Biophotonics Research Center

[Biophotonics Research Center @OpticalRadLab]

On Thursday, November 17th, 2022 Na Ji visited the us to give a talk titled:
"Imaging the brain at high spatiotemporal resolution". Thank you Dr. Ji.

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Congratulations to Culver Lab Member Rachel Rahn! She was chosen as one of this years Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Medical Science Fellows!

[Biophotonics Research Center @OpticalRadLab]

Congratulations to Culver Lab Member Victoria Chen! Her thesis “Critical Period Monocular Deprivation Results in Profound Rewiring of Cortical Functional Connectivity” has been chosen as a Spector Prize honorable mention!

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Please welcome Daniel Castro, PhD to the BRC! Dr. Castro earned his doctorate in psychology/biopsychology from the University of Michigan and served as a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine.

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A Wash U in St. Louis Senior who started his scholarly research as a high school student and continued as an undergraduate student in Achilefu Lab received the Marshall Scholarship to study Biomedical Engineering at Oxford University!
Read more here:
https://t.co/RWODDaDNL0

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In November Shaw-Wei D Tsen , PhD; Gail Sudlow; Samuel Achilefu, PhD published “Inactivation of multidrug-resistant bacteria and bacterial spores and generation of high-potency bacterial vaccines using ultrashort pulsed lasers” in The J. of Biophotonics.
https://t.co/WSel9MUkXh

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Thank you to everyone who helped Team Cancer Lasers this year to raise funds for cancer research via Pedal the Cause. This year our team raised $8,735.00!

Way to go team!

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A special congratulations for Dr. Sam Achilefu, Director of the ORL, for his election to the National Academy of Medicine!
Read more here:
https://t.co/mjaOKKlYoN

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Congratulations Rachel M Rahn, PhD; Lindsey M Brier, PhD; Annie R Bice, and Joseph P Culver, PhD! In September they published “Functional Connectivity of the Developing Mouse Cortex” in Cerebral Cortex.

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Congratulations Christopher Egbulefu, PhD; Partha Karmakar, PhD; Samuel Achilefu, PhD; In September they published “Breast cancer derived GM-CSF regulates arginase 1 in myeloid cells to promote an immunosuppressive microenvironment” The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

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Congratulations Samuel Achilefu, PhD! In September he published “Nanoparticle T cell engagers for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia” in Oncotarget.

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Congrats to @leoshmu! The NIH Director’s Early Independence Award provides support for outstanding junior scientists to bypass the traditional postdoctoral training period and launch independent research careers.
Read more here: https://t.co/pqcDvaMDQp

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Happy Friday everyone! So far Team Cancer Lasers has raised $7,685.00 for Pedal the Cause. You can donate here:
https://t.co/npMUdt7Q1M

Help us fund cancer research!

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Congratulations Lindsey M Brier, PhD, Annie R Bice, Seana H Gaines, Eric C Landsness, Joseph P Culver, PhD! In September they published “A Multivariate Functional Connectivity Approach to Mapping Brain Networks and Imputing Neural Activity in Mice” in Cerebral Cortex.

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Congrats @cobrie5, on her appt as Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, WU BME dept! From Sam Achilefu, PhD: “This appointment attests to her creativity, drive, and exceptionally high potential to develop high-impact research directions in the future."

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Congrats Anchal Ghai, PhD; Samuel Achilefu, PhD; Monica Shokeen, PhD! They recently published “In vivo quantitative assessment of therapeutic response to bortezomib therapy in disseminated animal models of multiple myeloma with [ 18 F]FDG and [ 64 Cu]Cu-LLP2A PET” in EJNMMI.

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Special thanks to Fisher Scientific and Midwest Scientific for donating to team Cancer Lasers for this year's Pedal the Cause!

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Our Scientist of the Week is @aanchalghai_14 Staff Scientist
@OpticalRadLab, Washington University in St Louis

Thank you Dr. Monica Shokeen @ShokeenM for nominating Dr. Anchal Ghai!

Nominate your friends and colleagues here: https://t.co/QKkAlyTnEc
#WomenInSTEM

[Eric Landsness @EricLandsness]

Mesoscale imaging of sleep slow waves using calcium imaging and their seperability of functional connectivity https://t.co/QBK1FI6hcA
⁦@OpticalRadLab⁩ ⁦@ResearchSleep⁩ ⁦@aasmfoundation⁩

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In June Muriah Wheelock, PhD and Adam Eggebrecht, PhD published “Associations of observed preschool performance monitoring with brain functional connectivity in adolescence” in Cortex. Great work! Read more below:
https://t.co/m1vn204SkI