The Organising Committee was thrilled that its first-choice Plenary Speakers all responded immediately to their invitations to speak.
Plenary Speakers
Dr Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz opened the conference at 9am on Tuesday 29 June with the RMS Pearse Prize Lecture. This is the Society's most prestigious award and was presented to Dr Lippincott-Schwartz for her work in histochemistry. Previous winners, Roger Tsien and Osamu Shimomura, were recently awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Read more about Dr Lippincott-Schwartz's opening Plenary Lecture, entitled Seeing Cells in Action with Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins.
Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas is a leading British chemist and educator primarily known for his work on heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemistry, and surface and materials science. He is Honorary Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution.
Read more about the Plenary Lecture (EMS Sponsored) by Sir John Meurig Thomas - The Genius of Michael Faraday.
Professor Wolfgang Baumeister is known for his work on the definition of the molecular structure of proteasomes and other larger molecular complexes. He is Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany.
Read more about Professor Wolfgang Baumeister and his (EMS Sponsored) Plenary Lecture - Cryo-electron microscopy: From molecules to systems.
"Once again, MICROSCIENCE has attracted an impressive line-up of Plenary Speakers," says Dr Debbie Stokes, the Society's Honorary Secretary Science and Co-Chair of the Organising Committee. "Professor Baumeister and Professor Thomas are leading figures in the fields of electron imaging for life sciences and materials sciences respectively. And, we have Professor Lippincott Schwartz opening with the RMS Pearse Prize Lecture. All of these talks will stimulate thought, and provoke discussion, and will complement the conference sessions perfectly, bringing great added-value for all delegates at the event."
Invited Speakers
The scientific organisers of each symposium have invited the leading experts in their fields in order to ensure a programme that is not to be missed. Two experts will speak in each symposium and their lectures will be supplemented by submitted abstracts.
