Using pictures to explore the biological world
Professor Melissa Mather Inaugural Lecture
Monday 15th May | 18:15 | Westminster Theatre, Chancellor's Building
A forthcoming lecture by Professor Melissa Mather will explore her career contributing to the discovery and development of techniques for non-invasive monitoring of biological systems, detailing new optical, ultrasound and opto-acoustic characterisation techniques.
About the lecture
Visualising the structure and function of proteins, cells and tissue in their natural environment is of tremendous importance to those working in areas as diverse as fundamental biology to clinical diagnosis. It is essential that techniques that allow us to look at biological systems in amazing detail do so with minimal disturbance to the biology. The majority of techniques in current use do not meet this requirement. Melissa’s lecture will explore her career contributing to the discovery and development of techniques for non-invasive monitoring of biological systems,detailing new optical, ultrasound and opto-acoustic characterisation techniques. Case studies detailing the capability of these technologies to obtain new insight into physiological process and reveal how their dysfunction leads to disease will be discussed. Finally, looking to the future, Melissa will describe her most recent work that seeks to develop an approach for single molecule imaging of transmembrane proteins, an important type of protein critical to cellular function and communication. The overall aim of this work is to generate new understanding of the mechanisms underlying cellular life that can not be achieved using existing techniques
About the Inaugural Lecture series
Keele's programme of Inaugural Lectures is delivered by newly established professors within the University and aims to give an illuminating account of the speaker's own subject specialism. The lectures, which start at 6.15pm in the Westminster Theatre, are chaired by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Trevor McMillian.
This series of lectures is open to all and admission is free.
No ticket is required, however we ask those wishing to attend to kindly confirm their attendance via email to events@keele.ac.uk