Adventures of a lapsed physicist: from solid state physics to Covid-19 vaccines
Event Start:
2021-05-27T16:00:00
Event End:
2021-05-27T17:00:00
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I graduated from the UBC Physics Department with a PhD in solid state physics in 1972. In this talk I will relate an improbable journey from ESR studies of phosphorus-doped silicon at 4°K to enabling the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. The story begins with a move to the Biochemistry Department at Oxford University as a Postdoctoral Fellow to use NMR to study the functional roles of lipids in biological membranes. This required the use of simplified “model membrane” vesicular systems consisting of well-defined lipid species.
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Pieter Cullis (UBC)
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Event Start:
2021-05-27T16:00:00
Event End:
2021-05-27T17:00:00
Adventures of a lapsed physicist: from solid state physics to Covid-19 vaccines
Event Information:
I graduated from the UBC Physics Department with a PhD in solid state physics in 1972. In this talk I will relate an improbable journey from ESR studies of phosphorus-doped silicon at 4°K to enabling the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. The story begins with a move to the Biochemistry Department at Oxford University as a Postdoctoral Fellow to use NMR to study the functional roles of lipids in biological membranes. This required the use of simplified “model membrane” vesicular systems consisting of well-defined lipid species.
Event Location:
Connect via zoom