SPIE Student Section Symposium on Medical Applications of Optics & Photonics

May 5, 2014

CREOL Room102, 103

8:30 – 9:00 am           Breakfast and welcome remarks

                                    Dr. Bahaa Saleh, dean & director of CREOL

Presentations

Chair: Dr. Aristide Dogariu, University of Central Florida

9:00 am                       Harnessing Light  -  Advanced Photonics in Cell Biology and Photomedicine

                        Dr. Aristide Dogariu, CREOL, College of Optics & Photonics, UCF

9:25 am                       Photoacoustic Imaging of Breast Cancer: Detection and Image-guided Surgery

                        Dr. Lei Xi, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida

9:50 am                       Optical Approaches for Studying Amyloid Fibril Assembly Near Physiological                                         Conditions

                        Dr. Martin Muschol, Department of Physics, University of South Florida

10:15am          Optical Sensing of Molecules

                        Dr. Konstantin L. Vodopyanov, CREOL, College of Optics & Photonics, UCF

10: 40 am        New Photonic Developments for Life Sciences Application

                        Mr. Alexandre Fong, Gooch & Housego (Orlando), LLC

11: 15 am – 12 pm     Panel discussion on “Future of Medical Photonics”

Moderator: Dr. Konstantin L. Vodopyanov

Panelists:  Dr. Aristide Dogariu, Dr. Lei Xi, Dr. Martin Muschol, Mr. Alexandre Fong