100th Anniversary of Cell Culture: The First 50 Years
Monday, March 26, 2007, 12:00 PM Eastern Time (ET)

Publication of Ross Harrison's work with explanted embryonic frog tissue in 1907 presented researchers with an exciting new approach to exploring cell biology.  But several key problems had to be overcome before this new tool, cell culture, could reach its potential. This seminar will cover how over the next 50 years researchers overcame these problems, creating one of the most important and widely used tools in Life Science today, saving millions of lives, and laying the foundation of today's multibillion dollar cell-based vaccine, monoclonal antibody and biotherapeutics industries.

Speaker:

John Ryan, Ph. D., has spent over 30 years in the fields of both animal and plant cell culture.  He received his initial culture training during the nine years he spent at the W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center in Lake Placid, New York.  There he was a member of the Center's Education Department that offered a wide variety of undergraduate and postgraduate training programs in plant and animal cell culture techniques. Since then, he has worked for over twelve years with Corning Life Sciences, where he is currently Technical Marketing Manager.  He has also worked at Bionique Testing Laboratories, the American Type Culture Collection, and the University of Connecticut from which he received his doctorate in Biochemistry. 

We hope you will join us for this exclusive event.