POB Seminar - Quantitative imaging of living cells using digital holographic microscopy for lab-on-a-chip applications

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Date 08.05.2025
Hour 18:15
Speaker Jose Antonio Vasquez Porto Viso
Location
Category Conferences - Seminars
Event Language English

The EPFL Photonics Chapter (EPC) is very pleased to announce and cordially invite you to our monthly ‘Pizza-Optics-Beer’ (POB) seminar on May 8th, at 18:15 in room CO 122.

This month we will have the pleasure to host Jose Antonio Vasquez Porto Viso - doctoral assistant in Laboratory of Systems Biology and Genetics with the presentation entitled:

"Quantitative imaging of living cells using digital holographic microscopy for lab-on-a-chip applications"

For organizational purposes (if you want to eat pizza!), please confirm your participation using this Doodle.
Don’t hesitate to extend the invitation to any postdoc and colleague!

Hope to see you there,
The team of the EPFL Photonics Chapter



Abstract:
Single cells are the fundamental unit of life. Their physical appearance, phenotype, and molecular composition are closely related to their functioning. Using light to take a closer look at single cells has been the work of microscopy for centuries. However, obtaining contrast from low-absorbing, phase objects such as single cells has proven difficult without the use of exogenous chemical staining dyes that could affect the underlying biology and create toxicity. In my work, I am using a label-free-no-stain technique, digital holographic microscopy (DHM), to maximize the extraction of quantitative phenotypic features from single cells in a microfluidic chip for future coupling with lab-on-a-chip applications, such as cell sorting and genetic sequencing.



You don't know POBs?
POBs (Pizza-Optics-Beer) are monthly seminars organized by the student association EPFL Photonics Chapter.
A PhD or a postdoc gives a 20-minutes presentation about his/her research in photonics. Discussions continue informally around pizza and beers!
The event is free and open to anyone.


We thank the Doctoral Program in Photonics (EPDO), the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE.), Optica and SwissPhotonics for their support.

Practical information

  • General public
  • Free

Organizer

  • EPFL Photonics Chapter

Contact

  • iwona.swiderska@epfl.ch diana.dallaglio@epfl.ch chaudhary.rani@epfl.ch  

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