*POSTPONED* IIT External Speaker Seminar Series
30 October 2024, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
This event has been postponed - this page will be updated once a new date has been arranged.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Hanh Gurr
Location
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207Pears BuildingRowland Hill StLondonNW3 2PP
This iteration of the IIT External Speaker Seminar series will be hosted by Dr Colin Chu and De Lizzy Rosser, who will welcome Dr Ron Germain of the National Institute of Health. His seminar, "Visualizing Immunity – Insights from Multiplex Dynamic and Static Tissue-scale Imaging" will take place on Monday, 30th September in Room 207 in the Pears Building.
Bio
Ron Germain received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976. Since then, he has investigated basic immunobiology, first on the faculty at Harvard, then at NIAID, NIH. He has contributed to understanding MHC class II molecules, antigen processing, and T cell recognition, more recently pioneering analysis of the immune system using dynamic and static in situ microscopy. He has published more than 400 scholarly research papers and reviews and trained more than 80 fellows. Among other honours, he has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, EMBO, AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Kunkel Society, named a Distinguished Fellow by the American Association of Immunologists, and designated a Distinguished Investigator by NIH.
F2F Attendance Registration
To attend the seminar in person, registration is required for this event via Eventbrite, please use the below link for registration:
1:1 meetings
To organise a one-to-one meeting with Dr Germain, please contact the hosts, Colin Chu (colin.chu@ucl.ac.uk) and Lizzy Rosser (e.rosser@ucl.ac.uk).