⁦Congrats to ⁦⁦Jet Rostykus⁩ , graduate student in ⁦Kenny Tao’s lab, named Best BME TA for the spring 2024 semester for work with our 3D CAD (Solidworks) course. Thank you for your excellence in supporting undergraduate teaching!

🎙️ Event Highlights:  Dr. Eric Tkaczyk, M.D., Ph.D. and Dr. Inga Saknite talk on Digital Assessment of Poxvirus Infection in the Rainforest

We are thrilled to host the Chief Business Officers of Vanderbilt University at the Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center! Our discussion showcased our research's transformative, translational, and trans-institutional nature. We appreciate the opportunity to share our vision and impact.

Wishing everyone a day filled with brightness, inspiration, and exciting discoveries! ✨ #DayofLight #Photonics #Biology #Research

Celebrating Dr. Bowden's Remarkable Contributions On behalf of the Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center we're thrilled to celebrate Dr. Bowden's achievements and wish all the best for future endeavours #Vanderbilt #Community #Success

🔬 Publication alert! Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a chronic inflammatory disease of the esophagus (the food pipe), affects 1 in 1500 children in the US alone. Dive into the details by accessing the full article here: lnkd.in/gTwTpw7x

Meet MagLOV: an engineered protein that responds STRONGLY to magnetic fields. This is a fluorescence timelapse of MagLOV in E. coli. We're waving a (small) magnet under the plate. Can you tell where the magnet is? Want some? It's on Addgene now! addgene.org/219957/

I'm blown away by the response to the Widening the Lens and African BioImaging Consortium microscopy education collaboration for African scientists!!! Keep the applications coming! Deadline: July 30th. Apply at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Congrats to BME Prof Duco Jansen on election as chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Optics and Photonics in Medicine and Biology. Dr. Jansen will curate a scientific program covering Quantum Biophotonics to Surgical Guidance, and from Optical Imaging to AI/ML.

🔬 Double Publication alert from VBC! Published in the Journal of Medical Imaging and Biomedical Optics Express is live now. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38765873/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38855702/ Rachel Eimen

🌟 VBC Seminar Series: Summer Edition 🌟 Speaker: Scott Rudder, the President & CEO of OptoSigma Date and time: July 2nd at 12:00 PM i Venue: SC 5326 #VBSSeminarSeries #SummerEdition #Networking #IndustryInsights #OptoSigma #Leadership

🌞 VBC Beats the Summer Heat at Long Hunter State Park! 🌞 What a fantastic day we had! From fishing to grilling and enjoying a mouthwatering BBQ, to long, scenic walks along the riverside, it was an afternoon packed with fun and laughter. Can't wait for the next adventure!

Summer is the perfect time for undergraduates to get a sneak peek behind the curtains of research labs. Our Vanderbilt undergraduate Mona Gerges working with E. Duco Jansen on an infrared neural stimulation experiment, joined by graduate student Jacob Hardenburger.

🔬 Double Publication alert! Our latest review article published in the Nature reviews Urology and Annual reviews of Analytical Chemistry in is live now

Today is the deadline to apply for the African BioImaging Consortium + WtL collaboration to provide fundamentals of microscopy to researchers across the African continent!!! If you have not done so already, see the link below to apply. Beginners welcome!!! forms.gle/6jsnyaL4xjmF96…

At the 28th International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS 2024), Professor @Anita Mahadevan-Jansen and Graduate student Anna Rourke Funderburg, M.S. delivered insightful presentations. #VanderbiltBiophotonics #ICORS2024 #RamanSpectroscopy #Biophotonics

So proud of our VBC SyBBURE undergrads Sophia Juarez, Benjamin Estes, and Daniel Liu for rocking the stage at The SyBBURE Searle Undergraduate Research Program Symposium 2024! 🎉👏 Congrats to all three! It was a pleasure having you this summer. #SyBBURE #UndergraduateResearch

BioMIID has moved to its new space on the 6th floor of the Engineering and Science Building. Check out this time-lapse of grad student Han Dong moving our next-gen microscope into its new home. #Research #Graduate #Microscopy #Innovation

Excited to announce "Light Reading," our new bi-monthly newsletter from Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center will showcases the incredible achievements and projects of our talented students and faculty. vanderbilt.edu/vbc/research/l…

TGIF! 🎉 Great way to end the week with the VBC fluids lab at Tailgate Brewery in Music Row. 🍻 Nothing like a little hangout with amazing colleagues to unwind and recharge. Here's to teamwork, science, and good times!