Speaker:
Steven Chu
Institution:
Stanford Univ.
Speaker Link:
Date:
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Time:
3:30 pm
Location:
RH 101
ABSTRACT:
In the past decade, there has been an explosion of new imaging technologies in biology that include super-resolution microscopy, structured illumination, and adaptive optics. In parallel with the revolution in optical microscopy, similar dramatic advances are occurring in electron microscopy, particularly cryo-EM.
I will discuss our work on the development and applications of photo-stable, near infrared rare earth nanoparticle probes that will allow nanometer co-localization of multiple interacting proteins, adaptive optics imaging into ~ 5 millimeters of tissue in live organisms, and combined optical and electron microscopy imaging of multiple proteins. I will also describe work on another class of near IR sub-ten nanocrystal probes that should allow millisecond imaging of proteins in live cells.
Learn more about the Reines Lecture Series at http://ps.uci.edu/rls
Host:
Peter Taborek