[bioundgrd] last Bio Colloquium of the semester
Rachel McPherson
rachelm at MIT.EDU
Mon May 15 09:58:03 EDT 2006
BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
Monday, May 15, 2006
Dr. Alice Ting
MIT Department of Chemistry
"New Reporters for Imaging Protein Function in Living Cells"
32-123 Stata Center Auditorium
4pm (refreshments at 3:30)
Hosted by Dr. Barbara Imperiali
Alice Y. Ting has been an assistant professor in the Department of
Chemistry at MIT since July of 2002. She has a diverse range of
interests, including single molecule microscopy, neurobiology,
protein engineering and bio-organic chemistry.
In 1992, she began her undergraduate studies in Chemistry at Harvard.
Working with Elias J. Corey, she helped clone the Schizosaccharomyces
pombe gene for lanosterol synthase and develop new catalysts for the
asymmetric dihydroxylation reaction. In her senior year, she also
worked as a teaching assistant for Stuart Schreiber's Bio-organic
Chemistry 27 class; this experience cemented her interest in chemical
biology and led her to earn her Ph.D. at Berkeley with Peter G.
Schultz.
"Our laboratory develops new methodology for studying protein, DNA,
RNA, and small-molecule structure and function in the context of
living cells. Our preferred approach is to design and synthesize
either small-molecule or genetically-encoded (protein or RNA)
reporters that provide spatial and temporal information about
specific biomolecules or biochemical events in individual
compartments of single live cells. We are currently applying our
methodologies to studies of fundamental processes related to synapse
formation and remodeling."
*This will be the last Biology Colloquium of the school year. Have a
great summer! 8-)
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