Invited Talks

2018 (5)

  • University of California San Diego, Department of Physics, February 15, 2018
  • Ohio State University, Department of Physics, April 4, 2018
  • Ohio University, April 5, 2018
  • “Nanoprobes in Neuroscience Sheds Light on How You Remember”, 3rd Chesapeake Bay Area Single Molecule Biology Meeting, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, May 12, 2018
  • Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center Symposium, Vanderbilt University, May 18, 2018
  • Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore, November 6-9, 2018

 

2017 (3)

  • “Tales of Two Techniques: Using Fluorescence on Living Cells & Small Quantum Dots on Nerves” Biological Fluorescence subgroup, Biophysical Society, New Orleans, February 11, 2017
  • 3rd International Symposium on Frontiers in Bioimaging, Taipei, Taiwan, June 16, 2017.
  • Single-Cell Biophysics: Measurement, Modulation, and Modeling, Taipei, Taiwan, June 17-20, 2017.

 

2016 (7)

  • “Small Quantum Dots for Nanometer Accuracy and Resolution on Living Synapses of Neurons”, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, January 25, 2016.
  • “How FIONA, Shrek’s girlfriend, lights Up Your Life.”, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 17, 2016.
  • “Resolving the Big Picture: Bringing Molecules into Focus”, ACS Graduate Student Symposium, San Diego, March 13 – March 17, 2016.
  • “Tales of Two Techniques: Using Fluorescence on Living Cells & Small Quantum Dots on Nerves”, Molecular Biophysics Graduate Seminar, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, March 31, 2016.
  • “Tales of Two Techniques: Using Fluorescence on Living Cells & Small Quantum Dots on Nerves”, Energy Landscapes: From Protein Folding to Molecular Assembly Conference, Center for NonLinear Studies (CNLS), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, May 9-12, 2016.
  • “Tales of Two Techniques: Using Fluorescence on Living Cells & Small Quantum Dots on Nerves”, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, June 1, 2016
  • “Small Quantum Dots for Nanometer Accuracy and Resolution on Living Synapses of Neurons”, Neuroscience Program Seminar, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November 8, 2016.

 

2015 (12)

  • “Small Quantum Dots for Nanometer Accuracy and Resolution on Living Synapses of Neurons”, University of Chicago and the Marine Biological Lab Symposium, February 8, 2015
  • “Nanometer and Millisecond Resolution on Neuronal Synapsis using New Small Quantum Dots”, Department of Chemistry, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, February 18, 2015
  • “Small quantum dots and Super-resolution Microscopy”, Integrative NanoScience Institute, Florida State University, April 2, 2015
  • “Seeing with Super-resolution: From mechanosensitive ion channels to molecular motors to nerve cells”, Department of Chemistry, Florida State University, April 3, 2015
  • Physical Chemistry seminar, Chemistry Department, University of Washington. April 22, 2015.
  • “How We Move at the Smallest Scale, a (Bio)Physicist’s Perspective”,  REU Discoveries in Bioimaging Program, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, May 27, 2015.
  • “Nanometer and Sub-second Resolution on Neuronal Synapsis using New Small Quantum Dots and Super-resolution Microscopy”, Vail Cascade Resort, Vail, Colorado, June 14-17, 2015
  • “Nanometer and 50 msecond Resolution on Neuronal Synapsis using New Small Quantum Dots and Super-resolution Microscopy” NSF-PolS Meeting, July 20, 2015.
  • “Single Molecule Detection Instrumentation” and “Optical Super-resolution of Cultured Neurons”, Institute of Genomics Biology and ISS Inc., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, August 17-18, 2015.
  • “Nanometer and 50 msecond Resolution on Neuronal Synapsis using New Small Quantum Dots and Super-resolution Microscopy”, Single Molecule Localization Symposium,University of Bordeaux, Interdisciplinary Institute for NeuroScience,  August 28, 2015
  • Department of Physics Colloquium,  Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, October 1, 2015
  • “Small Quantum Dots for Nanometer Accuracy and Resolution on Living Synapses of Neurons”, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, December 10, 2015.

