| Current Speakers |
| Key: | Distinguished Speaker | Invited Speaker |
| Date | Name | Affiliation | Event Information |
| 12/6/17 | 
Harrison Barrett |
Regents Professor of Radiology Regents Professor of Optical Sciences The University of Arizona |
New Directions in Biomedical Imaging and Precision Cancer Therapy |
| 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 |
| Past Speakers |
| Date | Name | Affiliation | Event Information |
| 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 |