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Invited Speaker

Date	Name	Affiliation	Event Information
02/07/20	Simon Poland, PhD	Research Fellow King’s College London	Massively Parallel Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy to Investigate Cellular Dynamics
12/04/19	Nimmi Ramanujam, PhD	Professor and Director Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies Robert W. Carr, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering Duke University	A Technological Approach to Tackling Invisible Barriers to Cancer Progression and Death
11/20/19	Jonathan Lasch, Phd	Executive Director Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering University of Southern California	Technology Development: The Pull Model and Lessons Learned
10/30/19	Kristen Maitland, PhD	Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Director Microscopy & Imaging Center Texas A&M University	Optical Imaging Technologies for Detection of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
8/26/19	Weijian Yang, PhD	Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Davis	Optical Microscopy Principles and Applications in Brain Research
8/26/19	Vivek Srinivasan, PhD	Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis	NIR Spectroscopy Principles and Applications in Brain Research
8/26/19	Lin Tian, PhD	Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, UC Davis	Optical Molecular Probes and Optogenetics Principles and Applications in Brain Research
8/26/19	Saif Islam, PhD	Professor and Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Davis	Advanced Technologies for imaging and Sensing of Faint Signals of Light, Chemicals and Bio-agents
8/26/19	Randy Carney, PhD	Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis	Raman Spectroscopy, SERS Principles; ERS Based Diagnostic Platform for Cancer Diagnostics
8/27/19	Juergen Popp, PhD	Professor, Physical Chemistry, Leibniz-IPHT/FSU Jena Leibniz-IPHT	Linear and Non-linear Raman Spectroscopy Principles: Applications in Clinical Diagnostics (Infectious Diseases, Cancer Detection, etc.)
8/27/19	Laura Marcu, PhD	Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis	Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Imaging Principles: Applications in Tissue Diagnostics (Cancer and Cardiovascular)
8/27/19	Daniel Elson, PhD	Professor, Surgical Imaging and Biophotonics, Imperial College London	Multispectral Imaging, Ultrasound Mediated Optical Tomography, Structured Lighting, Light Sources in Endoscopy and Scattering Spectroscopy
8/28/19	Stefan Anderson-Engels, PhD	Head, Biophotonics, Tyndall National Institute; Professor, Physics, University College Cork	Optical Molecular Imaging in Tissue Diagnostics (5-ALA, etc) — Principles: Applications to Cancer Diagnostic and Therapy
8/28/19	Robert J. Zawadzki, PhD	Associate Professor, Ophthalmology and Vision Science, UC Davis	Optical Coherence Topography (OCT) — Principles: Applications in Ophthalmology
8/29/19	Jinyi Qi, PhD	Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis	AI Principles and Applications in Biomedical Imaging
8/29/19	Richard Levenson, MD	Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Vice Chair, Strategic Technologies UC Davis	AI — Role on Histopathology

