On February 9th and 10th in 1008 Evans Lab, the Department of Chemistry will host the annual Mack Award Lecture. This year represents the 50th anniversary of the Edward Mack Jr Memorial award which is given to a prestigious member of the scientific community who is selected by graduate students.
This year’s 50th Mack award recipient is Dr. Sunney Xie of Harvard (http://bernstein.harvard.edu/). Dr. Xie has been at the forefront of research of small molecules for decades and is referred to as the father of many characterization techniques of such molecules. Below is information on each of his two lectures:
Lecture 1, February 9th, 4:30pm:
Title: “Life at the Single Molecule Level”
Abstract: Recent advances in single-molecule imaging in living cells allow quantitative and system-wide descriptions of gene expression and regulation with single molecule sensitivity. It was found that low probability stochastic events of single molecules can have important biological consequences, such as the change of a cellular phenotype. This has everything to do with the fact that DNA are single molecules in individual cells. Meanwhile, recent advances in high throughput DNA sequencing have allowed sequencing the genome of a single human cell. The combination of single-molecule and single-cell imaging and sequencing offers exciting possibilities for life sciences
Lecture 2, February 10th, 4:30 pm:
Title: “The Quest for Bioimaging with Nonlinear Coherent Optical Microscopy”
Abstract:Recent advances in label-free optical imaging, from linear to nonlinear, incoherent to coherent, offer high sensitivity and specificity, allowing wide applications to biology and medicine.
Also, everyone is invited to purchase tickets for the Mack banquet on February 9th at the Faculty Club with cocktail hour beginning at 5:30pm. Tickets are $5 for students, $7 staff and $10 for faculty. These tickets will be available for purchase from 11-1:00pm on February 1st, 2nd and 3rd in front of the graduate studies office in Newman-Wolfrom. 2012 Mack Committee Representative
For more information about the Mack Award and Lectures, visit: http://chemistry.osu.edu/seminars/mack