2011 NanoBiophotonics Summer School

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NBSS 2011 Schedule
Monday, May 23, 2011 – Friday, June 03, 2011
Urbana, IL, USA

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Tentative schedule

Lectures in Room 1005, Beckman Institute

Week 1 – Introduction to optics, biomedicine, and methods

Date

Time

Topics

Instructor

Monday

May 23

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Welcome

1)     Prof. Art Kramer, Director - Beckman Institute

2)     Prof. Ilesanmi Adesida, Dean of Engineering

3)     Prof. Rashid Bashir, Director - Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory

4)     Dr. Marina Marjanovic, Illinois Imaging Initiative

5)     Dr. Nahil Sobh, Site-lead, Network for Computational Nanoscience

 

Gabriel Popescu

10:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Optics

1.      Fourier transforms

2.      Electromagnetic fields

3.      Lorentz-Drude model;  All Notes

 

Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Optics

1.      Wave optics/ Fourier optics

1.      Microscopy

2.      Nonlinear optics

 

Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

Dr. Samir Sayegh, Eye Center

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Dinner & Keynote Lecture: iHotel

Prof. Lihong Wang

 Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor

Washington University in St. Louis

Tuesday

May 24

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Optics/ Methods

1.      Near field optics

2.      Inverse scattering problems

3.      Dynamic light scattering for nanoparticle characterization

 

Prof. Scott Carney, UIUC

Prof. Scott Carney, UIUC

Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

1.      Clinical Tour: The Eye Center

2.      Hands-on Optics Lab simulations (Beckman)

Dr. Samir Sayegh, Eye Center

Dr. Donald Barnhart, iCyt/Sony

Wednesday

May 25

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Biomedicine

1)     A tour of the cell

2)     Intro to cellular bioengineering

3)     Pathology of blood and tissue biopsies

 

Dr. Marina Marjanovic, UIUC

Dr. Peter Wang, UIUC

Dr. Krishna Tangella, Provena Medical Center

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch/ GROUP PHOTO

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

1.      Hands-on Optics Lab  (MEL)

2.      Hands-on Optics Lab simulations on Nanohub.org (Beckman)

Dr. Samir Sayegh, Eye Center

Zuhaib Sheikh, NCN@Illinois

Thursday

May 26

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Methods

1.      Optical coherence tomography

2.      Spectroscopic imaging

3.      Nanophotonics devices

 

Dr. Woong Gyu Jung, UIUC

Prof. Rohit Bhargava, UIUC

Prof. Lynford Goddard, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

1.      Hands-on Optics Lab  (MEL)

2.      Hands-on Optics Lab simulations on Nanohub.org (Beckman)

Dr. Samir Sayegh, Eye Center

Zuhaib Sheikh, NCN@Illinois

Friday

May 27

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Optics/ Nanophotonics

1.      Intro to Nanophotonics

2.      Plasmonics and metamaterials

3.      Photonic Biosensors

 

Kent Choquette, UIUC

Logan Liu, UIUC

Brian Cunningham, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00-5:30 PM

1.      Clinical Tour: Provena Covenant Medical Center

2.      Campus Tour

3.      Hands-on Optics Lab simulations on Nanohub.org Review (Beckman)

Dr. Krishna Tangella, Provena

YinTing Wang, UIUC

Zuhaib Sheikh, NCN@Illinois

Saturday

May 28

 

Free time, social

 

Sunday

May 29

 

Outdoors Optics Q&A Presentations and BBQ

Illini Grove, 4-6PM

Chris Nixon, UIUC

Gulsim Kulsharova, UIUC

YinTing Wang, UIUC

 

Week 2 – Advanced research topics

Date

Time

Session

Session Chair

Monday

May 30

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Dynamics: from molecules to cells

1.         “Insights into the molecular workings of ion channels” by Prof. Crina Nimigean, Cornell University

2.         “Molecular Engineering, Life Cell Imaging, and Mechanobiology” by Dr. Kathy Shaoying Lu, UIUC

3.         “Quantitative Phase Imaging of intracellular transport” by Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

 

Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Hands-on lab visits

1.      FRET, Prof. Peter Wang

2.      IR imaging, Prof. Rohit Bhargava

3.      Second-harmonic generation microscopy, Prof. Kimani Toussaint

4.      Quantitative light imaging, Prof. Gabriel Popescu

Gulsim Kulsharova, UIUC

Tuesday

May 31

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Nanoprobes

1.         “Plasmon-Resonant Nanoparticles for Biological Imaging Applications”s by Prof. Alex Wei, Purdue University

2.         “Imaging the Cardiovascular System with Multimodal Probes and Targeted Agents” by Dr. Dobrucki Wawrzyniec, UIUC

3.         “Scattering, Absorbing, and Modulating Nanoprobes for Targeted Imaging and Therapy” by Prof. Stephen Boppart, UIUC

 

Prof. Stephen Boppart, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Hands-on lab visits

1.      Microscopy Suite, Dr. Scott Robinson, Beckman Institute

2.      Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (+clean room) , Prof. Rashid Bashir

3.      Optical Coherence Tomography, Prof. Stephen Boppart

4.      Biosensors, Prof. Brian Cunningham

5.      NanoBionics, Prof. Logan Liu

 

Gulsim Kulsharova, UIUC

Wednesday

June 1

9:00 AM-12:30 PM

Novel microscopy

1.      “TBA” by Prof. Bob Clegg, UIUC

2.      Second-harmonic generation microscopy of tissues” by Kimani Toussaint, UIUC

3.      “Spectroscopic imaging for heterogeneous materials analysis” by Rohit Bhargava, UIUC

 

Prof. Rohit Bhargava, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00-5:30 PM

Student poster session

 

 

6:00-8:00 PM

Banquet dinner: iHotel

·        Poster awards announcement

·        Invited Talk by Prof. Muna Naash, University of Oklahoma

       "Nanoparticle-mediated gene therapy for ocular diseases "

 

Prof. Gabriel Popescu/ Dr. Nahil Sobh

Dr. Samir Sayegh

Thursday

June 2

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Plasmonics

1.      “Let's do Nanoparticle Effects on Living Cells: From Photothermal Therapy to Phenotypic Switching”  by Prof. Cathy Murphy, UIUC

2.      “Super-periodic metal nanostructure surface plasmon resonance spectral sensor” by Prof. Junpeng Guo, University of Alabama-Huntsville

3.      “Molecular and Cell Imaging on Plasmonic Nanopillar Arrays” by Prof. Logan Liu, UIUC

 

Prof. Logan Liu, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

1.      FIONA: Super-Accuracy, Super-Resolution, and Recent Advances. Applications to Molecular Motors, Nerve Proteins, Cancer, and DNA\RNA Mutations. PART 1

2.      FIONA: Super-Accuracy, Super-Resolution, and Recent Advances. Applications to Molecular Motors, Nerve Proteins, Cancer, and DNA\RNA Mutations. PART 2

3.      Optical design

Prof. Paul Selvin

 

Prof. Paul Selvin

 

Dr. Donald Barnhart/ Dr. Samir Sayegh

Friday

June 3

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Biomedicine

1.      “Methods in biomedical imaging” by Dr. Ron Liang, Carestream Health

2.      “Tracts, Tricks and Vision” by Dr. Catherine Best, UIUC

3.      “Biomedicine: Seeing Tomorrow” by Dr. Samir Sayegh, Eye Center

 

Dr. Samir Sayegh

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Graduation ceremony

Gabriel Popescu, Nahil Sobh

 

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