Sproull Lecturer
Professor Xiaowei Zhuang
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Physics at Harvard University & Investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Zhuang is a leading expert in single-molecule biology and bioimaging. Her lab develops and applies advanced optical imaging techniques, such as super-resolution light microscopy and single-molecule imaging approaches, to study biological systems quantitatively. Zhuang has pioneered single-molecule fluorescence studies of biomolecules. Her studies have yielded fundamental understandings of nucleic-acid folding and nucleic-acid-protein interactions. She recently invented a super-resolution fluorescence microscopy method, STORM, which breaks the diffraction limit and allows fluorescence imaging with nanometer-scale resolution. Her lab applies this high-resolution imaging method to investigate neurobiology and cell biology problems.
http://zhuang.harvard.edu/
Industry Speakers
Dr. Vic LiuSenior Materials Scientist, Electrochemical Energy Research Laboratory, General Motors (GM)
Vic Liu received his PhD degree in Materials Science from The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He worked as a postdoc in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory for three years. After briefly working as a research scientist at Catalytic Solutions Inc. in California, he joined the Electrochemical Energy Research Lab at General Motors as a senior scientist in 2007. He has been working on three-way catalysts for automobile emission control, fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries for vehicle electrification. His research interests include materials characterization and degradation mechanism determination using a wide range of physical, chemical, and electrochemical techniques with a particular emphasis on transmission electron microscopy (TEM). His current research is focused on fundamentally understanding nanometer- and atomic-scale phenomena occurring in fuel cells and batteries by using aberration-corrected TEM, environmental gas TEM, and in-situ electrochemical TEM.
http://www.gm.com/design-technology Dr. Frances M. Ross
Research Staff Member, Physical Sciences Department, IBM Research Division, T. J. Watson Research Center
Frances M. Ross received her B.A. in Physics and Ph.D. in Materials Science from Cambridge University. Her postdoc was at A.T.&T. Bell Laboratories, using in situ electron microscopy to study oxidation of Si and dislocations in SiGe. She then joined the National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she observed anodic etching of Si and domain walls in ferroelectrics, as well as coordinating users of several of the microscopes. She joined IBM in 1997, building a program around a TEM with in situ chemical vapour deposition, a liquid cell, and evaporation and focused ion beam capabilities, and a UHV mass-filtered focused ion beam/STM system. Her interests include epitaxy, nanowires, and electrodeposition. She has received the UK Institute of Physics Charles Vernon Boys Medal, the MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award and the MSA Burton Medal and is a Fellow of the APS, AAAS and MRS. She is an author or co-author of over 100 journal articles and 7 patents, has given over 90 invited and plenary conference talks, and has organised meetings and symposia for MRS, MSA, and the American Association for Crystal Growth. She has served on panels for National Laboratories, the NSF, DOE and NAS.
http://www.watson.ibm.com/index.shtml
Cornell Speakers
John Marohn
http://chemistry.cornell.edu/faculty/detail.cfm?netid=jam99
Warren Zipfel
https://www.bme.cornell.edu/people/profile.cfm?netid=wrz2
Lena Fitting Kourkoutis
http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/diversity/student-spotlights.cfm?s_id=10
David Muller
http://www.aep.cornell.edu/people/profile.cfm?netid=dm24
Matt Miller
https://www.mse.cornell.edu/people/profile.cfm?netid=mpm4
