We are hiring!
The Optical Manipulation Group is seeking applications for two one-year Research Fellows in the area of new concepts in optical imaging. Prior experience in multi-photon imaging or light-sheet microscopy is particularly desired.
Full details can be found here.
Closing date: 15th April 2019
Posted: 13/03/2019
We are hiring!
The Optical Manipulation Group is seeking a Postdoctoral level trained Senior Research Laboratory Manager.
The post-holder will be required to undertake duties to support research level activities, liaison with both local and international researchers as well as preparation of research papers, international grants, reports and supporting material for research papers, conferences and events associated with strategic grants. The post holder would be expected to undertake their own research too on experimental work and/or numerical studies supporting studies relating to the research activities in the group.
The details of the applications can be found here.
Closing date: 29th March 2019
Posted: 01/03/2019
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