In February, Jeff gave a public lecture on “Seeing the Birth of an RNA Molecule” at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.  This talk, intended for a scholarly audience consisting of both scientists and non-scientists, used single-molecule studies of transcription as examples of how visualization of molecular behavior has led to new insight into the mechanisms of fundamental molecular processes in biology.

In January, Jeff gave a lecture on Molecular Computers at the Center of Living Cells at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, Colorado.  This lecture, sponsored by the Aspen Center for Physics and part of the 2017 Maggie & Nick DeWolf Physics Lecture Series, was intended to introduce members of the general public to recent developments in single-molecule biophysics.