We cordially invite you to "Light on the Mountaintop", a biweekly seminar series on optical imaging techniques and applications in science, engineering, and medicine. This week's talk is Seeing More, Understanding Better: Interdisciplinary Imaging for Nanoscience and Neuroscience
Presented by:
Ye He, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Director, Live Imaging and Bioenergetics Facility
Co-Director, MALDI-TOF MS Imaging Facility
Advanced Science Research Center
City University of New York, Graduate Center (CUNY GC)
Date: Monday, October 20, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Iacocca Hall, Governor's Suite
or via Zoom (please email jul724@lehigh.edu for zoom link)
The Organizing Committee:
Lifang He (Computer Science), Chenshu Liu (Biology), Ju Lu (Biology), H. Daniel Ou-Yang (Physics), Will Xia (Bioengineering), Xiaoji Xu (Chemistry)
Dr. He's Biosketch:
Dr. Ye He received her BS in Biochemistry from Nankai University and Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics, Microbiology & Immunology from the UMDNJ & Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 2008, where she studied genetic and epigenetic regulation of oligodendrocyte myelination in central nervous system. After a short postdoctoral training in Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York focusing on the myelination in the peripheral nervous system, she joined Dr. Yuh Nung Jan Lab at UCSF in 2010 as HHMI Research Associate, where she investigated the function of ion channels in gentle touch mechano-sensation and brain tumors.
Dr. He Joined Advanced Science Research Center at City University of New York in 2016 as Research Assistant Professor in Neuroscience and Director of Live Imaging Core. In 2019 Dr. He founded the first MALDI Imaging Core in New York Metropolitan area and aims to build the Interdisciplinary Imaging Platform (IDIP) including super-resolution imaging, MALDI Mass Spectrometry Imaging, EM and AFM.
Dr. Ye He’s current research interests focus on (1) Developing new imaging techniques particularly spatial metabolomics, (2) employing IDIP to study metabolism during development and disease and (3) study the functional interactions between peptide-based nanomaterials and biological system. Her work has led to over 30 publications in Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Materials, Nature Cancer, Cell Metabolism, Neuron etc.