Microscopy 2.0 (Prof. S. Chu)

  • Date: Feb 10, 2016
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Steven Chu, Stanford University, USA
  • Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall
  • Host: MPQ
There has been an explosion of new imaging technologies in biology that include photo-activation localization microscopy (PALM), stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM), and stimulated emission depletion (STED), structured illumination, and adaptive optics are revolutionizing optical microscopy.

Equally important have been the development of fluorescent proteins such as the GFP and GCAMP class of proteins. I will describe how these innovations are revolutionizing biology. In this context, I will give a progress report of our development of photo-stable near infrared optical probes that may permit super-resolution in live cells and organism imaging indefinitely, deep tissue imaging and the potential applications in biology and biomedicine.

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