Cell Culture Workshop
A few slots are still open! Please Email Kendra McKenna kendra.mckenna@usu.edu to register!
Methods for Developing Insect Cell Lines:
A Laboratory Workshop
8 am to 4 pm, Sunday 16 August, 2009
Utah Valley University Wasatch Campus, Heber City, Utah
"..the field of insect cell culture is poised for very rapid expansion into many areas of biology"
Smagghe et al. 2009 In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Anim. Feb 27. [Epub ahead of print]
A hands-on workshop on Invertebrate Cell Culture lead by Dr. Dwight Lynn, INSell Consulting will be held immediately prior to the SIP annual meeting. The workshop, sponsored by the Virus Division, will be comprised of an introductory lecture on the technicalities of making insect and invertebrate cell lines, followed by hands-on laboratory sessions. The Wasatch Campus is a 15 min. drive from the SIP meeting site and can be reached from The Canyons Resort by hotel shuttle.
Registration: Participants should register for this workshop when they register for the SIP 2009 meeting. Seats are limited to 20 however, so early registration is strongly encouraged. The fee for the workshop ($150 for students, $250 for others) includes:
- a day of hands on training and instruction from an internationally renowned expert
- protocols for establishing insect cell lines from embryos
- a CD of related publications
- dissection equipment
Dr. Dwight Lynn, INSell Consulting, worked for 25 years with USDA, ARS and is an internationally recognized expert in the establishment of tissue derived- and embryonic insect cell lines. He has established some 40 cell lines from 15 species of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Hymenoptera for the study of insect diseases. Dr. Lynn, trained by Dr. W. Frederick Hink, a world-renowned insect cell culturist, has authored or co-authored more than 80 research papers and 10 book chapters.
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