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Subject:	FW: interesting seminar Monday November 12 - Alan Waggoner - Fluorescent biosensors and targeted physiological indicators for cell pathways
Date:	Mon, 5 Nov 2012 18:25:40 +0000
From:	French, Paul (PHOT) M W (Photonics) <paul.french@imperial.ac.uk>
To:	Spitaler, Martin <m.spitaler@imperial.ac.uk>

Dear Martin,

Please could you email this invitation to an exciting imaging seminar – with drinks reception - to the FILM mailing list and any other colleagues that you think might be interested.

Alan Waggoner is one of the pioneers of fluorescence-based sensors and is currently working on new strategies for live cell imaging of cell pathways with small molecule dyes.

All are welcome. Please can you forward the message to potentially interested colleagues.

Best wishes,

Paul

November 12-14: "Fluorescent biosensors and targeted physiological indicators for cell pathways"

Keynote Speaker Prof. Alan S. Waggoner

Director of Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center
Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh / US

Venues

LSF London - Imperial College
Monday, November 12 – 5:30pm. Chair: Prof. Paul French
Venue: Imperial College London, Lecture Theatre 3, Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BB
LSF Oxford - University of Oxford
Tuesday, November 13 – 4:00pm. Chair: Prof. Gero Miesenboeck
Venue: Main Seminar Room, Biochemistry Department, South Parks Road, Oxford
LSF Liverpool - Liverpool University
Wednesday, November 14 – 5:00pm. Chair: Prof. Violaine Sée
Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Life Sciences Building, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZB

Lecture Alan S. Waggoner:

We develop fluorescent biosensors toolkits for pathways of living cells, focussing on smart biosensors for high throughput methods. Our biosensor platform consists of Fluorescence Activating Proteins (FAPs) that bind fluorogen dyes with large fluorescence increases.

Sensors have been developed to rapidly and selectively track FAP labeled proteins such as GPCRs. This platform is proving promising for developing calcium, pH, sodium, potassium and redox sensors that will emit signals only from investigator-targeted regions of a cell. Sensors for protein-protein interactions and protein modification are in progress.

Learn more about Alan S. Waggoner: <http://www.cmu.edu/bio/faculty/waggoner.html>

Invitation

The members of the Scientific Advisory Board UK -

Prof. Paul French (Imperial College London), Prof. Antony Galione (Oxford Univ.), Dr. Jim Haseloff (Cambridge Univ.), Prof. David Klenerman (Cambridge Univ.), Prof. Gero Miesenboeck (Oxford Univ.), Prof. Tony Ng (King’s College London), Dr. Violaine Sée, Dr. Bob Burgoyne, Prof. Alexei Tepikin (Liverpool Univ.), Prof. Mike White (Manchester Univ.), Prof. Keith Willison (Institute of Cancer Research London), Prof. Tony Wilson (Oxford Univ.), and Dr. Thomas Zapf (Leica Microsystems)

- cordially invite you to meet Alan Waggoner at the post lecture receptions for personal discussion.

Registration

All lectures are free of charge. For organizational reasons please RSVP by e-mail to LSF@leica-microsystems.com.