The Biophotonics community at UC Davis, as organized around the central pillar of the NCIBT center, gathers for a monthly meeting where faculty, students and researchers meet and discuss work in progress and brainstorm new research directions in an informal, interactive setting. Each meeting is 2 hours (second Tuesday morning of each month) in duration and dedicated to specific biophotonics topics, described below. These Biophotonics meetings encourage the dissemination of progress in the field, provide a unique training opportunity for trainees to practice presenting their research and obtain feedback from their peers and mentors, and enable participants to gain a wider breadth of knowledge of the field in general. Once per quarter, students enrolled in the BTP 201 Topics In Biophotonics course, a required course for the Designated Emphasis (DE) in Biophotonics and Bioimaging, present flash talks on emerging topics in the field.
Date | Speakers and Topics |
|---|---|
Tues, May 13th 9-11 AM GBSF 2202 | Mihaela Balu, Ph.D. (University of California, Irvine) – Multiphoton Microscopy Breakthroughs: Enhancing Non-Invasive Clinical Skin Imaging Hosted by Professor Alba Alfonso Garcia, PhD, UC Davis |
Tues, Apr 15th 9-11 AM GBSF 2202 | Myeongsoo Kim (PhD Candidate in BME at Georgia Tech/Emory University) – Regulating interparticle plasmon coupling in noble metal nanostructures for enhanced photoacoustic imaging Hosted by Professor Jinwhan Kim, UC Davis |
Tues, Mar 11th 9-11 AM GBSF 2202 | BPT 201 student flash talks (4 talks, 15-min each) |
Tues, Feb 11th 9-11 AM GBSF 2202 | Bec Mayer (Carney Lab) – Enhancing Cancer Detection Accuracy in Liquid Biopsies using Spatial Raman Spectroscopy
Yifei Gu (Carney Lab) – Automated Raman Spectroscopy and Self-Supervised ML: Advancing Head & Neck Cancer Diagnosis |
| Tues, Jan 14th from 9-11 AM in GBSF 2202 | Xiangnan Zhou (Marcu Lab) – Combined multispectral FLIm/polarization-sensitive OCT catheter system for detection of macrophage foam cells in human atherosclerotic lesions
Silvia Noble Anbunesan (Marcu Lab) – In vivo characterization of FLIm signatures on the diffuse glioma in the brain cortical surface |
| Tues, Dec 10th | BPT 201 student flash talks (15-min each) |
| Tues, Nov 12th | Feng Tian, UC Davis BME (Yang Lab) – Physics-informed Integrated Miniscope for Neuronal Imaging
Zixiao Zhang, UC Davis BME (Yang Lab) – Multiplexed Miniature Two-Photon Microscopy for High-speed Neuronal Imaging in Freely Behaving Mice |
| Tues, Feb 14th | Bec Mayer, UC Davis BME (Carney Lab) – Reduction to Clinical Practice of Raman Biofluid Measurements
Dr. Jinhwan Kim, UC Davis BME/Surgery – In vivo Tracking of Nanoengineered Cells for Advanced Cancer Theranostics |
| Tues, Nov 14th | Carolyn Davis, UC Davis BMEGG graduate student (Sivasankar Lab) – Light-activated BioID – an optically activated proximity labeling system to study protein–protein interactions Prof. Siobhan Brady, UC Davis Plant Biology and Genome Center – Microbe-mediated Striga resistance: how to image lots of bugs fast? |
| 10-Oct-23 | Ben Mattison, UC Davis graduate student (Yang Lab) – "High Speed Miniaturized Multiphoton Microscopy with Elliptical Beam Excitation" |
| 06-Jun-23 | Kajetan Wysoczynski, UC Davis graduate student – “Applications of Optogenetics in Cardiology” Jackie Xie, UC Davis – “Raman Spectroscopy in Cardiovascular Imaging” |
| 18-May-23 | Prof. Samuel Achilefu (LinkedIn profile), Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering · University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - "Lighting the Path to Cancer Detection and Therapy" |
| 11-Apr-23 | Shing-Jiuan Liu, UC Davis graduate student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yang Lab - "Transabdominal fetal heart rate measurement through fiber based frequency-modulated continuous-wave near-infrared spectroscopy" Prof. Randy Carney, UC Davis, Biomedical Engineering - "Neural network enabled nanoplasmonic spectroscopy for label-free liquid biospy cancer detection" |
| 14-Feb-23 | Alba Alfonso Garcia, Project Scientist (Marcu Lab), UC Davis - "Fluorescence lifetime imaging for assessing gastrointestinal inflammation and detecting cancer" Ravi Jonnal, UC Davis Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science – “Optoretinography: fundamental principles and clinical translation” |
6-Dec-22 | Jessica Korte, Grad Student, UC Davis - "The Optics in Optogenetics" Rishad Joarder, Grad Student, UC Davis - "Approaches to denoising CW fNIRS signals" Alita D’Almeida and Gautama Bharadwaj, Grad Student, UC Davis - “Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) for Brain Imaging” |
| 11-Oct-22 | Feng Tian, Grad Student, UC Davis – "Learnable lensless 3D camera" Xiangnan Zhou, Ph.D. Postdoc, Department of Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis – "Recent advancements of pulse sampling time-resolved fluorescence" |
| 7-Jul-22 | Kelsey Hadfield, Grad Student, UC Davis – "Optical Molecular Imaging Principles & Mechanisms of Optical Contrast" David Zhu, Grad Student, UC Davis – "Optical Spectroscopy Instruments and Applications in Surgical Oncology" |
| 10-May-22 | Yi Xue, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis - “Three-dimensional bi-functional refractive index and fluorescence microscopy (BRIEF)” |
| 12-Apr-22 | Christina Kim, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, UC Davis - “Engineering optogenetic circuits for detecting intracellular signaling” Shing-Jiuan Liu, Grad Student, UC Davis - “Fiber based frequency-modulated continuous-wave near-infrared spectroscopy for transabdominal fetal pulse oximetry” |
| 2-Nov-21 | Robert Zawadzki, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Ophthalmology & Vision Science UC Davis - "Latest developments In in vivo retinal imaging at UC Davis" |
| 8-Jul-21 | Yunyang Li, Grad student, UC Davis – "Optical design and configurations in mobile phone-based sensors" Hannah O’Toole, Grad Student, UC Davis – "Mobile-phone based platforms for lab-on-a-chip for hematology applications" Arielle Yoo, Grad Student, UC Davis – Mobile Phone-Based Microscopy, Sensing, and Diagnostics: AI Methods Ben Mattison, Grad Student, UC Davis – Optical Design Considerations for Mobile Phone-Based Microscopy |
| 11-May-21 | Mark Harrison, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Chapman University, Fowler School of Engineering - "Nonlinear Optics for Biophotonics" |
| 13-Apr-21 | Robert Zawadzki, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Ophthalmology & Vision Science UC Davis - "Progress in development and application of multimodal optical imaging of the living mouse retina" Jun Zhu, Grad Student, UC Davis - "Noninvasive, in vivo rodent brain optical coherence microscopy using the longwavelength NIR window" |
| 11-Mar-21 | Cai Li, Grad Student, UC Davis - "Optical imaging techniques for the optimization of bio-engineered vascular graft manufacturing" |