On Monday the 10th of April 2017 at 4.00 pm College will host two interesting seminars on blood platelets organised by A Balduini of the Department of Molecular Medicine (Pavia).
The first of them entitled Making platelets in vitro: an environmental question and making it count will be delivered by Cedric Ghevaert of the Wellcome Trust - MRC, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, UK and will discuss progress toward production of human platelets in the laboratory from stem/progenitor cells. Further details about C Ghevaert's seminar can be found on the dedicated seminar page. The poster of the seminar can be downloaded here.
The second seminar, entitled From ChIP-Seq to a role for Tropomyosin-4 in platelet biogenesis will be given by Marloes Tijssen of the Department of Haematology University of Cambridge, UK and will address the role of this molecule in platelet formation. Further details about M Tihissen's seminar can be found on the dedicated seminar page. The poster of the seminar can be downloaded here.
All College students are invited to attend.
Image: scanning electron micrograph of human platelets. Courtesy of Louise Howard, Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire, USA).
