INVITED
LECTURES
WATT
W. WEBB
and Group Members as Indicated, 2007-2000, Cumulative
2007
March 3-7, 2007, “Protein Misfolding and Folding with Relevance
to Neurodegenerative Disease,” Biophysical Society Annual Meeting,
Baltimore, MD
2006
Dec. 5-6, 2006, “Real-Time Multiphoton Microscopy Engineered for
Nanomedicine,” University of Tokyo Symposium on NanoBio Integration
2006, Tokyo, Japan
Nov 2, 2006, Title TBA, Student Hosted Physical Chemistry Series (SHPCS),
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Oct. 24, 2006, “The Applicability of Endoscopic Non-linear Microscopies
in Reproductive Surgery and Medicine,” Annual Meeting of the American
Society of Reproductive Medicine, New Orleans, LA
Oct. 9-12, 2006, “Photophysical pathology of Quantum Dots and slinky
Cornell Dots,” Frontiers in Optics 2006, 90th Annual Meeting of
the Optical Society of America and Laser Science XII, Rochester, NY
Sept. 10-14, 2006, “Fluorescence as diverse single molecule and
particle probe,” 232nd ACS National Meeting, Symposium Title: "Frontiers
in Single-Molecule Biophysical Chemistry and Imaging," San Francisco,
CA
June 18-23, 2006, “Transcription Factor Action In Vivo,” Gordon
Conference on Single Molecule Approaches to Biology, Colby-Sawyer College,
New London, NH
May 19, 2006, “Nonlinear optical microscopy illuminating the biophysics
of Life,” The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
April 21-25, 2006, “Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Microscopy Illuminates
the Biophysics of Life,” CREOL Industrial Affiliates Conference,
Orlando, FL
April 14, 2006, “Non-linear Multiphoton Microscopy in Biociences,” Physics
and Astronomy Seminar, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
April 12-13, 2006, “Ultrafast Nonlinear Microscopy Illuminating
the Biophysical Chemistry of Life,” University of Pennsylvania
Chemistry Dept., Philadelphia, PA
April 6-10, 2006, Two Lectures: (1) “Ultrafast Nonlinear Microscopy
Illuminating the Biophysics of Life,” University of California-Santa
Barbara, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Workshop on Cellular
and Molecular Motors, Santa Barbara, CA
February 24, 2006, “Multiphoton optical microscopy advances in
biomedical research and clinical medicine,” Leonardo Lecture, Istituto
Scientifico San Raffaele and Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele,
Milan, Italy
February 23, 2006, “Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Microscopy Illuminates
the Biophysics of Life,” European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy
(LENS), Florence, Italy
February 19, 2006, “Biophysics research based on Multiphoton Microscopy,” Annual
Retreat of San Raffaelle Institute of Milan, Bardolino, Italy
2005
October 10-11, 2005, “The Pleasures of “Impossible Problems
in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics,” Annual Meeting of ALW/FOM/Dutch
Society of Biophysics on Molecular and Cellular Biophysics, Lunteren,
the Netherlands
October 7-8, 2005, “Biochemical Physics of Membrane Heterogeneity
and Molecular Mobilities,” Lipids Moving Center Stage, Amsterdam,
the Netherlands
September 13, 2005, “Animal Genomic Models Help Move Microscopic
Imaging Toward Human Medical Diagnostics,” Cornell Center for Vertebrate
Genomics, Verge Meeting, Ithaca, NY
September 4-7, 2005, “Nanoscopic in-vivo biomolecular interactions
probed by nonlinear fluorescence correlation images,” Plenary Lecture,
MAF 9, the 9th International Conference on Methods and Applications of
Fluorescence: Spectroscopy, Imaging, and Probes, Lisbon, Portugal
August 11, 2005, “The Lipid Raft Mystery,” Keck Retreat,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
June 12-17, 2005, Tobias Baumgart, “Physical Chemistry of fluid
phase coexistence in biological and model membranes, “Chemistry
of Supramolecules and Assemblies,” Colby College, Waterville, ME
April 29, 2005, “Multiphoton Microscopy Imaging Capabilities for
Renal and Liver Diseases; Fibrosis,” NIH NIDDK, “Imaging
Fibrosis of the Liver and Kidney” meeting, Bethesda, MD
