Gabriel Popescu, William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and core faculty in MBM, spoke on “Phase imaging with computational specificity (PICS) for biomedical applications” April 13, 2022 at 4:00pm on Zoom. Shannon Berneche, MBM Trainee and …
Recent Faculty, Trainee, Alumni Accomplishments
MBM faculty have been busy over the past few months! Here are a few highlights:
Gelson Pagan-Diaz, Karla Ramos-Cruz, and Rashid Bashir found that training neurons early in their development improved their connectivity and responsivity. Pagan-Diaz is the first author …
Mikhail Kandel publishes research on predicting reproductive outcomes
MBM trainee Mikhail Kandel recently published an article on his research into using label-free imaging and artificial intelligence to help predict reproductive outcomes. The technique determines the potential fertility of sperm samples in cattle and may help improve technology for …
MBM Faculty Ranked as Excellent, 2019
Congratulations to MBM faculty who made the Fall 2019 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students at the University of Illinois! The list is based on the ratings from the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) that students …
New Beckman grants compliment MBM research
Multiple MBM faculty and trainees will combine their efforts to facilitate two new grant programs from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Alzheimer’s Foundation, in collaboration with Beckman Institute’s Neurotechnology for Memory and Cognition research group.
Hyunjoon Kong’s research …
Mikhail Kandel publishes article on Epi-illumination
MBM Trainee Mikhail Kandel recently published an article titled “Epi-illumination gradient light interference microscopy for imaging opaque structures” in Nature Communications.
The article, published in October 2019, details how Kandel et al. built a new kind of microscope for …
Mikhail Kandel presents in Beckman Graduate Student Seminar
MBM Trainee Mikhail Kandel delivered one of three presentations at the second Beckman Institute Graduate Student Seminar of the spring 2019 semester on April 3. His presentation was on “Improving Contrast with Phase Shifting Interferometry” and discussed preliminary studies using …
Popescu Publishes Biophotonics Book
Congratulations to MBM faculty Gabriel Popescu, who recently published the first volume of his six-volume book Principles of Biophotonics, a textbook to help readers learn basic concepts and methods related to the field of biomedical optics.
Gabi Popescu Awarded 2018 Innovation Award
Congratulations to MBM faculty Gabi Popescu, who received the 2018 Innovation Award by Microscopy Today!
The award was bestowed for the development of Gradient Light Interference Microscopy (GLIM), a low-coherence interference microscopy system. GLIM is a new method that solves …
Collin Kaufman Lectures at EBICS Summer School
MBM Trainee Collin Kaufman taught a lecture on “Neuron Electrophysiology” August 7 at the 2018 EBICS Engineering Cellular Systems Summer School. The lecture was part of a six-day series of classes on engineering, biological, and physical science laboratory techniques …