Our recent article in Optics Letters, Three-photon light-sheet fluorescence microscopy, was one of OLs most downloaded papers in November.
The paper was number 2 on the list, but we’re happy to be pipped to the post by Ashkin’s original paper on optical tweezers.
Check out the list of all the top downloads for November here.
Check out our full article on three-photon LSFM here.
Posted 13/12/2018
Congratulations to Yoshi Arita, Adrià Escobet-Montalbán and colleagues for their recent works in photopolymerisation with twisted light and three-photon light-sheet fluorescence microscopy.
Yoshi’s article is one of the top 20 most read in the past 30 days in ACS Photonics:
https://pubs.acs.org/action/showMostReadArticles?topArticlesType=month&journalCode=apchd5
Adrià’s article is currently the top download of today in Optics Letters:
https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/home.cfm
Posted: 02/11/2018
The Optical Society of America (OSA) has highlighted our recent publication on Three-photon light-sheet fluorescence microscopy in a news article.
This work, published in Optics Letters, promises enable delivery of light much deeper and further into tissues, enabling high quality imaging throughout large, thick specimens, and could have implications for neuoroscience and high-throughput drug screening.
Read the OSA news article here.
Read the University press release here.
Posted: 02/11/018
Over 400 visitors to Explorathon 18 at Dundee Science Centre investigated how light is changing the way we look at biology and medicine.
The Seeing Life through a New Light activities were delivered by group members Adrià Montalbán, Philip Wijesinghe, and Yoshi Arita, as well as volunteers from the Gather Lab.
The event showcased how simple optical principles could be used for imaging and manipulation of cells and tissues.
Our star attraction is our new acoustic levitator (which you can make for yourself at instructables.com). It helps demonstrate how light and sound can be used to trap and control small objects. Read the original paper on the device in Rev. Sci. Instrum.
We are hiring!
The Optical Manipulation Group is seeking a one-year Research Fellow in experimental photonics dedicated to Raman microscopy for applications in biomedicine and also for the oil and gas industry. You should have research experience in optical microscopy, supported by a good publication record. Experimental expertise in Raman analysis combined with appropriate knowledge of numerical data analysis is desirable.
The details of the applications can be found here.
Closing date: 28th August 2018
Posted: 03/08/2018
Congratulations go out to all our new graduates, especially to Laura O’Donnell BSc who was awarded the prize for the best BSc physics final year project.
Laura’s project in the Optical Manipulation Group was supervised by Prof. Kishan Dholakia and Dr Graham Bruce (pictured).
Her project was focused on “Multiple wavelength measurements with a speckle-based wavemeter” and builds on our previous work on sub-femtometre resolved speckle-based wavemeters.
Posted: 05/07/2018
We are hiring!
The Synthetic Optics Group and the Optical Manipulation groups are collaborating on a project focused on high throughput diagnostic and analysis techniques, based on light-sheet microscopy, funded by the Institutional Strategic Support Fund of the Wellcome Trust. This research position is open to candidates with a strong PhD in photonics with a proven background in experimental optics and microscopy, also demonstrated through journal and conference dissemination.
The details of the applications can be found here.
Closing date: 30th July 2018
Posted: 05/07/2018
Our recent article in Biomedical Optics Express (BOEx), Fast volume-scanning light sheet microscopy reveals transient neuronal events, was one of BOEx’s top downloads of May.
Check out the full article here.
Published: 13/06/2018
Visitors to Science Adventure at Cowdenbeath Leisure Centre on Saturday 2nd June enjoyed activities demonstrating light, microscopes, and optical trapping at our Seeing Life through a New Light event, as part of Fife Science Festival 2018.
Continue reading Seeing Life at Fife Science Festival, 2nd June 2018
Our recent publication “Light-sheet microscopy with attenuation-compensated propagation-invariant beams” has been highlighted in The Conversation.
Dr Jonathan Nylk, the lead author of the study, was invited to write the article which gives an overview of light-sheet microscopy and an introduction the use of structured photonics in this area.
Read the article in The conversation.
Read the full research article in Science Advances.