April 21, 2005, “Current optical explorations of some neurodegenerative
disease mechanisms,” Neurobiology and Behavior, Morrison Rm, Corson-Mudd
Hall atrium, Cornell University
April 7, 2005, “Molecular Dynamics of Life: Probing with Nonlinear
Photonics,” Chemistry Colloquium, Pennsylvania State University,
State College, PA
March 27, 2005, “How Principles of Physics Can Illuminate Molecular
Cell Biology,” and “The Challenges for Multiphoton Microscopy
in Clinical Medicine,” Rohm and Haas Lectureship, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
March 10-13, 2005, “Some Nonlinear Fluorescent Reporters Applied
in Neural Imaging and Dynamics,” Imaging Neurons & Neural Activity:
New Methods, New Results, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring
Harbor, NY
March 9, 2005, “Potential Medical Applications of Cornell’s
Multiphoton Laser Scanning Microscopy,” Cornell Student Bioengineering
EXPO, G10 Biotech Bldg, Ithaca, NY
February 28, 2005: Karl Kasischke, "Multiphoton imaging of intrinsic
signals from the brain: new avenues for seeing astrocytes and neurons
in action," University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry
February 24, 2005: Karl Kasischke, "Multiphoton imaging of intrinsic
signals in brain tissue: new avenues for visualizing the activity of
the brain on a cellular level," University of Maine, Dept of Physics
January 21, 2005, “Synergistic Coupling of Cornell Ithaca’s
Multiphoton Microscopy with Weill’s Clinical Medicine and Research,” Cornell
University Trustees Meeting, Weill Medical College of Cornell University,
New York, NY
2004
November 30, 2004, “The Molecular Dynamics of Life: Probing with
Non-linear Photonics,” Physics Colloquium, Ohio State Univ.,
Columbus, OH
November 30, 2004: Karl Kasischke, "Multiphoton functional imaging
of astrocytic and neuronal metabolism: implications for the astrocyte-neuron
lactate shuttle hypothesis," Burke Research Institute, Weill Medical
College of Cornell University, White Plains, NY.
October 28, 2004: Karl Kasischke, "Multiphoton functional imaging
of astrocytic and neuronal metabolism: implications for the astrocyte-neuron
lactate shuttle hypothesis," Institut de Physiologie, Univ. de
Lausanne, Switzerland.
October 25, 2004: Karl Kasischke, "Functional multiphoton imaging
of astrocytic and neuronal metabolism - It may change how we image the
brain and investigate neurodegeneration," Dept. of Neurology,
University of Ulm, Germany.
October 10-14, 2004, “Bio-Photonics” (Plenary Speaker),
OSA Frontiers in Optics Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY
October 8, 2004, “Nanostructure Development for Biomedical Applications
of Fluorescence Microscopy,” 5th Annual Nanobiotechology Symposium,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
October 4, 2004, “Futures for Biophysics: Nanoscopic to Endoscopic,” (Keynote
Speaker), Harvard Biophysics Program Retreat, Seven Stones Resort,
Great Barrington, MA
September 28, 2004: Karl Kasischke, "Multiphoton histology and pathology:
Live-tissue imaging of cellular structure and function in healthy and
diseased brain with molecular sensitivity," Dept. of Biomedical
Sciences, Veterinary College of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
September 14, 2004: Karl Kasischke, "Multiphoton functional imaging
of astrocytic and neuronal metabolism," Magnetic Resonance Center,
Yale University, New Haven, CT
September 9-12, 2004: Jie Yao, “Imaging Drosophila polytene nuclei
in live cells for gene transcription study by multiphoton laser scanning
microscopy,” Nanostructural Genomics Conference, Jackson Laboratory,
Bar Harbor, ME
August 16-18, 2004: Tobias Baumgart, Title TBA, Workshop on Membrane
Science Using X-Ray Techniques, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National
Laboratory, Argonne, IL
May 30, 2004: Warren Zipfel, “Multiphoton microscopy and nonlinear
excitation in biology” EMBO Workshop on Advanced Light Microscopy/
4th International ELMI Meeting. Gothenburg, Sweden.
