Date/Time
Date(s) - 21/03/2007
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Title: Watching Biology with a Femtosecond Camera

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Ogilvie

Institute: Mighigan University

Location: ABB 102

Description:

At the length scale of a single protein the fastest processes in biology occur within femtoseconds. On this time scale bonds are made and broken, and the motions that ultimately lead to protein function begin. To follow dynamics this fast we need a camera that wonâ??t miss out on the action: that means we need femtosecond time resolution. Using the versatile tools of ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy we can initiate and probe fundamental processes such as energy transfer and the conformational changes that drive biological function. Bringing these same spectroscopic tools to the microscope is providing new ways to examine the biological world over the diverse length scales of biology.