{"id":4312,"date":"2023-02-03T11:26:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T16:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=4312"},"modified":"2026-02-10T13:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:57:04","slug":"thomas-bifano","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/profile\/thomas-bifano\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Bifano"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2026 REU Project: <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2026\/02\/10\/bifano-reu\/\" style=\"color: #008080;\">In a Heartbeat<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2>2026 RET Project: <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2026\/02\/10\/bifano-ret\/\" style=\"color: #008080;\">Light in the Bucket<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span><strong>Dr. Thomas Bifano<\/strong> directs the <a href=\"https:\/\/bifanolab.website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bifano Lab<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston University Photonics Center<\/a>. <\/span><span>His research focuses on modeling, design, production, and use of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) in optical instruments and photonic devices<\/span>. He also works on biomedical imaging applications and microscopy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous REU\/RET Projects include:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2025\/05\/10\/bifano\/\">Enhancing Cardiac Microbundle Stability for Improved In-Vitro Force Measurement<\/a> (REU, 2025)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2024\/09\/25\/sebastian-martinez\/\"><span>Breaking the Mold<\/span><\/a><span> (REU, 2024)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6617&amp;preview=true\"> Blinking Heart Lights<\/a> (RET, 2024)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6565&amp;preview=true\"> Making Heart Tissue Dance<\/a> (REU, 2023)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6593&amp;preview=true\"> High Throughput Screening of Cardiomyopathy in 3D Engineered Tissues<\/a> (RET, 2023)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Scaffold Manufacturing for Heart Tissues (RE, 2022)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6536&amp;preview=true\"> Measuring Dynamic Stiffness of Engineered Cardiac Tissue<\/a> (RET, 2022)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Electrical Stimulation and Pacing of Cardiomyocytes by External Triggering (REU, 2021)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Tissue Exercise Machine (RET, 2021)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Well Plate Reader for Micro-Tugs (REU\/RET 2019)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Using Adaptive Optics to Calibrate Extended Field of Depth Adaptive Scanning Optical Microscope (EDOF-ASOM) with a MEMS Deformable Mirror (REU\/RET, \u00a02018)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Fast Volumetric Imaging of Neurons<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (REU\/RET, 2017)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Adaptive Biological Microscope<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (REU\/RET, 2016)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Dynamic Surface Interferometry (REU\/RET, 2015)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":19768,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/4312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19768"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10552,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/4312\/revisions\/10552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}