Keynote Speakers

Dr Peter O'Toole

Peter O'Toole gained his PhD in the Cell Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Essex and has been involved in many aspects of fluorescence imaging and flow cytometry. Since arriving at York, he has firmly established the Imaging and Cytometry Laboratory as one of the top European centres.

With multiple close and personal external  collaborations and consultancy agreements, including current agreements with  Carl Zeiss, Beckman Coulter, JEOL and Phase Focus, the lab remains equipped with the very latest equipment and is playing a key role in influencing the direction of future commercial systems.

Peter’s research is now focussed on both technology and method development. Peter is PI on multiple funded grants. These include current funding from the RCUK Next Generation Optical Microscopy (NGOM) Call in collaboration with the CRUK-LRI, JEOL and Delmic and KTP/EPSRC funding in collaboration with Phase Focus and BBSRC/JEOL CASE Award to develop a novel CLEM system.

Aside from running the facility and research, Peter also holds multiple key positions with different organisations.  Peter is Honorary Secretary for Biological Sciences on the Executive Committee of the Royal Microscopical Society, Chair of the Light Microscopy Section, committee member of Flow Cytometry UK and a member of European Light Microscopy Initiative steering committee.

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