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Optical Manipulation and Its Applications

23 - 27 April, 2023


Optical Manipulation and Its Applications

  1. Optical Manipulation in Biophysics and Biomedicine
    • Single molecule biophysics
    • Cellular mechanics and mechanotransduction
    • Cellular adhesion
    • Laser cellular surgery and photoporation
    • Light activated drugs and probes
    • Cell stretching
    • Optogenetics
    • Optical biomodulation
  2. Optical Manipulation Fundamentals
    • Holographic optical tweezers and beam shaping, adaptive optics techniques
    • Particle dynamics
    • Opto-mechanical cooling
    • Microrheology
    • High force optical tweezers
    • Photophoresis
    • Optical trap modelling and theoretical underpinnings
    • Nanoparticle manipulation
    • Plasmonic manipulation
    • Integrated and near-field optical trapping
  3. Optical Manipulation Applications
    • Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
    • Nanoscale & quantum sensing
    • Environmental sensing and aerosol analysis
    • Optofluidics/microfluidics
    • Integration with spectroscopic techniques
    • Photo activated molecules and materials
  4. Alternative Manipulation Techniques
    • Magnetic tweezers
    • Electrical manipulation: Electrodynamic balance, dielectrophoresis, etc.
    • Acoustic manipulation and trapping
    • Microfluidic manipulation
    • Optoelectronic Tweezers
    • AFM applied to techniques studied by optical manipulation
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