2014 Biophotonics Summer School

  

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Monday May 19, 2014 – Friday May 30, 2014

Tentative schedule

 

Week 1 – Introduction to optics, biomedicine, and methods

Date

Time

Topics

Session Chair

Monday

May 19

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Welcome

1. Prof. Art Kramer, Director, Beckman Institute

2. Prof. Andreas Cangellaris, Dean,  College of Engineering

3. Prof. Stephen Boppart, Director, Imaging at Illinois

4. Andy Singer, Director, TEC

5. Steve Wille, OTM

 Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

10:30 AM- 12:30 PM

Optics

1. Fourier optics

2. Light scattering

 Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

 

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Tutorials

1. ¡°History of fluorescence measurements¡±, Dr. Beniamino Barbieri, ISS

2. ¡°Biology of the cancer cell¡±, Dr. Marina Marjanovic

3. ¡°Introduction to Pathology¡±, Dr. Krishnarao Tangella, Christie Clinic

 Dr. Marina Marjanovic

 

Tuesday

May 20

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Methods

1. ¡°Fluorescence microscopy¡±, Dr. Beniamino Barbieri, ISS

2. ¡°Nanophotonics¡±, Prof. Kent Choquette, UIUC

3. ¡°Inverse problems¡±, Prof. Scott Carney, UIUC

 Prof. Scott Carney, UIUC

 

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Lab tours

 

Wednesday

May 21

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Imaging

1. ¡°Imaging molecules¡±, Prof. Sua Myong, UIUC

2. ¡°Imaging cells¡±, Prof. Hyunjoon Kong, UIUC

3. ¡°Imaging tissues¡± Prof. Stephen Boppart, UIUC

 Prof. Stephen Boppart, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Hands-on Labs

 

Thursday

May 22

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Sensing and actuation

1. ¡°Photonic biosensors¡±, Prof. Brian Cunningham, UIUC

2. ¡°An optogenetic strategy to study the function of new neurons in behavior¡±, Prof. Justin Rhodes, UIUC

3. ¡°Spectroscopic imaging¡±, Prof. Rohit Bhargava, UIUC

 Prof. Rohit Bhargava, UIUC

 

 

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Hands-on Labs

 

Friday

May 23

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Nanophotonics

1. ¡°Nonlinear optical microscopy in tissue with dissolved gas sensitive nanoprobes¡±,  Prof. Scott Howard, Notre Dame University

2. ¡°Plasmonics and metamaterials¡±, Prof. Logan Liu, UIUC

3. ¡°Nano-scale photonics with micron-scale light: enhanced vibrational spectroscopy with designer plasmonics¡±, Prof. Dan Wasserman

 Prof. Dan Wasserman, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch/ GROUP PHOTO

 

2:00-5:30 PM

Hands-on Labs

Saturday

May 24

 

Free time, social

 

Sunday

May 25

 

Outdoors Optics Q&A

BBQ

 

 

Week 2 – Advanced research topics

Date

Time

Session

Session Chair

Monday

May 26

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Quantitative imaging

1. ¡°Computational Microscopy, Sensing and Diagnostics¡±, Prof. Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA

2. ¡°Super-resolution Microscopy with Nanometers and Milliseconds for Biology¡±, Prof. Paul Selvin, UIUC

3. ¡°Quantitative phase imaging (QPI): when metrology meets biology¡±, Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

 Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Poster session

Tuesday

May 27

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Clinical applications

1. ¡°Re-defining eye disease with the use of optical coherence tomography: What we have learned in the last 10 years¡±, Leanne Labriola, Carle

2. ¡°Chemical imaging for cancer pathology¡±, Prof. Rohit Bhargava, UIUC.

3. ¡°Translational Biophotonics: Intraoperative Optical Coherence Tomography¡±, Prof. Stephen Boppart, UIUC

 Prof. Stephen Boppart, UIUC

 

 

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Hands-on: Fluorescence techniques (ISS)

Dr. Benjamino Barbieri, ISS

Wednesday

May 28

9:00 AM-12:30 PM

Neuroimaging

1. ¡°Label-free visualization of the nervous system with chemical bond selectivity and centimeter-scale imaging depth¡±, Prof. Ji-Xin Cheng, Purdue University

2. ¡°Imaging neuronal activity deep within an intact mouse brain¡±, Chris Xu, Cornell University

3. ¡°Diffuse optical imaging of the human brain: principles and applications¡±, Profs. Monica Fabiani and Gabriele Gratton, UIUC

 Prof. Stephen Boppart, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Hands-on: Fluorescence techniques (ISS)

Dr. Benjamino Barbieri, ISS

Thursday

May 29

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Entrepreneurial Day

1. ¡°Navigating the Entrepreneurship Waters¡±, Laura Frerichs, University of Illinois Research Park Director

2. ¡°Customer Development – Building Stuff that people care about¡±, Jed Taylor, Director of Operations of the Technology Entrepreneur Center (TEC)

3. ¡°Technology Startups Need You!¡±, Gary Durack, Photonic Care

4. ¡°Improving the Drug Development Process: The Potential Role of Biophotonics in the Pharmaceutical Industry¡±, Zane Arp, Manager of the Optical Biopsy Program at  GlaxoSmithKline

Prof. Gabriel Popescu

 

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Demonstrations by industry representatives

 

 

6:00-8:00 PM

Banquet dinner: I-Hotel

¡¤ Graduation ceremony

¡¤ There will be an award for the best video created by the students, describing their two-week experience at BSS14. 

¡¤ Poster awards announcement

¡¤         Congratulations to the poster award winners!

o    1st place - $300: Yanhui Zhao

o    2nd place - $200: Rebecca Gilson

o    3rd place - $100: Poorya Hosseini

o    Popular vote - $100: Justin Luo

¡¤  Keynote talk:

Dr. James Sharp, President

Carl Zeiss Inc. and Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC

Prof. Gabriel Popescu

 

Friday

May 30

9:00 AM- 11:00 PM

Hot Topics

1. Prof. John Rogers, UIUC

2. Prof. Rashid Bashir, UIUC

 TBA

11:00 AM- 11:30 AM

Break

 

11:30 AM- 12:30 PM

Graduation Ceremony

 

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch

 

 

Summer School adjourned

 

 

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