Welcome! Our group is interested in the development and applications of novel optical tools to study essential problems in chemistry, biology and materials science.
[09/30/24] Abdullah's photonic lantern paper has been published!
[09/03/24] Our first study on two-photon microscopy has been published!
[08/08/24] STED microscopy in Nature Review Methods Primer has been published.
[07/31/24] Interview with BioPhotonics Magazine.
[07/12/24] Le Mei's work has been published in Nanophotonics.
[06/19/24] Farewell party for Crystal. Good luck in KLA.
[06/15/24] KY has been nominated to the NIH EBIT Study Section member.
[05/10/24] Katie has been selected as a recipient of the UCF Multidisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!!
[03/25/24] Le-Mei & Bethany presented their works at FOM 2024 in Genoa, Italy.
[01/29/24] Abdullah & Le-Mei attended SPIE Photonics West.
[11/16/23] Le Mei has been selected as 2023 Edmund Optics Educational Award Finalist!
[10/13/23] Crystal defended her dissertation. Congrats, Dr. Weng!
[09/23/23] Our collaborative work with Yoon Kim's lab at Rutgers has been published in Acta Neuropathologica.
[08/16/23] Bye Vahid. We will miss you.
[08/07/23] Welcome new graduate students, Xiaotong, Xuan & Katie!
[07/03/23] Vahid's work has been featured in the main page of CommsBio.
[06/27/23] Gentle STED paper came out!
[06/20/23] Vahid successfully defended his dissertation. Congrats, Dr. Ebrahimi!
[05/18/23] KY gave an invited talk at ETOP 2023.
[05/15/23] Welcome, Krina.
[05/07/23] KY gave a short course lecture at CLEO.
[02/06/23] Shaheen from RPI visits us for 3D lithography projects.
[01/28/23] We attended SPIE Photonics West 2023.
[01/03/23] Welcome Prof. Chaitanya Ullal from RPI for his sabbatical in our lab.
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Our research has been supported by the following:
NIGMS (MIRA & R21) | NIH Common Fund | Biophotonics | DARPA |
Photonic lantern TIRF [Opt.Exp. 2024]
Highly sensitive volumetric single-molecule imaging [Nanophotonics, 2024]
Fast, gentle live-cell STED by deep learning [Commun. Biol. 2023]
Single-shot nondiffracting light-sheet microscopy [Opt.Exp.2021]
Double-pass configuration 2.5DM [Opt.Exp.2021]
2.5D microscopy [ACS Photonics 2021]