Media Tip Sheet:
9 th Canadian Light Source Annual Users’ Meeting
& 3 rd Northern Lights Summer Conference
Close to 300 researchers from Canada and around the world will be meeting at the University of Saskatchewan to participate in the joint meeting of the Canadian Federation of Biological Sciences’ (CFBS) 3rd Northern Lights Summer Conference and the 9th Annual Users’ Meeting of the Canadian Light Source (CLS) June 13 to 17.
A special CFBS symposium on June 15, Synchrotron Approaches to Cancer Research, will feature presentations by scientists who are using synchrotron techniques to study, diagnose and treat cancer.
Rob Lewis, Foundation Chair of X-ray and Synchrotron Physics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, will be giving a public lecture “Seeing Cancer (and many other things!) with the Synchrotron” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, June 13 at the Frances Morrison Library in Saskatoon. Lewis will also be giving the CFBS plenary lecture on Thursday, June 15.
Five workshops on Friday, June 16 include presentations by experts using synchrotron techniques in a variety of areas, from fighting crime to studying living things down to the molecular level, to using a new kind of light and new kinds of instruments for seeing with X-rays..
The Users’ Meeting on Saturday, June 17 will feature an update on the state of the CLS by Executive Director Bill Thomlinson, a keynote address on research funding in Canada by Isabelle Blain, Vice President Research Grants and Scholarships of NSERC, one of Canada’s national scientific funding agencies, and reports on some of the first original research conducted at the CLS.
Media interested in attending the meeting, workshop symposia or to arrange interviews with presenters should contact:
Matthew Dalzell
CLS Communications Coordinator
Tel: (306) 657-3739 Cell: (306) 227-0978
matthew.dalzell@lightsource.ca
www.lightsource.ca
Program Highlights:
Thursday, June 15
8:30 – 9:30 am | CFBS PLENARY LECTURE Room 106 Biology Building |
Synchrotron based Neonatal Lung Imaging |
CFBS SYMPOSIUM:
SYNCHROTRON APPROACHES TO CANCER RESEARCH
Room 106 Biology Building, 112 Science Place, U of S Campus
Complete schedule available here
Highlights:
9:30 – 10:00 am | Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Microspectroscopic Imaging of Cervical Cancer |
11:50 – 12:20 pm | Phase Contrast Imaging for Clinical Mammography the Italian Synchrotron ELETTRA
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4:50 – 5:20 pm | The Potential of the Biomedical Imaging and
Therapy beamline at the CLS |
Friday, June 16
CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE USERS’ MEETING WORKSHOPS
Full schedules for the workshops are linked to the workshops’ titles
Molecular Form and Function: Probing Intact Tissues using Synchrotron Light
8:30 am – 5:00 pm | Room 18 Commerce Building, 25 Campus Drive |
International synchrotron experts in life science research present their experiences using a spectrum of techniques to study living things, from cells to whole organisms .
8:35 – 9:15 am | Mammalian metal metabolism mapped with X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
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11:05 – 11:45 am | X-ray absorption spectroscopy as a probe for
metals in neurodegenerative disease |
11:45 – 12:25 pm | Soft X-ray spectromicroscopy of pristine tissues: Biominerals, prions and cancer therapies
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1:35 – 2:15 pm | Environment: Tracing toxic metals in organisms
using X-ray absorption spectroscopy and imaging |
New Instrumentation for Soft X-ray Photon-In-Photon-Out Spectroscopy
8:30 am – 12 Noon | Room 101 Arts Building, 9 Campus Drive |
Photon-In-Photon-Out spectroscopy uses the interaction of synchrotron X-rays with matter to understand how atoms and molecules behave, leading to the development of advanced materials such as organic light emitting diodes, molecular wires and next-generation computer chips.
11:20 – 12:00 | Synchrotron radiation excited optical luminescence
in the energy and time domain: recent developments and prospects |
Research Opportunities in Terahertz (THz) Science and Technology
8:30 am - 12 Noon | Room 217 Arts Building, 9 Campus Drive |
Studies using terahertz light — with wavelengths, from a micron to a millimeter -- have only recently become possible, opening news windows in areas from medical imaging to chemistry.
8:40 – 9:20 | Terahertz Spectroscopy at the ALS: Examples, Coherence and the Future
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10:30 – 11:00 | Applications of high resolution Terahertz spectroscopy |
Synchrotron Protein Crystallography
8:30 am – 4:30 pm | Room 143 Arts Building, 9 Campus Drive |
Protein crystallography is a powerful technique for understanding biology at the molecular level, paving the way for new drugs and a greater understanding of disease.
11:50 – 12:20 pm | The Structural Biology Center beamlines at
the Advanced Photon Source Andrzej Joachimiak , Advanced Photon Source, USA |
Synchrotron and Advanced Analytical Techniques in the Forensics Sciences
1:00 – 5:30 pm | Room 146 Arts Building, 9 Campus Drive |
1:15 – 2:00 pm | Synchrotron Infrared Spectromicroscopy for Forensics: Spectral Fingerprints from Latent Fingerprints and more
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2:00 – 2:40 pm | New Technologies and the Forensic Identification
of Human Remains |
2:40 – 3:10 pm | Nuclear Forensics in Canada: Current Activities and Challenges
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Saturday, June 17
CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE 9 TH ANNUAL USERS’ MEETING
8:30 am – 4:30 pm | Room 106 Biology Building, 112 Science Place |
8:35 – 9:00 am | CLS Beamlines and Science Update |
9:05 – 9:35 am | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Research Funding in Canada
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9:35 – 11:35 am | First Scientific Results from the CLS Featuring:
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3:55 – 4:15 pm | Applications of synchrotron radiation in bio-medical Sciences
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