Biophotonics Research Center

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.

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

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!

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.

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: source.wustl.edu/2021/12/senior…

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. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jb…

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!

A special congratulations for Dr. Sam Achilefu, Director of the ORL, for his election to the National Academy of Medicine! Read more here: nam.edu/national-acade…

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.

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.

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

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: medicine.wustl.edu/news/nih-award…

Happy Friday everyone! So far Team Cancer Lasers has raised $7,685.00 for Pedal the Cause. You can donate here: mypedalthecause.org/team_profile.j… Help us fund cancer research!

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.

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."

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.

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

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: ow.ly/A0f250Fhcub #WomenInSTEM

Mesoscale imaging of sleep slow waves using calcium imaging and their seperability of functional connectivity dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.NPh.… ⁦@OpticalRadLab⁩ ⁦@ResearchSleep⁩ ⁦@aasmfoundation⁩

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: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…