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Seeing Anew - How Advances in Microscopy are Changing the Life Sciences

Friday, 21 April, 2017

Keynote Presentation for the Annual American Association of Physics Teachers Central PA Section Conference

Open to the public

Loyola Science Center 133 - PNC Auditorium

Seeing Anew: How Advances in Microscopy are Changing the Life Sciences

by Dr. Matthew Farrar, Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics, Messiah College

Biological organisms are complex systems in which dynamic processes take place at cellular (micrometer) and sub-cellular (nanometer) length scales. An understanding of these processes and interactions in both physiological and pathological states necessarily requires instruments capable of providing time-resolved measurements in a living organism (in vivo). Owing to its resolution and non-destructive nature, light microscopy has been a staple of biologists for over 300 years. However, the last twenty years have seen a veritable explosion in forms of advanced microscopy, offering unprecedented levels of resolution in biological systems. This talk will survey the physics of these advances and their significance for discovery in the biological sciences.

Matthew Farrar received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada in 2007. He pursued graduate studies in physics at Cornell University under the supervision of Chris Schaffer, focusing on the use of multi-photon microscopy for studies of the mouse spinal cord. He received his PhD in 2012 and pursued postdoctoral studies at Cornell under Joseph Fetcho in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. He joined the faculty at Messiah College in 2015 as an Assistant Professor of Physics.

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Loyola Science Center, PNC Auditorium (133)

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