Tuesday November 5th, Dominic Olver, graduate in Biology and Phylosophy and Master student at the University of Saskatchewan (Canadá), will present in a new session of the Café con Sal conference cycle, the utility and the power of fusing mathematics and biology for solving potentially impossible problems, with the lecture “Cell Damage and Minimization: Modelling to the Rescue!”.
Dominic Olver is working at the ECIMAT, in collaboration with Pablo Heres and Estefania Paredes (CIM-UVigo) and James Benson (University of Saskatchewan), to determine an optimized protocol to cryopreserve sea urchin eggs. Cryobiology brings a cornucopia of benefits, including improvements to conservation and agricultural efforts. Cryopreservation is the total arrest of metabolic activity by means of reducing temperature (usually held at -196°C) with possibility of recovery. Cryopreserved organisms may be kept indefinitely, allowing for species banking and for increasing the effective population size of endangered species. This powerful tool may also be used to breed cultured organisms with donors long since passed and improve genetic diversity in the stock throughout time. Currently, there are no known successful protocols for sea urchin eggs. With the aid of the cryopreservation service of the ECIMAT and James Benson, Dominic is constructing a cost function model to find the optimal cryopreservation protocol.
During his conference, Dominic will provide an introduction into the utility of modelling, demonstratimg the power of fusing mathematics and biology for solving potentially impossible problems. He will present the current model as well as preliminary data of his work at the ECIMAT.
The conference will take place at the conference room of the ECIMAT at 11:00h with a coffee, and will be live streamed on http://tv.uvigo.es/es/directo/1.html and permanently available on CIM and UVigoTV websites.
Vídeos
- Presentation of Dominic Olver Alba Hernández, CIM-UVigo
- Cell Damage and Minimization: Modelling to de Rescue! Dominic Olver, University of Saskatchewan (Canadá)