Dear users,
There are two upcoming seminars that could (or should) be of interest to you microscopists, in particular 16th of November,
William Moerner who got the Nobel Prize together with Stefan Hell and Eric Betzig for super-resolution methods.
Best wishes,
Debora
From: Weeks, Katie M
Sent: 19 October 2015 16:16
To: Baylis, Judith; Bibi, Hafiza; Keller, Debora; Busza, Albert L; Waldman, Adam D B; McCartney, Al
Cc: Nurboja, Sandrine A C; Elson, Dan S
Subject: Ernst Chain lecture by Professor William Moerner | 16 November 2015
Dear all,
There are two interesting imaging events coming up in November that may be of interest to members of your departments, groups and facility users – please could
I ask you to pass the details on as appropriate or pull the events through to your feed:
4 November – Hounsfield lecture by Jürgen Hennig
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/eventssummary/event_16-9-2015-12-0-58
16 November - Ernst Chain lecture by Nobel Laureate William Moerner (e-invite below)
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/eventssummary/event_13-10-2015-17-13-37
Regards
Katie
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The honour of your company is requested at the 2015 Ernst Chain Lecture: The story of a molecule Professor William E Moerner, 2014 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry,
Stanford University Date: Monday 16 November 2015 Discover the history of seeing a single molecule, from early spectroscopy to fluorescence, and what that means for our understanding
of biological processes at the 2015 Ernst Chain lecture. Please register via
Eventbrite
for your free place at this talk.
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William E Moerner is the Harry S. Mosher Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University.
He was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, for his research into fluoroscopy.
In normal microscopes the wavelength of light sets a limit to the level of detail possible. However this limitation
can be circumvented by methods that make use of fluorescence, a phenomenon in which certain substances become luminous after having been exposed to light. Around 2000, Eric Betzig and William E Moerner helped create a method in which fluorescence in individual
molecules is steered by light. An image of very high resolution is achieved by combining images in which different molecules are activated. This makes it possible to track processes occurring inside living cells. Professor Moerner has conducted research in the areas of physical chemistry and biophysics of single molecules and
is actively involved in the development of 2D and 3D super-resolution imaging for cell biology. Imaging studies include protein superstructures in bacteria, structure of huntingtin protein aggregates, centriole proteins, and ion channel distributions. Using
a powerful microscope optimized for tracking of single objects in cells, the motions of DNA and RNA are being measured in three dimensions in real time to understand processing and binding interactions. A related research area concerns precise analysis of
photodynamics of single trapped biomolecules in solution, with applications to photosynthesis, electron transport catalysis, and diffusion/mobility transport measurements. |
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