DATE: Friday, October 21, 2022
TIME: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
VENUE: IMTM Seminary room (No. 1.09)
Hněvotínská 1333/5, Olomouc
Paul Cumming was born in Edmonton, Canada in 1960. He completed a Bachelor in Chemistry at the University of Alberta in 1984, followed by a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia in 1990, working in the general field of PET and pharmacology. After a post doctoral and then junior faculty position at the PET Centre of the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University (1991-1996), he joined the research group at the Aarhus University PET Centre, where he led preclinical studies in PET ligand development (1997-2003). There followed a series of research and faculty positions at the Nuclear Medicine Department of Ludwig Maximillian’s University in Munich, the University of Oslo, Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and now a position as researcher at the Nuclear Medicine Department of Bern University. Through this time, he has been mainly involved in methods development in brain PET, placing a focus on psychopharmacology research in collaboration with clinical researchers in Nuclear Medicine, Psychiatry, and Neurology. He has contributed to 290 peer-reviewed articles with 12,000+ citations to date and has written a monograph titled “Imaging Dopamine” (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
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The Mendel-Zirm Lecture Series is a new series of lectures given by the leading scientists in genetics, oncology, biomedicine, molecular biology, toxicology, biochemistry, microbiology, chemistry, medicine and other related research disciplines. The lectures which are open to wide public interested in new developments and discoveries in biomedicine are held once in 1-2 months at the Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine. The Mendel-Zirm Lecture Series is named in honour of two significant scientists whose education or professional life is tied up with Olomouc:
Johann Gregor Mendel, father of genetics, who was born nearby Olomouc (Hynčice) and studied Philosophical Faculty of Olomouc University (nowadays Palacky University).
Eduard Konrad Zirm, ophthalmologists who performed in Olomouc the first successful human tissue transplantation (full-thickness corneal transplant) in Olomouc, December 7, 1905.
The Mendel-Zirm Lecture Series seeks specialist from interdisciplinary areas in order to introduce latest approaches, technologies and methods to attending colleagues. The main purpose of the lecture series is to create a network of contacts from growing areas in order to educate both scientists and students. The invited speakers facilitate interactions between individual departments. The series hope to attract a diverse audience including professionals, staff, students and public by discussing new research on science and health issues.