May 11, 2004: Karl Kasischke, “Multiphoton functional imaging of
neural activity and metabolism in healthy and diseased brain tissue,” Dept.
of Neurophysiology, University of Goettingen, Germany
April 27, 2004: “Spectroscopies as Biophysical Tools from MilliHz
to ExaHz,” The 2004 Lord Lecture, MIT, Cambridge, MA
April 14, 2004: Warren Zipfel, “New Applications Fluorescence Microscopy
in Biomedical Engineering” Cornell University Bioengineering
seminar series, Ithaca NY
April 6, 2004: Warren Zipfel, "Applications of multiphoton microscopy
and nonlinear excitation," Focus on Microscopy, 2004, Drexel University,
Philadelphia, PA
March 28 to April 1, 2004: Michael J. Levene, “Single Molecule
Fluctuating Chemical Kinetics in Zeptoliter Volumes,” ACS National
Meeting, Anaheim, CA
March 15, 2004: Tobias Baumgart, “Plasma membrane blebs and giant
vesicles to study membrane phase behavior and membrane mechanics,” Lippincott-Schwartz
Laboratory, NIH-National Institute of Child Health and Human Development,
Bethesda, MD
February 26-27, 2004: Karl Kasischke, “Two-photon NADH imaging
resolves metabolic signatures in astrocyte-dendrite networks during focal
neural activity: implications for functional neuroimaging,” Department
of Neuroscience, The University of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center,
Albuquerque, NM
February 24, 2004: “Nonlinear Biophotonics Probing the Molecular
Dynamics of Life,” Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Seminar, Columbia University, New York, NY
Feb. 20 2004: Warren Zipfel, “Vital Imaging” NCI Gynecologic
Cancer Models Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico
February 10, 2004, “Nonlinear optics probing the molecular dynamics
of life in Ithaca NY,” Department of Physics Seminar, Rockefeller
University, New York, NY
January 23, 2004: Michael Levene “Nanobiophotonics for single molecule
spectroscopy,” I.B.M. Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA
January 15, 2004: “Multiphoton Microscopy,” 2nd New Mexico
Workshop on Computational Cell Biology: Microscopy, Membrane Biology
and Modeling for Biosignaling Research, Santa Fe, NM
2003
December 19, 2003: Michael Levene “In vivo microscopy and ‘lab-on-a-chip’
technologies for cancer research,” Gene Network Sciences, Inc.,
Ithaca, NY,
December 12, 2003: “Microscopic to Nanoscopic Probing the Molecular
Dynamics of Life,” Center for Biophotonics, Science & Technology
Workshop on Optical Techniques in Biomembrane and Single Molecule Studies,
UC-Davis, CA
December 5, 2003: “Microscopic to Nanoscopic Probing the Molecular
Dynamics of Life,” Microscopy Mini Symposium, Department of Neurobiology,
Pharmacology, & Physiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
November 6, 2003: “Some New Non-linear Microscopy, Single Bio-molecule
Kinetics and Membranes,” European Molecular Biology Laboratory,
Heidelberg, Germany
October 26-31, 2003: “Single Molecule Enzyme Kinetics and Single
Molecule DNA Sequencing,” Elucidating Biomolecular Networks by
Single Molecule Technologies, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland
Oct. 21, 2003: Warren Zipfel, “In vivo nonlinear microscopy and
the promise of multiphoton endoscopy”, Modern Optics and Spectroscopy
Seminar Series, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Oct. 8, 2003: Warren Zipfel, “Nonlinear Excitation in Biology: Current
Applications and Future Needs”, 2003 Optical Society of America
Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ
October 5-9, 2003: Michael Levene, “Using nanostructures for super-resolution,” OSA
Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ
