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Ron Vale is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His lab combines cell biological and biophysical approaches to understand spatial organization, movement, and signaling within cells. Vale is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a winner of the 2012 Lasker Award for basic medical research. Vale is also the founder of iBiology. Learn more here: https://valelab.ucsf.edu/
Ron Vale explains that serendipity played an important role in his discovery of the motor protein kinesin. (Talk recorded in July 2016)
Lasker Award winner Ron Vale gives an overview of the molecular motor proteins that power much of the movement performed by living organisms. (Talk recorded in October 2015)
Ronald Germain, a thought leader in the scientific community, links many of the challenges that face the US biomedical workforce to the NIH grant funding system. (Talk recorded in October 2015)
We had an iBiology Hangout with Ron Vale where he answered questions about his career and scientific research on frontiers for molecular motors. (Talk recorded in November 2013)
Ron Vale gives an overview of the iBiology Microscopy Course, a series of lectures, labs, and tips given by leaders in light microscopy. (Talk recorded in July 2013)
In this concluding lecture about choosing the right microscopy technique, Ron Vale summarizes the main techniques covered in the short course. (Talk recorded in February 2013)
Ron Vale gives a talk about the lenses of the microscope and Koehler illumination. (Talk recorded in March 2012)
Ron Vale provides an overview of the historical contributions from light microscopy to the life sciences and an overview of current exciting developments. This talk is in the Short Microscopy Series. (Talk recorded in March 2012)
Ron Vale illustrates how illumination of a specimen can cause photobleaching and protein damage and gives us a tip about minimizing damage from fluorescence. (Talk recorded in April 2012)
Ron Vale goes through a step-by-step procedure of aligning the lamp and condenser to set up Koehler illumination. (Talk recorded in April 2012)
Focusing is the first step in microscopy. Ron Vale provides some tips on how to find the right focal plane. (Talk recorded in April 2012)
This lecture covers the lenses of the microscope and how they are used to focus light onto a specimen and how light from the specimen is focused onto a camera or the retina of an eye. (Talk recorded in March 2012)
Ron Vale tells a high school class how he first became fascinated with molecular motors and how he discovered the motor protein kinesin. (Talk recorded in September 2012)
iBiology and iBiology Courses are part of the Science Communication Lab (SCL). Our mission remains the same, to connect people to science. However, our focus has shifted to producing and evaluating cinematic films for education and the public, which you can find on the Science Communication Lab website. For more information, please see this blog post!
