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Distinguished Lecture Series - The Convergence of Materials Science and Life Science
The Distinguished Lecture Series highlights world-class researchers in nanobiology, biomaterials, biosensors, biophotonics, microfluidics, molecular imaging and biomolecular engineering. The talks are intended to stimulate new activities at the life science-materials science interface and will be of interest to students and faculty engaged in interdisciplinary research in any science and engineering discipline. It is being jointly sponsored by the Materials Research Institute and the Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences. Contact Tony Huang or Donna Lucas to request a meeting with the speakers.
All lectures will be hosted in 100 Life Sciences Building, Berg Auditorium at 4 p.m. on the noted lecture date.
Upcoming Lectures
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Professor Gang Bao, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
Robert A. Milton Chair in Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering Distinguished Professor
Engineering Molecular Imaging Probes for Nanomedicine
Co-Hosted by Tony Huang & Cheng Dong
The integration of biomolecular engineering, nanotechnology and biology is expected to produce major breakthroughs in medical diagnostics and therapeutics. Due to the size-compatibility of nano-scale structures with proteins and nucleic acids, the design, synthesis and application of nanoprobes, nanocarriers and nanomachines provide unprecedented opportunities for achieving a better control of biological processes, and drastic improvements in disease detection, therapy, and prevention. Recent advances include the development of functional nanoparticles, activitable molecular probes, nano-structured materials and devices, and engineered nanomachines for biological and biomedical applications.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Professor David A.Weitz, Harvard University
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics
Drop-based microfluidics: Biology a picoliter at a time
Hosted by Tony Huang
This talk will describe the use of microfluidic technology to control and manipulate drops whose volume is about one picoliter. These serve as reaction vessels for the study of biological assays. Examples of the application of these devi ces to fundamental biology and biotechnology will be described.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
***NOTE***: This lecture is part of the Materials Day Event. To attend, please visit the Materials Day 2012 website and register.
Professor Younan Xia, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
Professor of Chemistry
Brock Family Chair and GRA Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine
Colloidal Nanocrystals: Past, Present, and Future
Hosted by Tony Huang
The first synthesis of colloidal nanocrystals can be traced back to the groundbreaking work by Michael Faraday in 1856 when he discovered the preparation of gold colloids with a beautiful ruby-red color. However, only within the last few decades have methods became available for producing colloidal nanocrystals in the quality, quantity, and reproducibility needed for a systematic study of their properties as a function of size, shape, and structure, and for exploration of their remarkable applications. In this talk, I will briefly discuss some of these developments, with a focus on the shape-controlled synthesis of metal nanocrystals via seed-mediated growth.
Past Lectures
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Professor Luke Lee, UC Berkeley
Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering
Director, Biomedical Institute for Global Healthcare Technology
Co-Director, Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)
Bionanoscience for Innovative Global Healthcare Research & Technology (BIGHEART)
Hosted by Tony Huang
It is critical time to solve the problems of current qualitative biomedical science and healthcare system. In the first part of talk, I will present biophotonic nanosatellites that have multiple functions such as targeting, imaging, gene delivery, and photonic gene circuits in living cells. Biophotonic nanosatellites allow us real-time cellular galaxy exploration, wireless cellular communications, and dynamic controls of gene circuits in living cells.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Professor Tuan Vo-Dinh, Duke University
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor
Director of Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics
Plasmonic Nanosensors and Nanoprobes: Monitoring Health from the Gene Level, Single Cell Systems to Medical Diagnostics
Hosted by Tony Huang
This lecture provides an overview of recent developments in our laboratory for several plasmonic nanomaterials and biosensing technologies that allow biomedical diagnostics from the gene level to single-cell, and whole body systems.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Professor Shuming Nie, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Chair & Professor
Director for Emory-Georgia Tech Cancer Nanotechnology Center
Nanotechnology for In-Vivo Molecular Imaging and Image-Guided Surgery
Co-Hosted by Tony Huang & Cheng Dong
The development of biocompatible nanoparticles for in-vivo molecular imaging and targeted therapy is an area of considerable current interest across a number of science, engineering, and biomedical disciplines. The basic rationale is that nanometer-sized particles have functional and structural properties that are not available from either discrete molecules or bulk materials.