Optical and Spectroscopic Imaging, Microscopy, and Spectroscopy (Optics)

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Session Chair(s)

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  Kunal Mitra, PhD

  Professor
  Florida Institute of Technology
  INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH, Florida, United States

Track Chair(s)

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  Ria Mazumder, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Interim Chair and Associate Teaching Professor
  Widener University
  Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
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  Natasha Sheybani, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology & Medical Imaging (by courtesy), and Neurosurgery (by courtesy), Research Director of UVA Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center
  University of Virginia
  Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Presentations:

• 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM EST

  Breath-based pneumonia diagnostics using ultrasensitive detection of synthetic breath biomarkers using digital colloid-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
  

  Presenting Author: Marissa McDonald (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Primary Investigator: Loza Tadesse (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Daniel M. Kim

  Co-Author: Sangeeta Bhatia – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Heather Fleming – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Aditya Garg

  Co-Author: Aashini Shah

  Co-Author: Jia Dong
• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EST

  Discovering Metabolic Dynamics Regulated by Anti-Aging Metformin Through Subcellular Multimodal Imaging
  

  Presenting Author: Sirasit Prayotamornkul (he/him/his) – UCSD Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering

  Co-Author: Avriza D. Bestafa (he/him/his) – University of California, San Diego

  Co-Author: Jenna Cecil (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego

  Co-Author: Yajuan Li – University of California, San Diego

  Primary Investigator: Lingyan Shi, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM EST

  From research to clinic: Advancing Raman spectroscopy for cellular diagnostics in liquid samples
  

  Presenting Author: Loza Tadesse (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM EST

  High-Resolution Mapping of Oxygen Tension in Engineered 3D Tumor Microenvironments with Ruthenium-complex Nanomicelle Optical Sensors
  

  Presenting Author: Kevin J. Schilling, MS, PhD (he/him/his) – Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center, OHSU

  Last Author: Carolyn Schutt, PhD (she/her/hers) – Oregon Health & Science University / Biomedical Engineering
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM EST

  Lipid Metabolic Modulation to Increase Car-T Cell Attack Efficacy on Ovarian Cancer
  

  Presenting Author: Chinmayee Prabhu Dessai, B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, MS in Electrical Engineering, PhD Candidate - BME (she/her/hers) – Boston University

  Primary Investigator: Ji-Xin Cheng, PhD (he/him/his) – Boston University

  Last Author: Wilson Wong – Boston University

  Co-Author: Zhuoying Huang – Boston University
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EST

  Stimulated Raman scattering microscopy resolves amphotericin B orientation and accumulation of ergosteryl ester at single Candida albicans
  

  Presenting Author: Pu-Ting Dong (she/her/hers) – The ADA Forsyth Institute

  Co-Author: Meng Zhang (she/her/hers) – The ADA Forsyth Institute

  Co-Author: Jie Hui, PhD (he/him/his) – Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Mohamed N. Seleem (he/him/his) – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Michael K. Mansour (he/him/his) – Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  Last Author: Ji-Xin Cheng, PhD (he/him/his) – Boston University