The Seminar Series established at the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics is a regular event where national and international speakers from different areas of photonics including biomedical optics are invited. These invitees spend two days at Duke and spend a considerable amount of their time interacting with the postdoctoral fellows and graduate students within the different research groups. The seminars provide an important training and educational element to Duke Faculty and students but also are an excellent vehicle of dissemination and exchange of scientific information with external visitors.

To view the speakers' announcement with their Title, Abstract and Short Biography, please click on the speaker's name.

Upcoming Speakers:

Dates TBA:
Dr. Arye Rosen, Academy Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University
Dr. David Boas, Associate Professor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Rebekah Drezek, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Rice University (Duke Alumni)
Dr. Andrew Rollins, Warren E. Rupp Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University

Previous speakers:

June 6, 2008 – Professor Eric J. Seibel, Mechanical Engineering, Adjunct Bioengineering, Human Photonics Lab, University of Washington  "Biophotonics - Early Detection & Diagnosis of Cancer"

April 7, 2008 -Professor Andrew Dunn from Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. "High Resolution Optical Imaging of Brain Function"

April 1, 2008 – Professor J. Michael Ramsey, Minnie N. Goldby Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Protein and Peptide Analysis of Ultra-Small Specimens"

March 4, 2008 – Dr. Kevin Chalut, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University "Assessing Structure and Organization in Biological Materals Using Light Scattering"

December 4, 2007 – Professor Jie Liu, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Duke University "Few-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: A Better Candidate for Bulk Applications than Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes"

November 27, 2007 – Dwight S. Walker, US Team Leader of Novel Analytical Technology, GlaxoSmithKline "The Use of Spectroscopic Tools for Analysis of Pharmaceutical Samples: Background and Case Studies"

November 13, 2007 – Dr. John R. Lombardi, Professor of Physical Chemistry, City College of New York "Surface Enhanced Raman Spectra in Art and Archaeology: Flavone and Several Hydroxy-Derivatives"

November 6, 2007 – Dr. Jenny Ting, Alumni Distinguished Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Immunology Program Leader, Lineberge Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "System Biology and The Revelation of New Immune Pathways"

October 18, 2007 – Dr. Yuehe Lin, Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) "Biosensors Based on Functional Nanomaterials"

October 16, 2007 – Professor David Cahen, Department of Chemistry, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovet, Israel "Electron Transport Across Molecules: From well-defined Monolayers of Simple Alkyls to Proteins"

September 7, 2007 – Professor A. Claude Bocarra, Dean of Research, ESPCI (Institute of Applied Chemistry and Physics), Paris, France "Biophotonics at ESPCI: from nano scale to micro scale"