 

2014 (8)

  • “New Small Quantum Dots for Neuroscience,” SPIE Photonics West BiOS Symposium, The Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, February 1, 2014.
  • “Single Molecule Fluorescence & Optical Traps Applied to Molecular Motors: Two can do it better than one”. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, April 17, 2014
  • “Super-resolution Microscopy with Nanometers and Milliseconds for Biology”, Biophotonics Summer School, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 26, 2014
  • “New Small Quantum Dots for Neuroscience,” Neurophotonics Summer School, Laval University, Quebec, Canada, June 7, 2014
  • “How to get: Super-Accuracy (FIONA) & Super-Resolution (PALM, STORM), Applied to: Live Neurons”. Marine Biology Lab, Woods Hole, MA, July 18, 2014
  • “Small Quantum Dots for Nanometer Accuracy and Resolution on Molecular Motors and Living Neurons”, Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 27, 2014
  • “Your Body is Made of Trillions of Tiny Walking Molecular Motors”, INBRE Undergraduate Research Conference, Fayetteville, AR, November 7-8, 2014
  • “Small Quantum Dots for Nanometer Accuracy and Resolution on Molecular Motors and Living Neurons”, Science in your Labs Symposium, St. Louis University School of Medicine, MO, December 11, 2014

 

2013 (12)

  • “Single Molecule Fluorescence and Optical Trapping Applied to Molecular Motors: Two can do it better than one,” Single Molecule Biophysics Conference, Aspen, CO, January 4-10, 2013.
  • Andor Academy, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France, January 22, 2013
  • “Single Molecule Fluorescence and Optical Trapping Applied to Molecular Motors: Two can do it better than one,” Institut Curie Seminar Series, Paris, France, January 23, 2013.
  • Imaging from Molecules to Organisms Workshop, 57th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, February 4, 2013.
  • Frontiers in Neurophotonics Summer School, Quebec City, Canada, May 28 – June 7, 2013.
  • Annual Biophysics Symposium, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, June 19, 2013.
  • “Super-resolution Imaging of AMPA Receptor and Support Structures at Live Neuronal Synapses,” Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, August 19, 2013.
  • “Single Molecule Fluorescence and Optical Trapping Applied to Molecular Motors: Two can do it better than one,” Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference on New Advances in Optical Imaging of Live Cells and Organisms, Suzhou, China, August 20-23, 2013.
  • “High-Resolution of Neurons with Fluorescent Proteins and Small Quantum Dots,” iOptics Seminar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, September 18, 2013.
  • “Single Molecule Fluorescence and Optical Trapping Applied to Molecular Motors: Two can do it better than one,” Multiscale Motility of Molecular Motors Symposium, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany, September 23-25, 2013.
  • “How we think and move at the smallest scale,” Illinois State University Physics Colloquium, Normal, IL, October 15, 2013
  • “Single Molecule Fluorescence and Optical Trapping Applied to Molecular Motors: Two can do it better than one,” Dynein 2013: Molecular mechanisms of axonemal and cytoplasmic dyneins, Kobe, Japan, October 31-November 3, 2013.

 

2012 (7)

  • “Single Molecule Measurement,” Experimental Methods for Biological Machines Course, UIUC, February 6 & 8, 2012.
  • “Single Molecule Fluorescence and Optical Trapping Applied to Molecular Motors: Two can do it better than one,” Keynote Speaker for 4th Biophotonics Summer School, UIUC, May 31, 2012.
  • “Single Molecule Fluorescence Applied to Molecular Motors: Two can do it better than one!” Principles of Fluorescence Techniques Course, UIUC, June 6, 2012.
  • “Single Molecule Fluorescence and Optical Traps: Kinesin Drags Dynein Inside of Cells,” Sackler Symposium, Yale University, New Haven, CT, July 10, 2012.
  • Cell Motility Round Table, International Congress on Cell Biology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 25-28, 2012.
  • Seminar, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 2012.
  • “Single Molecule Fluorescence and Optical Trapping Applied to Molecular Motors: Two can do it better than one,” Minisymposium 5: Molecular Motors, American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 16, 2012.

