SLTB Meeting September 19-20
Guest Post and Photos by Estefania Paredes | Photo Gallery courtesy of Alasdair Kay
Cryobiologists and cold temperature ecologists gathered for a two day meeting, September 19-20, at the British Antarctic Survey – Aurora Centre in Cambridge, UK to exchange knowledge and ideas about life, biology, preservation and cold temperatures.
Within a wide range of topics, from thermal analysis to non-Newtonian fluids, from vitrification of stem cells to metabolic changes of snow algae in the Antarctic, from plant to marine invertebrate cryopreservation, the SLTB presented the attendants to this two day meeting with a wide variety of topics that encourage an interchange of ideas and points of view that I considered extremely useful.
Daniel Ballesteros from Kew Gardens, UK.
It was very exciting for me to have had the opportunity to attend and present to this very broad group of scientists my research and to offer another point of view of cryobiology: the cryopreservation of marine organisms with the specific problems and challenges associated, and get input and ideas from very far and different fields of research.
It was once more clear that, first cryobiology is a highly multidisciplinary field and we are addressing the latest challenges from very different points of view and second, that there is a high flux between labs with the inter-exchange of students and ideas that make the field of cryobiology thrive.
Jayanthi Nadarajan from the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Reseach.
Of course, visiting Cambridge University campus and the Aurora Centre is always a delight, many of us chose to stay at the campus colleges enjoying the history, feeling the inspiration from those beautiful buildings that have seen Nobel Laureates build up their ideas and drinking a pint of beer in the pub where Watson and Crick- after way many beers- reportedly stood over a table and screamed that they had discovered the structure of the DNA is somewhat inspirational. It was a wonderful frame for the meeting.
The Mathematical Bridge over the River Cam connects two parts of Queens' College.
SLTB Meeting Gallery
Images courtesy of Alasdair Kay
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