2017 FIP Symposium

2017 FIP Symposium - Frontiers in Photonics

March 13-14, 2017
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina, USA

The 2017 meeting program will include lectures from distinguished speakers, contributed papers and posters by investigators from Duke University and other academic and industrial institutions.

Special Theme: Biophotonics for the Medicine of the Future  

Speakers

Symposium Keynote Speaker

Dr. Eric Betzig

Eric Betzig, PhD

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2014) 
Janelia Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ashburn, Virginia

Dr. Betzig was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2014) for his contributions in the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.  Optical study of single molecules has subsequently become a widely used single-molecule experiment in chemistry, physics and biology. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

 

Plenary Speaker

Dr. Chad A. Mirkin

Chad A. Mirkin, PhD

Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology
George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

Dr. Mirkin has pioneered the use of biomolecules as synthons in materials science and the development of nanoparticle-based biodiagnostics.  Many of the concepts and materials developed within his laboratories are now the basis for commercial detection and lithography systems.

 

 

 Invited Speakers

Dr. Daniel J.C. HerrDaniel J. C. Herr, PhD
Professor and Nanoscience Department Chair
Director, Nanomanufacturing Innovation Consortium (NIC)
The Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering 
University of North Carolina Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina

 

 

  

Dr. Paul French

Paul French, PhD
Professor, Vice Dean (Research) for the
Faculty of Natural Sciences
Imperial College London
Kensington, London, United Kingdom

 

 

 

 

 Dr. Mingjun ZhangMingjun Zhang, PhD
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duke Speakers

Martin Fischer, PhD
Associate Research Professor
Department of Chemistry and
Associate Research Professor of Physics
Duke University

Brenton D. Hoffman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering and
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology
Duke University

Brant Inman, MD
Cary N. Robertson Associate Professor of Urology,
Vice Chief, Division of Urology
Duke School of Medicine

Regis Kopper, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Director, Duke immersive Virtual Environment (DiVE)
Duke University

Howard Levinson, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, Assistant Professor in Pathology,
Associate Professor in Dermatology
Duke School of Medicine

Gregory M. Palmer, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
Duke University

Nimmi Ramanujam, PhD
Robert W. Carr, Jr. Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Professor of Global Health
Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Duke University

John Schmitt, MD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Global Health
Duke University School of Medicine

Xiling Shen, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University 

Cynthia A. Toth, MD
Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University School of Medicine and Duke University

Tuan Vo-Dinh, PhD
Director, Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Duke University 

Adam P. Wax, PhD
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University 

Kevin D. Welsher, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Duke University 

Junjie Yao, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University 

Fan Yuan, PhD
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Ophthalmology
Duke University