 

2011 (15)

  • Single Molecule Biophysics, Aspen, Colorado, January 9-15, 2011.
  • Biochemistry Seminar, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, January 21, 2011.
  • “2-Photon FIONA: Who Wins the Tug of War Among Molecular Motors?” Cold Spring Harbor Conference on New Advances in Optical Imaging of Live Cells and Organisms, Suzhou, China, May 9-13, 2011.
  • “High resolution microscopy based on single molecule imaging/photobleaching.” Neurophotonics Summer School, Laval University, Quebec, Canada, May 24, 2011.
  • “Super-Accuracy & Super-Resolution via Fluorescence Microscopy,” Neurophotonics Symposium, Quebec, Canada, May 29, 2011.
  • “FIONA: Super-Accuracy, Super-Resolution, and Recent Advances” and “Applications to Molecular Motors, Nerve Proteins, Cancer, and DNA\RNA Mutations,” NanoBiophotonics Summer School, UIUC, June 2, 2011.
  • Physics of Living Systems (PoLS) SRN Summer Workshop (affiliated with International Biophysics Conference), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, June 20, 2011.
  • Physics of the Cell Symposium, IUPAP International Conference on Biological Physics, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, June 21-24, 2011.
  • “Super-Accuracy & Super-Resolution via FIONA, PALM, STORM and its relatives,” Center for the Physics of Living Cells Summer School, UIUC, July 20, 2011.
  • “Super Accuracy and Super-Resolution Microscopy Applied to Molecular Motors, Cancer, and Neuroscience,” Physiology and Biophysics Seminar, UIC, September 2, 2011.
  • Webinar on Super-resolution Microscopy, sponsored by Biophysical Journal and Cell Press, September 8, 2011.
  • “Nanometer Accuracy and Resolution with Fluorescence Microscopy: Watching Molecular Motors; Cancer Therapy.” RMS (Royal Microscopical Society) Frontiers in BioImaging Conference, Manchester Conference Centre, UK, September 20, 2011.
  • DPG (German Physical Society) Summer School on Single-Molecule Spectroscopy, Physics Centre, Bad Honnef, Germany, September 23, 2011.
  • “Super-Accuracy and Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy Applied to Molecular Motors, Cancer, and Neuroscience,” Distinguished Visitor Lecture, Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany, September 26-27, 2011.
  • Department of Biological Sciences Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, November 16, 2011..

 

2010 (13)

  • “FIONA looks at individual molecular motors walk and run.” Physics Colloquium, UIUC, February 11, 2010.
  • “Biophysics 101: Visualizing One (or a few) Molecule(s) at a Time” – Biophysical Society Meeting, San Francisco, February 20-24, 2010.
  • Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, Dallas, March 12, 2010.
  • “Super Accuracy and Super-Resolution of Molecular Motors and Ion Channels”,  iOptics Seminar, UIUC, April 7, 2010.
  • “Transport in a cell” Workshop, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, April 12-16, 2010.
  • GEPROM Seminar, University of Montreal, Canada, April 22, 2010.
  • “FIONA looks at individual molecular motors walk and run.” Workshop on Frontiers in Single-molecule Biophysics, Seoul, Korea, May 17-19, 2010.
  • Physics Department, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, May 20, 2010.
  • “Super Accuracy and Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy of Molecular Motors & Ion Channels.” REU Lunch Talk, UIUC, June 15, 2010.
  • “Super Accuracy and Super-Resolution of Molecular Motors and Ion Channels.” Neuroscience Imaging Seminar, Marine Biological Lab, July 20, 2010.
  • “In vitro and in vivo motility of molecular motors.” 16th International Workshop on Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Ultra Sensitive Analysis in the Life Sciences, Berlin, Germany, September 15-17, 2010.
  • “Super Accuracy and Super-Resolution (Made Super Easy).” Keynote Speaker of Leica Scientific Forum, UK. Talks in Liverpool, Oxford, Cambridge and London, October 12-15, 2010.
  • “Seeing Unlabeled Particles and Labeling Problems,” Biophysics Vision 2015 Retreat, UIUC, December 10, 2010.

