Friday, March 11, 2022 10am to 11:15am
Friday, March 11, 2022 10am to 11:15am
About this Event
All-optical sensing and stimulation is an attractive route for artificial bio-interfacing. This concept materializes when leveraging discoveries and progress in synthetic biology and genetics, that permit cellular-level specificity in biology models in-vivo. The results are sophisticated devices and biocompatible interfaces that gain functional access with living organisms to support fundamental research across multiple disciplines of life science. In this context, I will present my research work in bio-interfaced platforms to deploy optical sensing and stimulation in different animal models. The sophisticated, yet miniaturized formfactors, some of them supporting battery-free operation, allow for individualized bio-interfacing relevant for frontier behavioral neuroscience research, or to implement life-saving solutions for accidental drug overdose. In addition, I will discuss future routes for tunable optoelectronic and nanophotonic systems to create the next generations of artificial biomimetic all-optical bio-interfaces having the potential to revolutionize the way we study physiological disabilities, neurological and medical disorders that could lead to the development of advanced therapeutic and diagnostic practices in the foreseeing future.