Renowned bioengineer Elizabeth M.C. Hillman, PhD, will present the 22nd Fredric S. Fay Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 11.
The title of Dr. Hillman’s presentation is, “Capturing the dynamics of life with high-speed 3D microscopy.”
Hillman is the Herbert and Florence Irving Professor at the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and professor of biomedical engineering & radiology at Columbia University.
Hillman has spent her career developing a variety of imaging methodologies for visualizing cell function in real time, including cellular mechanisms and neural underpinnings of hemodynamic signals detected in functional magnetic resonance imaging; development of dynamic contrast methods for small animal imaging; application of in-vivo meso-scale wide-field optical mapping to study neurovascular coupling; and three versions of Swept confocally aligned planar excitation, or SCAPE, a high-speed, 3D, multi-spectral optical imaging method for light microscopy.
Hillman is the recipient of numerous awards including the Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society for young scientists under 35 years for their contributions to optics; Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for outstanding contributions to the development of innovative optical methodologies for functional and dynamic imaging of living tissues; SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award for the development of SCAPE microscopy; and, most recently, a Mid-Career Scientific Achievement Award From the Royal Microscopical Society for the development and applications of SCAPE Microscopy.
The Fred Fay lecture was established in remembrance of the late UMass Chan Medical School professor of physiology and his scientific contributions, particularly to the field of biomedical live imaging. The purpose of the lecture is to host a world-renowned scientist in physiological research who is also a great communicator and role model for the next generation of scientists.
The lecture is hosted by the Department of Microbiology & Physiological Systems at UMass Chan and will be held at 3 p.m. in the Albert Sherman Center Auditorium and on Zoom. A reception in the Cube will follow the lecture.
