Ep. 50 : Conversation with Sudipta Maiti : Exploring Molecular Biophysics with Light

Sudipta is a molecular biophysicist who uses light and spectroscopy to study biologically relevant questions. He is a Professor at TIFR, Mumbai: http://www.biophotonics.co.in/ In this episode, we discussed what drew him to biophysics, his journey in establishing biophotonics as a research area in India, his motivation to start the FCS workshop and his thoughts on science in India. There are many other strands of discussion related to the pursuit of science, which the listeners may enjoy and learn from. Listen as we humanize science. References: 1.     “Biophotonics Lab.” n.d. Biophotonics Lab. Accessed April 12, 2024. http://biophotonics.weebly.com/. 2.     “‪Sudipta Maiti - ‪Google Scholar.” n.d. Accessed April 12, 2024. https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=_exYXS8AAAAJ&hl=en. 3.     “Sudipta Maiti (@SudiptaMaiti13) / X.” 2024. X (Formerly Twitter). February 8, 2024. https://twitter.com/SudiptaMaiti13. 4.     Berg, Jeremy M., Lubert Stryer, John L. Tymoczko, and Gregory J. Gatto. 2015. Biochemistry. 8th ed. edition. New York: WH Freeman. 5.     Eaton, William A., and H. Peter Trommsdorff. 2013. “Robin Main Hochstrasser (1931–2013), Giant of Physical Chemistry.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (23): 9189–90. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1307692110. 6.     “Fluorescence India.” n.d. Accessed April 12, 2024. https://fluorescenceindia.org/. 7.     “Measuring Serotonin Distribution in Live Cells with Three-Photon Excitation | Science.” n.d. Accessed April 12, 2024. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.275.5299.530. 8.     “Watt W. Webb.” 2024. In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Watt_W._Webb&oldid=1194542920. 9.     “Watt Webb, Biological Imaging Techniques Pioneer, Dies | Cornell Chronicle.” n.d. Accessed April 12, 2024. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/11/watt-webb-biological-imaging-techniques-pioneer-dies. 10.  Zipfel, Warren, Chris Xu, Elliot Elson, and Sudipta Maiti. 2021. “Memorial Viewpoint for Watt W. Webb: An Experimentalist’s Experimentalist.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 125 (11): 2793–95. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c01045.