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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: Nanophotonics: Enabling Technology for Next-Gene
 ration Biosensors
DTSTART:20201006T121500
DTEND:20201006T131500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Hatice Altug\, Bionanophotonic Systems Laboratory\, EPFL
  School of Engineering (STI)\, Interschool Institute of Bioengineering (IB
 I-STI)\nIf you would like to attend the talk in BM 5202\, please register 
 here (on a first-come\, first-served basis). This allows us to limit the n
 umber of people in the room and to satisfy contact tracing requirements.\n
 \nFor remote attendance: Zoom link\n\n\nAbstract:\nNew health initiatives 
 with global healthcare\, precision medicine and point-of-care diagnostics 
 are demanding breakthrough developments in biosensing and bioanalytical to
 ols. Current biosensors are lacking precision\, bulky\, and costly\, as we
 ll as they require long detection times\, sophisticated infrastructure and
  trained personnel\, which limit their application areas. My laboratory is
  focused on to address these challenges by exploiting novel optical phenom
 ena at nanoscale and engineering toolkits such as nanophotonics\, nanofabr
 ication\, microfluidics and data science. In particular\, we use photonic 
 nanostructures based on plasmonics and dielectric metasurfaces that can co
 nfine light below the fundamental diffraction limit and generate strong el
 ectromagnetic fields in nanometric volumes. In this talk I will present ho
 w we exploit nanophotonics and combine it with imaging\, biology\, chemist
 ry and data science techniques to achieve high performance biosensors. I w
 ill introduce ultra-sensitive Mid-IR biosensors based on surface enhanced 
 infrared spectroscopy for chemical specific detection of molecules\, large
 -area chemical imaging and real-time monitoring of protein conformations i
 n aqueous environment. Next\, I will describe our effort to develop ultra-
 compact\, portable\, rapid and low-cost microarrays and their use for earl
 y disease diagnostics in real-world settings. Finally\, I will highlight l
 abel-free optofluidic biosensors that can perform one-of-a-kind measuremen
 ts on live cells down to the single cell level\, and provide their prospec
 ts in biomedical and clinical applications.\n\nBio:\nHatice Altug is profe
 ssor in the Institute of Bioengineering at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
  Lausanne (EPFL)\, Switzerland since 2013. She is also director of EPFL Do
 ctoral School in Photonics. Between 2007 and 2013 she has been professor i
 n the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boston University\
 , U.S. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University 
 (U.S.) in 2007 and her B.S. in Physics from Bilkent University (Turkey) in
  2000. Prof. Altug is the recipient of European Physical Society Emmy Noet
 her Distinction\, Optical Society of America Adolph Lomb Medal\, and U.S. 
 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers\, which is th
 e highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding 
 scientists and engineers in their early career. She received European Rese
 arch Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant\, ERC Proof of Concept Grant\, U.S. 
 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award\, U.S. National Science 
 Foundation CAREER Award\, Massachusetts Life Science Center New Investigat
 or Award\, IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award. She is the win
 ner of the Inventors’ Challenge competition of Silicon Valley in 2005. S
 he has been named to Popular Science Magazine’s "Brilliant 10" list in 2
 011.
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