Board of Scientific Counselors Appointment
The Secretary of Health and Human Services has appointed me to serve on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
Category: News
Paper acceptance
Congrats to Lei and Cheng on getting another paper accepted to Photonics Research!
Paper acceptance
Congrats to Cheng Li on getting his paper accepted to Photonics Research!
Scientific Advisory Board Appointment
Judith Su has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Femtoray Technologies.
OSA Biophotonics Congress
Our group gave the following presentations at the 2019 OSA Biophotonics Congress:
TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2019
1. 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM; Salon J, OT2D.1. Label-free ultra-sensitive molecular detection for bioscience and translational medicine
Judith Su (invited)
Judith Su (invited)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2019
2. 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM; Salon I, DW1B.4. Frequency-locked Optical Whispering Evanescent Resonators for Ultra-Sensitive Doping Detection in Urine
Erol Ozgur; Kara E. Roberts; Ekin O. Ozgur; Adley Gin; Jaden R. Bankhead; Zhikun Wang; Judith Su
3. 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM; DW1B.5. Label-free Ultrasensitive Detection of Amyloid-β Using Lipid-Functionalized Microtoroid Optical Resonators for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease
Adley Gin; Phuong Diem Nguyen; Erol Ozgur; Judith Su
4. 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM; Salon I; DW2B.1. Detection of membrane binding events using microtoroid optical resonators
Phuong Diem Nguyen; Adley Gin; Judith Su
5. 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM; Salon J; OW2D.2. Plasmonic Dark Modes for Enhanced Microcavity Biosensing
Cheng Li; Lei Chen; Euan McLeod; Judith Su
Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium Grant
We have received a new grant from the Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium.
Flinn Foundation Grant
Our Research Corporation Scialog Collaborative Award entitled “Identifying and Detecting Diseases Prior to Physical Presentation of Symptoms” has been funded through generous support by the Flinn Foundation. This project is in collaboration with Prof. Laura Sanchez at UIC.
Light: Science and Applications Outstanding Paper Award
Our 2016 paper on label-free single molecule detection has been given an Outstanding paper of Light: Science and Applications award. Judith Su has been invited to attend the award ceremony and give an invited talk during the opening ceremony of Light 2019 (Changchun, China) which is organized by the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Light: Science & Applications’ Editorial Office.
Translational Biophotonics
Judith Su has been appointed for a three-year term to the international advisory board of the new open access journal Translational Biophotonics (publisher Wiley-VCH).
Presentations at SPIE Photonics West 2019
Our group gave the following presentations at Photonics West 2019:
1. Rationally designed nanoantennas coupled to microtoroids for enhanced biochemical sensing
Cheng Li, Lei Chen, Euan McLeod, Judith Su
3 February 2019 • 4:40 – 5:00 PM | Part of SPIE BiOS
2. Frequency-locked optical microresonator biosensors for ultrasensitive doping detection in urine
Erol Ozgur, Kara E. Roberts, Ekin O. Ozgur, Adley N. Gin, Jaden R. Bankhead, Zhikun Wang, Judith Su
3 February 2019 • 2:30 – 2:45 PM | Part of SPIE BiOS
3. Dark mode plasmonic cavity biosensor
Cheng Li, Mohammad Hosain Teimourpour, Phuong-Diem Nguyen, Lei Chen, Euan McLeod, Judith Su
3 February 2019 • 4:00 – 4:20 PM | Part of SPIE BiOS
This work, which we participated in, was led by Euan McLeod’s group:
4. Photonic nanostructures for robust far-field coupling to high-Q whispering-gallery mode optical resonators
Lei Chen, Cheng Li, Mohammad Hosain Teimourpour, Yumin Liu, Judith Su, Euan McLeod
5 February 2019 • 4:50 – 5:10 PM | Part of SPIE OPTO