Life and Death In Vitro - Growth & Toxicity
Tuesday, June 12, 2007, 1:00 PM Eastern Time (ET)

This seminar will discuss the development of in vitro techniques for measuring and estimating cell growth and cytotoxicity including direct cell counting, clonogenic assays and microplate-based assays. Also covered will be some of the problems that are typically encountered when trying to measure cytotoxicity using these techniques:

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.