TITLE: Answering the how and why of the toxicity of Alzheimer\'s Amyloid beta oligomers: a multi-pronged effort with optical spectroscopy, microscopy and solid state NMR
SPEAKER: Professor Sudipta Maiti，Dept. of Chemical Sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
TIME: 12 May（Tuesday），PM13:30
LOCATION: 518 Meeting Room， Chemistry Building A (化学A楼会议室)
INVITER: Prof. Jicun Ren

Brief biography of Professor Sudipta Maiti,

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, maiti@tifr.res.in

Professor Sudipta Maiti pursued his undergraduate studies at IIT Kanpur, and then obtained a Ph.D. in Biophysics in 1994 from the University of Pennsylvania. Hesubsequently joined Cornell University as a post-doctoral fellow working on multiphoton microscopy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. He was in the laboratory of Prof. Watt Webb, who pioneered both of these techniques.  He iscurrently a Professor of Chemical Sciences at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), and the faculty in charge of the Microscopy Research Facility there. He is on the editorial board of several international journals such as the Frontiers of Physiology and Membrane Biophysics, and the Journal of Optics. He has been the recipient of several prizes and fellowships, such as the SICO award from the National Academy of Sciences, India, and the Wellcome Trust Senior Overseas Research Fellowship. He is also the co-founder of the Fluorescence Society, India, and the National Co-ordinator of the Photonics Fellowship Program, DeitY, Govt. of India. His current research interest spans several different  problems, namely, protein aggregation, monoaminergic neurotransmission, and development of optical techniques for studying biological phenomena.