Watt W. Webb Memorial Symposium

Welcome!

Please join us on August 8, 2022, for a memorial symposium in honor of Watt W. Webb, professor for more than 50 years and director of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University from 1983 to 1988.

Schedule

REGISTER TO ATTEND

Sunday, August 7, 2022

7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.—Evening Reception with Drinks and Food

    Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca, NY 14850

Monday, August 8, 2022

Morning Session I — 120 Physical Sciences Building Chaired by Chris Xu

9:00 – 9:10 a.m.

    Remarks by Provost Mike Kotlikoff 

9:10 – 9:35 a.m.

   Barbara Baird: Dynamically Heterogeneous Plasma Membrane Facilitates Receptor-Mediated Cell Signaling 

9:35 – 10:00 a.m.

   Dan Dombeck: Microscopy, Methods and Memories

10:00 – 10:25 a.m.

   Neil Gershenfeld: How To Make (Almost) Anything

10:25 – 10:50 a.m.

    Larry Jackel: Scaling Laws:  Why You Can’t Go To Sleep In Your Self-driving Car

10:50 – 11:15—Coffee break

Morning Session II — 120 Physical Sciences Building Chaired by David Tank

11:15 – 11:20 a.m.

    Remarks by Engineering Dean Lynden Archer

11:20 – 11:45 a.m.

    Sally Kim: Acoustic Detection of Single Action Potentials

11:45 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.

    Alex Kwan: Dendritic Imaging and Life in Clark Hall in the 2000s

12:10 – 12:35 p.m.

    Dan Larson: A Single-molecule Vew of the Central Dogma

12:35 – 1:00 p.m.

    Sudipta Maiti—Serotonin Can Signal Via the Lipid Membrane

1:00 – 2:15 p.m. — Lunch


Afternoon Session I  120 Physical Sciences Building Chaired by Liz Rhoades

2:15 – 2:40 p.m.

   Fred Maxfield:  Bringing Multiphoton Imaging to the Clinic

2:40 – 3:05 p.m.

   Dave Piston: Getting an Unfair Advantage over Nature: Hyperspectral Light Sheet Microscopy

3:05 – 3:30 p.m

   Tim Ryan: Solving the Energy Crisis at the Synapse

3:30 – 3:55 p.m.

   Lorinda Opsahl-Ong: Webb Lab to Wall Street

3:55 – 4:20 p.m.—Coffee break

Afternoon Session II — 120 Physical Sciences Building Chaired by Warren Zipfel

4:20 – 4:45 p.m.

   Joseph Schlessinger: Cell Signaling by Receptor Tyrosine Kinases: From Basic Principles to Cancer Therapy

4:45 – 5:10 p.m.

   Petra Schwille: From Single Molecules to Artificial Cells

5:10 – 5:35 p.m.

   Karel Svoboda: Three Decades of 2-photon Excitation to Explore Neurons and Neural Circuits

5:35 – 6:00 p.m.

   Buck and/or Spahr Webb

6:00 – 6:30 p.m.–Break


6:30 – 7:00 p.m—Evening Reception with Drinks

    A.D. White House, Cornell campus

7:00 – 9:00 p.m.—Dinner

    A.D. White House, Cornell campus


Lodging

A block of rooms has been reserved at The Hotel Ithaca at 222 S. Cayuga Street in downtown Ithaca, (607) 272-1000. Rooms are $169 per night for a double queen executive room or a king executive room. To receive the block rate you must call the hotel and refer to the Watt W. Webb Memorial Symposium, Group ID: 5703 when making your reservation.The block expires on June 30, 2022, so please be sure to make your reservation prior to the expiration date if you plan to stay at the Hotel Ithaca. If you need to cancel your reservation, cancellations must be made 48 hours prior to arrival.

Watt W. Webb withe quipment in his lab.

Watt W. Webb, 1927–2020

Watt W. Webb, director of AEP from 1983 to 1988 and Cornell professor for more than 50 years, was a leader in material science and biophysics research, and an inventor of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and two-photon laser scanning microscopy.