Chemical and mechanical interrogation of biological systems…and beyond
FREE pizza after the talk.
In recent years, advances in imaging probes, microscopy techniques and bioinformatics image analysis have markedly expanded the imaging toolbox available to developmental biologists. Apart from conventional phenotypic studies, embryonic development is increasingly investigated in vivo with improved accuracy in time and space and more detailed quantitative analyses down to the single-cell level (reviewed in 1). To get more insight into the elaborate chemical and mechanical dynamics that underlie development, my laboratory addresses the growing imaging needs of the biological community by developing assays2, imaging technologies3-5, and reagents6,7 for carrying out imaging with i) high spatiotemporal resolution at the single-cell level and with ii) sensitivities down to individual proteins. Such newly introduced and future imaging tools can then be used as a means of performing qualitative and quantitative imaging in order to mechanistically dissect development, disease progression, and tissue regeneration in vivo.
Date: 7 May 2019, 16:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2019)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Speaker: Periklis Pantazis (Laboratory of Advanced Optical Precision Imaging, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London )
Organising department: Department of Biochemistry
Organiser: Jolanta Parkinson (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: jolanta.parkinson@bioch.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Ilan Davis (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
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Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Jolanta Parkinson