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Leica Microsystems and Microscopy & Analysis have organized a free web-
seminar in September that may be of interest to you:

Laser microdissection - Dissection perfection

Date:  24th September 2014
Time:  11am U.S. Eastern Time
Duration:  60 minutes
http://tinyurl.com/microdissection

Featured Speakers:
Dr Niccola Funel
Principal Investigator
Department of Surgical Pathology, University of Pisa

Dr Christian Lobsiger
Team Member
Brain and Spinal Cord Institute, Salpetriere Hospital

Two rich scientific presentations will discuss (1) how it was possible to 
isolate epithelial cell populations from primary cultures derived from 
pancreatic adenocarcinoma and then evaluate gene expression of critical 
determinants of anticancer drug efficacy and predict different likelihood to 
respond to treatment.  And (2) how laser-microdissection (LMD) assisted 
RNA profiling to isolate micro-regions, as well as neuronal or glial enriched 
pools, to identify candidate pathways that have the potential to modulate 
the ongoing neurodegenerative processes and slow disease.

This webinar features:
- practical advantages of this technique for a precise and contamination-
free isolation and selection of single cells from brain sections for RNA 
downstream analysis and afterwards on cloning live cells from cultures for 
further cultivation and analysis
- a live question and answer session

Very best regards,

Lon Nelson
Director of Marketing
Leica Microsystems, Inc.
Living up to Life

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