Speaker 1

Daniel A. Fletcher (UC Berkeley)

Speaker Bio

Dr. Dan Fletcher is the Chatterjee Professor of Bioengineering & Biophysics at UC Berkeley. He and his laboratory study membrane and cytoskeletal organization in the context of cell motility and signaling, with applications to immunology, virology, and cancer biology. His lab also develops mobile phone-based microscopes that are being used to detect infectious diseases in developing countries. Dr. Fletcher received a B.S. from Princeton University, a D.Phil. from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. He is a Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, Visiting Investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Virology, Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Faculty Director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies.

Host

TIB Colloquium Series

Contact

Ester Ramírez

Email

eramirez@seas.harvard.edu