Light in Biology: A Molecular Perspective | Prof. Matthew Wohlever

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on July 20th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

A native of the buckeye state, Matt received his B.S. in biochemistry from the Ohio State University where he spent three years working with Richard Swenson and a summer with Maria Vanoni at the University of Milan. During his graduate studies at MIT, Matt worked with Bob Sauer and Tania Baker on AAA+ proteases in bacteria. As a postdoc at the University of Chicago with Bob Keenan, he used structural biology to study quality control of membrane proteins.

Outside of lab, Matt enjoys spending time in the great outdoors with his wife, three children, and two dogs. He can often be found backpacking, running, or working in his garden.

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0:25.3	I just wanted to take a minute at the start of the presentation to talk very, very briefly about foster care.
0:32.8	There is a huge, huge need for foster parents, committed foster parents.
0:38.0	So if this is something that you are discerning or it's on your heart, just come up, talk to
0:42.7	me afterwards.
0:43.7	I'd love to share.
0:44.7	I've seen the good, the bad, the ugly of it, and be happy to help you in your discernment
0:48.7	process with that.
0:50.1	So I'll get off my soapbox now, get on to the presentation and start up again by thanking the organizers.
0:56.0	This has been a really thought-provoking conference and then you have to listen to me talk.
1:01.0	So my presentation is going to differ in both form and substance from some of the previous presentations.
1:08.0	Sorry that the puns are not an accident of the presentation. But I want to start out by
1:14.7	just kind of tempering your expectations. So when Father Ambrose approached me about this,
1:20.3	and he said, you can be as philosophical as you'd like. I had this hit in my stomach,
1:26.6	because this is about as philosophical as I get
1:30.0	here.
1:31.4	So I want to set your expectations that I have essentially no formal training in philosophy.
1:36.8	So I'm going to try to steer clear of that concept, or a lot of those principles today.
1:41.7	The other thing that makes it a little bit difficult is I am not an
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