Past Speakers

Date	Name	Affiliation	Event Information
10/31/18	Jennifer Barton	Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Director, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona	Optical Imaging for Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer
5/23/18	Melissa Skala	Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin-Madison Investigator Morgridge Institute for Research	Metabolic imaging of cell-level heterogeneity in cancer
4/25/18	Sarah Abrahamsson	Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz	MF-SIM (MultifocusStructured Illumination Microscopy) for live 3D Super-resolution imaging
2/14/18	Weijian Yang, PhD	Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Davis	Two-photon Imaging and Optogenetics in Three Dimensions
1/25/18	Jane Brock, PhD	Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School	Challenges and Innovative Approaches for the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer in Low and Middle Income Countries Medical Education Building 4610 X Street, Rm 1222 Sacramento, CA 95817
12/6/17	Harrison Barrett, PhD	Regents Professor of Radiology Regents Professor of Optical Sciences The University of Arizona	New Directions in Biomedical Imaging and Precision Cancer Therapy
11/15/17	Aaron Streets, PhD	Assistant Professor Bioengineering UC Berkeley	Imaging and Sequencing Single Cells
5/24/17	Enrico Gratton, PhD	Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Physics and Astonomy, and Surgery, UC Irvine	Spectroscopic signatures of cells metabolism and extracellular species using FLIM
4/6/17	David Sampson, PhD	Head, Optical + Biomedical Engineering Laboratory Director, Centre for Microscopy, Characterization & Analysis University of Western Australia	Label-free Tissue Micro-imaging on the Mesoscale – Advances in Optical Coherence Tomography
3/16/17	Brett Bouma, PhD	Professor of Dermatology and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School; Physicist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Director, Center for Biomedical OCT Research and Translation	Polarimetry as a Novel Source of Contrast in Intravascular OCT
2/16/17	Christopher Contag, PhD	Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Bioengineering, Microbiology and Immunology. Assoc. Chief, Neonatology. Co-director, Child Health Research Institute and Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS) Stanford University	Insertable, Implantable and Wearable Micro-optical Devices for the Early Detection of Cancer
1/25/17	Sarah Bohndiek, PhD	Group Leader, Department of Physics and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, UK	Shedding light on tumor metabolism with novel imaging modalities
12/7/16	Eric Potma, PhD	Associate Professor of Chemistry, UC Irvine	Coherent Vibrational Microscopy
11/9/16	Stephen K. Robinson PhD	Professor and Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Davis Director, UC Davis Center for Human/Robotics/Vehicle Integration and Performance NASA Astronaut (Retired)	Challenges of Human Spaceflight – a Scientist/Astronaut’s Perspective
10/20/16	Joseph Izatt,PhD	Michael J. Fitzpatrick Professor of Engineering Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering Duke University	Optical Coherence-Based Imaging and Sensing in Biomedicine and Biomedicine Please note – this will be a joint seminar with the BME Distinguished Seminar Series.
03/02/16	Bruce Tromberg	Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery School of Medicine Director, Laser Microbeam and Medical Program Beckman Laser Institute UC Irvine	Biophotonics and the Future of Personal Health Care
02/12/16	Francesco Pavone	Professor, University of Florence European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)	Multimodal Biophotonics of Tissues
01/20/16	Gregory Faris	Program Manager, Optical Systems, Discovery Technologies	Biomedical Optics: In Vivo Imaging & Microfluidics
12/2/15	Joel Kubby	Professor and Department Chair of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz	Adaptive Optics for Biological Imaging using Direct Wavefront Sensing
11/4/15	Eben Rosenthal	Ann & John Doer Medical Director at Stanford Cancer Center	Visualizing Cancer: Surgical Navigation Fluorescent Contrast Agents
10/7/15	Caroline Boudoux	Polytechnique Montréal	Multimodal imaging: Dedicated fiber optics combining coherent imaging with molecular sensitivity
5/8/15	Stefan Andersson-Engels	Lund University, Sweden	Upconverting Nanoparticles for Deep Tissue Imaging
2/6/15	Gijs van Soest	Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam	Cardiovascular Photonics-Imaging Atherosclerosis and Coronary Interventions
5/14/14	Kenton Gregory	Oregon Health and Science University	Treatment of Severe Extremity Injury Using Autologous Bone Marrow Stem Cells
1/30/14	Jürgen Popp	Friedrich-Schiller University, Germany	Raman Spectroscopy for Clinical Diagnosis: Potentials and Limits
10/16/13	Stephen A. Boppart	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Translating Biophotonics Imaging into Medical and Surgical Applications
6/11/13	Yu Chen	Bioengineering, University of Maryland	Intra-operative OCT Imaging and Sensing Devices for Clinical Translation
5/29/13	Xingde LI	Johns Hopkins University	Label-free Optical Micro Imaging and Tissue Histology in vivo
5/1/13	Steven Jacques	Biomedical Engineering & Dermatology, Oregon Health & Science University	Optically probing the nanoarchitecture of cells and tissues
3/13/13	Lihong Wang	Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis	Photoacoustic Tomography: Ultrasonically Breaking through the Optical Diffusion and Diffraction Limits
2/6/13	Anand Kumar	Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital	*Molecular imaging with time domain fluorescence*

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