 

2009 (12)

  • “FIONA looks at individual molecular motors walk and run.” 2nd Annual Midwest Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, UIUC, January 16-18, 2009.
  • “FIONA looks at individual molecular motors walk and run.” Physics & Astronomy Colloquium, UCLA, Feb 12, 2009.
  • “In vitro and in vivo; kinesin and myosin moving one (or a few) at a time.” Advanced Single Molecule Fluorescence Techniques in Vitro and in Vivo Workshop, 2009 Biophysical Society Meeting, Boston MA, March 1, 2009.
  • Colloquium talk, Physics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 10, 2009.
  • “FIONA: Super-‘Resolution’ Microscopy.” 2009 GEM4 Summer School, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 16, 2009.
  • “FIONA: Optical Microscopy at the Nanometer level.” Nano-Biophotonics Summer School, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 12, 2009.
  • “Working towards Nerves: how molecular motors and ion channels work together.” MBL Woods Hole Seminar, June 25, 2009.
  • Fragrant Hill (Xiangshan) Science Conference on “Single Molecule Imaging, Spectroscopy, Manipulation of Biological Systems” Beijing, China, July 8-10, 2009.
  • “FIONA and related techniques,” Center for the Physics of Living Cells Summer School, UIUC, July 28, 2009
  • International Symposium on Innovative Nanoscience of Supermolecular Motor Proteins Working in Biomembranes. Kyoto University, Japan, September 8-10, 2009.
  • British High Commission and A*STAR’s Institute of Medical Biology Seminar, Singapore, September 28-30, 2009.
  • “FIONA looks at individual molecular motors walk and run.” Chemistry Colloquium, University of Illinois, Chicago, November 3, 2009.

 

2008 (15)

  • “Kinesin: Single Molecule Studies in vitro and in vivo“. Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 22, 2008.
  • Novel Approaches to Bio-imaging Seminar, Janelia Farm,Chevy Chase, MD, March 9-11, 2008.
  • “FIONA on Kinesin, in vitro and in vivo.” Seminar, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, March 25, 2008.
  • “Single Molecular Motors in vitro and in vivo.” International Conference on Intracellular Transport and Trafficking, Goettingen, Germany, April 3-4, 2008.
  • “Molecular Motors One Step at a Time: In Vitro & In Vivo.” Biomedical Engineering  Dept. Seminar Series, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 17, 2008.
  • “Single Molecule Studies of Kinesin in vitro and in vivo“. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of UCincinnati , May 19, 2008.
  • “Kinesin in vivo: Many motors moving?” Gordon Research Conference, “Power-Strokes and Ratchets, ” Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, June 29-July 4, 2008.
  • 2008 “Single Molecule Approaches to Biology” Gordon Research Conference Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, August 17 – 22, 2008.
  • “Matter alive or dead? Or what can a physicist see in biology.” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, UIUC, Oct 14, 2008
  • “Single Molecule Studies of Molecular Motors, in vitro and in vivo”. Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, October 22, 2008.
  • “In vitro and in vivo; kinesin and myosin moving one (or a few) at a time.” Biochemistry Seminar Series, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY, October 23, 2008.
  • “Molecular Motors studied by Single Molecule Fluorescence, In Vitro and In Vivo.” Center for Cellular Mechanics Seminar Series, University of Illinois, October 28, 2008.
  • “Single Molecule Phage Walking on E. coli and Measuring Molecular Motors In Vivo.” Physics Frontier Center Update, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, November 1, 2008.
  • “The Dynamics of Motor Proteins by Single Molecule Microscopy,” Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, Dec 9, 2008.
  • “The dynamics of ionic channel gating examined by LRET.” International Symposium on Molecular and System Life Sciences, Kobe, Japan, Dec 10-11, 2008.

