Watt W. Webb

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Current Position
Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University

Graduate Education
Sc.D. 1955 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Activities
Webb conducted research in engineering and solid-state and chemical physics as coordinator of fundimental research and assistant director of research at Union Carbide Corporation before and after graduate studies. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1961. He directs the National Institutes of Health-National Science Foundation Developmental Resource for Biophysical Imaging and Opto-electronics. He served as director of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics from 1983 to 1989. He is on the board of directors and executive committee of the Cornell Research Foundation. He is affiliated with the university's Biotechnology Program, the Materials Science Center, the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility, the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, the Cornell National Supercomputer Facility, and the Theory Center. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, a Guggenheim fellow, and a scholar in residence at the NIH Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a founding fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences. He won the APS Biological Physics Prize in 1990, and served as chairman of the Division of Biological Physics and associate editor of Physical Review Letters. He is active as a consultant and has served on various national advisory committees and professional societies.



Selected Publications
Sandison, D. R., and W. W. Webb. 1994. Backround rejection and signal-to-noise optimization in the confocal and alternative fluorescence microscopes. Journal of Applied Optics 33:603-15.

Opsahl, L. R., and W. W. Webb. 1994. Transduction of membrane tension by the ion channel alamethicin. Biophysical Journal 66:71-74.

Ghosh, R. N., and W. W. Webb. 1994. Automated detection and tracking of individual and clustered cell surface low density lipoprotein receptor molecules. Biophysical Journal 66:1301-18.

Ghislain, L. P., and W. W. Webb. 1993. Scanning force microscope using an optical trap. Optics Letters 18:1678-80.

Piston, D. W., D. R. Sandison, and W. W. Webb. 1992. Time-resolved fluorescence imaging and background rejection by two-photon excitation in laser scanning microscopy. In Time-resolved laser spectroscopy in biochemistry III, ed. J. R. Lakowicz, pp. 379-89. Proceedings of the SPIE 1640. Bellingham, WA: International Society for Optical Engineering.

Denk, W., R. M. Keolian, and W. W. Webb. 1992. Mechanical response of frog saccular hair bundles to the aminoglycoside block of mechano-electrical transduction. Journal of Neurophysiology 68:927-32.

Denk, W., and W, Webb. 1990. Optical measurement of picometer displacements of transparent, microscopic objects. Applied Optics 29:2382-91.



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