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<div>Please join us for the Modern Optics and Spectroscopy seminar, held tomorrow, December 6, at 12pm in the Grier Room (34-401) with Poorya Hosseini (MIT: LBRC, Mechanical Engineering, Biological Engineering):</div>
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<p class="OETitle" style="margin-top: 0in; line-height: 16.100000381469727px;"><i style="font-size: 16px;"><b><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Advancing Interferometric Microcopy to Study </span></b><b style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Blood
Disorders and Beyond </b></i></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="3"><i> This presentation begins by introduction of a platform technology that characterizes a range of biophysical properties for individual red cells using advanced label-free interferometric microscopy. While the main focus of
this talk is the use of this platform to study a genetic blood disorder known as sickle cell anemia, our technology and methodology is germane to any application where characterization of cellular properties of erythrocytes and potentially other cell types
is of interest. In the second half of the talk, I present our unpublished work on development of a new technique pushing the frontiers of interferometric microscopy by adding molecular specificity in a label-free fashion. </i></font><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri;">Lunch will be served immediately following the seminar at 1pm.</div>
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<div><b style="font-family: Tahoma;">Christine Brooks</b></div>
<div>Administrative Assistant</div>
<div>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div>
<div>Department of Chemistry</div>
<div>77 Massachusetts Ave, 6-333</div>
<div>Cambridge, MA 02139</div>
<div>p: 617.253.7239</div>
<div>e: cbrooks@mit.edu</div>
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