Double Feature on 1/17: CNSI-UCLA Seminar: Bryan Krantz from Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley @ 12:00 PM and LEICA SCIENTIFIC FORUM @ 4:00 PM

 Join us at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA on Tuesday, January 17th at 12:00 PM for a seminar by Bryan Krantz, professor of molecular & cell biology at UC Berkeley.

 

Also on Tuesday, January 17th at 4:00 PM, please join us for the Leica Scientific Forum Los Angeles Advances in Life Sciences.  Xiaowei Zhuang will present a talk on “Bioimaging on the Nanoscale: Single-molecule and Super-resolution Fluorescence Microscopy.”


Tuesday, January 17, 2012

CNSI NanoSystems Seminar Series

 

12:00 PM in the CNSI Auditorium, UCLA

 

http://www1.cnsi.ucla.edu/cnsi/events/event-image-display?event%5fid=2021720

Speaker:  Bryan Krantz, Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology; Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley

 

Title:  "Insights on the Molecular Mechanism of Transmembrane Protein Transport using Anthrax Toxin as a Model System"

 

Abstract:  We provide new structural evidence that polypeptide binding sites, which recognize unique chemistries in the substrate, can gate and ungate in a coordinated manner. Functional studies show certain ungated intermediates allow for translocation to proceed in a remarkably unidirectional manner. These features harken the ratchet-like sites envisioned to play a key role in polymer translocation both across membranes and within soluble compartments in the cell. More…

 

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Leica Scientific Forum Los Angeles - Advances in Life Science

 

4:00 PM in the CNSI Auditorium, UCLA

 

http://www1.cnsi.ucla.edu/cnsi/events/event-image-display?event%5fid=2022477

Featured Speaker: Xiaowei Zhuang 

Title: Bioimaging on the Nanoscale: Single-molecule and Super-resolution Fluorescence Microscopy 

Abstract: Stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) is a new form of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, which surpasses the diffraction limit by using single-molecule imaging and photoswitchable probes to temporally separate the spatially overlapping images of individual molecules. This approach allows multicolor, 3D imaging of living cells with nanometer-scale resolution. In her talk, Xiaowei Zhuang will discuss the general concept, recent technological advances and biological applications of STORM. 

Schedule:
4:00 Welcome and introduction by Chairman Prof. Shimon Weiss, followed by Xiaowei Zhuang's lecture. 

5:15 Discussion & post lecture reception 

Scientific Advisory Board: Prof. Roger Tsien (UCSD), Prof. Mark Ellisman (UCSD), Prof. Shimon Weiss (UCLA), Prof. Katsushi Arisaka (UCLA), Prof. Arnold Kriegstein (UCSF), Prof. Michael Stryker (UCSF), Dr. Thomas Zapf (Leica Microsystems) 

For free registration please RSVP by e-mail to:lsf@leica-microsystems.com. 
Learn more: http://www.leica-microsystems.com/events/leica-scientific-forum/