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News archive: Events Front Range Neuroscience meeting Fort Collins, November 11, 2009 The Visiopharm senior application specialist, Dr. Won Yung Choi, will give a presentation on the topic: Why stereology?: How unbiased quantification will benefit your research Stereology in neuroscience provides practical techniques for extracting quantitative information about three dimensional structures in your brain sample based on measurements made on two-dimensional planar optical sections acquired from microscopic images. It is an unbiased method of estimating important features such as total cell count, volume, surface area, length, volume density and numeric density. When performed correctly, it makes no assumptions between your test groups, yields measures that are statistically correct, and is fast and efficient. In this workshop, an overview of the benefits of stereology will be discussed with examples from neuroscience using commonly used stereological methods. Bio of the speaker: Dr. Won Yung Choi is a Senior Products Scientist at Visiopharm’s New York office. She also holds a joint appointment as an Adjunct Research Scientist at Columbia University Medical School. She is a neuroscientist with over 10 years of experience studying the dopaminergic system in various transgenic models and patient populations. She obtained her B.Sc. from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and M.A., and Ph.D.in Neuroscience from Columbia University. Her dissertation focused on the functional dissociation of dopamine receptor subtypes and dopamine receiving regions in drug addiction related learning mechanism. She received her postdoctoral training at Columbia University and the New York Psychiatric Institute, focusing on the microanatomy and functional circuitry of the dopaminergic system using various genetic and molecular biological methods, advanced microscopy and stereology. Further information: Read more about the Front Range Neuroscience meeting Read all events news |
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