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Join us for our third Annual NCIBT Symposium and Summer School 2025. The first 2 days will feature invited speakers and center updates, while the next 3 days will be an instructional summer school focused on learning practical skills in Interventional Biophotonics.
2025 Biophotonic Week_Agenda_07.15.25 with maps
Registration includes:
- 5 day learning (2 day symposium & 3 day summer school)
- Hotel accommodations at Courtyard by Marriott Sacramento Midtown (Check-in Sunday, July 20th - Check out Friday, July 25th)
- Transportation to/from Napa/Sonoma Valley for 1/2 day excursion (Thursday, July 24th)
- Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner sponsored (Monday-Thursday), Breakfast & Lunch sponsored (Friday)
2025 Keynote & Invited Speakers:
| Picture | Name, Affiliation, & Title | Topic |
| Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University) Director of the Biophotonics Center at Vanderbilt & Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Engineering, & Neurological Surgery | Translating Label free optical techniques for surgical guidance |
| Giulia Acconcia, Ph.D. (Politecnico di Milano) Associate Professor, Department of Electronics, Information, & Bioengineering | Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) and applications |
| Farzad Fereidouni, Ph.D. (Emory University) Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | AI Analytics in Pathology |
| Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering | Optical Imaging Modalities for Nonivasive Quantification of Blood Flow, Blood Oxygenation, & Oxidative Metabolism |
| Professor & Kyle & Josephine Morrow Endowed Chair Department of Integrative Physiology | Optical Imaging in Reproductive Biology |
| Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor & Director, Molecular Biophotonics and Analytics Lab, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology (incoming July 16, 2025) | AI & 3D pathology |
| Jurgen Popp, Ph.D. (Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies) Scientific Director & Professor, Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies Chair Holder of Physical Chemistry | Multimodal imaging |
| Kirill Larin, Ph.D. (University of Houston) Chair & Cullen Endowed Chair and Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering | Optical Coherence Tomography: Technological advances and applications |
| Mark Anastasio, Ph.D. (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering & Head, Department of Bioengineering | AI in Optical Imaging |
| Sergio Fantini, Ph.D. (Tufts University) Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Near-infrared spectroscopy & imaging techniques for medical diagnostics |
| E. Duco Jansen, Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University) Professor of Biomedical Engineering Professor of Neurosurgery | A combined fluorescence and spatial frequency domain imaging system for real-time dosimetry of photodynamic therapy |
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