Invited professors
Dr. Halina is Professor of the Centre for Biophotonics and Laser Science at the University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia. His research field include Force and torque measurements in optical tweezers, cell adhesion studies, Optically driven micromachines among other phenomena related to angular momentum transfer from laser light to microscopic particles.
Dr. Giovanni is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute für Intelligente Systemn of Stuttgart University, Germany. His research has encompassed experimental and theoretical aspects of optical manipulation and biophotonics, in particular, the new field of plasmon-based optical manipulation at the nanoscale and new methods to time- and space-resolved Raman spectroscopy of single living cells. Currently, his reseach focus is the experimental study of active Brownian particles and the effect of thermal noise on force measurements. Instituto de Física de Sao Carlos Universidad de Sao Carlos, Brazil Current field: Light tissue interactions. Photodiagnostic and treatment of cancer. Clinical applications.He is Professor of Federal University of Minas Gerais. His main interests go from DNA-protein interactions passing for cell dynamics to embryonic development. He study these systems mainly with optical tweezers and Defocusing Microscopy.
Special opening:Prior to III School, on September 26, we have the visit of Dr. Carlos Bustamante.
Professor Bustamante is investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology, Physics, and Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the pionner researcher and one of the global leaders in the development of novel methods of single-molecule manipulation and detection (such as optical tweezers and single-molecule fluorescence microscopy) and their application to study the behavior of DNA-binding molecular motors and the mechanical unfolding of globular proteins and RNAs.