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Speaker Profiles:
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 | Professor Zygmunt Gryczynski, University of North Texas, USA |
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Dr. Zygmunt Gryczynski received M.S. in experimental physics in 1982 from the University of Gdansk and Ph.D. in spectroscopy in 1987 working on the basic spectroscopic studies of isotropic and oriented systems of organic molecules. In 1991-1993 he was awarded 1991-1993 American Heart Association Fellowship to work on allosteric mechanisms. From 1998-2005 he was an Assistant Director in the Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy at the University of Maryland. From 2005 he is a Professor of Molecular Biology and Immunology at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Texas.
His post-doctoral work at the University of Maryland was focused on ultrafast time-resolved intrinsic fluorescence of hemoproteins as well as the thermodynamics of ligand binding and the allosteric mechanism of O 2 binding in hemoglobin. He has pioneered the use of ultrafast time-resolved fluorescence for studying conformational changes in hemoproteins as well as the use of multi-photon excitation and light quenching in time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. He has been working on applications of fluorescence spectroscopy to study biological systems using time-resolved fluorescence, anisotropy, and FRET. He also has been developing application of novel fluorescence sensing methods that allow practical sensing in tissue and blood. For last five years his interests expanded to metal enhanced fluorescence and surface plasmons effects. He is an author of over 130 peer-review publications and 7 book chapters. |
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| Professor Min Gu, Swinburne University of Technology , Australia |
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Professor Min Gu gained a PhD degree in optics from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1988. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow first at the University of New South Wales, and later at the University of Sydney, where he was awarded an Australian Research Fellowship of the Australian Research Council. He joined Victoria University of Technology in 1995, where he became Professor (Chair) of Optoelectronics and Director of Optical Technology Research Laboratory 1998. At the beginning of 2000, he was appointed as Professor (Chair) of Optoelectronics and Director of the Centre for Micro-Photonics at Swinburne University of Technology. He was awarded the University Distinguished Professor in 2003. From 2003, he has also been a Node Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems.
Professor Gu is a sole author of two standard reference books and has published over 350 papers (including 200 papers in internationally refereed journals) in photonic crystals, nanophotonics, micro/nanofabrication, confocal microscopy, laser tweezers, biophotonic imaging, laser trapping, and optical data storage. He is Topical Editor of Applied Optics/Optical Technology and Biomedical Optics. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Optics Communications, Journal of Microscopy, Optik, Chinese Optics Letters, International Journal of Biomedical Imaging and the International Journal of Scanning Microscopies. He has been a member of the Advisory/Steering/Organizing committees of many international conferences including International Conferences on Confocal Microscopy and International Conferences on Optics within Life Sciences. He was/is a plenary/invited/keynote speaker on many international conferences (more than 60 conferences). He is/was Past President (2004-), President (2002-2004) and the Regional Council member (2000-) of the International Society of Optics within Life Sciences. He is Vice President of the International Comprojects for Optics (2005-). Professor Gu is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America and the International Society for Optical Engineering. |
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| Professor Ian Kennedy, University of California, Davis , USA |
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Dr. Kennedy joined the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California Davis in 1986 after a period as a Research Staff member at Princeton University and several years at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Australia. He has developed a major aerosol research facility at the University of California Davis in which efforts are directed at varied problems related to ultrafine particle synthesis and applications in technology. The research in his laboratory includes studies of nanoscale particulate eprojectss from combustion systems, including engines. A major thrust of Dr. Kennedy’s efforts is directed towards understanding the impact of ultrafine aerosol particles on human health. This interest is pursued via extensive multidisciplinary collaborations with colleagues in Environmental Toxicology, Land Air Water Resources, Veterinary Medicine, Chemistry and Civil and Environment Engineering. He is also involved in applying nanoscale particles to detection technologies in biology and biophotonics e.g., using nanoscale phosphors as labels of biomolecules. The assays are deployed in microfabricated systems. This work involves collaborative research with colleagues in the Departments of Entomology, Internal Medicine and LAWR. |
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Raoul Kopelman is currently Kasimir Fajans Collegiate Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Applied Physics and a member of the Biophysics Program and the Center for Biological Nanotechnology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has a B.S. and Dipl. Eng. in Chemical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, as well as an M.S. in Physical Chemistry. After having received a Ph.D. in Chemistry at Columbia University, he spent two years at Harvard University, two years as an instructor at the Technion, and two years at the California Institute of Technology before coming to Michigan. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the Edward Morley Award and Medal from the American Chemical Society, as well as the American Chemical Society’s Award in Spectrochemical Analysis.
