Leica announces scientific forum events in Heidelberg, the UK and France26 June 2008 Leica has announced that its lecture series, the Leica Scientific Forum — Advances in Life Sciences, which was established two and a half years ago in Heidelberg has now been successfully introduced to France and the UK. On top of this, video clips and interactive presentations of the Heidelberg forum that is held four times a year at the German Cancer Research Center can also be downloaded from the Internet about four weeks after the event [1]. The Leica Scientific Forum has four venues in the UK: the Imperial College London in cooperation with the Institute of Cancer Research and King’s College, in Oxford at the Institute of Engineering Science in cooperation with the pharmacology department of Oxford University and at the universities of Cambridge and Liverpool. The programme of lectures in France includes the Institute Pasteur in Paris in cooperation with the Institute Curie, the University Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille and the University Bordeaux 2. “The success in Heidelberg has motivated us to expand the series of lectures to other renowned European scientific locations,” says initiator and organizer Dr Thomas Zapf, Director Scientific Relations at Leica Microsystems. “From the very beginning we were able to engage high-ranking scientists to present their current research projects. By opening the international venues and presenting the lectures on the Internet we are able to make them accessible to a far greater public.” Leica Microsystems established the Leica Scientific Forum to encourage communication and discussion of the latest scientific research in life sciences and to offer academia and industry a high-ranking platform for the exchange of knowledge on an international scale. Note 1. Video clips and interactive presentations of the Heidelberg forum willbe available at: www.leicamicrosystems.com/leica_scientific_forum Leica Scientific Forum events in 2008July 2008 03 July 2008 September 2008 16 September 2008 17 September 2008 18 September 2008 Prof. James Pawley, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Zoology
Research, Madison WI, USA October 2008 01 October 2008 November 2008 10 November 2008 11 November 2008 12 November 2008 13 November 2008 Dr Jan Ellenberg, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL,
Heidelberg, Germany (DE) December 2008 08 December 2008 09 December 2008 10 December 2008 Prof. Paul French, Imperial College London, Department of Physics December 2008 12 December 2008 Prof Dr James G Fujimoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA, USA Please note The order of venues in the UK and France may change at short notice.
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