TREC Seminar - Francisco Robles, PhD

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11:30 am

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Dr. Francisco Robles is a Faculty Member in the Department of Imaging Sciences at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Professor at the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. He earned his PhD in Medical Physics from Duke University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke in the department of Chemistry. His lab at St. Jude focuses on developing and advancing label-free optical imaging and spectroscopy technologies to help improve the understanding of biological processes and ability to identify disease. What to expect at this seminar Label-free molecular contrast and 3D tomographic imaging capabilities with subcellular spatial resolution are invaluable for many biomedical applications. However, technologies with either of these capabilities are typically complex and expensive, which hinders their widespread use, particularly in clinical settings. Here I will first discuss my lab’s recent efforts to enable low-cost and highly sensitive molecular imaging using deep-UV microscopy. Its application to hematology and pathology will be described. Second, I will present quantitative oblique back-illumination microscopy ( qOBM ), which enables epi-illumination tomographic, quantitative phase imaging in thick scattering samples with nanometer scale sensitivity. QOBM’s unique ability to image thick scattering samples quantitatively, with high speed, low-cost and ease-of- use provides unique advantages for biomedical imaging. Results highlighting this technology’s unique capabilities in areas ranging from regenerative medicine to surgical guidance will be presented .

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