...forwarded, for your information... Martin -------- Original Message -------- Subject: FW: UK poster Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:37:47 +0100 From: French, Paul (PHOT) M W (Photonics) <paul.french@imperial.ac.uk> To: Spitaler, Martin <m.spitaler@imperial.ac.uk>, Nadal, Rebecca C <r.nadal@imperial.ac.uk> Thursday, October 13th, 2011, 5:00 pm Venue: Greenwood Lecture Theatre, Guy's Campus, King's College London Leica Scientific Forum London Professor Taekjip Ha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US: “Single Molecule Biology: One, two, three and four“ 5:00 Welcome & Introduction of speaker by chairman Simon Ameer-Beg Taekjip Ha will talk about: • Recent tool developments in single molecule nanometry where a position of a single fluorescent molecule can be determined with a single nanometer precision • How these new tools provide fundamental insights on how molecular motors move on cellular highwayscombining optical tweezers that can apply and measure pico-Newton forces to single biological molecules with single molecule FRET • Latest studies on complex processes that require coordination between multiple proteins, such as DNA replication, using multi-dimensional single molecule measurement techniques 6:15 Discussion & post lecture reception Scientific Advisory Board: Prof. Paul French (Imperial College London), Prof. Antony Galione (Oxford Univ.), Dr. Jim Haseloff (Cambridge Univ.), Prof. David Klenerman (Cambridge Univ.), Prof. Gero Miesenboeck (Oxford Univ.), Prof. Tony Ng (King’s College London), Prof. Alexei Tepikin (Liverpool Univ.), Prof. Mike White (University of Manchester), Prof. Keith Willison (Institute of Cancer Research London), Prof. Tony Wilson (Oxford Univ.), and Dr. Thomas Zapf (Leica Microsystems) For free registration please e-mail to: lsf@leica-microsystems.com Learn more: http://www.leica-microsystems.com/events/leica-scientific-forum/lsf-details/...