{"id":31393,"date":"2020-11-17T12:21:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T12:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/cob\/?p=31393"},"modified":"2020-11-17T12:21:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T12:21:05","slug":"feeling-for-cell-function-with-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/2020\/11\/17\/feeling-for-cell-function-with-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling for cell function with light"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b><i>Feeling for cell function with light<\/i><\/b><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><em>Prof Jochen Guck, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong><em>26th November 2020, 1.00pm, <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Microsoft Teams<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Light\u00a0microscopy has been a central tool in biology and biomedicine. Clearly, knowing\u00a0what is where and when in a cell is important information towards understanding\u00a0how cells\u00a0function, and ultimately what life is. However, it is becoming\u00a0increasingly obvious that cells are not just spaces where molecules undergo\u00a0biochemical reactions, but that cells are also\u00a0physical objects that rely in\u00a0their function on emerging physical phenomena. Our ability to quantitate and\u00a0spatially map these emergent physical properties is still lagging behind this\u00a0realization. We have been developing novel photonic and microfluidic tools to address\u00a0this paucity. In my presentation, I will introduce techniques such as optical\u00a0diffraction tomography,\u00a0Brillouin microscopy as well as real-time deformability\u00a0cytometry. I will explain which physical properties are being measured, and how\u00a0these relate to better understanding of cell\u00a0function, improved disease\u00a0diagnosis and novel therapeutic options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling for cell function with light &nbsp; Prof Jochen Guck, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light 26th November 2020, 1.00pm, Microsoft Teams Light\u00a0microscopy has been a central tool in biology and biomedicine. Clearly, knowing\u00a0what is where and when in a cell is important information towards understanding\u00a0how cells\u00a0function, and ultimately what life is. However,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":31402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seminars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/seminar-Jochen-Guck-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}