:
- Kim McKim, PhD, Professor, Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, USA
- How chromosomes direct their own segregation in Drosophila oocytes.
- Haitham Shaban, PhD, Research Fellow, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and National Research Centre, Egypt
- Live super-resolution imaging of chromatin structure and dynamics.
- Vincent Amarh, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Ghana, Ghana
- Dynamics of RecA-mediated repair of replication-dependent DNA breaks.
- Cassandra Extavour, PhD, (Keynote Speaker), Professor, Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA
- Combining quantitative imaging and mathematical modeling to understand nuclear movements in early embryos.
- Doug Richardson, PhD, Director, Harvard Center for Biological Imaging, Harvard University, USA
- Clarifying Tissue Clearing.
Time: 9:00 AM-1:50 PM ET and 2:00 PM-6:00 PM GMT
Cost: Free
Registration: Register here
Future Topics:
Microscopy techniques
- Widefiled Microscopy
- Electron Microscopy
- Confocal Microscpy
- Super-resolution Microscopy
Imaging applications
- Labeling techniques
- Cell and tissue structure
- Disease and pathology
Computational science
- Image processing
- Data analysis
Health and Diagnostics
- Medical imaging
Organizers:
Kwasi Agbleke, PhD
Harvard Center for Biological Imaging
Sena Institute of Technology, Ghana.
info@sitghana.org; agbleke@fas.harvard.edu
Tom Broker, PhD
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
broker@uab.edu
Andrew Seeber, PhD,
Center for Advanced Imaging
Harvard University.
aseeber@fas.harvard.edu
Send checks addressed to:
Sena Institute of Technology Foundation
48 Glenville avenue, Unit 8
Boston, MA 02134, USA
Email us: info@sitghana.org
sitfoundations@gmail.com
Sponsors:
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Gold Sponsor:
Past Speakers:
Dr. Tom Broker's inaugural Presentation (Feb 2021):
Early Electron Microscopic Studies of DNA Structures, Genome Organization and Gene Expression in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes.
Andrew Seeber, PhD, Harvard Center for Advanced Imaging, presentation on chromatin mobility and precision genome engineering.