Wednesday, May 17
10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Building 2, Level 5, Room 5209
Please join us for the next KAUST Smart-Health Initiative (KSHI) seminar.
Better, Faster, Stronger, fluorescence light microscopy becomes automated!
By Dr. Dimitri Moreau, Manager of the ACCESS Geneva High Content Screening facility at the University of Geneva, Switzerland
Abstract
The requirement for statistically robust microscopy data in order to publish in high-level journals has drastically increased in the past few years. Based on this fact, with the support of the NCCR Chemical Biology and the University of Geneva, we built ACCESS Geneva, a platform dedicated to the promotion of automated microscopy for all labs running confocal microscopy assays. This technology, which appeared in early 2000, has improved a lot in the past five years to reach the imaging quality of any stand-alone set-up. The serious advantages of the technology are numerous and at several levels: the quality and the consistency of imaging, the fast and unbiased image acquisition, the dramatic increase of sample size and, by consequence, the statistical strength of the quantifications.
About the speaker
Undergraduate studies in La Rochelle, France, in marine biology.
Masters at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, on natural bio-toxins. Ph.D. at Faculty of Pharmacy of Nantes, on natural compound and lung cancer. Postdoc in Singapore, IMCB, with Fred Bard, siRNA full genome screening on Ricin toxin and Pseudomonas exotoxins (investigation of retrograde transport). Postdoc at the University of Geneva with Jean Gruenberg, compound screening on cholesterol homeostasis and NPC rare disease.
Looking forward to seeing you there! Light refreshments will be provided.