Leica announces scientific forum events in Heidelberg, the UK and France

26 June 2008

Leica has announced that its lecture series, the Leica Scientific Forum — Advances in Life Sciences, which was established two and a half years ago in Heidelberg has now been successfully introduced to France and the UK.

On top of this, video clips and interactive presentations of the Heidelberg forum that is held four times a year at the German Cancer Research Center can also be downloaded from the Internet about four weeks after the event [1].

The Leica Scientific Forum has four venues in the UK: the Imperial College London in cooperation with the Institute of Cancer Research and King’s College, in Oxford at the Institute of Engineering Science in cooperation with the pharmacology department of Oxford University and at the universities of Cambridge and Liverpool.

The programme of lectures in France includes the Institute Pasteur in Paris in cooperation with the Institute Curie, the University Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille and the University Bordeaux 2.

“The success in Heidelberg has motivated us to expand the series of lectures to other renowned European scientific locations,” says initiator and organizer Dr Thomas Zapf, Director Scientific Relations at Leica Microsystems.

“From the very beginning we were able to engage high-ranking scientists to present their current research projects. By opening the international venues and presenting the lectures on the Internet we are able to make them accessible to a far greater public.”

Leica Microsystems established the Leica Scientific Forum to encourage communication and discussion of the latest scientific research in life sciences and to offer academia and industry a high-ranking platform for the exchange of knowledge on an international scale.

Note

1. Video clips and interactive presentations of the Heidelberg forum willbe available at: www.leicamicrosystems.com/leica_scientific_forum 

Leica Scientific Forum events in 2008

July 2008
Leica Scientific Forum Heidelberg

03 July 2008
Communication Center of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Prof Dr Fritjof Helmchen, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Brain cells in the spotlight: imaging neural dynamics in vivo

September 2008
Leica Scientific Forum France

16 September 2008
Institut Pasteur, CIS Auditorium, Paris

17 September 2008
Université de Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux

18 September 2008
Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille, Marseille

Prof. James Pawley, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Zoology Research, Madison WI, USA
Biological light microscopy in 2020

October 2008
Leica Scientific Forum Heidelberg

01 October 2008
Communication Center of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Prof. Wendy Bickmore, MRC, Edinburgh, UK
Nuclear organization and epigenetic mechanisms

November 2008
Leica Scientific Forum UK

10 November 2008
Cambridge University, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept. of Chemistry, Cambridge

11 November 2008
Liverpool University, Lecture Theatre 1, Liverpool

12 November 2008
Oxford University, Lecture Theatre, Dept of Pharmacology, Oxford

13 November 2008
Imperial College London, Lecture Theatre 1, London

Dr Jan Ellenberg, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany (DE)
Chromatin structure and molecular confinement

December 2008
Leica Scientific Forum France

08 December 2008
Institut Pasteur, CIS Auditorium, Paris

09 December 2008
Université de Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux

10 December 2008
Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille, Marseille

Prof. Paul French, Imperial College London, Department of Physics
Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM), multi-dimensional fluorescence imaging (MDFI), High resolution imaging techniques

December 2008
Leica Scientific Forum Heidelberg

12 December 2008
Communication Center of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Prof Dr James G Fujimoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)

Please note

The order of venues in the UK and France may change at short notice. Up-to-date information is given at:
www.leica-microsystems.com/events

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