2006 GOLD MEDAL AWARD
SOCIETY FOR APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY,
NEW YORK SECTION
Dr. Ira Levin, current Deputy Director of the Division of Intramural Research at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and is Section Chief of Molecular Biophysics at the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Levin received his B.S. from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. from Brown University, as well as having had postdoctoral experience at the University of Washington. His research interests lie primarily in the applications of vibrational infrared and Raman spectroscopic techniques toward the elucidation of the conformational, dynamical, thermodynamic, and functional properties of both intact and model membrane assemblies and related systems. Emphasis is placed on investigating the specific lipid-lipid and lipid-protein interactions governing biomembrane reorganizations. In particular, his efforts are directed toward defining and characterizing lipid microdomain formation as it pertains both to the existence of lateral heterogeneities and transverse asymmetries within biological membranes and to the ability and extent of these fluctuating microclusters, or domain motifs, to modulate integral membrane protein behavior. Ira has been at the forefront of developing imaging analogues of molecular spectroscopic instrumentation. Specifically, his laboratories have provided pioneering technologies and studies in spectroscopic FTIR and Raman microimaging. Current efforts are in translating laboratory research into clinical venues ranging from monitoring disease progression by means of spectroscopic histopathologic classifications to in vivo hyperspectral imaging for monitoring tissue perfusion, vascular disease, and endothelial dysfunction.
Dr. Levin has been honored with many awards including the Bomem-Michelson Award by the Coblentz Society, the Meggers Award (three separate occasions) presented by the Society of Applied Spectroscopy, the Harold A. Iddles Lecture Series presented by the University of New Hampshire, AND IS A Fellow of the American Physical Society’s Biophysical Division and, SEPARATELY, A FELLOW IN the Division of Chemical Physics. He has also received the Lippincott Award in Vibrational Spectroscopy presented by the Optical Society of America. He has served on numerous boards and committees, in various leadership capacities in the spectroscopy community and has published extensively over the course of his career. Dr. Levin is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Biophysical Society, the Coblentz Society, the American Chemical Society, and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.
Location: To be presented on November 15th at the Eastern Analytical Symposium.
Wednesday Afternoon, November 15, 2006
NEW YORK SAS GOLD MEDAL AWARD
Honoring Ira Levin, National Institutes of Health, Part I
Chair: Deborah Peru, Colgate-Palmolive
Organizer: Kathryn Lee
9:00 Filters for Infrared Images, Chris Brown, University of
Rhode Island
9:30 Quantitative NIR Spectroscopy from a Different Perspective
Using Infrared Focal Plane Arrays, E. Neil
Lewis, Spectral Dimensions
10:00 Vibrational Spectroscopic Imaging in Biomedical Systems:
From Microgram to Femtogram Detection, Max
Diem, Northeastern University
10:30 Break
10:50 Infrared and Raman Detection of Biological
Weapons…Or How Ira Levin Influenced My Career.
NEW YORK SAS GOLD MEDAL AWARD
Honoring Ira Levin, National Institutes of Health, Part II
Chair: Deborah Peru, Colgate-Palmolive
Organizer: Kathryn Lee
2:00 Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy:
A Probe of Molecular Structure at Surfaces,
Bruce Chase, DuPont
2:30 From the Benchtop to the Bedside: Can Vibrational
Spectroscopy Help Revolutionize Health Care in the
21st Century, John Rabolt, University of Delaware
3:00 Vibrational Microscopy of Skin: Biochemical and
Pharmacological Applications, Richard Mendelsohn,
Rutgers University
3:30 Break
3:50 Advances in Infrared Imaging: Making Sense of
Speed, Noise and Vibrations, Rohit Bhargava,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:20 Biomolecular Heterogeneity at the Membrane and
Tissue Level Extremes: Vibrational Spectroscopy
Using Single Element and Imaging Detection, Ira
Levin, National Institutes of Health
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