SPATIAL BIOLOGY LUNCH AND LEARN SYMPOSIUM CO-HOSTED BY LEICA MICROSYSTEMS AND THE MARBLE CENTER FOR CANCER NANOMEDICINE
Join the Leica team and other MIT researchers to explore the latest technologies and research that utilize spatial mapping to uncover molecular insights in oncology, neurology, and immunology. Together with leading experts, we will examine how a deeper understanding of the tissue microenvironment, using advanced imaging techniques, can shed new insights into diseases such as metabolic disorder and cancer.
Speakers:
Rick Heil-Chapdelaine, Ph.D., North American Cell DIVE Specialist. Dr.
Rick Heil-Chapdelaine has been a champion of Cell DIVE multiplexing for 6 years, working with academic and biopharma customers to optimize workflows for querying the tumor/tissue microenvironment. His evolution into spatial biology was built on experience as an academic researcher studying the cell cycle with biochemical, genetic, and microscopy approaches.
Harikesh Wong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, MIT | Core Member, Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT and Harvard.
Dr. Harikesh Wong pursued his post-doctoral training with Dr. Ronald N. Germain at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 2022, Dr. Wong started his independent lab as a Core Member of the Ragon Institute and Assistant Professor at MIT, Department of Biology. The Wong lab investigates design principles underlying the control of immune responses at the tissue scale.
Lisa Arvidson, Custom Conjugation Team Leader, CST.
Lisa Arvidson is an experienced biochemist, who's passionate about developing and improving antibody conjugation techniques. Her primary focus is on providing reliable custom antibody conjugates for various spatial biology platforms, including Cell Dive. She is a HuBMAP member and currently leads the Custom Conjugation team at Cell Signaling Technology.
Falk Schlaudraff, Product Manager – Upright Microscopy, Leica Microsystems.
Dr. Falk Schlaudraff was born in Lüneburg, Germany. After his Master in Molecular Life Science at the University of Lübeck, where he also absolved the undergraduate studies of Computer Science, he moved to Marburg (Phillipps-University Marburg, Germany) and later to Ulm (University of Ulm, Germany), where he worked on and finished his Ph.D. thesis on Parkinsons Disease at the Laboratory of Prof. Birgit Liss. He worked as Scientist R&D for Qiagen (Hilden, Germany), before he started at Leica Microsystems as Product Manager in May 2011.