[MOS] 3/30 - Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar with Juergen Popp (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena)

[Christine Brooks]

There will be a virtual Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar held next Tuesday, March 30 at 12pm. A Q&A segment will immediately follow the conclusion of the seminar.

Zoom link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/99153388851?pwd=djFRZnJEOGpvMk4xQ0dxbWJDdnlNZz09
Password: 610944
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Juergen Popp
Friedrich-Schiller University Jena (Germany)

“Translational Biophotonics – From ideas to instruments”

The use of optical approaches outside specialized laboratories directly at the end user requires easy to use optical instruments with a high TRL. Here, the application of spectroscopic methods to address biomedical research has grown over the past years and has advanced into a new era due to advances in instrumentation and most importantly due to an enhanced cross-disciplinary dialogue between spectroscopists and end-user like e.g. clinicians. In this contribution we report on various innovative technological concepts for bringing optical approaches closer to the end-user like e.g. clinical use. We will focus on molecular-sensitive spectroscopic methods, with particular emphasis on Raman spectroscopy and their combination with other spectroscopic / optical modalities, to provide a multimodal approach. We will start with novel multimodal spectroscopic instrumentation (like e.g. innovative Raman fiber probes, clinically usable multimodal microscopes or endospectroscopic probes etc.) for precise surgical guidance and intraoperative histopathological examination of tissue under in-vivo or near in-vivo conditions. Furthermore, we report on a high-throughput Raman spectroscopy platform for the analysis of cells. With this platform Raman spectra of tens of thousands of cells can be rapidly measured via a complete automation of the complete process chain. At the end we introduce an automated Raman platform in combination with specially developed chips (e.g. dielectrophoresis chip) for microbial analysis. The application of this approach in a clinical environment for a rapid identification of sepsis pathogens together with an antibiotic susceptibility testing will be presented.


Christine Brooks
Administrative Assistant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Chemistry
77 Massachusetts Ave, 6-333
Cambridge, MA 02139
p: 617.253.7239
e: cbrooks at mit.edu<mailto:cbrooks at mit.edu>

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