Program - Current Speakers for FluoroFest 2015 - Cambridge, MA

Keynote speaker:

• Enrico Gratton
  Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physics University of California, Irvine
  Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics

Invited Speakers:

• Thomas Bischof - Graduate Student, the Bawendi Lab, Department of Chemistry, MIT

  Title: Whole-body imaging with SWIR-emitting colloidal quantum dots.

• David Birch - Professor, PhotoPhysics, Head of Biomolecular and Chemical Physics - University of Strathclyde

  Title: Fluorescent nanoparticles: the lows and highs of measurement

• Alexander Chekalyuk - Adjunct Research Professor, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

  Title:Advance Laser Fluorometry, A versatile technique for characterization of optically complex liquids

• Michelle A Digman - Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering -University of California, Irvine (Previous Young Fluorescence Award winner, Co-Investigator of the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics.)

  Title: Investigating the oligomerization of the EBOLA VP40 protein using the Number and Brightness Analysis

• David Jameson - Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Hawaii

Title: A Nano-History of Fluorescence

• Richard Ludescher - Professor and Dean of Academic Programs, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences - Rutgers State University of New Jersey

  Title: Edible Luminescent Probes: Relating Photophysics to Food Quality

• Stephen Sims - Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, Bone and Joint Institute

  Title: Role of subcellular calcium elevation in osteoclast migration

• Yitzhak Tor - Professor of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego

  Title: New Isomorphic Fluorescent Nucleosides for Studying RNA-based Processes

• Anna Yaroslavsky - Associate Professor, Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell

  Title: Fluorescence Anisotropy Imaging for detecting Cancer in Single Cells

Program - Schedule