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SUMMARY:ICFO | STEVEN BLOCK
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DESCRIPTION:Friday\, June 6th\, 12:00\, ICFO's AuditoriumSTEVEN BLOCKS.W. A
 scherman Professor of the Sciences\, Departments of Biology and Applied Ph
 ysics at Stanford University$$Steven M. Block is the Stanford W. Ascherman
 \, M.D. Professor of Applied Physics and of Biology. He is a pioneer in th
 e area of single-molecule biophysics\, studying the nanomachines of life. 
 Nature’s own nanoscale machines\, which include proteins and nucleic aci
 ds\, are complex macromolecules that are exquisitely ‘designed’ to car
 ry out a multitude of sophisticated functions. Using modern laser-based ap
 proaches\, which include optical traps\, single-molecule fluorescence/FRET
 \, and advanced microscopies\, Block lab at Stanford University has been a
 ble to develop instruments that can measure the nanometer-scale displaceme
 nts and piconewton-scale forces associated with individual biomolecules. W
 ork in his lab has led to the direct observation of the 8 nm steps taken b
 y molecular motor kinesin and the sub-nanometer stepping motions of RNA po
 lymerase on a DNA template. \nProf. Block has been selected to the U.S. Na
 tional Academy of Sciences (2007) and the American Academy of Arts and Sci
 ences (2000)\, and is a winner of the Max Delbruck Prize of the American P
 hysical Society (2008) as well as the Single Molecule Biophysics Prize of 
 the Biophysical Society (2007). He served as the President of the Biophysi
 cal Society during 2005-6. He has also consulted the U.S. government on bi
 oterrorism through the advisory group JASON and he is an amateur bluegrass
  musician. \n\n
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