The emerging world of microbial rhodopsins in photobiology

The webinar will be of interest to researchers and students in BioPhysics and condensed matter science with an interest in how living organisms use light energy as a source of energy to drive their physiological activities and as a source of information to perceive the surrounding environment.

By attending this webinar you will learn:
• The diversity of photobiological functions of microbial rhodopsins
• Their molecular mechanism at chemical point of view
• Their application in “optogenetics” to control animal neural network
• The molecular engineering technique to make new molecular tool by modifying the rhodopsins

Date: Thursday 26th November

Time: 11am GMT / 8pm JST

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Speakers

Presenter
Dr. Keiichi Inoue
Associate Professor, The Institute for Solid State Physics. The University of Tokyo
The 2019 Sir Martin Wood Science Prize Winner for Japan

Moderator
Dr Richard Henderson
Research Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
The 2017 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry