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DATE
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TIME &
LOCATION
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EVENT
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Friday
(December 19)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Irvine Hall, Conference Room
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Lihong V. Wang, Ph.D. (Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor
Optical Imaging Laboratory
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St.
Louis) will speak on: "Photoacoustic tomography: High-resolution imaging of optical contrast"
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Thursday
(December 4)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Ian Parker, PhD (Department of Neurobiology and Behavior,
University of California, Irvine
) will speak on: "Imaging calcium signaling in live cells at the single-channel level"
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Thursday
(November 13)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Caroline Boudoux, PhD (the department of Engineering Physics at Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada) will speak on: "Spectrally encoded confoccroscopy and optical coherence tomography for the study of pediatric vocal fold development ."
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Wednesday
(November 12)
2008
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3:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Wolfgang Losert, PhD (Associate Professor
Biophysics and Bioengineering Program
Department of Physics, IPST, and IREAP
University of Maryland
http://www.ireap.umd.edu/~wlosert/
) will speak on: "Decision making and group behavior in cell migration"
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Monday
(November 10)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Andrew Berger, PhD (University of Rochester
Rochester, New York
) will speak on: "More is always better: combining Raman and angular-scattering techniques to analyze single immune cells"
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Thursday
(November 6)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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John A. Viator, Ph.D. (Departments of Biological Engineering and Dermatology
University of Missouri, Columbia) will speak on: "Photoacoustic detection of circulating tumor cells in blood"
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Monday
(August 25)
2008
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1:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Uzi Efron, PhD (Ben-Gurion University) will speak on: "OPTO-ULSI Laboratory: Update on Research Activities"
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Tuesday
(August 12)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Dr. M. K. Kim (University of S. Florida, Professor) will speak on: "Quantitative Phase Microscopy by Digital Holography"
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Thursday
(July 31)
2008
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1:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Seemantini Nadkarni, PhD (Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Wellman Center for Photomedicine
Boston, MA ) will speak on: "“Optical Techniques to Evaluate Atherosclerosis: a Multi-factorial Perspective” "
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Monday
(June 16)
2008
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3:30 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Dr. Kai-Hua Yuan, MD (Vice Director of Laser Plastic and Aesthetic Center
Guangzhou Army General Hospital
Guangzhou, P. R. China
Committee member of Chinese Society for Medical Laser
) will speak on: "Photodynamic therapy in the treatment of port wine stain birthmarks: can it be accepted as an alternative?"
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Friday
(June 13)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Torsten Fiebig (Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry,
Eugene F. Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College) will speak on: "Photonics with Ultrafast Laser Pulses - From Basic Research to Medical Applications"
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Friday
(June 6)
2008
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4:00 PM in
Natural Sciences II Room 3201
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Stephen Quake, Ph.D. (Professor and Co-Chair of Bioengineering
Stanford University
) will speak on: "Microfluidics: From Academia to Industry"
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Thursday
(May 29)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Natural Sciences II Room 3201
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Jennifer Barton, PhD (University of Arizona) will speak on: "Endoscopes for optical coherence imaging and fluorescence spectroscopy: design and applications."
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Friday
(May 23)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Dr. Gregory Faris (Molecular Physics Laboratory,SRI International, Menlo Park, CA) will speak on: "Biomedical Optics: Topics in In Vivo Imaging, Microfluidics, and Probes"
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Thursday
(May 15)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Natural Sciences II, Room 3201
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Dr. Karyn Kunzelman (University of Maine
) will speak on: "Computer modeling for evaluation of cardiac valvular function"
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Thursday
(May 8)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Soren Konecky (Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania) will speak on: "Recent Advances in Diffuse Optical Imaging of Human Breast"
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Thursday
(May 1)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Jeffrey H. Price, M.D., Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Burnham Institute for Medical Research
President and CEO, Vala Sciences Inc.
) will speak on: "Automated Microscopy in Drug Screening, Tracking, Rare Cell Detection and Tissue Sections"
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Monday
(April 28)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Gereon Huettmann, Ph.D. (Institute of Biomedical Optics
University of Luebeck, Germany
) will speak on: "OCT and 2-Photon Microscopy for the Diagnosis of Brain Tumors"
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Thursday
(April 17)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Alexander A. Oraevsky, Ph.D. (Fairway Medical Technologies - Houston, Texas
Seno Medical Instruments - San Antonio, Texas
) will speak on: "Optoacoustic Imaging: Technique, Applications, and Instrumentation"
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Friday
(April 11)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Natural Sciences II Room 3201
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Dr. Marcos Intaglietta (Professor of Bioengineering & Applied Mechanics
UC San Diego) will speak on: "Physiological and Clinical Consequences of Blood Viscosity and Hematocrit Mediation of NO Transport"
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Thursday
(April 10)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Rolf Saager, PhD (Rochester University) will speak on: "Peering through the skull: Towards a more robust and cerebrally specific optical method of non-invasive monitoring of functional activity in the human brain."
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Thursday
(April 10)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Natural Sciences II Room 3201
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Dr. Zeyun Yu (Mathematics
UC San Diego) will speak on: "Multiscale Modeling of Calcium Dynamics in Ventricular Myocytes: from Imaging to Simulation"
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Tuesday
(April 8)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Natural Sciences II Room 3201
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Thomas P. Burg (Department of Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
) will speak on: "Microdevices for Biological Measurements"
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Friday
(April 4)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Natural Sciences II Room 3201
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Xujun Wen, MD, PhD (Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Cell Biology & Anatomy, Orthopaedic Surgery, Neuroscience, and Hollings Cancer Center.
Clemson University, SC
) will speak on: "From Biomaterials and Stem Cells to Regenerative Medicine: A Bioengineering Perspective"
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Thursday
(April 3)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Natural Sciences II Room 3201
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Dr. Jit Muthuswamy (Associate Professor, Bioengineering
Arizona State University, AZ
) will speak on: "Novel microtechnologies for neural communication"
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Monday
(March 17)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Natural Sciences II Room 3201
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Dr. Andrew MacKay (Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering Duke University) will speak on: "Genetically engineered drug carriers: Polymer architecture controls anti-tumor activity"
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Friday
(March 14)
2008
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4:00 PM in
3201 Natural Sciences II
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Dr. Larry McIntire (Georgia Tech) will speak on: "Regulation of Human Endothelial Cell Gene Expression and Function by Mechanical Forces"
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Monday
(March 10)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Natural Sciences II Room 3201
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Dr. Xiao Wang (Research Associate, Department of Biomedical Engineering Applied Biodynamics Laboratory Boston University) will speak on: "Mathematical Modeling of Synthetic Networks Reveals Noise-induced Gene Regulation Mechanisms"
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Thursday
(March 6)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Rebeka Drezek, PhD (Associate Professor
Bioengineering Department
Rice University) will speak on: "Optically Activatable Nanoparticles for Targeted Imaging and Therapy of Cancer"
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Thursday
(February 28)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Michael D. Cahalan (Professor and Chair
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
) will speak on: "Two-photon immuno-imaging: cellular choreography in the lymph node"
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Friday
(February 22)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Jay Sharping, PhD. (UC Merced) will speak on: "Fiber optical parametric oscillators: compact and portable ultrafast light sources for biophotonics"
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Thursday
(February 21)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Natural Sciences II Room 3201
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Milan Sonka (Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Ophthalmology & VisualSciences, and Radiation Oncology Co-director, Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging The University of Iowa) will speak on: "Can local plaque progression and plaque vulnerability be predicted from coronary arterial morphology, geometry, shear stress, and biomarkers?"
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Tuesday
(January 29)
2008
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12:30 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Shaoqun Zeng, Ph D (HUST Distinguished Professor,
Deputy Director, Britton Chance center for Biomedical Photonics
Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics,
Vice-Dean for Research, College of Life Science & Technology
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)) will speak on: "Random Access Two-Photon Microscope"
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Tuesday
(January 29)
2008
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2:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Prof. Avraham Mayevsky (The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Leslie and Susan Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel) will speak on: "Shedding Light on Life: Optical Assessment of Mitochondrial Function and Tissue Vitality in Biology and Medicine"
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Friday
(January 18)
2008
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4:00 PM in
3201 Natural Sciences II
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Dr. Doug Lauffenburger will speak on: "What Are Cells "
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Friday
(January 11)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Prof. Dr. Josef Bille (MedPhys Vision Science/Biomedical Optics Option
University of Heidelberg, Germany) will speak on: "Wavefront Aberrometry and Adaptive Optics"
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Thursday
(January 10)
2008
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12:00 PM in
Beckman Laser Institute Library
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Ralf Kiesslich, M.D., Ph.D. (Chief of Endoscopy-University of Mainz, Germany) will speak on: "Confocal Endomicroscopy and its Clinical Applications: State of the Art 2007"
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