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SUMMARY:Optochemical tools for biological applications
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Olalla Vázquez\nOlalla Vázquez\, tenure-track Assista
 nt Professor at the Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany)\, strives to u
 nderstand and manipulate biological processes at the molecular level. She 
 will give an NCCR online talk entitled “Optochemical tools for biologica
 l applications” on January 19\, 2021.\n\nAbout the talk\nIn her group\, 
 Olalla Vázquez strives to understand and manipulate biological processes 
 at the molecular level. For this purpose\, she designs innovative chemical
  tools capable of sensing biological processes\, and remotely controlling 
 the molecular machines inside cells. Her work embraces the synthesis of lo
 w molecular weight drug-like molecules\, peptides\, and nucleic acid-like 
 compounds\, together with biological assays to investigate disease-related
  processes. She aims at overcoming the current limitations (adaptability\,
  stability\, uptake\, etc.) in the field to reach on-demand regulation. Su
 ch chemical tools provide complementary strategies to the biochemical ones
  as well as the basis for the discovery of novel therapies. Her research p
 rogram takes full advantage of photosensitive molecules\, in particular fo
 cused on: fluorophores\, photosensitizers and photoswitches.\n \nAbout th
 e speaker\nOlalla Vázquez graduated in Chemistry from the Universidade d
 e Santiago de Compostela in 2004 (with honours). She obtained her PhD unde
 r the supervision of Prof. Mascareñas and Prof. Vázquez\, working on syn
 thetic transcription factors and fluorescent DNA binders (2010). As FPU fe
 llow\, Olalla was a visiting PhD student at Harvard University in the grou
 p of Prof. Verdine (2006)\, and at Humboldt Universität in Berlin with Pr
 of. Seitz (2008). In 2011 she received the Marie Curie postdoctoral resear
 ch fellowship and returned to the group of Prof. Seitz to explore RNA temp
 late-directed reactions in the context of cancer therapy. In summer 2014\,
  Olalla was appointed to a tenure-track Assistant Professorship at Philipp
 s-Universität Marburg\, where she was entrusted with the mission of manag
 ing the newborn division of Chemical Biology together with Prof. Eric Megg
 ers.\nDuring her career path\, Olalla has received national and internatio
 nal awards\, including the Research Lilly Award for PhD students (2009)\, 
 Silver Medal at the European Young Chemist Award (EYCA 2012)\, Fulbright-C
 ottrell Award (2016)\, MarBiNa Förderpreis (2018)\, RSEQ Best European Yo
 ung Researcher in Chemical Biology (2020)\n \nMore info\nDate: January 19
 \, 2021\nTime: 16:15\nDuration: approximately 60’ (talk and Q&A)\nPlace:
  online\, via Zoom (link will be sent to registered participants\, a few d
 ays before the event)\nRegistration is compulsory\, please use your academ
 ic e-mail address.\nRegistration deadline: January 14\, 2021.\n\n 
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