CRG Scientific Coffee: What's behind a scientific image?

What happens when a biologist, a physicist and an artist look through the microscope?

Microscopy techniques have improved greatly since the first optical microscopes. And physicists, engineers, and even biologists, still look for improvements.

What are these advances? Do they alter reality?
 
Scientists frequently use fluorescent proteins or antibodies to visualize different aspects of cell, organelles and tissues and this can alter what we observe under the microscope.

What types of new technologies are in need by biologists?

What is the connection between art and these scientific images? What multiple readings can be found behind each image, depending on the eye of the beholder?  A scientist, an artist, a person from the street, etc

Come to Palau Robert to talk with us and share your vision and your questions

Speakers:

• Timo Zimmermann, head of the CRG Advanced Light Microscopy Unit.
• Jason Otterstrom, of the Advanced Fluorescence Imaging and Biophysics research group at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO)
• Anna Rierola, artist.

Date: Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 at 18:00h

Venue: Palau Robert, Passeig de Gracia, 107, Barcelona.

“Free entrance, no registration is needed.