Medicine

Imaging Symposium coming to College of Medicine

The Penn State College of Medicine Imaging Symposium will be held 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 10 at the University Conference Center.

Keynote speakers include Dr. Michael G. Rossmann, Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at Purdue University who will speak about visualizing the life cycle of the dengue virus using electron microscopy; Dr. James Conway, associate professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who will speak about high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy applied to the icosahedral capsids of tailed bacteriophages and herpes viruses; and Dr. Sanford Simon, head of the Laboratory of Biophysics at Rockefeller University, who will speak about the biogenesis of HIV-1.

Registration and breakfast are at 8 a.m. Submission of abstracts are not required to attend. However, students are encouraged to submit abstracts for the poster session.

For more information and to register, visit med.psu.edu/imagingcore

This symposium is co-sponsored by Fisher Scientific, VWR and Greiner Bio-One.

Last Updated January 9, 2015