 

2007 (18)

  • Condensed Matter & Biological Physics Seminar, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, January 12, 2007.
  • Single Molecule Biophysics, Aspen, Colorado, February 4-10, 2007.
  • Physics Colloquium, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 23, 2007.
  • Seminar, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, April 12, 2007.
  • New Directions in Quantitative Biology Symposium, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, April 21, 2007.
  • “Single Molecule Mechanics of Motor Proteins, In vitro and In vivo.” Cell Biology and Physiology Seminar, The University of Pittsburgh, May 9, 2007.
  • “Jump vs. Rotation: How does the Voltage Sensor in K+ Channels Move?” Department of Structural Biology Seminar, The University of Pittsburgh, May 10, 2007.
  • Mechanics of Life: from Biomolecules to Molecular Machines Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor June 11-13, 2007.
  • Molecular Motors, CalTech Nanomechanics Summer School, July 3-7, 2007.
  • Life Sciences 2007, SECC, Glasgow, July 8-12, 2007.
  • Workshop on Mechano Sensitivity of Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 30-Aug 3, 2007.
  • American Chemical Society, Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Boston, MA Aug. 19-23, 2007.
  • Keynote Speaker, 2007 American Society of Biomechanics Conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, August 23-25, 2007.
  • Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Seminar Series, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, September 19, 2007.
  • JFRC Conference: Fluorescent Proteins & Biological Sensors, Janelia Farm, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, October 28-31, 2007.
  • “Single Molecule Mechanics of Motor Proteins, in vitro and in vivo” 96th International Titisee Conference “Trends in Biological Optical Microscopy”, Titisee, Germany, November 14-18, 2007
  • Keynote Speaker, Symposium on Single Molecule Studies at the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, Washington, D.C., December 1-5, 2007.
  • “Single Molecule Mechanics of Motor Proteins, In vitro and In vivo.” Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, December 19, 2007.

 

2006 (15)

  • Colloquium, Center for Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and Manipulation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, March 6, 2006.
  • Single Molecule Biology, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, March 26-30, 2006.
  • “Single Molecule Mechanics of Motor Proteins, In vitro and In vivo.” Colloquia on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 14, 2006.
  • Seminar, “Single Molecule Studies of Motor Proteins, In vivo.” Live Cell Imaging, National Institutes of Health, April 19, 2006.
  • Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring 2006 Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 21, 2006.
  • Kavli Institute of Physics, UC-Santa Barbara, April 26, 2006.
  • “Single Molecule Measurements of Motor Proteins, In vitro and In vivo.” Seminar, Molecular Biophysics, University of California, San Diego, CA, May 11, 2006.
  • Seminar, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, May 15, 2006.
  • “Single Molecule Measurements of Molecular Motors, in virto & in vivo.” Seminar to accept the International Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Biophysics. Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, May 23, 2006.
  • Seminar, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, June 5th 2006.
  • Gordon Conference on Single Molecule Approaches to Biology, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, June 18-23, 2006.
  • Molecular Motors: Point Counterpoint at the Biophysical Society Discussion meeting, Monterey, California, Oct. 19-21, 2006.
  • Focus on Imaging 2006 Symposium, Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, November 2, 2006.
  • Cornell Biophysics Colloquium, Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University, Nov. 15, 2006.
  • Annual Grantee Workshop for the Exploratory Centers for High Resolution Imaging Probes: UCSD, La Jolla, CA, Dec 8, 2006.