Sept. 20, 2003: Warren Zipfel, “In vivo Multiphoton microscopy of
mouse models of disease”, Second Practical Workshop on the Pathology
of Mouse Models for Human Disease. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
September 7-11, 2003: “Nonlinear laser microscopies and spectroscopies
of the molecular dynamics of life,” Frontiers in Biological Methods,
226th ACS National Meeting, New York, NY
Aug 5, 2003: Warren Zipfel, “Applications of Nonlinear Excitation
in Biomedical Research”, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin
August 3-7, 2003: “Biomedical and Biophysical Challenges for Quantitative
Microscopy,” Microscopy & Microanalysis 2003, San Antonio,
TX
August 3, 2003: “Futures for Biophotonics: nanoscopic to endoscopic,” Second
International Symposium on Biophotonics, San Antonio, TX
June 15-20, 2003: Jonas Korlach “Single fluorophore detection in
nanostructures for genomic analysis,” Gordon Research Conference
on Analytical Chemistry, Connecticut College, New London, CT
June 15-20, 2003: “Non-linear optical microscopy of the dynamics
of molecular processes of living systems at single molecule sensitivity,” Gordon
Research Conference on Analytical Chemistry, Connecticut College, New
London, CT
May 5, 2003: Karl Kasischke and Harsh Vishwasrao, “Functional imaging
of metabolic states and neurometabolic coupling in native brain tissue
using multiphoton microscopy of intrinsic NADH fluorescence,” Balaban
Group Meeting, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda,
MD
April 29, 2003: Tobias Baumgart, “Domain Formation, Morphology,
and Out-of-plane Curvature in Giant Unilamellar Vesicles with Microscopic
Liquid/Liquid Phase Coexistence,” Colgate University Physics
and Astronomy Seminar, Hamilton, NY
April 18, 2003: “Single Molecule Dynamics with Micromolar Substrates
Using Zeptoliter Optical Nanostructures,” Forefronts in Bio-Imaging,
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD
April 11, 2003: “Multiphoton Imaging and Correlation Spectroscopy
of the Molecular Dynamics of Life”, BioMolecular Science and
Engineering Seminar, UC-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
April 9, 2003: “New Ventures of Multiphoton Microscopy in Neuroscience,” Neurobiology
Seminar, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
April 8, 2003: “Statistical Thermodynamics of Biomolecules: Anomalous
Single Molecule Dynamics in vivo,” Chemical Physics Seminar,
Caltech, Pasadena, CA
March 30, 2003: Jonas Korlach, “Single Molecule DNA Sequence Profiling
In Zero-Mode Waveguides Using _-Phosphate Linked Nucleotide Analogs,”New
Horizons in Genomics, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Santa Fe, NM
February 19, 2003: “Ultra-fast optics look into the molecular dynamics
of life,” Photonics Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
January 28, 2003, Warren Zipfel, BIOS 2003, Multiphoton Microscopy in
the Biomedical Sciences III, Photonics West 2003, San Jose, CA
January 26, 2003: “Correlation Spectroscopy Now,” BIOS
2003, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences III, Photonics
West
2003, San Jose, CA
2002
October 15, 2002: “Multiphoton Imaging and Correlation Spectroscopy
of the Molecular Dynamics of Life,” Center for Analytical Biotechnology
Lecture, UC-Berkeley, CA
July 23, 2002: “A New Single Molecule Sequencing System,” NIH
National Human Genome Research Institute Meeting 'Sequencing and Resequencing
the Biome,' Bethesda, MD
July 29, 2002: Ahmed Heikal, “Multiphoton fluorescence microscopy
for functional imaging of biomolecules,” NLO, Nonlinear Optics:
