NCBS-MBI Meeting on EM: Frontiers in Bio-Imaging

 NCBS-MBI Meeting on EM: Frontiers in Bio-Imaging

February 3-5, 2014

Venue: National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

Schedule

This meeting will bring together a number of experts in Electron Microscopy as applied to biological problems at various length scales. This meeting is particularly aimed at increasing the awareness among graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty in India on state of the art methods in electron microscopy to probe biological systems.

Invited Speakers:

  • Wah Chiu, MBI & Baylor College (Singapore/USA)
  • Edward Egelman, Virginia University
  • Mark Ellisman, University of California, San Diego (USA)
  • Preeti Gipson, Baylor College  (USA)
  • Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory, Cambridge (UK)
  • Grant Jensen, California Institute of technology (USA)
  • Paul Matsudaira, National University of Singapore
  • Satyajit Mayor, NCBS, Bangalore
  • Raghu Padinjat, NCBS, Bangalore
  • Daniela Rhodes, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology & Nanyang Technological University (UK/Singapore)
  • Polly Roy, London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine(UK)
  • Sara Sandin, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
  • GV Shivashankar, MBI-NUS, (Singapore)
  • Frederick Sigworth, Yale University (USA)
  • Subramaniam Sriram Centre for Cancer Research (USA)
  • K. VijayRaghavan , Department of Biotechnology, (India)
  • K. Vinoth Kumar, MRC Laboratory, Cambridge (UK)
  • Hao Wu, Harvard Medical School (USA)
  • Hong Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles (USA)

The meeting is open to graduate and postdoctoral fellows and faculty from India.

Meeting size: 100

Registration is open from: December 10, 2013 to January 15, 2014

Registration fee: Rs. 1000/- for academia and Rs. 5000/- for corporate payable by Bank Demand Draft/All City Cheque made in favour of ‘NCBS, Meetings and Workshop A/C’ and sent to

Mrs. Nidhi Srivastava

EM: Frontiers in Bioimaging

National Centre for Biological Sciences

GKVK, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560064

PH: 080-23666337
 

Note:

Registration fee is non refundable.

Registration fees for applicants from the NCBS-inStem campus will be waived but they should register.

Please write your name, name of the meeting and affiliation on the reverse of the DD/Cheque. 

Registration Process:

All participants must send a CV and an abstract of 250 words of their work to soumya.ncbs@gmail.com before January 15, 2014 along with demand draft that should be couriered to the address above. Registration will be complete only on receipt of registration fee. Poster presentations will be strongly encouraged from selected participants.

Poster board dimensions are 5ftx4ft (length x height)

Travel and Housing:

Participants should arrange their own travel to Bangalore and as well as their boarding and lodging. 

Organizers:

G.V. Shivashankar, MBI, NUS

Paul Matsudaira, NUS

Wah Chiu, Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore and Baylor College,USA

Raghu Padinjat, NCBS

Satyajit Mayor, NCBS

 

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