Biophotonics: Science And Technology Hardcover 1

Yin Yeh

This lecture volume aims to give students and researchers in this rapidly expanding field of biophotonics an interdisciplinary perspective. Among the primary topics are ultrahigh resolution microscopy, particle tracking, photon correlation spectroscopy, and nonlinear optical methods as used in biological and biomedical research, with a focus on current applications in biophysics and biomedicine.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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Yin Yeh received his BSc in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and PhD in Physics from Columbia University. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Columbia Radiation Laboratory. Subsequently at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he was a post-doctoral fellow and later, staff scientist. Since 1972, he assumed an academic role with the Department of Applied Science at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), rising to the position of Professor in 1978 and becoming the Chair of the Department of Applied Science from 2008 to 2011. His area of research has been in biophotonics from the very beginning, starting with conducting dynamic light scattering studies and optical ellipsometry on biopolymers. His range expanded to fluorescence microscopy, optical trapping, Raman spectroscopy, and nonlinear optical spectroscopy of molecules and cellular elements. He was one of the original principal investigators for the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology at UC Davis from 2002-2012, serving as its Associate Director for Science. His honors include Guest Academician at ETH, Zurich, JSPS Senior Fellow in Hokkaido, and Senior Fulbright Scholar at Taiwan. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus in Engineering at UC Davis, having been awarded the Edward A Dickson Emeritus Professor award in 2013..V V Krishnan (Krish Krishnan) received his BSc and MSc in Physics from Madurai University and Madura College, respectively. Krish earned his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science in Physics and post-doctoral work at the Scripps Research Institute. He held a staff scientist position at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and a Senior Scientist Position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, before joining the faculty of Chemistry at California State University Fresno. Krish also holds an Adjunct Professor appointment at the Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis School of Medicine. Krish is interested in the application of tools from physics, mathematics, and computer science to chemically and biologically relevant problems. Currently, he uses Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy and computer simulations to study the structure and dynamics of proteins. Other research interests include the use of a range of biostatistical and data-mining tools to analyze large-scale experimental data, such as multiplex immunoassay for protein biomarker detection and metabolomics. He is passionate about teaching and mentoring the next generation of scientists. He serves as the research director of National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research infrastructure for minority institution (RIMI) and program director of Bridges to Doctorate Program.

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