Kopelman is the author of 500 scientific papers. Current research interests are in non-classical reaction kinetics, scanning photon and exciton tunneling microspectroscopy, super molecular antenna, and ultra-small opto-chemical sensors and actuators for chemical imaging inside single live cells and for photodynamic treatment and MRI monitoring of in-vivo brain cancer. Kopelman’s research contributions include the discovery of pseudolocalized phonons; the measurement of exciton exchange and superexchange energies in molecular crystals; the demonstration of quantum percolation via excitation trapping and annihilation; the initiation of non-classical reaction kinetics experiments and Monte Carlo simulations; the concept and practice of active subwavelength light sources and their application to near-field scanning optical microscopy; and the construction and application of optical nanosensors and nanoprobes for chemical and biomedical applications. |
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| Professor Chi-Hung Lin, University of Taiwan , Taiwan |
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Dr. Chi-Hung Lin obtained his M.D. degree from National Yang-Ming University (Taipei, Taiwan) in 1988, and Ph. D. degree from Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, USA) in 1994. After two years of post-doc training, he became faculty of the Institute of institute of Microbiology and Immunology in National Yang-Ming University in 1996 and was promoted to full professor in 2002. He helped found the new Department of Biophotonics in NYMU in 2002.
Dr. Lin was trained as a microscopist, esp. on live cell microscopy. His research interest is mainly focused on liver cancer genomics and liver biology. He has spent the past years help integrating Genomics and Imaging research platforms installed in NYMU (http://www.ym.edu.tw/ustymu/) and is now responsible for operating a National Core Facility for microarray and gene expression analysis (http://www.ym.edu.tw/microarray), as well as for nanobiotechnology (the NanoBio Core). In his tenure as the director of Instrumentation and Resource Center of NYMU, Dr. Lin highlights the projects of promoting the concept and employment of interdisciplinary biomedical researches. He has been granted "outstanding researcher award" by the National Science Council of Taiwan government in 2004.
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| Doctor Paul Meredith, University of Queensland , Australia |
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Dr. Meredith is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. He is founder and head of the Soft Condensed Matter Physics Group, and Program Leader for Biological Spectroscopy in the Centre for Biophotonics & Laser Science. Dr. Meredith gained a PhD from Heriot-Watt University (Scotland) in 1993 in Physics and Optoelectronics. He was also a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Polymer and Colloids Group at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University Physics Department. Dr. Meredith came to UQ in 2001 after spending 5 years as an industrial scientist with Proctor and Gamble. He has published over 55 papers in top international journals (30 in the last 2 years), several book chapters and is inventor or co-inventor on 11 patents. In 2005, Dr. Meredith was awarded a prestigious UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award which recognises the achievements and potential of early career researchers. He is also co-founder of a start-up company which has just acquired significant investment from a leading Australian VC consortium.
Dr. Meredith's research focuses on organic materials with electrical or optoelectronic functionality. In particular, his group has a growing international reputation in melanin biophysics and the use of bio-macromolecules as functional materials. Optical spectroscopies and other biophotonics techniques are key tools in this work. He also has a significant interest in the use of organics to create low-cost solar cells, sensor devices and plastic circuitry.
