3 July 2023: Photons & Proteins Workshop

The Photons & Proteins workshop in honor of Martin Chalfie was held at the Università di Parma, Centro Sant’Elisabetta on July 3, 2023, from 14.30 to 18.00. Detailed information here.

In the occasion of the conferral of the honoris causa degree in Physics by the University of Parma to Martin Chalfie, the workshop intended to honor his work on the Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP). Martin Chalfie, together with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of the GFP in 2008. More information can be found in the Nobel Prize website.   SWOPT coordinator, Andre C. Stiel, participated with the lecture “Genetically encoded photo-switchable molecular sensors for optoacoustic and super-resolution imaging”