Thursday, December 9, 2010

Research Scientist to Present Special Seminar

The University of South Alabama College of Medicine Flow Cytometry Core Facility has invited Dr. T. Vincent Shankey, a principal staff advanced research scientist in the Systems Research Group of Beckman-Coulter Inc., to present a special seminar.

The seminar, titled “Cytometry of Cell Signaling: Monitoring Signal Transduction Pathways in Human Disease,” will be held at 10 a.m. on Dec. 14, 2010, in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium on USA's main campus.

Dr. Shankey received his Ph.D. degree in immunology and medical microbiology from the University of Florida School of Medicine in 1977 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1981.

Before joining the Advanced Technology Center/Systems Research Group at Beckman-Coulter in 2001, he was the director of research for the urology department and scientific director of the Clinical Flow Cytometry laboratory at Loyola University Medical Center near Chicago.

For more information regarding Dr. Shankey’s research, click here.