Seminars

22/05/2013

12.00 pm, Seminar Room on the 1st Floor

Nanoparticles for in vivo multi‐modality molecular imaging of cancer

Prof Jianghong Rao (Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)

Advances in nanotechnologies and nanomaterials offer numerous opportunities to develop molecular probes for cancer imaging. In the first part of the talk, I will present our recent effort in developing conjugated polymer nanoparticles for cancer imaging. Conjugated polymer nanoparticles have attractive features such as generally low or no toxicity, bright fluorescence intensity, and excellent photostability and emerged as a new class of fluorescent probes. Similar to quantum dots, conjugated polymer nanoparticles can participate in fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) as either a donor or an acceptor.

24/05/2013

Molecular nanomechanics in human health

Dr. Raul Perez-Jimenez (Ikerbasque Research Professor at nanoGUNE)

Mechanical forces play a crucial role in a myriad of biological processes including numerous diseases and disorders [1]. However, molecular nanobiomechanics are barely considered in modern medicine. Our research line focuses on atomic force microscopy (AFM) to investigate the effect of mechanical forces in proteins and enzymatic reactions that are relevant to human pathologies...

30/05/2013

12.00 pm, Seminar Room on the 1st Floor

To Be Announced

Dr. Jonas Eriksson (Uppsala, Sweden)