Talk by Alexander Rohrbach @10AM Friday, Feb 17

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ben.machta

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Feb 13, 2017, 3:59:20 PM2/13/17

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Hi PBJC,

In addition to our rescheduled journal club this Friday, there will be a second event at 10AM in CIL 200 that may also be of interest. Title and abstract below...

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Ben

Friday, February 17th at 10am, Carl Icahn Labs room 200

Alexander Rohrbach: “Novel photonics to observe biophysics on the small, the fast, and the noisy scale”.

Many new, exciting imaging techniques have emerged during the last decade, providing significantly improved spatial resolution and contrast. However, this extra information comes at the cost of more photons required to illuminate the target, which requires more time and energy and often damages biological structures. The smaller the structures to be investigated, the faster they usually move inside living cells, because of both Brownian motion and coordinated work of molecular motors. Therefore, alternative imaging approaches have to be developed.

In this talk I will demonstrate how nanometer scale displacements and motions of cellular structures and artificial probes can be observed by coherent optics, giving novel insights into principles of molecular mechanics of living systems.