Division/Committee: [PHYS] Division of Physical Chemistry

Optical spectroscopy and microscopy have allowed investigations of the complex biological structures and dynamics across different scales with unprecedented measuring precision in space, time, and functions. How to further exploit the utility of optical methodologies and integrate recent advances from various optical strategies for multi-dimensional biological investigations would be something stimulating for the community to think about and communicate together. For example, how to fully take advantage of the rich information from spectroscopic measurement in solutions and transform them into versatile microscopic functions for fast spatial and temporal mapping in the context of biology would be essential to push the next frontier. In addition, the challenging and significant biological questions/systems that microscopists are aiming to address may also spark new thoughts from spectroscopists. This symposium will bring together experimentalists and theorists with various spectroscopic and microscopic specialties (e.g. from nonlinear spectroscopy to single-molecule spectroscopy; from fluorescence imaging to Raman/IR or other label-free modalities; from fundamental biophysics on protein dynamics to investigations on the live cell, neuron and animal levels) and across different career stages to discuss the recent technical and application advances and brainstorm key issues and questions.

Justin Caram

University of California, Los Angeles

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