Materials, Fundamentals and Applications, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii
July 7, 2002: Ahmed Heikal, “Multiphoton fluorescence microscopy
in biology,” SPIE Annual Meeting 2002, Seattle, WA
June 25-29, 2002: “Sub-Optical Resolution Access to Enzymatic Kinetics,” 5th
International Weber Symposium, Kalapaki Beach, Lihue, Hawaii
June 23-25, 2002: Warren Zipfel, “Nonlinear Microscopy and Nanotechnology:
Tools for Systems Biology”, NCRR P41 Principle Investigators
Meeting, Washington, DC
May 23, 2002: “Multiphoton Imaging the Molecular Dynamics of Life
Processes,” General Chemistry Colloquium, University of Washington
May 22, 2002, Michael Levene, “Zero-mode waveguides for single molecule
analysis and fast DNA sequencing,” CLEO/QELS 2002, Long Beach,
CA
April 16-19, 2002: “Technological Challenges and Opportunities that
Advance the State of the Art of ‘Imaging’ for Research on
‘Genomes to Life’,” DOE Genome Imaging Conference,
Charlotte, NC
February 23-27, 2002: “Multiphoton Imaging the Molecular Dynamics
of Living,” National Lecture, Biophysical Society 46th Annual
Meeting, San Francisco, CA
January 29, 2002: Warren Zipfel, “Optics, Electronics and Imaging
- Getting Data from a Nanodevice,” Nanobiotechnology Center Technology
Platform Series, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
January 27-31, 2002: Jonas Korlach, “Method for fast and highly
parallel single molecule DNA sequencing,” DOE Ninth Genome Contractor
and Grantee Workshop, Oakland, CA
2001
December 16-20, 2001: “Nanophotonics," Sixth International
Conference on Organic Nonlinear Optics, ICONO'6, Tucson, AZ
November 1, 2001: “Observing the dynamical biophysical chemistry
of life processes”, Harvard/MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA
October 11, 2001: “Multiphoton imaging of the molecular dynamics
of life processes,” New York Society for Microscopy symposium ‘Frontiers
of Microscopy,’ Rockefeller University, New York
October 7-12, 2001: Dan Larson, “Multiphoton Spectroscopy in Zeptoliter
Volumes Using Optical Enhancement,” Federation of Analytical
Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) 2001, Detroit.
September 26-28, 2001: “New results at the single molecule level
and new sub-resolution optics,” 7th Annual International Workshop
on ‘Single Molecule Detection and Ultrasensitive Analysis in the
Life Sciences,’ at PicoQuant in the Science and Technology Park,
Berlin Adlershof.
September 23-25, 2001: “Fluctuations: Atomic and Molecular - Nanoscopic
and Microscopic,” Horizons in Biophysics 2001, Karolinska Institute,
Stockholm, Sweden.
September 21, 2001: “Fluorescence probing the dynamics of life processes,” Max-Planck
Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
August 31, 2001: Mike Levene “Fundamentals of multi-photon excitation
for imaging and spectroscopy,” and “Applications of multiphoton
excitation and other methods for confined volume spectroscopy,” Fluorescence
Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Microscopy in Biosciences, Aalborg, Denmark
June 25, 2001: “The Biomedical Challenges to Neuronal Imaging,” NIH-NCRR
PI Meeting, Bethesda, MD
April 24, 2001: “Optronic Measurements of Biophysical Dynamics at
the Cellular and Molecular Level,” What Physicists Can Measure,
What Biologists Would Like to Measure seminar series, Brown University,
Providence, RI
April 10-11, 2001: Ahmed Heikal, "Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Dynamics
and Imaging of Designed Two-Photon Fluorescent Markers in Triton X-100
micelles and RBL Cells" Opto Northeast Regional Meeting on: Optoelectronics,
Photonics, and Imaging, Rochester, NY.