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| Professor Steffen B. Petersen, Univ of Aarlborg, Denmark |
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Dr. Steffen B. Petersen obtained a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry ("NMR studies of Nucleic Acids") from University of Copenhagen in 1981. He then moved to State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he worked as a Post doc in Nobel laureate Professor Paul C. Lauterburs laboratory. He developed several new techniques in the area of MRI (including Synchornized 3D imaging of a beating heart and Lung Imaging using Fluorine Containing Compounds). He was appointed senior research scientist at the Medical Faculty at University of Copenhagen. In 1983 he joined the Danish biotech company Novo, the worlds largest producer of industrial enzymes as well as a major producer of insulin. He was appointed Director of Protein Engineering. In 1990 he accepted a position as director of the MR Center in Trondheim. The center was a part of the non-profit research park, SINTEF in Norway. In 1997 he moved to Aalborg University, Denmark where he was the key person responsible for the establishment of the Department of Biotechnology. He was appointed head of the new department in 1999. The staff of the department grew from 15 in 1999 to close to 100 in 2001. He was appointed full professor of Biostructure and Protein Engineering in 2001. In 2003 he moved his research group to Nanotechnology where the research staff was expanded and adopted a new name: Nanobiotechnology Research Group. The group is very well equipped with a range of biophysical research tools, such as molecular modelling, gnetic engineering and advanced spectrophotometers (Steady State Fluorescence, CD, FT-IR, DSC, ITC, Dynamic and Static Light Scatter, Time resolved fluorescence spectroscopy , Total Internal Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Singlet oxygen time resolved spectroscopy. In 2006 we finished a laboratory for Ultrafast Spectroscopy which houses an advanced femto second laser system. The system allows for pico second timeresolved fluorescence measurements as well as for 2-color pump probe femto second resolved excited state studies.
Dr Steffen B. Petersens research interests are focussed on understanding in depth the interaction between photons and biomolecules using a wide range of biophysical techniques, including bioinformatics. The ultimate goal is being able to modulate biomolecular function using photons. He and Teresa Neves Petersen recently has unravelling one such process, where UV photons has been used to open disulfide bridges in Proteins.
Dr Steffen B. Petersen has published more than 110 papers in international refereed journals and 20 book chapters. He has edited 3 books and he is on the editorial board of several journals as well as the book series Annual Review of Biotechnology (ed in chief R. El Gewely). He is serving or has served as a reviewer for several research councils world wide (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Singapore, United Kingdom)
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| Professor Jim Piper, Macquarie University , Australia |
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Professor Jim Piper completed his PhD in atomic physics in 1970 at University of Otago, New Zealand, and from 1971-1975 undertook postdoctoral research in experimental laser physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK. He took up an academic appointment at Macquarie University in 1975 and in 1984 was appointed to the Chair of Physics. In 1988 he was awarded as Chief Investigator the ARC Special Research Centre for Lasers and Applications. Prof Piper leads research programs in high power uv-vis gas lasers, novel solid-state lasers, and applications of lasers and associated optical systems in microfabrication and biomedicine. He is author or co-author of some 200 international refereed journal articles and full-length conference proceedings, and a further 100 published international conference abstracts, as well as inventor or co-inventor of 10 awarded patents. He has been awarded close to $20 million of competitive research funding over his career at Macquarie and has also developed strong collaborative ties with Australian and international industry. Professor Piper and colleagues from Macquarie, Sydney and Australian national Universities have recently been successful in award of an ARC Centre of Excellence ( Ultrawide-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems). He has supervised to completion some 28 PhDs at Macquarie.
Professor Piper has served for several years as a member of Australian Research Council committees including 4 years as Program Manager (International and National Cooperation) and as a member of the Council. He was General Chair of the 20th International Quantum Electronics Conference held in Sydney in 1996, and serves on Program Committees for the leading international conferences in lasers and applications.
