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BIGSS 2018 ANNOUNCED - AUGUST 28 - SEPTEMBER 1 – BALLYVAUGHAN & GALWAY

This is our seventh Biophotonics and Imaging Graduate Summer School. It is an important opportunity for graduate students in 2018 to access the kind of close contact with leading professors that only this kind of environment facilitates. Tutors for BIGSS 2018 will include Martin Booth (Oxford), Sergio Fantini (Tufts), Irving Bigio (Boston), Ton van Leeuwen (Amsterdam) Sarah Bohndiek (Oxford) and Caroline Boudoux (Montreal).

Previously we have had:

2008: Valery Tuchin (Saratov State), Peter So (MIT), Lihong Wang (St. Louis)

2009: Steve Jacques (OHSU), Gerwin Puppels (Rotterdam), Chris Xu and Warren Zipfel (Cornell)

2010: Bruce Tromberg (Irvine), Stefan Andersson-Engels (Lund), Jürgen Popp (Jena), Kirill Larin (Houston), Tony Wilson (Oxford)

2012: Wolfgang Drexler (Vienna), Tayyaba Hasan (Harvard), Anita Mahadevan-Jansen (Vanderbilt), Vasilis Ntziachristos (Munich)

2014: Johannes de Boer (Amsterdam), Paul French (London), Stas Emilianov (Texas)

2016: Matt O’Donnell (Seattle), David Boas (Harvard), Irina Larina (Baylor), Kishan Dholakia (St Andrews), Colin Shepperd (Genoa)

This year the summer school will be held in the picturesque Irish village of Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare. Ballyvaughan boasts stunning views of Galway Bay and the Burren. In addition to this hands-on training will be provided in Photoacoustic Imaging, Optical Coherence Tomography, Lightsheet imaging and MicroCT.