 

2005 (15)

  • Single Molecule Biophysics, Aspen, Colorado, January 2- 8, 2005.
  • “Fluorescence Imaging with One Nanometer Accuracy (FIONA): Application to Molecular Motors.”Caltech, Pasedena, CA, Jan. 31, 2005.
  • VII Annual Linz Winter Workshop, Linz, Austria, February 5-7, 2005.
  • “New forms of FIONA applied to Myosin V and VI,” Motility Subgroup meeting, Biophysical Society Meeting, Long Beach California, February 12, 2005.
  • New fluorescent tools for watching nanometer-scale conformational changes of single molecules.Young Investigator Award Presentation, Biophysical Society meeting, Long Beach, CA, February 15, 2005.
  • “Fluorescence Imaging with One Nanometer Accuracy (FIONA): Application to Molecular Motors.” Univ. of California, Berkeley Physics Department Colloquium, February 28, 2005.
  • “Fluorescence Imaging with One Nanometer Accuracy (FIONA): Application to Molecular Motors.”University of Pennsylvania Physics Dept. Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA, March 16, 2005.
  • “Big Jump vs. Little Jump: How does the Voltage Sensor in K+ Channels Move?” Biophysics Lecture Series, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, April 4, 2005.
  • “Big Jump vs. Little Jump: How does the Voltage Sensor in K+ Channels Move?” Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences Program, Colorado State Univ. April 6, 2005.
  • “Fluorescence Imaging with One Nanometer Accuracy (FIONA): Application to Myosin, Kinesin, and Dynein.” The 13th annual Bud Suddath Symposium in Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 15-16 , 2005.
  • Chemistry Seminar, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH , May 4, 2005.
  • “Molecular Motors I.” and “Molecular Motors II, DNA Haplotyping, and Ion Channels.” Institute for Mathematics and its Application, Minneapolis, MN, May 16-20, 2005.
  • Nobel Symposium on Controlled Nanoscale Motion in Artificial and Biological Systems, Bäckaskog Castle, Sweden, June 13 – 17, 2005.
  • 6th International Weber Symposium on Innovative Fluorescence Methodologies in Biochemistry and Medicine, Kauai, Hawaii, July 22-28, 2005
  • Physics Department Colloquium, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder Colorado, Sept. 7, 2005
  • 11th International Workshop on “Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Ultra Sensitive Analysis in the Life Sciences,” Berlin, Germany, September 21-23, 2005.
  • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, October 5, 2005.
  • Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Oct. 6, 2005.
  • RICE Physics and Astronomy Department Colloquium, Houston, TX, Oct. 19, 2005.
  • “Nanobiology: Studying Single-Molecule Molecular Motors.” Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,University of California, Los Angeles, November 15, 2005.
  • Seminar, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, December 1, 2005.
  • “Exploratory Centers for the Development of High Resolution Probes for Cellular Imaging,” NIH, Dec 5-6, 2005.
  • Optical Probes in Cellular and Molecular Imaging /Beyond the Visible: Optical Probe Design and Applications for Living Cells. Sonoma Valley, CA, December 8-9, 2005
  • “Myosin VI: monomer or dimer?” American Society for Cell Biology, Mini-symposium on Motility, San Francisco, CA, December 11, 2005.

 

2004 (5)

  • “How molecular motors move”, Understanding Complex Systems, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 18, 2004.
  • Biophysical Chemistry and Novel Imaging of Single Molecules and Simple Cells, Symposium at the 228th American Chemistry Society Meeting, Philadelphia, August 22-26, 2004.
  • Yale University, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, September 16, 2004.
  • Univ. of Penn., Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oct 20, 2004
  • University of Illinois, Chicago Physics Dept. Colloquim, Chicago, IL, Nov. 3, 2004.