Professor Piper's current appointment is as Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), Macquarie University. He has previously been Head of Department of Physics (1984-96) and has most recently completed 5 years as Head of Division of Information and Communication Sciences. In addition to extensive experience of University administration, he has served as a Director of a number of proprietary companies and has had significant experience of technology transfer and commercialisation.
Professor Piper has been awarded the Pawsey Medal (Australian Academy of Sciences), Walter Boas Medal (Australian Institute of Physics) and AOS Medal (Australian Optical Society) for his contributions to optics and laser physics and technology. He was elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 1994.
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| Professor Paras N. Prasad, University of Buffalo , USA |
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Dr. Paras N. Prasad is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Medicine and Electrical Engineering, the highest rank in the New York State university system. He also holds the Samuel P. Capen Chair at the University at Buffalo and is the Executive Director of the multidisciplinary Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics. Dr. Prasad has published over 516 scientific papers, co-edited six books, and co-authored a monograph (with D.J. Williams), "Introduction to Nonlinear Optical Effects in Molecules and Polymers." Dr. Prasad published "Introduction to Biophotonics," the first monograph in this field, which authoritatively defines the field, details its scope and identifies emerging opportunities. He has also published another monograph, "Nanophotonics," which includes its impact on Nanomedicine. Dr. Prasad also holds a number of patents. Dr. Prasad has received much recognition for his pioneering contributions. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Sloan and Guggenheim fellowships. Dr. Prasad has received the Schoellkopf Award of the Western New York American Chemical Society for his academic achievements. He was also awarded the Technology/Discovery award from the Western New York Health Care Industries Association for his pioneering work on "Nanoclinics" for Biophotonics. He has been awarded by the Chancellor of the State University of New York system the "Excellence in Pursuit of Knowledge" award. He was a recipient of the Morley Prize of the Cleveland Section of the American Chemical Society in 2004, a Fellow of the SPIE (2005) and has been chosen Scientific America's Top 50 Scientists (2005).
Dr. Prasad has also been a leader in promoting international scientific infrastructures. He organized six "International Conferences on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materials (India, 1991; Indonesia, 1993; Malaysia, 1995; Egypt, 1997; Poland, 1999; Brazil, 2001)." Each of these conferences brought together top level scientists, engineers and government representatives from more than 20 countries to develop a global infrastructure for advanced materials and emerging technologies.
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| Doctor Mark Prescott, Monash University , Australia |
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Dr. Mark Prescott is a senior lecturer at the Department and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University,Australia. I have an active interest in the isolation, structure, function and application of novel all-protein chromophores related to the green fluorescent protein. Applications include the study of protein-protein interactions using fluorescence lifetime imaging and the development and use of fluorescence approaches to investigate key cellular events such as autophagy with particular a particular focus on organelle turnover and microbial infection. |
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| Professor Monika Ritsch-Marte, Medical University , Innsbruck , Austria |
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Prof. Dr. Monika Ritsch-Marte is Professor of Medical Physics at the Medical University of Innsbruck. She was born in Austria in 1961 and attended a states school with special emphasis on languages. After obtaining a M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Innsbruck, she went to New Zealand for her postgraduate studies in theoretical Quantum Optics, to work with Prof. Dan Walls and Prof. Crispin Gardiner. She received her Ph.D. in Quantum Optics from Waikato University in 1988. Dr. Ritsch-Marte is married to a physicist and has two daughters. Her area of expertise in Quantum Optics is related to quantum fluctuations, especially squeezing, laser fluctuations, quantum noise in nonlinear optics, and atom interferometry. In 1993, together with Dr. Helmut Ritsch she was awarded the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Award, the highest award of the Austrian Physical Society for Theoretical Physics, for their work on quantum noise in Raman lasers. During various stages of her career, Dr. Ritsch-Marte has paid longer research visits to research centers abroad, among them the University of Helsinki in Finland, JIJA at Boulder in the US, the University of Milan in Italy and the University of Queensland in Australia. In 1998 she was appointed full professor of Medical Physics and widened her scientific interest to include biomedical laser applications. She currently supervises a lab specializing in the fields of optical micromanipulation, nonlinear microscopy, and laser-induced optoacoustics. |
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| Professor Paul Robinson, Purdue University , USA |
