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Date:<\/strong> Sep. 18, 2025<\/p>\n Location:<\/strong> CILSE 101, 610 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n The transport of molecular cargos in neuronal cells is analyzed in the context of new developments in statistical physics. Our development of very bright rare earth up-converting optical probes enables the long-term single tracking of molecular cargos. These nanoparticles allowed individual molecular steps to be resolved at cellular ATP concentrations that led to a new, detailed quantitatively falsifiable chemo-mechanical model where two aTP molecules are hydrolyzed sequentially\u2013\u2013and said model will be discussed.<\/span><\/p>\n Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n Steven Chu<\/span>\u00a0is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He earned degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of Rochester and a PhD in physics from UC Berkeley. He was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for laser cooling and optical trapping of atoms, and\u00a0served as the U.S. Secretary of Energy from 2009-2013 under President Obama. He has held leadership roles at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford, and helped launch the interdisciplinary Bio-X program.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> Oct. 11, 2024<\/p>\n Location:<\/strong> CILSE 101, 610 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n Lihong Wang, PhD, and team developed photoacoustic tomography (PAT) for deep-tissue imaging, offering in vivo functional, metabolic, molecular, and histologic imaging from organelles to entire organisms. Applications include early cancer detection and brain imaging. Additionally, they developed light-speed compressed ultrafast photography (CUP), capable of capturing the fastest phenomena, such as light propagation, in real time. CUP, with a single exposure, captures transient events on femtosecond scales. Lastly, their research extends to quantum entanglement for imaging, utilizing Heisenberg scaling to enhance spatial resolution linearly with the number of quanta, outperforming the standard quantum scaling\u2019s square-root improvement.<\/p>\n Biography:<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Date: Sep. 18, 2025 Location: CILSE 101, 610 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA Abstract: The transport of molecular cargos in neuronal cells is analyzed in the context of new developments in statistical physics. Our development of very bright rare earth up-converting optical probes enables the long-term single tracking of molecular cargos. These nanoparticles allowed individual molecular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24744,"featured_media":0,"parent":13577,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13963,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13960\/revisions\/13963"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"\/photonics\/files\/2024\/09\/DS_LW_24-650x217.png\")
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\nLihong Wang is Bren Professor of Medical and Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology. He has published 605 peer-reviewed journal articles and delivered 620 keynote\/plenary\/invited talks. He is #1 most cited scientist in optics and #4 in nuclear medicine and medical imaging according to Stanford\/Elsevier. He has received prestigious awards from NIH, Optica, IEEE, SPIE, and more. He is also a Fellow of AAAS, AIMBE, Electromagnetics Academy, IAMBE, IEEE, NAI, Optica, and SPIE. Furthermore, an honorary doctorate was conferred on him by Lund University, Sweden. Lastly, he was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.<\/p>\n