Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: How to Commercialize Your Application
Discussion Leaders: Diana Mojahed (Columbia University, USA) and Xinyu Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
3:45 pm - 3:55 pm
Caroline Boudoux (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
"Commercializing Double Clad Fiber Couplers with Castor Optics"
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 4:10 pm
Bruno Villaret (Mauna Kea Technologies, USA)
"Commercializing Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy with Mauna Kea Technologies"
4:10 pm - 4:15 pm
Discussion
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
General Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Under Construction: Building and Improving Optical Tools
Discussion Leaders: Ilyas Saytashev (Florida International University, USA) and Taylor Cannon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Danielle Harper (Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
"White Light Polarization Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography in the Mouse Retina"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Freddy Nguyen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Bionanosensors for In Vivo Monitoring of Cancer Therapeutics"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Sepideh Afshar (Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA)
"Estimation of Fluidic Forces and Permeability from Optical Observations in a Model System of Flow-Induced Biological Modulation of 3D Ovarian Cancer Nodules"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Leonie de Rond (Academic Medical Center / University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Improved Scatter Sensitivity of a Flow Cytometer for Detection of Extracellular Vesicles"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Found in Translation: Novel Biophotonics Applications
Discussion Leaders: Gavrielle Untracht (The University of Western Australia, Australia) and Dylan Lawrence (Tulane University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Suman Mondal (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
"Goggle System Enables Real-Time Intraoperative Fluorescence-Guided Sentinel Lymph Node Visualization and Tumor Margin Assessment"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Brandon Law (Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, USA)
"Optical Control of Melanocyte Activity Through Nonvisual Phototransduction"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Ikbal Sencan (Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, USA)
"Optical Quantitative Measurement of Microvascular Oxygenation and Blood Flow Responses in Awake Mouse Cortex During Functional Activation"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Lisanne de Boer (Netherlands Cancer Institute / Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, The Netherlands)
"Towards Intra-Operative Real-Time In Vivo Margin Assessment with Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy (DRS) During Breast Conserving Surgery"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: How to Get Published
Discussion Leaders: Leah Wilk (Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Andreas Wartak (Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
How to Get Published
Zachary Lapin (Nature Communications, USA)
Ronald Myers (Journal of Visualized Experiments, USA)
Brian Pogue (Journal of Biomedical Optics / Dartmouth College, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