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J. Paul Robinson has a B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. all from the University of NSW, in Sydney, Australia. He came to the USA in 1984 for postdoctoral study at the University of Michigan and remained there as a junior faculty member until 1988. In 1988 he moved to Purdue University as Associate Professor, where he established the foundation for the Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories (PUCL). In 1993 he was appointed Professor of Immunopharmacology. In 1999 he was appointed Professor of Biomedical Engineering and currently serves in both the Basic Medical Sciences department of the School of Veterinary Medicine, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, in the Schools of Engineering at Purdue University. He has been actively developing the Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories environment for the past 17 years. Dr. Robinson has published over 100 peer reviewed papers, 17 book chapters, co-edited 7 books and has developed a program in electronic publication within which he distributed 10 “Purdue Cytometry CD-ROMs” at scientific meetings including ISAC (over 55,000 copies distributed to date all free of charge). He is currently president-elect of the International Society for Analytical Cytology. He is Editor-in-Chief of Current Protocols in Cytometry and has regularly served on numerous study sections at NIH and NSF and actively participates as a reviewer for several journals. |
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| Professor Halina Rubinstein-Dunlop, University of Queensland , Australia |
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Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop obtained her PhD degree from the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. She also holds a Docent Degree from the same University. After her PhD Halina worked at Volvo R&D Laboratory developing laser based methods for particle measurements. She returned to University of Gothenburg to work on the development of laser based methods for ultra-sensitive trace element analysis and established a strong research group in this area. Halina moved to the University of Queensland in 1989 where she established a large research team actively involved in several areas of laser science. Her research interests are in laser physics, laser micromanipulation, atom optics, quantum computing, linear and nonlinear high resolution laser spectroscopy, and nano-optics. She is one of the originators of laser enhanced ionisation spectroscopy, and is known for her work in laser micromanipulation and atom optics. She has over hundred and forty publications in international peer refereed journals, four book chapters and a large number of international conference contributions and several invited talks. Professor Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop is currently Head of School of Physical Sciences and Director of the Centre for Biophotonics and Laser Science at the University of Queensland. She is also a program manager of one of the scientific programs of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology. |
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| Professor David Sampson, University of Western Australia , Australia |
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Professor David Sampson heads the Optical+Biomedical Engineering Laboratory in the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Australia and is Associate Dean - Research in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics. His doctoral and early research in photonics was directed towards signal processing and communications, conducted at the University of Kent, UK, and the University of Melbourne. He has been active in biomedical optics/biophotonics since soon after his arrival at the University of Western Australia in 1996. His research centres on coherent imaging and in vivo microscopy, most prominently on optical coherence tomography, and on the propagation of diffuse light in tissues. He has a strong interest in applying optical coherence tomography as a medical imaging modality, notably, for the study of upper airway physiology/sleep apnoea. He is also active in optical noninvasive diagnostics for skin cancer. He has recently concluded six years as Topical Editor for Applied Optics. He will host in Perth, Western Australia, the international conferences Focus on Microscopy in 2006 and Optical Fiber Sensors-19 in 2008. |
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| Doctor Seth Olsen, University of Queensland, Australia |
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Dr. Olsen received his PhD in Biophysics and Computational Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) in 2004. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Computational Molecular Sciences at the University of Queensland. His research focuses on theoretical modeling of excited state processes in biological systems - particularly the coordination of excited states in protein environments. He has authored several works describing excited state and nonadiabatic processes in biologically relevant chromophore systems. His current work focuses most strongly on descriptions of the excited states of the chromophores of autofluorescent proteins (GFP homologues). His broader interests include theoretical descriptions of photoisomerization reactions, excimer/exciplex interactions and proton and electron transfer in excited states. |
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| Professor Bruce Tromberg, University of California , Irvine , USA |
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Dr. Tromberg is the Director of the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic at the University of California, Irvine. He is Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and editor-in-chief of "The Journal of Biomedical Optics”. Dr. Tromberg received his B.A. in Chemistry at Vanderbilt University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from the University of Tennessee where he was a U.S. Department of Energy Fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Tromberg was a Hewitt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Beckman Laser Institute and has been a member of the Beckman faculty since 1990. His research interests are in the development and application of multi-dimensional, in-vivo functional imaging methods in thick tissues based on diffuse optical spectroscopy and non-linear microscopy.
