Friday, June 16, 2006 (Full Day Workshop)
This workshop will showcase the spectrum of synchrotron techniques that
have proven to be useful for both in vivo and in vitro studies
of cells, tissue slices, organs, whole animals, plants and microorganisms.
No previous knowledge of these techniques is assumed and so this is the perfect
venue for researchers and students who are considering using the synchrotron
in their research and would like to understand which synchrotron technique(s)
would be best. Come and learn how synchrotron technology provides a new way
to look at the structure and biochemistry of whole tissues. Examples will
be drawn from both biomedical and environmental sciences.
“Ask the Experts” Session:
An unusual feature of this workshop will be an “ask the experts” session. This
open forum will give participants the opportunity to ask the speakers if or how
synchrotron light could be used to help answer their particular scientific questions.
Workshop Organizers: Ingrid Pickering, Helen Nichol, Graham
George
(University of Saskatchewan)
Location: Commerce 18
The following proposed agenda will be updated as meeting
details are confirmed.
Time |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
8:00-16:30 |
Registration Geology
Atrium |
8:30 |
Opening
remarks |
8:35 |
Graham George |
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan |
Mammalian metal metabolism mapped with X-ray absorption
spectroscopy |
9:15 |
Patrick Frank |
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, California,
USA |
Intimations of a new vanadium redox enzymology in whole
blood cells of Ascidians |
9:55 |
Coffee
Break Geology Atrium |
10:25 |
Kathleen Gough |
Department of Chemistry, University of Manitoba |
Imaging tissue with synchrotron IR microspectroscopy:
from misfolded proteins to scar tissue and fungi |
11:05 |
Helen Nichol |
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of
Saskatchewan |
X-ray absorption spectroscopy as a probe for metals
in neurodegenerative disease |
11:45 |
P.U.P.A. Gilbert |
Department of Physics & Synchrotron Radiation Center,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
Soft-x-ray spectromicroscopy of pristine tissues: biominerals,
prions and cancer therapies |
12:25 |
Lunch Geology
Atrium |
13:35 |
Ingrid Pickering |
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan |
Environment: Tracing toxic metals in organisms using
X-ray absorption spectroscopy and imaging |
14:15 |
Roger Prince |
ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences Inc., New Jersey, USA |
Following sulfur biochemistry in bacteria, plants and
animals with X-ray absorption spectroscopy |
14:55 |
Coffee
Break Geology Atrium |
15:25 |
Dean Chapman |
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of
Saskatchewan |
X-ray Scatter Imaging – Imaging from Nanometers
to Centimeters |
16:05 |
“Ask the Experts” Session |
17:00 |
Workshop
Adjournment |
Program Related Inquiries to: Ingrid Pickering ingrid.pickering@usask.ca
This workshop was organized and sponsored by the Canadian
Light Source and the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies.
Support for this workshop is provided in part by the
Saskatchewan Health Research
Foundation
Last modified: 2008-07-29 14:07:42
