High Pressure Freezer User Group Meeting

High Pressure Freezer User Group Meeting

Monday, August 4, 2008
6:30pm – 8:30pm

Doubletree Hotel
201 Marquette, NW
Albuquerque
(Located across the street from the Convention Center)

Chair:     William Graham
Bibst Laboratories Inc.

Keynote Speaker    Jotham R. Austin, II, Ph.D
Technical Director for Advanced Electron Microscopy
Biological Science Division
University of Chicago

Meeting Agenda:

6:30pm – 7:00pm:    Mingle & meet with friends & colleagues.
Complimentary finger foods & Hors D’ouvres courtesy of
Boeckeler Instruments, Inc
Cash bar serving an assortment of wines, beers, cocktails & soft drinks

7:00pm:    Welcome & introduction

7:15 – 8:00pm:    “Is High Pressure Freezing the best technique available for sample preservation that you are NOT taking advantage of”?

Dr. Austin will review techniques, methods and instrumentation currently available for cryoimmobilization by high pressure freezing. Emphasis will be placed on the breadth of capabilities of this technique for successfully freezing a wide variety of specimen types including plant tissue, single cells, biopsies, muscle, etc

8:00 – 8:30pm:    Questions/answers and open discussion

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