Ji-Xing Cheng and Team Featured in Laser Focus World Video
Professor Cheng’s research team was recently featured for their publication on identifying specific single diseases.
Jerome Mertz Featured in SPIE Article
Professor Mertz et al. were recently featured in an article posted on the SPIE site: “Sharper images: A breakthrough in microscopy resolution” based on his recent research article.
Roberto Paiella Named Optica Society Fellow
For outstanding contributions to the development of novel optoelectronic devices based on quantum-confined systems and photonic nanostructures, Professor Roberto Paiella was recently named an Optica (formerly OSA) fellow!
New Article from Ji-Xin Cheng
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng et al. were recently published in Science Advances for an article discussing: “Stimulated Raman photothermal microscopy toward ultrasensitive chemical imaging.” Professor Cheng shared that his most recent two papers are “innovations in ultra-sensitive chemical imaging. They belong to a new concept called VIP Microscopy for Vibrational Photothermal Microscopy invented at BU. We […]
Understanding the Heart from Disease to Treatments | CELL-MET Materials Day 2023
Following two days of previous CELL-MET events, “Industry Day” and “Community Day,” the Boston University College of Engineering and Photonics Center hosted “Materials Day 2023, Cardiac Bioengineering: Approaches to Advance Study and Treatment of Cardiac Diseases.” Beginning with an welcome speech by Dean Elise Morgan and opening statement by event chair Professor Chris Chen, the […]
New Article from Irving Bigio and David Boas
Professors Bigio, Boas, et al. were recently published in OPTICA for an article on “Multiscale label-free imaging of myelin in human brain tissue with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography and birefringence microscopy” ABSTRACT The combination of polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) and birefringence microscopy (BRM) enables multiscale assessment of myelinated axons in postmortem brain tissue, and […]
New “nature communications” Article from Ji-Xin Cheng, John Connor, and Selim Ünlü
PhD scholar Qing Xia worked among professors Cheng, Connor, Ünlü et al. in nature communications’ recent article describing utilizing mid-infrared technology to fingerprint single viruses: “Single virus fingerprinting by widefield interferometric defocus-enhanced mid-infrared photothermal microscopy”
NASA’s Progress One Month After the UAP Report with Joshua Semeter
By Danny Giancioppo Last month, NASA released a report detailing their newly branded UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) Independent Study team, which includes Boston University’s own Joshua Semeter, ECE professor in the College of Engineering. The team hopes to shed light on the ever-elusive, often-mischaracterized method of research, in no small part by doing away with […]
New “Frontiers” Article from Xue Han
Professor Xue Han served as the corresponding author in Frontier’s recent article: “The autism spectrum disorder risk gene NEXMIF over-synchronizes hippocampal CA1 network and alters neuronal coding.” The viewable publication is set to be finalized soon. ABSTRACT Mutations in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk genes disrupt neural network dynamics that ultimately lead to abnormal behavior. […]
How Ultrafast Lasers Developed in Michelle Sander’s Lab are Speeding Up Biological Research | Faculty Spotlight
By Kat J. McAlpine, Photos by Christopher McIntosh Michelle Sander and her lab group at Boston University are seeking out new ways to build ultrafast lasers – lasers that emit such short-lasting pulses of light that their duration is difficult to fathom. “I’m particularly interested in developing lasers on the femtosecond scale – a fraction […]