Biophotonics Initiative

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Biophotonics Initiative

• What is Biophotonics?
• Convergence/overlap of biology with photonics
• Science/technology of generating and exploiting
  light to
• detect
• image
• control biological materials/processes
• Faster, deeper, clearer
• Vision for the initiative

• GRAND Challenges
• Overall Coping with complexity
• Biophotonics
• Molecular
• Biomechanics of molecular motors
• Pathogen detection
• Clinical measurement / sensing / HT screening
• Cellular
• Fundamental issues in cellular
  signalling/pathways
• Photonic Systems biology
• Single cell disease detection
• Photo-chemo-therapies
• Larger scale
• Localizable probes
• Biophotonics
• Beating the diffraction limit Single molecule
  detection
• Non-fluorescent 2nd/3rd harmonic imaging
• Image analysis, deconvolution and reconstruction
• Increasing penetration depths Optical biochips