Biophotonics center directors to speak Jan. 13 at UTSA
(Jan. 7, 2003)--The University of Texas at San Antonio Department of Physics will host a lecture by the directors of the Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology 10:30-11:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 13 in the Biosciences Building Loeffler Room (3.03.02) at the 1604 Campus.
Dennis Matthews, director, and Kennedy Reed, associate director of education and outreach, will speak about the center’s goals and research projects.
Matthews is program leader for the Medical Technology Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and a professor in the UC Davis Department of Applied Science and School of Medicine.
Reed, a theoretical physicist at LLNL, is also director of the LLNL Research Collaborations Program for HBCUs and MIs and manages 20 technical collaborations involving multiple LLNL directorates.
UTSA is one of 10 institutions nationwide selected to partner in developing a research center for biophotonics, the science of using light and other energies to understand and work with biological materials. Potential applications in the field include new medical lasers, DNA sequencing, within-cell molecular identification and imaging, and photodynamic drug therapies.
The center is funded by a $40 million, 10-year National Science Foundation grant, and will be based at the University of California, Davis. Other partner institutions include Stanford University, Fisk University and University of California components at Berkeley and San Francisco.
For more information, contact Rae Ann Bute, Department of Physics at (210) 458-5451.
Visit the Center for Biophotonics
Science and Technology Web site.
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