Wistar’s Sips, Schmooze & Science: Under the Microscope

Nearly 100 guests attended the Sips, Schmooze & Science: Under the Microscope event with the ambassadors of the Wistar Institute at the Institute last night. The ambassadors are bright young leaders of the Philadelphia region who are working to support the Wistar Institute. Lynsie Solomon (chair of the ambassadors) welcomed the guests to the cocktail party held quarterly and introduced James E. Hayden, manager of Wistar’s microscopy facility. He led a discussion on the winning photos from the 2015 Nikon Small World exhibition — visually stunning photographs taken through the microscope on display at the cocktail party. Guests enjoyed small plates and spirits from Palladino’s on East Passyunk while mingling and bidding on silent-auction and raffle items.

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Lynsie Solomon, co-chair of the Wistar Ambassadors and Ian Stockman, GMH Mortgage.

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Elaine Lander, Stephanie Veasey, Alexa Lustig and Colleen Cook.

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Jessica Meier, Gregori Lukes and Dr. Ken Cirka stand in front of a few winning photos of cells under microscopes as picked by Nikon.

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Ian M Crumm, Michael Magnatta, Sylvia Feinberg and Evan Solomon.

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Michael Toub, Garden Logan, Lisa Kreckel and Meredith West.

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Winning images from the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition exhibited at Wistar Institute through Sunday, March 6th, 2016.

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Ben Leach sells Lorne Hammond raffle tickets for the drawing with fabulous prizes.

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Raffle and silent auction items.

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Rosalba Romano and Brad Mills.

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Iris and Harris Olen.

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Will and Jessica Souders.

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Jeremy Scott, researcher at the Wistar Institute and Subhasree Basu, post-doctoral fellow at the Wistar Institute.

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