Events at XLEAP

Upcoming and past events at XLEAP. Check back regularly for new info.

Invited Talk on XLEAP at SRI 2024
- Speaker: Louisa Smieska
- Date/Time: August 26-30, 2024
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Link: https://www.sri2024.eu/

When: July 8, 2024
Where: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Who: Louisa Smieska with plant sciences REU students from Boyce Thompson Institute
Link: LinkedIn

Louisa Smieska stands in front of her poster

When: June 9-14, 2024
Where: Holderness, NH, USA
Who: Hanna Shatokhina (Vatamaniuk Lab, Cornell). Talk: "The Role Of The Micronutrient Copper In The Development Of Female And Male Reproductive Organs And Fertility In Arabidopsis Thaliana"
Link: Conference agenda

When: May 14-15, 2024
Where: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Who: XLEAP participants: Louisa Smieska (CHESS); Loren Ochoa, Jesús Holguín Muñiz, Abayomi Omoogun, Sharif Ahmed (UTEP)
Link: HEXT Workshop Empowers Students in Synchrotron Techniques
UTEP student participants at the High Energy X-ray Techniques (HEXT) workshop completed an XRF imaging demo with beamline scientist Louisa Smieska. Left to Right: Loren Ochoa, Angélica Chacón (NIH Fellowship), Jesús Holguín Muñiz, Abayomi Omoogun, Sharif Ahmed, Louisa Smieska.

When: April 20-21, 2024
Where: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Who: XLEAP participants:
- Ju-Chen Chia (Research Associate, Vatamaniuk Lab, Cornell). Talk: "The role of Arabidopsis Oligopeptide Transporter 3 (AtOPT3) in shoot-to-root copper signaling and copper-iron crosstalk."
- Louisa Smieska (CHESS), Hanna Shatokhina (Vatamaniuk Lab, Cornell): posters
In addition to the talk and posters, a tour of CHESS was attended by ~20 conference participants
Link: Meeting schedule