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| Professor Duncan Veal, Macquarie University , Australia |
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| Professor Ton Visser, University of Amsterdam , The Netherlands |
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Ton Visser studied chemistry at the University of Amsterdam (MSc obtained in 1969 with specialization in physical and theoretical chemistry and chemical physics) and obtained his PhD at Wageningen University on a biophysical subject related to time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy on flavins and flavoproteins (1975). After one year of postdoctoral research at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U.S.A.), where he specialized in the use of high pressure as a tool for protein de- and renaturation under the guidance of the late professor Gregorio Weber (who was the mentor of numerous scientists who applied fluorescence in biology, biochemistry and biophysics), he returned to Wageningen University (Department of Biochemistry) where he started a line of research in biophysical chemistry with special emphasis on time-resolved spectroscopy applied to proteins and membranes. In 1986 he became associate professor. His teaching activities comprised biocatalysis and advanced biochemical and spectroscopic techniques for undergraduate and graduate students. He introduced in The Netherlands the techniques of time-correlated single photon counting fluorescence spectroscopy (together with A. van Hoek) and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (microscopy) and obtained instrumental and personnel funds to set up fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy and fluorescence spectral imaging spectroscopy. He is founder and director of the MicroSpectroscopy Centre of Wageningen University. In 2000 he became part-time professor at the Department of Structural Biology of the Free University of Amsterdam and in 2004 full professor at the Department of Biochemistry of Wageningen University. |
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Professor Laurence Walsh, University of Queensland , Australia
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Laurence J. Walsh gained his BDSc, PhD, DDSc and GCEd from the University of Queensland. He also holds four fellowships. After his dental training and subsequent higher degree research work in oral pathology, Laurence undertook postdoctoral study in photobiology and photodermatology at the University of Pennyslvania School of Medicine. He then returned to the University of Queensland as a lecturer, and established a research group with a particular interest in the use of lasers and high intensity light sources in dentistry. Over 15 years, this team have pioneered a range of novel hard and soft tissue laser applications in dentistry. Laurence is the Program Director for "Laser Applications in the Health Sciences" for the University of Queensland Centre for Biophotonics and Laser Science. In 1992, Dr Walsh established Focal Point, the national training program for laser dentistry in Australia. He is actively involved in laser safety education for health care workers as well as dental professionals. In addition to his research interests in lasers, Dr Walsh is active clinically in laser dentistry, and maintains a referral-only part-time clinical practice in the area of special needs dentistry, where he uses eight laser systems to provide patient care. Dr. Walsh has published over 170 peer reviewed papers, 11 book chapters, and 6 CD-ROMS. He is the sole author of 6 books. He is a co-author of the major textbooks in the fields of restorative dentistry and laser dentistry on the international market. Dr Walsh serves on the editorial boards of five journals, including the Journal of Oral Laser Applications, the Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine, Archives of Oral Biology, and Oral Health and Preventive Dentistry. He has held a range of senior posts in the dental profession, as well as consultancies with the dental industry. Dr Walsh has lectured in 20 countries, and has represented Australia in world congresses of laser dentistry. He is currently Professor of Dental Science and Head of the School of Dentistry at the University of Queensland. |
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| Professor Michael White, Liverpool University , UK |
