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SUMMARY:Next-Generation Biosensors and Bioimaging Systems Enabled by Nanop
 hotonics
DTSTART:20190902T140000
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Hatice Altug\, EPFL\, Lausanne (CH)\nBIOENGINEERING SEMI
 NAR\n \nAbstract:\nNew healthcare initiatives including point-of-care dia
 gnostics\, global health care and precision medicine are demanding breakth
 rough developments in biosensing and bioanalytical tools. Current biosenso
 rs are lacking precision\, bulky\, and costly\, as well as require long de
 tection times\, sophisticated infrastructure and trained personnel which l
 imit their application areas. To address these challenges in my laboratory
  we exploit novel physical phenomena and engineering toolkits such as nano
 photonics\, nanofabrication and microfluidics. In particular optical nanos
 tructures based on plasmonics and dielectric metasurfaces which can confin
 e light below the fundamental diffraction limit and create extremely inten
 se electromagnetic fields in nanometric volumes are offering tremendous op
 portunities. In this talk I will present how we exploit nanophotonics and 
 combine it with imaging\, biology and chemistry to achieve high performanc
 e biosensors with new functionalities. First\, I will show ultra-sensitive
  Mid-IR biosensors based on surface enhanced infrared spectroscopy for che
 mical specific detection of molecular compounds and real-time monitoring o
 f protein conformations in aqueous environment. Significantly\, our recent
  invention which converts molecular absorption signatures into barcode-lik
 e images is opening the doors to empowering nanophotonics with artificial 
 intelligence for detecting materials in new ways. Second\, I will describe
  our effort to develop ultra-compact\, portable and low-cost microarrays a
 nd use them for disease diagnostics in real-world settings. Finally\, I wi
 ll present powerful label-free optofluidic biosensors that can perform one
 -of-a-kind measurements on live cells down to the single cell level and pr
 ovide their prospects in biomedical and clinical applications.\n\nBio:\nHa
 tice Altug is associate professor at Ecole Ploytechnique Federale de Lausa
 nne (EPFL)\, in the Institute of Bioenginnering. She is also director of E
 PFL's Doctoral School in Photonics. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Phys
 ics from Stanford University (U.S.A.) in 2007 and a B.S. in Physics from B
 ilkent University (Turkey) in 2000. Prof. Altug is the recipient of the 20
 12 Optical Society of America Adolph Lomb Medal and of the 2010 U.S. Presi
 dential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers\, which is the hig
 hest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scien
 tists and engineers in their early career. She received an European Resear
 ch Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant\, an ERC Proof of Concept Grant\, a U.
 S. Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award\, a U.S. National Sci
 ence Foundation CAREER Award\, a Massachusetts Life Science Center New Inv
 estigator Award\, and an IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award. 
 Altug was the winner of the Inventors’ Challenge competition of Silicon 
 Valley in 2005\, and has been named to Popular Science Magazine’s "Brill
 iant 10" list in 2011.\n\n‘Zoom’ link for attending remotely: click he
 re
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