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SUMMARY:Elucidating the Rules of Life through in vivo Chemical Microscopy
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Ji-Xin Cheng\, Photonics Center\, Boston University\, Bo
 ston\, MA (USA)\nDISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING\n(sandwic
 hes served)\n\nAbstract: \nUntil now\, understanding of the exceptionally 
 fast and selective chemistry occurring inside single living cells has been
  very limited\, partly because conventional chemical assays essentially tr
 eat the cell\, a highly dynamic structure\, as a static bag of molecules. 
 My research is devoted to addressing this challenge by developing in vivo 
 spectroscopy methods enabling direct visualization of chemical distributio
 n and dynamics in a living system. We have been pushing the physical limit
 s of in vivo chemical microscopy in terms of sensitivity\, speed and spati
 al resolution through continuous innovations in instrumentation and data s
 cience. We further apply this tools to reveal hidden signatures in cancer 
 metabolism\, neuroscience and infectious disease. The unveiled signatures 
 open new opportunities for early diagnosis and/or precision treatment. We 
 are also committed to converting our technologies into scientific instrume
 nts for broader use by non-experts and medical devices for clinical use.\n
  \nBio:\nJi-Xin Cheng was born in Jixi\, Anhui Province\, P. R. China in
  1971. He attended University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) fr
 om 1989 to 1994. From 1994 to 1998\, he carried out his Ph.D. study on bon
 d-selective chemistry under the supervision of Qingshi Zhu at USTC. As a g
 raduate student\, he worked as a research assistant at Universite Paris-su
 d (France) on vibrational spectroscopy and the Hong Kong University of Sci
 ence and Technology (HKUST) on quantum dynamics theory. After postdoctoral
  training on ultrafast spectroscopy in Yijing Yan’s group at HKUST\, he 
 joined Sunney Xie’s group at Harvard University as a postdoc\, where he 
 and others developed CARS microscopy that allows high-speed vibrational im
 aging of cells and tissues. Cheng joined Purdue University in 2003 as Assi
 stant Professor in Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and Department 
 of Chemistry\, promoted to Associate Professor in 2009 and Full Professor 
 in 2013. He joined Boston University as the Moustakas Professor in Photoni
 cs and Optoelectronics in summer 2017. \n\n 
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