Biophotonics and Biosensing

Andrea Armani is jointly appointed at the Ellison Institute of Technology as the Senior Director of Physical Sciences and Engineering and at the University of Southern California as the Ray Irani Chair in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. The overarching mission of her research is to develop nonlinear materials and integrated devices to advance microscopy and diagnostics. She is a Fellow of Optica, SPIE, NAI, and AAAS, and the impact of her work has been recognized by the World Economic Forum and others. Tatevik Chalyan is a postdoctoral researcher in the Brussels Photonics Team at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Her research interests cover the fields of biophotonics and optical biosensing. Her work focuses on the nanofabrication and development of plasmonic substrates for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and fluorescence microscopy, as well as the study of microring resonators and interferometer-based biosensors for refractive index sensing, optofluidic design, and validation. Moreover, she is an Optica Ambassador. David Sampson is Emeritus Professor at the University of Surrey and based in Perth, Western Australia. His overarching research interests are in the science and applications of light in medicine and biology, biomedical optics, and biophotonics. He is an authority in optical coherence tomography (OCT), with main interests in the microscope-in-a-needle (which targets surgical and biopsy guidance, for which he was awarded the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Award and several other prizes), optical elastography (the micro-scale imaging of the mechanical properties of tissue), polarization-sensitive OCT and OCT angiography. His main application domains have been breast cancer, respiratory disease, and skin cancer. He is a fellow of AIMBE, IEEE, Optica, and SPIE.

Part One: Background and principles of biophotonics and optical biosensing 1. Tissue optics 2. Optical biosensors: from working principles of to detection methods of label-free devices Part Two: Microscopy techniques and optical biosensing in research, laboratory, and clinical applications 3. Fluorescence microscopy: backbone of modern biomedical research 4. Raman spectroscopy - research lab analytics 5. Subwavelength periodic dielectric nanostructures for biochemical sensing 6. Integrated photonic and plasmonic biosensors 7. Optical fiber-based biosensing: applications in biology and medicine 8. Photonic biosensing at the point-of-care 9. Endomicroscopy 10. Optical coherence tomography technology in clinical applications Part Three: Advanced signal/image processing and data analysis methods for microscopy and sensing techniques 11. Innovations in signal/image processing and data analysis in optical microscopy 12. Recent innovations in signal and image processing and data analysis in Raman spectroscopy 13. AI-driven innovations in signal/image processing and data analysis for optical coherence tomography in clinical applications