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Mike White worked for 10 years for Amersham International in the areas of molecular biology products and gene function. While there, he was awarded a PhD from Imperial College and pioneered the use of the firefly luciferase gene as a reporter for non-invasive imaging in mammalian cells. In 1995, he was appointed to a lectureship at Liverpool University and was appointed Professor in 2004. At Liverpool, he has founded the Centre for Cell Imaging, a state-of –art suite of microscopy and imaging equipment, specifically designed for the non-invasive imaging of cellular processes. Prof. White’s Research interests include regulation of eukaryotic gene expression; regulation of transcription during the cell cycle and apoptosis; use of non-invasive bioluminescent and fluorescent techniques for real-time analysis of dynamic and spatial molecular events regulating gene expression; single cell imaging. In October 2002 he was awarded a 5 year Department of Trade and Industry Beacon project (with Manchester and UMIST) to develop new techniques for higher throughput analysis of gene function. He has applied multi-parameter cell imaging to investigate the cross-talk between signalling pathways and has recently studied the dynamics of NF- κ B signalling and its role in inflammation, cell division, apoptosis and cancer. Recently, his group have shown that NF- κ B signalling involves digital oscillations of the transcription factor between the nucleus and cytoplasm which maintain NF- κ B dependent transcription (D. Nelson et al., Science, 306:704). His work has been funded by organisations including DTI, MRC, BBSRC, NERC, Wellcome Trust, AstraZeneca and ARC. |
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| Professor Brian Wilson, University of Toronto , Canada |
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Dr. Brian Wilson is Professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto and Head of the Division of Biophyiscs and Bioimaging at the Ontario Cancer Institute. He completed his PhD fromGlasgow in 1971, after which he moved to London, England and then to Brisbane and Adelaide where he worked in therapeutic and diagnostic radiology. The Laboratory for Applied Biophotonics established by Dr. Wilson in Toronto focuses on the development and application of new therapeutic and diagnostic techniques based on the use of lasers and other optical technologies. In this translational research, a wide range of methodologies are used: theoretical and experimental studies of light transport in tissues, development of light sources/optical-fiber light delivery devices and of optical dosimeters, photobiological studies at the cellular and tissue level, in vivo optical spectroscopy of tissues, development of prototype clinical instruments, and co-operative clinical trials. A major thrust of the research program is development of new methods for early cancer detection and for minimally-invasive cancer treatments. In addition to his academic work, Dr Wilson is actively involved in several established and start-up companies in the biophotonics field and is the Biophotonics Program Director for both Photonics Research Ontario and the Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations. |
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| Professor Sunney Xie, Harvard University , USA |
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Dr. Xiaoliang Sunney Xie was born in Beijing, China, on June 24, 1962. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry at Peking University in 1984 and earned his Doctorate in Chemistry in 1990 at the University of California at San Diego, where he studied with Professor John D. Simon. After an 18-month postdoctoral appointment with Professor Graham R. Fleming at the University of Chicago, he became a Senior Research Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he rose to the position of a Chief Scientist for the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory in 1995. In 1999, he was appointed as a full professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.
Xie and his research group have made many advances in room-temperature single-molecule spectroscopy. His team was among the first to image single molecules by fluorescence detection and to study dynamical behaviors of single enzyme molecules. His group also pioneered coherent anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) microscopy. His current research interests are: (1) to understand conformational and chemical dynamics of biomolecules through single-molecule spectroscopic studies; (2) to study biochemical activities of macromolecules in living cells, gene expression in particular; (3) to develop new microscopy techniques for cellular imaging.
Xie's honors include being elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the Biophysical Society in 2006, the 2004 NIH Director's Pioneer Award, the 2003 Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences, and the 1996 Coblentz Award. Xie has served on the editorial boards of many journals, including Accounts of Chemical Research, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Microscopy, and Journal of Physical Chemistry, as well as many advisory boards for academia, industry and government.
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