IIT Bombay is organizing an Institute Lecture on “Single-molecule studies of DNA recombination” on July 24, 2024 at the Victor Menezes Convention Centre (VMCC), IIT Bombay.

Details of the lecture are as follows:

Speaker: Prof. Eric C. Greene, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Title: “Single-molecule studies of DNA recombination”

About the speaker: Prof. Eric C. Greene is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, at Columbia University, New York, USA. He has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Department of Chemistry at IIT Bombay since June 2024. Prof. Eric works in an interdisciplinary field and is an outstanding public speaker who is able to convey his science to a wide variety of audiences. (Speaker's webpage: https://www.thegreenelab.com/ and link to his publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=N_9p2rMAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate)

Abstract: Our group uses single-molecule optical microscopy to study fundamental interactions between proteins and nucleic acids, and our overarching goal is to understand the molecular mechanisms that cells use to repair, maintain, and decode their genetic information. Our research combines aspects of biochemistry, physics, and nanoscale technology to answer questions about complex biological problems that cannot easily be addressed through more traditional biochemical or genetic approaches. The advantages of the technologies developed in our group are that we can see what proteins are bound to DNA, where they are bound, how they move, and how they interact with and influence partner proteins – all in real-time, at the level of a single reaction.