Marcus Lecture -- Integrating surfaces with organic chemistry applied to dynamic studies of cell behavior and the development of biomaterials for cell tissue engineering.
Event Description
Hosts: Marcus Lecture Committee
Abstract:
This seminar will describe two recent projects. 1. Interfacing surface chemistry with cell biology to generate new proteomic microarrays and dynamic surfaces to study cell behavior and stem cell differentiation. 2. The development of new biomaterials via a general synthetic chemoselective redox responsive ligation (click) and release strategy applied to cell surface engineering to control dynamic 3-D cell tissue interactions.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Yousaf is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and associated with the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests are in interfacing organic, bioanalytical, bioengineering and cell biology research to study fundamental cell behavior and to develop new biomaterials and tools for regenerative medicine applications. As a PI, he has published more than 50 original papers, given over 50 seminars at universities and conferences and has been elected to serve on 3 journal advisory and editorial boards. Dr. Yousaf has received several national awards including, a Damon Runyon Fellowship, Burroughs Wellcome Interface Career Award and an NSF CAREER award and is a key member of the Carolina Center for Cancer Nanotechnology and Energy Frontiers Research Center. Dr. Yousafs highschool, undergraduate and graduate students have also received numerous university and national awards including, Barry Goldwater Award, Churchill Scholar (Cambridge), NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, Westinghouse Awards and Nobel Laureate Lindau Meeting award.