Lighting up a street view of human cells
A prestigious fellowship will help UTS Distinguished Professor Dayong Jin zoom in on the building blocks of life and create next-generation diagnostic tools.
Distinguished Professor Dayong Jin. Photo: Toby Burrows
Professor Jin will use the Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Laureate Fellowship, worth almost $2.8 million over five years, to further develop optical nanotechnologies for imaging living cells down to the level of subcellular compartments and individual molecules.
“Our goal is to provide a detailed map of the structures and functions of cells, and visualise the pathways of how they network together,” he says.
“Biologists can then drop-down to get a ‘street view’ of the molecular traffic within cells to decode the complexities of life and causes of diseases.”
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