Frontiers in Optical Biomolecular Imaging

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Speaker(s): Peter So (’86)

In the post-genomic era, a central challenge of modern biology and medicine is the need to understand how the interactions of protein machines affect the physiology and the pathology of cells and tissues. Optical imaging and spectroscopy afford unprecedented opportunities in studying these dynamical processes in vivo. In this lecture, I will focus on two microscopy technologies. First, high through-put tissue cytometry allows the molecular origins of carcinogenesis and muscular diseases to be investigated on the organ level. Second, lifetime-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer is applied to study protein interactions that regulate cellular mechanotransduction processes.

Colloquium

Junior and senior physics majors attend our biweekly colloquium series, held on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 p.m. in Shanahan B460. The talks are open to all students and to the public, and are frequently attended by scientists from the other Claremont Colleges, Cal Poly Pomona, and others. The series features speakers from a broad range of institutions and fields of physics.