[bioundgrd] last Bio Colloquium of the semester

[Rachel McPherson]

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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