I'll be at ASCB this weekend, and I will not be liveblogging, but I will do a post-meeting roundup on some of the stuff. One thing to make sure to attend will be the subgroup meeting on Saturday, At the Limits: Optical Methods for Single Molecules, Cells, and Organisms, from 12:30 to 5. Ron Vale will be speaking there, along with lots of other fun people.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Microscopes for Fluorimeters: The Era of Single Molecule Measurements
Just in time for the ASCB meeting this weekend, Ron Vale has a review article in Cell titled Microscopes for Fluorimeters: The Era of Single Molecule Measurements (samizdat copy on the Vale lab web site here.) In it, he points out the fascinating tidbit that the typical forces observed in force spectroscopy measurements (~5 pN) are actually several orders of magnitude less than the gravitational attraction between you and the journal you're reading (assuming that your'e reading it in hardcopy, in journal form, which is almost certainly not correct. But still.)
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What about Subgroup M, "New Applications for AFM and Optical Trapping in Cell Biology"?
Wow, good spot. I TOTALLY didn't notice that! I think I'm a bit more interested in the imaging subgroup talks, based on the speakers and the topics, but I may have to go back and forth between the two.
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