3 NRI scientists honoured by Obama

Washington, Oct 4, 2011:
Dr. Sohan Singh/ Gary Singh

Dr. Hari Shroff, and other two NRIs- Sumita Pennathur and Dr Kartik A Srinivasan, are among 94 researchers honoured by President Barack Obama with Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers: is early career awards for outstanding scientists and engineers to advance the nation's goals, tackle grand challenges and contribute to the American economy

Hari Shroff- Chief and Investigator, Section on High Resolution Optical Imaging

• Dr. Hari Shroff received a B.S.E. in bioengineering from the University of Washington in 2001
• He got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the Unversity of California at Berkeley in 2006
• He spent the next three years performing postdoctoral research under the mentorship of Eric Betzig at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus where his research focused on development of photactivated localization microscopy (PALM), an optical superresolution technique.
• Dr. Shroff is now chief of NIBIB's section on high resolution optical imaging laboratory, where he and his staff are developing new imaging tools for application in biological and clinical research.

Research Interests

• Development of new imaging tools to study fast 3D cellular processes
• Super-resolution microscopy
• Cell motility
• Single molecule fluorescence
• Physical properties of highly-bent DNA molecules

Publications: Single-molecule discrimination of discrete perisynaptic and distributed sites of actin filament assembly within dendritic spines. Neuron, 67(1):86-99, 2010.

Super-Resolution Light Microscopy. PLoS Biology, 7:e1000137, 2009.

Three-Dimensional Super-resolution Imaging of Thick Samples. PNAS 105:20221-20226, 2008.

Advances in the speed and resolution of light microscopy. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 18:605-616, 2008.

Photoactivation localization microscopy (PALM) of adhesion complexes. Current Protocols in Cell Biology, 4.21.1-4.21.27, 2008.

E. Live-cell photoactivated localization microscopy of nanoscale adhesion dynamics. Nat Methods, 5:417-423, 2008.

High-density mapping of single-molecule trajectories with photoactivated localization microscopy. Nat Methods, 5:155-157, 2008.

Optical measurement of mechanical forces inside short DNA loops. Biophys J, 94:2179-2186, 2008.

-color superresolution imaging of genetically expressed probes within individual adhesion complexes. PNAS, 104:20308-20313, 2007.

Optical trapping and integration of nanowire assemblies in water. Nat Materials, 5:97-101, 2006.

ompatible force sensor with optical readout and dimensions of 6 nm3. Nano Lett, 5:1509-1514, 2005.

Dr. Shroff, B.S.E. in bioengineering and Ph.D. in biophysics at the Unversity of California at Berkeley in 2006- is chief of NIBIB's section on high resolution optical imaging laboratory, where he and his staff are developing new imaging tools for application in biological and clinical research

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