Society for Cryobiology Free Cryobiology Webinar Series

I'm pleased to let you know that the Society for Cryobiology's new webinar series begins on January 13, 2022. Each webinar pairs a senior scientist alongside an exciting young researcher to discuss a wide variety of topics and themes. Registration is free.

For more information and to register please visit the Society for Cryobiology website.


January 13, 2022
8:00AM US/Pacific | 11:00AM US/Eastern | 4:00 PM United Kingdom | 5:00PM Central Europe | 8:00 PM Gulf Standard

CRYO-CONSERVATION: CURRENT STATUS AND CHALLENGES OF GAMETE AND REPRODUCTIVE TISSUE CRYOPRESERVATION IN ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION
Dr. Nucharin Songsasen - Head, Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, Washington DC, USA

MULTISCALE TRANSPORT AND OSMOTIC TOLERANCE IN LIVER CELLS AND TISSUES
Iqra Azam - Graduate Student, Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada


March 15, 2022
8:00AM US/Pacific | 11:00AM US/Eastern | 4:00 PM United Kingdom | 5:00PM Central Europe | 8:00 PM Gulf Standard


HIGH-ASPECT RATIO CASSETTES FOR VITRIFICATION OF CRYPTOSPORIDIUM
Rebecca Sandlin - Center for Engineering in Medicine & Surgery, Harvard Medical School, USA

RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIC ASSESSMENT OF LIVER GRAFTS FOR ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
Rohil Jain - Research Fellow, Center for Engineering in Medicine & Surgery, Harvard Medical School, USA


FINAL CALL TO REGISTER FOR SLTB 2021

The Annual Meeting of the Society for Low Temperature Biology will start next week on the 3rd November at 7pm (CET).

This is the last call for registrations, so please register for the meeting as soon as possible through the SLTB website.

https://www.sltb.info/sltb-2021-registration/#RegForm

Registration is free to members so please take advantage of this if you are currently a member, and make sure your membership application is submitted if not. Membership can be applied for at the following link and costs only £25 for full membership and £15 for student members:

https://www.sltb.info/join-sltb

Late registrations may miss out on the conference program and the online links that will be sent out in the next few days.

Please also submit your "Low Temperature" related images to the SLTB2021 Photo Competition. Images can be scientific or any other low temperature related picture - icicles, snow, frost etc. There are prizes to be won for first, second and third place. Photos will be judged by the delegates at the meeting and can be submitted to the competition by email to SLTBCryo@gmail.com or using the form here:
https://www.sltb.info/sltb2021-photo-competition/#PhotoForm

We look forward to meeting our colleagues again next week and hope you enjoy the conference!
SLTB Committee

IMET2000 Autumn Extravaganza on Monday September 27th, 2021 at 7pm on Zoom

SLTB informs its members about the upcoming IMET2000 event. Please help in the pioneering work in mental health and saving lives in so many countries worldwide suffering terribly from this COVID-19 pandemic particularly child refugees and victims of war.

Funds will be sought for:

West Bank Palestine: Advanced training in critical care of COVID-19 infected patients for nurses, doctors and allied professionals in Gaza and the West Bank 

West Bank: Essential equipment to expand our Basic Life Support training in the IMET2000 Acute Trauma Unit in Ramallah 

Gaza: Child Mental Health Centre and Mental Health Training after our child mental health clinic was destroyed by an Israeli bomb on May 14th

Syria: Joint project with Firefly International with education and training for Syrian children in refugee camps (in Syria and Turkey)

Lebanon: Joint project working in the refugee camps in child mental health with one part time experienced psychologist, clinical training in the UK for 2 young psychologists in child treatment and our partner NGO working with us in art and music therapy

Yemen: Joint project with partner charity Action for Child Trauma International (ACTI) training Yemeni psychologists in modern specialist therapies for victims of war

Ghana: Joint project with partner charity Action Through Enterprise (ATE) for support of severely handicapped and disabled children and their mothers

Uganda: Management of COVID-19 patients, installing piped oxygen and large oxygen generator for the operating theatres and CV19 ward in our IMET2000

Herona Hospital

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/IMET2000AutumnExtravaganza2021