Biological Sciences Seminars

Optical Control of Cell Behaviour

by Prof. N Gautam (Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St Louis)

Thursday, July 11, 2013 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at Colaba Campus ( AG-66 )
Description
Cells show complex behaviours like migration and differentiation in response to molecular signals in their environment. I will describe our approaches to orchestrate such cell behaviour using light, the unique value of these methods in probing how intracellular molecular interactions execute cellular activity and applications such as spectrally selective optical triggers to modulate contractility of heart cells with different wavelengths of light.