March 25-31, 2001: Ahmed Heikal, “Molecular spectroscopy and dynamics
of selected biomolecular systems,” European Science Foundation
Ultrafast technology and advanced microscopy applications to intra-cellular
and
biomolecule dynamics school, Cargese, Corsica, France
March 6-8, 2001: Ahmed Heikal, "Two-Photon Fluorescence Imaging," Pittcon
2001 Conference, New Orleans, LA
January 20-24, 2001: "Multiphoton Microscopy: a Biomedical Research
Instrument to Invade the Clinic," SPIE Photonics West, San Jose,
CA
2000
November 4-9, 2000: Peter Kloppenburg, Society for Neuroscience Annual
Meeting, New Orleans, LA
October 25-26, 2000: Sam Hess, "The Effects of Focal Volume Optics
on Experimental Artifacts and Signal to Noise in Fluorescence Correlation
Spectroscopy," Dan Larson," Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
in Heterogeneous Samples," Zeiss Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
symposium/workshop, St. Louis, MO
October 23, 2000: Warren Zipfel, "GFP Multiphoton Imaging and Correlation
Fluorescence Spectroscopy," Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Colloquium,
Cold Spring Harbor, NY
September 22-23, 2000: "Photonic analysis of biomolecular and cellular
dynamics in vitro and in vivo" Biophotonics Center Workshop, Case
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
September 20-21, 2000: "Multiphoton Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy
as Biomedical Research Tools," Physics Dept., University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario
August 20-24, 2000: "Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy,"
Optical Society of America Conference "Photon Correlation and Scattering
2000," Whistler, British Columbia
July 1, 2000: Ahmed Heikal, "Light-Controlled Intramolecular Dynamics
in Ecliptic Green Fluorescent Protein (EcGFP)," 13th International
Congress on Photobiology, San Francisco, CA
June 26-28, 2000: "Optical Microscopy," Plenary Lecture,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
June 13, 2000: "Multiphoton Microscopy," Acceptance Lecture,
Rank Prize in Opto-Electronics 2000, The Royal Society of Medicine,
London,
UK.
June 8, 2000: "Photophysics of Green Fluorescent Protein Analyzed
by FCS and TCSPC," Wenner-Gren Foundations Distinguished Lecture,
Sweden, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden.
June 7, 2000: "Molecular Autofluorescence of Tissues Revealed by
Multiphoton Microscopy," Wenner-Gren Foundations Distinguished
Lecture, Sweden, Department of Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
June 5, 2000: "Workshop on Multiphoton Microscopy," Wenner-Gren
Foundations Distinguished Lecture, Sweden, Nobel Forum, Stockholm,
Sweden
June 5, 2000: "Photophysics of Green Fluorescent Protein Mutants
by FCS and TCSPC," Wenner-Gren Foundations Distinguished Lecture,
Sweden, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
April 12, 2000: "Biophysics with Multiphoton Microscopy and Correlation
Spectroscopy Fluorescence," Physics Colloquium, University of
Rochester, Rochester, NY.
March 14, 2000: "Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy probing biomolecular
dynamics," Chemistry Seminar, Penn State University, State College,
PA.
March 15, 2000: "Multiphoton Microscopy probing biological autofluorescence" Physics
Seminar, Penn State University, State College, PA.
February 28, 2000: "Biomedical Research Applications of Multiphoton
Microscopy," Biophysics Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
February 27, 2000 Jonas Korlach, "New Optical Methods for Sequencing
Individual Molecules of DNA," 8th DOE Human Genome Contractor
Grantee Workshop, Santa Fe, NM.
February 12-16, 2000: "Biomedical Applications of Fluorescence," Jablonski
Prize Lecture, Annual Biophysical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
January 20, 2000: "Multiphoton laser microscopy and time resolved
correlation spectroscopy," University of Arizona Optical Sciences
Colloquium, Tucson, AZ.
