Studying Biomolecules with Super Resolution Fluorescence

Microscopy by 2014 Nobel Laureate, WE Moerner

A Lecture by WE Moerner, 2014 Nobel Laureate, will be presented at the June
monthly meeting of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society
(NESACS) on June 11, 2015 at Nova Biomedical Corp in Waltham, MA.
WE Moerner shared the $1.1-million 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Eric Betzig of Howard
Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia and Stefan W. Hell of the Max Planck Institute for
Biophysical Chemistry in Germany. His research is praised for making it possible for
researchers to view the toxic protein accumulations in the brain cells of patients with deadly
Alzheimers and Huntingtons diseases. Because of his work, researchers can also study how
biomoleculessuch as DNA and enzymeswork in cells to carry out the processes that are
critical to life.

The meeting is open to NESACS members and the public is invited but
reservations are required. For more information, contact
secretary@nesacs.org,
By Dr. Jack Driscoll, Public Relations Chair, NESACS

Bacteria-3D-Double-Helix.
This image shows 3D super-resolution imaging of Caulobacter crescentus bacteria

cell surfaces (gray) and a labeled protein (CreS, orange-red) obtained using the
double-helix single-molecule active control microscopy technique.