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Tiffany Tan awarded the Berns-SPIE SPARK Grant
Centre postdoc Tiffany Tan was one of four international recipients to be awarded $100,000 USD as part of the prestigious Berns-SPIE SPARK Grant, supported by SPIE, the international Society for Optics and Photonics, and the Beckman Laser Institute, for her project titled "A Novel Multimodal System to Improve the Success of Clinical IVF."
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ARC Launch of the Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS)
The ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS) was officially launched on 28th October 2024 at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).
Press release: Lighting the way with accurate and safe 3D embryo imaging
A press release for our paper in Scientific Reports (Nature) comparing light sheet and confocal microscopy has been published: "Lighting the way with accurate and safe 3D embryo imaging".
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Hosting PhD student Freja Hoier from the Technical University of Denmark
The Centre had the pleasure of hosting PhD student Freja Høier from Peter Andersen's group at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) over the last 3 months to conduct work related to spatial offset optical coherence tomography.
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Sidelobe Suppressed Bessel Beams for Light Sheet Microscopy
The team at the University of St Andrews Optical Manipulation Group together with the Centre of Light for Life have published a new article on using sidelobe suppressed Bessel beams for light sheet microscopy
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New publication in Nature: Light Science & Applications
Chris Perrella and Kishan Dholakia have published a News & Views article entitled “A material change for ultra-high precision force sensing” in the journal Nature: Light, Science & Applications.
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New publication in Scientific Reports
Our latest publication in Scientific Reports pits light sheet against confocal microscopy and quantifies the impact of volumetric imaging on DNA integrity in preimplantation mouse embryos.
Kishan elected as SPIE Society Director
Kishan Dholakia has been elected as one of the Society Directors for SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
2024 ARC Future Fellowship Awards
A/Prof Kylie Dunning and A/Prof Danny Wilson are two of the three researchers from The University of Adelaide to be awarded the 2024 ARC Future Fellowship, speaking to the outstanding level of their fellowship projects.
Nature Review in Physics
Our "Expert Recommendation" has been published in Nature Reviews Physics, aimed at advancing the field of speckle metrology.