Student members are an important and active part of the OSA and SPIE community. Student benefits are built around the unique needs of those preparing to enter the professional world of optics. As an OSA or SPIE Student Member, you join a worldwide community of optics and photonics scientists, engineers and business leaders.

Benefits extended to students at this meeting include the:

• Discounted registration fees
• Registration and travel support –Limited financial support may be available for this meeting. Interested students should send an email to the program manager including the following:
  • Participation at the meeting – oral or poster presenter?
  • Affiliation and status
  • Description of need
• Limited opportunities to assist with on-site logistically support in exchange for a registration fee waiver. Student volunteers are needed to assist with onsite registration and content capture. Contact the meeting manager to learn about opportunities for this meeting.
• Travel grants to students from qualifying developing nations

The OSA Foundation Student Travel Grants

Deadline to apply for the grant for the ECBO is 27 March 2013.

The OSA Foundation provides travel support to students working or studying in developing nations so that they may attend OSA-managed technical meetings. Travel grants average $1,500 USD per award.

Learn more about this program and apply for a grant!
 

The SPIE Student Travel Grant

SPIE will offer a student travel of up to $1000 USD. Applicants must be full time students and the author of an accepted paper within the ECBO symposium. For instructions and application materials, please see: spie.org/x27602.xml.  
 

2013 ECBO Student Presentation Awards

Awards recognizing the best student presentations were presented at SPIE/OSA European Conferences on Biomedical Optics 2013. Awards winners were selected the ECBO committee members.

Best Student Oral Presentation Award Winners

• Photoacoustic Imaging of Breast Tumor Vascularization: A Comparison with MRI and Histopathology, Michelle Heijblom; Universiteit Twente, Netherlands, First Place Award Winner

• Predicting Tumor Response in Breast Cancer Patients Using Diffuse Optical Tomography, Jacqueline Gunther; Columbia University, USA, Runner Up

• Identifying the Metabolic Origins of Endogenous Optical Redox Changes that Arise During Precancer, Joanna Xylas; Tufts University, USA, Runner Up

Carl Zeiss AG

Best Student Poster Presentation Award Winners

• James Guggenheim; University of Birmingham, UK

• Luca Fieramonti; Politecnico di Milano, Italy

• Sophie Zierbock; Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena-Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Germany

Sponsored by:

TOPTICA Photonics AG