2005 COT Biophotonics Workshop
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• 8:00am Registration/Continental Breakfast
• 8:30am Opening Remarks, COT Introduction - Tom Koch, Kim Trapp
• 8:45am Keynote Speaker - Optics Workshop
Dr. Martin Stickley, DARPA
• 9:15am Keynote Speaker - Biophotonics Workshop
Dr. Nicholas George, Olympus
• 9:45am Break
• 10:00am Introduction: Bio-Photonics Workshop; Dr. Daniel Ou-Yang, Lehigh University
• 10:10am Illuminating Cell Mechanics: Interfacing Bio-Photonics and Bio-Engineering; Dr. Peter Butler, Bio-Engineering, PSU
• 10:30am Bio-Photonics for Cellular Funcations and Disease Diagnosis: A Non-linear Perspective; Dr. Ahmed Heikal, Bio-Engineering, PSU
• 10:50am The Manipulation and Spectroscopy of A Single Particle Using White Light Optical Tweezers; Dr. Zhiwen Liu, Electrical Engineering, PSU
• 11:10am Break
• 11:20am Cell-Biomaterial Interactions and Hepatic Tissue Engineering; Dr. Padma Rajagopalan, Chemical Engineering, Lehigh
• 11:40am Using Optical Technologies to Investigate the Micromechanics and Molecular Adhesion Properties of Lung Epithelial Cells; Dr. Samir Ghadiali, Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh
• 12:00pm – 2:00 pm Buffet Lunch & Poster Session
• 2:00pm Using Optical Tweezers for Studying Intracellular Dynamics; Dr. H. Daniel Ou-Yang, Physics, Lehigh
• 2:20pm Spying on Cellular Communication in Living Cells; Dr. Matthias Falk, Biological Sciences, Lehigh
• 2:40pm A Confocal Microscopy Study of the Transcytosis Machinery; Dr. Meron Mengistu/Dr. Linda Lowe-Krentz, Biological Sciences, Lehigh
• 3:00pm Review of Non-linear Optics for the Characterization of Biological Samples; Dr. Ivan Biaggio, Physics, Lehigh
• 3:20pm Break
• 3:30pm Adenovirus Infection Induces Changes in Host Cell Microtubule Dynamics; Dr. James Warren/Dr. Lynne Cassimeris, Biological Science, Lehigh
• 3:50pm Use of Microsphere-Nanoparticle Systems for Biological Sensors; Dr. James Gilchrist, Chemical Engineering, Lehigh
• 4:10pm Many-Body Effects in the Optics of Single-Wall Nanotubes; Dr. Slava Rotkin, Physics, Lehigh
• 4:30pm Break
• 4:40pm – 5:30pm Panel Discussion: Confocal Microscopy
