From August 26th to 29th I'll be attending
14th International Congress of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry in
Kyoto. This going to be my second International Histochemistry & Cytochemistry Congress in this marvelous Japanese city. First one was back in 1996, soon after I came to Japan. This time I am organizing a workshop dedicated to modern quantitative methodologies. Two outstanding European researchers working in Switzerland, Drs. Bernd Wollscheid and Arne Seitz from renown
ETH Zurich and
EPFL Lausanne, respectively, will be joining me at the workshop. Dr. Wollscheid will be talking about chemoproteomic technology for the ligand-based receptor identification on living cells and tissues, while Dr. Seitz will be focusing on the strategy to test fluorophores stability for typical histological samples. I will be presenting latest developments in the field of quantification of colocalization. I am glad to mention that I was able to obtain financial support for both Dr. Wollscheid's and Dr. Seitz's travel.
I am quite looking forward to the Congress, because there should be really interesting presentations there, as well as, because, as people who visited this old Japanese city even once may say, there is no any other place in the world like Kyoto.
P.S. Picture above: Kinkaku-ji (
Temple of the Golden Pavilion), one of the most popular buildings in Japan and one of the
World Heritage Sites.
