Advances in Optics for Biotechnology, Medicine and Surgery Conference held in Lake Tahoe, CA on June 2-5, 2013

生物技术、医学和外科光学进展会议于 2013 年 6 月 2-5 日在加利福尼亚州太浩湖举行

• 批准号: 1340558
• 负责人: James Tunnell
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-10-01 至 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1340558&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Advances; Optics; Biotechnology; Medicine; Surgery

1340558Tunnell, JamesAdvances in Optics for Biotechnology, Medicine and Surgery is a small (~120 attendees), interdisciplinary conference focused on the field of biomedical optics. The conference will be held from the 2-5th June 2013 at the Granlibakken Conference Center and Lodge, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA. Sessions will be composed of invited talks from senior and rising experts focusing on key and emerging aspects of the biomedical optics field. A poster session will provide students and post-docs with ample opportunity to describe and discuss their work, and free-time and social activities will stimulate and promote networking. Substantial effort will be devoted to ensuring geographic, disciplinary, racial, gender and experiential diversity of our participants. Funding from the NSF will allow us to offset the registration costs of 4 students, 4 fellows and young investigators and 6 speakers. Biomedical optics encompasses the interdisciplinary development of new technologies that harness fundamental interactions between light and tissue. The field has already generated a wide range of imaging, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches that have impacted modern medicine. Biomedical optics has also had a profound influence on biomedical research, with advances in microscopy and in-vivo imaging tools keeping pace with the rapid development of transgenic fluorescent-protein in-vivo models and contrast agents with molecular specificity. With these two areas combined, biomedical optics is a continually evolving field impacting both medicine and the basic sciences.Intellectual Merit : Biomedical optics advances are generally borne from the juxtaposition of engineering, physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry and clinical medicine. To train in this highly interdisciplinary field, one must master all aspects of optics, device development, data acquisition, modeling and analysis, in addition to a thorough understanding of the biomedical problems being addressed. Many breakthroughs have resulted from simply pairing the right technique with the right biomedical application; realizations that require open interdisciplinary discussion. Widespread adoption of new biomedical optics technologies also requires that end users receive training that allows them to appreciate the fundamental principles governing operation of a particular technology, and therefore both its benefits and limitations. As such, our field relies upon meetings that draw together experts from all facets of biomedical optics research, including scientists, engineers, clinicians and industry experts, to enable this cross-fertilization. The conference for which we are requesting support serves exactly this purpose: To provide a forum for sharing creative ideas across broad areas of engineering, basic science and medicine, as well as an opportunity for students, trainees and young investigators to diversify their knowledge and develop relationships with key leaders in the fieldBroader Impacts: Biomedical optics is a term used to broadly describe almost any technology that exploits light for biomedical applications. The fundamental physics of light transport in tissue and fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy remain at the field core, yet every year sees the evolution of new technologies for light generation, detection and manipulation as well as new contrast agents, algorithms and biomedical applications, all of which quickly advance the field into new areas. Examples of this in the past 2-3 years include super-resolution microscopy approaches such as PALM and STORM, as well as opto-genetics; a new biological technique that allows excitatory cells to be switched on and off using light. So while this meeting will be the 13th in a series that has been running for over 20 years, every year has seen continual evolution of the program to encompass cutting edge new advances in the field. It is recognized, for example, that it is important for experts in optics to understand the principles, potential, and implications of new approaches such as opto-genetics, since their expertise could significantly improve the way that these valuable new tools can be utilized. Similarly, introducing chemists to the different optical approaches to implementing superresolution microscopy may lead to improved strategies for developing novel contrast agents. The unique format of this small meeting is highly conducive to intensive training at the cutting edge of our field, allowing new concepts to be introduced and then openly discussed.

1340558 Tunnell，JamesAdvances in Optics for Biotechnology，Medicine and Surgery是一个小型的（约120名与会者）跨学科会议，专注于生物医学光学领域。会议将于2013年6月2日至5日在美国加利福尼亚州太浩湖的Granlibakken会议中心和旅馆举行。会议将由资深和新兴专家的特邀演讲组成，重点关注生物医学光学领域的关键和新兴方面。海报会议将为学生和博士后提供充分的机会来描述和讨论他们的工作，空闲时间和社交活动将刺激和促进网络。我们将致力于确保参与者在地域、学科、种族、性别和经验方面的多样性。来自NSF的资金将使我们能够抵消4名学生，4名研究员和年轻研究人员以及6名演讲者的注册费用。生物医学光学包括利用光和组织之间的基本相互作用的新技术的跨学科发展。该领域已经产生了广泛的成像，诊断和治疗方法，影响了现代医学。生物医学光学也对生物医学研究产生了深远的影响，显微镜和体内成像工具的进步与转基因荧光蛋白体内模型和具有分子特异性的造影剂的快速发展保持同步。结合这两个领域，生物医学光学是一个不断发展的领域，同时影响医学和基础科学。智力优势：生物医学光学的进步通常来自工程，物理，数学，生物学，化学和临床医学的并列。要在这个高度跨学科的领域进行培训，除了对正在解决的生物医学问题有透彻的理解之外，还必须掌握光学，设备开发，数据采集，建模和分析的各个方面。许多突破都是由于将正确的技术与正确的生物医学应用相结合而产生的;实现这些突破需要开放的跨学科讨论。广泛采用新的生物医学光学技术还要求最终用户接受培训，使他们能够理解特定技术的基本原理，从而了解其优点和局限性。因此，我们的领域依赖于会议，这些会议汇集了来自生物医学光学研究各个方面的专家，包括科学家，工程师，临床医生和行业专家，以实现这种交叉施肥。我们请求支持的会议正是为了这个目的：提供一个论坛，分享工程、基础科学和医学等广泛领域的创造性想法，并为学生、学员和年轻研究人员提供一个机会，使他们的知识多样化，并与该领域的主要领导者建立关系。生物医学光学是一个术语，用于广泛描述几乎任何利用光进行生物医学应用的技术。光在组织中传输的基本物理学以及荧光和吸收光谱仍然是该领域的核心，但每年都可以看到光产生，检测和操作的新技术以及新的造影剂，算法和生物医学应用的发展，所有这些都将该领域迅速推进到新的领域。在过去的2-3年里，这方面的例子包括超分辨率显微镜方法，如PALM和STORM，以及光遗传学;一种新的生物技术，允许兴奋性细胞使用光打开和关闭。因此，虽然这次会议将是一系列已经运行了20多年的第13次会议，但每年都看到该计划的不断发展，以涵盖该领域的尖端新进展。例如，人们认识到，光学专家了解光遗传学等新方法的原理、潜力和影响是很重要的，因为他们的专业知识可以显著改善这些有价值的新工具的利用方式。同样，引入化学家的不同的光学方法来实现超分辨率显微镜可能会导致开发新的造影剂的改进策略。这种小型会议的独特形式非常有利于在我们领域的前沿进行密集培训，允许引入新概念，然后公开讨论。