Pralle

Invited Seminars

Morphological gradients in mitotic cells quantified by fluorescence lifetime imaging. Roswell Park Cancer Institut Buffalo (Feb. 2007), SUNY Buffalo (May 2006), U. Goettingen, Germany (May 2006), and UT Austin (Apr. 2006)

Optical voltage sensor by random insertion of GFP fragments into Shaker. Amer.Biophys Soc. (Feb. 2006)

Protein interactions, protein conformations and membrane structures studied by modern light microscopy and optical trapping. EPFL, Switzerland;U Mass Amherst (Apr 2006); U Leipzig, Germany (Mar 2006); The Vollum, OHSU (Jan. 2006); SUNY Buffalo; UCON Med School (Dec. 2005); U. California Irvine (Aug. 2005) and Purdue U. (May 2005).

FLIM based FRET quantification of a RanGTP-regulated gradient essential for mitosis in somatic cells. Advanced Optical Methods Workshop. UC Berkeley, (January 2004).

Thermal noise imaging as tool to study membrane dynamics and mechanics at the molecular level. INSERM course on cell mechanics. Marseille, France, (November 2003).

Towards a photophysical model of fluorescence changes reporting protein rearrangements in a voltage gated potassium channel. 3rd Ann. HFSP fellows symposium. Cambridge, UK (July 2003).

Photonic force microscopy as tool for nanotechnology. NanoBioSymposium. Detroit (May 2002).

Fluorescence spectroscopy to study structural rearrangements in membrane proteins. MPI Schloessmann Seminar, Modern Optical Methods in Biology. Munich (Dec. 2001).

Photonic force microscopy: a new tool providing new methods to study membranes at the molecular level. NanoBioTech 2000 forum Münster, Germany (Sept. 2000).

Cellular membranes studied by photonic force microscopy. Yokohama and Nagoya. Japan (August 2000).

Characterizing rafts in living cells by local viscous drag measurement. Amer. Biophys. Soc. New Orleans (February 2000) and . U. California San Diego, (February 2000).

3-D high resolution particle tracking for optical tweezers by forward light scattering. Focus on Microscopy / 11^th Int. Conference on confocal microscopy . Heidelberg (August 1999).

Localized diffusion measurements by 3D-SPT provide support for membrane microdomains. Amer. Biophys. Soc. San Francisco (February 1999).

High resolution 3d-SPT proves lipid rafts to be stable domains 50nm in diameter. ASCB (Dec. 1998).