 

2003 (13)

  • Aspen Single Molecule Biophysics Conference, Aspen, CO, January 7-10, 2003.
  • Nanometer resolution with single molecule fluorescence imaging: Application to biomolecular motors. Dept. of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Jan 22, 2003.
  • UIUC Physics Dept. Colloquium, Urbana, IL, February 6, 2003.
  • Cornell Physics Dept. Colloquium, Ithaca, NY, February 10, 2003.
  • New & Notable Symposium, “Fluorescence Imaging with One Nanometer Accuracy: Application to Myosin V.” 47th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, San Antonio, TX,  March 2003.
  • Single fluorophore imaging with 1.5 nm accuracy shows Myosin V walks hand-over-hand. Cardiovascular Research Institute, UCSF, April 18, 2003.
  • Harvard Physical Chemistry seminar, Boston, MA, May 1, 2003.
  • Single molecule fluorescence imaging at the nanometer-scale: Application to biomolecular motors. Univ. of Oregon, Dept. of Physics Colloquim, June 5, 2003.
  • Single fluorophore imaging with 1.5 nm accuracy: Application to biomolecular motors. Physical Chemistry seminar, UCLA, Sept 29, 2003.
  • 1.5 nanometer localization of single fluorophores: Application to biomolecular motors. US-Swiss 2003 Forum on Nanoscale Science and Nanotechnology, University of Basel, Switzerland, Oct 13-15, 2003.
  • Lanthanides and other new luminescent probes for high throughput screening. Roche Pharmaceuticals, Basel, Switzerland, Oct 15, 2003.
  • Single fluorophore imaging with 1.5 nm accuracy: Application to biomolecular motors. Physics Dept. Colloquim, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France, Oct 16, 2003.
  • 1.5 nanometer localization of single fluorophores: Application to biomolecular motors. Center for Theoretical Biophysics, UCSD, Nov. 21, 2003.

 

2002 (5)

  • Nanometer-resolution studies of molecular motors and ion channels.
    Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, May 15, 2002, Urbana IL.
  • High resolution fluorescence studies of molecular motors and ion channels,  Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Sept 16, 2002.
  • Nanometer-scale Fluorescence Measurements of Molecular Motors (& Ion Channels), Univ. of Rochester, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oct 16, 2002.
  • How molecular motors move: a single molecule fluorescence study. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, UCSD, Oct 24, 2002.
  • Two nm resolution with single molecule fluorescence imaging: Application to molecular motors.  Imaging & Optics Seminar, Department of Pharmacology, Univ. Nevada, Reno, Nov 14, 2002.

 

2001 (5)

  • “Conformational changes in voltage-controlled ion channels (nerves) and actomyosin (muscle), detected with new fluorescence techniques,” University of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. of Pharmacology, March 9, 2001.
  • “Lanthanides as unusual fluorescent probes,” Univ. of Maryland, March 23, 2001.
  • “The Role of Actin and the S2 Rod in Myosin Conformation and Motility,” Society of General Physiologists National Meeting, Woods Hole, MA, September 6-8, 2001.
  • “Conformational Changes in Actomyosin and Ion Channels Measured by Fluorescence,” MIT, Biological Chemistry, November 5, 2001.
  • “Conformational Changes in Actomyosin and Ion Channels Measured by Fluorescence,” Brandeis University, Chemistry Dept., November 6, 2001.

 

2000 (10)

  • “Conformational changes in actomyosin (muscle) and voltage-controlled ion channels (nerves) detected with new fluorescence techniques,” Univ. of Washington, Seattle, January 19, 2000.
  • “How nerves fire,” Department of Physics, UIUC, February 25, 2000.
  • “Conformational changes in actomyosin (muscle) and voltage-controlled ion channels (nerves) detected with new fluorescence techniques,” Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL,  February 29, 2000.
  • “Conformational changes in ion channels (and actomyosin) measured with new fluorescence techniques,” Univ. of Michigan, Dept of Physics and Biophysics, Res. Div., March 31, 2000.
  • “In search of new luminescent probes: the ion channel benchmark,” NIH, April 17-18, 2000.
  • “Conformational changes in actomyosin and ion channels measured with advanced fluorescence techniques,” NIH, April 19, 2000.
  • Panelist, “Biological nanostructures,” Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Symposium, NIH, June 25-26, 2000.
  • “Conformational changes in actomyosin (muscle) and voltage-controlled ion channels (nerves) detected with new fluorescence techniques,” University of Chicago, Oct 19, 2000.
  • “How nerves fire,” November 4, 2000, University of Illinois Saturday Honors Program.
  • “Conformational changes in actomyosin (muscle) and voltage-controlled ion channels (nerves) detected with new fluorescence techniques.” Univ. of Texas UT Southwestern Medical Center, November 9, 2000.

