SfN Satellite Event
Sunday, October 6th, 2024
Attending the Society for Neuroscience 2024 Annual Conference in Chicago? Join us at Proteintech's Satellite Event:
Tissue IF/IHC Workshop with Expert Panel and Reception
As a leading antibody manufacturer, Proteintech has been optimizing its IF/IHC workflows for over two decades. Join this expert-led workshop and take a deep dive into the science behind tissue IF/IHC.
Hear about the latest technology and best-in-class reagents to get your images worthy of Nature! A panel of immunofluorescence experts will also provide their top tips and tricks and answer questions on troubleshooting.
Seeing how Chicago is Proteintech's hometown, we will follow the panel with a casual reception.
Dinner will be served throughout the event on a first-come, first-serve basis.
How to Register
📍Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Regency Ballroom A | 2233 S. Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Dr., Chicago, IL 60616
🕞 Sunday, October 6th, 2024 | 6:30-9:00 PM
✅ Free to attend
*Eventbrite reservation does not guarantee entry. Seats will be given according to room capacity.
Meet the Speaker and Panelists:
Afrida Rahman-Enyart, PhD
Speaker
Product Manager & Senior Scientific Liaison, Proteintech
Dr. Afrida Rahman-Enyart is a neurodevelopmental biologist by training and completed dual PhDs in Neuroscience and Psychology from Indiana University-Bloomington in 2019. Afrida then did a postdoc at Northwestern University in the Department of Urology studying the neuromechanisms of pelvic pain, specifically how the gut microbiome and microglial activation modulate symptoms related to interstitial cystitis. Afrida has over 10 years of bench experience in immunoprecipitation, western blotting, and immunofluorescence.
Courtney Wood, PhD
Panelist
Postdoc at University of California, San Diego
Courtney completed her PhD in Neuroscience at UC Riverside while studying endocannabinoid mediated gut-brain signaling and the effects of cannabis on food intake and metabolism. She is now a postdoc at UC San Diego and works on substance abuse and perinatal opioid exposure.
Riham Ayoubi, PhD
Panelist
Director of Operations, the YCharOS Project, Structural Genomics Consortium
Dr. Ayoubi is a cellular and molecular biologist; she completed her PhD at University of Montreal where she studied membrane trafficking and signaling pathways. She then joined the YCharOS initiative as a postdoctoral researcher at the NeuroSGC. YCharOS is an open collaboration with twelve antibody manufacturers and two knockout cell line providers with the mission to characterize commercial antibodies for all human proteins. Dr. Ayoubi developed and scaled up the current standard procedures and coordinates YCharOS studies.
Sreethu Sankar
Panelist
Product Manager, Proteintech
Sreethu Sankar is a Product Manager at Proteintech and a cell biologist by training. He has worked as a scientist in industry for 7 years and has more than a decade of experience in immunofluorescence and microscopy. Sreethu also has experience in managing a core imaging facility and has several years of experience in confocal microscopy and high content imaging.