MAIN LECTURERS 

 

Warwick Vincent (Quebec City, Canada)
Ecosystems on Ice and Implications for Life on Snowball Earth

    Chandra Wickramasinghe (Cardiff, Wales - UK)
Panspermia and Prospects for Testing from Recoveries of Cometary Dust

        Kenneth Storey (Ottawa, Canada)
Life Below Zero: Molecular Strategies of Freeze Survival

    Karl Zachariassen (Trondheim, Norway)
Inorganic Ions in Cold-Exposed Ectotherms

Gregory Fahy (21st Century Medicine, USA)
Recent Advances in the Cryopreservation of Organs by Vitrification

   
Monica Wusteman (York, England - UK)
Vitrification of Large Tissues with Dielectric Rewarming: Biological Problems and Some Approaches to Their Solution

 
   Dirk Hincha (Potsdam, Germany)
Preservation of Membrane Integrity During Freezing and Drying by Structurally Diverse Oligosaccharides

      
John Critser (Columbia, USA)
Fundamental Cryobiology of Reproductive Cells and Tissues

    Maureen Wood (Aberdeen, Scotland - UK)
Embryo and Oocyte Storage: Problems and Approaches

 John Baust (New York, USA)
Cryotherapeutic Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease

 
   Jean-Paul Homasson (Chevilly-Larue, France)
Cryosurgery: State of the Art and Perspectives in 2003

   
Mike West (Advanced Cell Technology, USA)
Strategies for Cell Banking of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

   
Maurice de Wachter (Brussels, Belgium)
Ethical Issues in Cryobiology: Responsible Applications in Biomedicine and in Clinical Practice

 

 CONTACT 

    CRYOBIOMOL SECRETARIAT
    Department of Chemistry
    University of Coimbra
    P-3004-535 Coimbra
    PORTUGAL

    Tel: +351-239-854483       Fax: +351-239-827703