Perspectives on Fluorescence

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A Fluorescent Lifetime: Reminiscing About Gregorio Weber.- Gregorio Weber's roots in Argentina.- The Labyrinthine World of Gregorio Weber.- Personal recollections of Gregorio Weber, my postdoc advisor, and the important consequences for my own academic career.- Measurements of Fluorescence Decay Time by the Frequency Domain Method.- Ultra-fast fluorescence anisotropy decay of N-acetyl-L-tryptophanamide reports on the apparent microscopic viscosity of aqueous solutions of guanidine hydrochloride.- Weber's Red Edge effect that changed the paradigm in photophysics and photochemistry.- Imaging Lifetimes.- The Impact of Laser Evolution on Modern Fluorescence Spectroscopy.- Effects of Sterol Mole Fraction on Membrane Lateral Organization: Linking Fluorescence Signals to Sterol Superlattices.- The use of 6-acyl-2-(dimethylamino)naphthalenes as relaxation probes of biological environments.- Continuing Inspiration:  Gregorio Weber's Influence on Understanding the Basis of Allosteric Regulation of Enzymes.- Using Fluorescence to Characterize the Role of Protein Oligomerization in the Regulation of Gene Expression.- Light Initiated Protein Relaxation.- Synthetic and Genetically-encoded Fluorescence Probes for Quantitative Analysis of Protein Hydrodynamics.- Spatiotemporal fluorescence correlation spectroscopy of inert tracers: a journey within cells, one molecule at a time.- Role of the Pico- Nano-Second Temporal Dimension in STED Microscopy.- Plasma membrane DC-SIGN clusters and their lateral transport: role in the cellular entry of dengue virus.