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SUMMARY:Using Chemistry to Observe and Manipulate Cells
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Pablo Rivera Fuentes\, Laboratory of Chemical and Biolog
 ical Probes (SB/ISIC)\nBiology is a complex and fascinating chemical syste
 m. To understand how this complex system behaves in both health and diseas
 e\, our lab develops and implements chemical tools that allow us to detect
  and modify the biochemical processes that occur in living cells. One part
  of our efforts is focused on imaging the activity of enzymes one molecule
  at a time. This level of resolution is necessary to understand how these 
 biological catalysts are organized and perform their tasks within the high
 ly compartmentalized environment of the cell. Another branch of our resear
 ch is centered on perturbing certain equilibria in cells. The goal of this
  project is to learn about how cells sense and respond to stimuli\, for ex
 ample in diseased states. This research relies on interdisciplinary approa
 ches that combine synthetic chemistry\, spectroscopy\, biophysical methods
 \, and cell biology to reveal the molecular details of essential biologica
 l processes.\n\nBio:\nPablo Rivera Fuentes was born in 1984 in Mexico City
 . He received a BSc (2008) degree in chemical engineering from the Nationa
 l Autonomous University of Mexico. He obtained his MSc (2009) and PhD (201
 2) degrees in chemistry from ETH Zurich\, working under the supervision of
  Prof. François Diederich. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundatio
 n (SNSF)\, he carried out postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute
  of Technology with Prof. Stephen J. Lippard (2012-2014). He subsequently 
 worked at the University of Oxford with Prof. Harry L. Anderson (Departmen
 t of Chemistry) and Prof. Christian Eggeling (Weatherall Institute of Mole
 cular Medicine). He started his independent career as non-tenure-track ass
 istant professor at ETH Zurich in October\, 2015\, and became tenure-track
  assistant professor of chemical biology at EPF Lausanne in August\, 2019.
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