 

1999 (13)

  • Young Fluorescence Investigator Award Presentation, Biophysical Society Meeting, Baltimore, MD, February 1999.
  • “Sub-nanometer resolution with optical photons:  Application to Muscles and Nerves,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Physics Colloquium, February 25, 1999.
  • “Sub-nanometer resolution with optical photons: Detection of conformational changes in actomyosin (muscle) and voltage-controlled ion channels (nerves),” University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, April 29, 1999.
  • Conformational changes in actomyosin (muscle) and voltage-controlled ion channels (nerves) detected with new fluorescence techniques. St. Louis University,  May 12, 1999.
  • “Time-resolved fluorescence and novel energy transfer techniques for sensitive detection of biomolecular interactions: potential applications in high-throughput screening.” Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, MO, May 21, 1999.
  • “Single molecule detection,” International meeting of Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Sicily, June, 1999.
  • “Muscle and Contractility.”  Invited Poster, Gordon Conference, New London, MJ, June 6-9, 1999.
  • “Advanced Resonance Energy Transfer techniques: Application to Muscle and Nerves,” 4th International Weber Symposium on Innovative Fluorescence Methodologies in Biochemistry and Medicine, Maui, Hawaii, June 23-27, 1999.
  • “Single-molecule and Ensemble measurements in Ion Channel,” International conference on Single Molecule Biophysics, Louve, France, July, 1999.
  • “Luminescent lanthanides: their photophysics and use in resonance energy transfer on biological systems,”  Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, Vancouver, Canada, October 24-29, 1999.
  • “Application of fluorescence in biotechnology and drug research,” The Royal Danish School of Pharmacy, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 29, 1999.
  • “Conformational changes in ion channels (nerves) and actomyosin (muscle) measured by advanced fluorescence methods,”  Univ. of Illinois, Theoretical Biophysics seminar, November 29, 1999.
  • “Measuring conformational changes in actomyosin and voltage-controlled ion channels using new forms of fluorescence energy transfer,” University of Pennsylvania, December 6, 1999.

 

1998 (5)

  • Biophysics Society Meeting, Kansas City, MO, February 22-26, 1998.
  • “Lanthanides: A probe for many seasons”, Advances in Molecular Labels, Signaling and Detection conference, San Diego, May 4-5, 1998.
  • Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, seminar speaker, Rush Medical Center, October 2, 1998.
  • Condensed Matter Seminar, University of Illinois – Chicago, October 16, 1998.
  • “Advances in Resonance Energy transfer: Application to actomyosin and ion channels,” Cell and Molecular Biology Training program Symposium: University of Illinois, Urbana, October 31, 1998..

 

1997 (5)

  • Biophysics Society, New Orleans, LA, February 1997.
  • 3rd International Conference on Methods and Applications of Fluorescence, Maui, Hawaii, June 1997.
  • 5th International Conference on Methods and Applications of Fluorescence, Spectra, Berlin Germany, September 21-24, 1997.
  • Boston Biomedical Research Inst., Harvard Med. School, Boston MA, December 10, 1997.
  • New England Nuclear Corp. , Boston MA, December 11, 1997.

 

1996 (7)

  • University of California, San Diego (UCSD), San Diego, CA, 1996.
  • University of Illinois (UIUC), Urbana, IL, 1996.
  • University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 1996.
  • Caltech, Pasadena, CA, 1996.
  • Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ, 1996.
  • Wake Forest, Winston, NC, 1996.
  • Biophysical Society, 1996.