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The University of Adelaide, SA
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✨Celebrating 2 Years of the Centre of Light for Life! ✨ Since 2023, we’ve grown into a team of 20+ researchers, earning many awards and publishing groundbreaking work in high-ranking journals. Excited for another year of discovery! 🚀 Read more here: shorturl.at/2yehT
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Our postdoc @RalfMouthaan did a spectacular job presenting at @AipCongress ANZCOP 2024 🌟 His poster was on "Projection of high fidelity structured light beams through a multimode fibre for advanced endomicroscopy" 💡🩺 #OpticalFibre #Medicalimaging @OpticsAUNZ @ausphysics
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Our PhD student Alex Trowbridge presented for the first time at @AipCongress ANZCOP 2024! 👏 His talk was on "Enhanced Stability in Speckle Metrology Through Material Engineering of an Integrating Sphere" ✨🔮 #Spectroscopy #Speckle #Imaging #Optics @OpticsAUNZ @ausphysics
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Our postdoc Chris Perrella @DrCPerrella gave an excellent talk at @AipCongress ANZCOP 2024 on "Precision Measurement of Non-Integer Orbital Angular Momentum Using Speckle Metrology" 📏✨ #Spectroscopy #Precisionmeasurement #Imaging #Optics @OpticsAUNZ @ausphysics
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Our PhD student Zane Peterkovic gave his first ANZCOP talk today! 👏 His talk was on "Photon counting cameras for low-light biological imaging of autofluorescence" ✨🔬 #Biophotonics #Imaging @RobsInstitute @OpticsAUNZ @OpticaWorldwide @ausphysics
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Centre deputy director @DrKylieDunning delivered a fantastic talk on "Revolutionising IVF with advanced photonics" 🧑‍⚕️🔬 at @AipCongress ANZCOP 2024! #Biophotonics #Imaging #Interdisciplinary #Science #ANZCOP24 @RobsInstitute @OpticsAUNZ @Repro_Success @ausphysics
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Centre of Light for Life retweeted
Thrilled to have our IVF research featured in a recent BBC article highlighting some exciting advancements in IVF research and the ongoing efforts to improve success rates for those seeking fertility treatments.
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🌟We are at the @AipCongress /ANZCOP 2024!🌟 💬 Please feel free to stop by our sessions, ask questions, and engage with our team. We look forward to seeing you there! @ausphysics @OpticsAUNZ #optics #photonics
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PhD student Zane Peterkovic presented at the Conference on Optics, Atoms, and Laser Applications @KOALAConference! This exciting research, in collaboration with @DrKylieDunning, captured autofluorescence in live mouse embryos using low light🔬 Bioarxiv➡️arxiv.org/abs/2410.19210
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Zane also won the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) People's Choice Award during the KOALA practice session last week! 🎉🏆 Well done Zane! 😁👏
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🌟Outstanding talk by Darren Chow (@Darren_Repro) at the SRB David Healy New Investigator Award Session! All around amazing work presented in this session by the new investigators, good luck to all the finalists! 👏 #ESASRBANZBMS2024 @ESASRB @RobsInstitute @CentreLightLife
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An amazing, inspiring talk from @DrKylieDunning, the 2024 winner of the @RobsInstitute Award. #Careergoals for all the students & ECRs watching! #ESASRBANZBMS2024 @ESASRB
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Come along to the exciting talks by our group today @ #ESASRBANZBMS24! 😃 SRB @RobsInstitute Award Session 8.30-9.15am @DrKylieDunning SRB Orals - Developments in ART 1.30-1.45pm Battice Westerndorp 2.45-3pm Tong Li David Healy New Investigator Award 5-5.15pm @Darren_Repro
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Well done @carlcampugan_ on your talk at the @ARTLabSolutions Gametes and Embryo Award Session! 👏 @ESASRB #ESASRBANZBMS2024
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🔬#Lightsheetmicroscopy is emerging as a standout technique for live #embryoimaging! 🇦🇺🇬🇧 ✨Scientists can reduce imaging time by 10x and avoid #DNAdamage to embryos. In contrast, #confocalmicroscopy causes significantly higher DNA damage. 🧬
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🔔 Bing bong! Hot off the press! Read about how light sheet microscopy is an ideal approach for metabolic imaging of preimplantation mouse embryos. Is it fast? Safe? Better than confocal microscopy? Read more about it here: nature.com/articles/s41598-0… @CentreLightLife @UniofAdelaide
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Chris Perrella (@DrCPerrella) and Alexander Trowbridge gave amazing talks at the #SPIEOpticsPhotonics 2024 conference today! 😃 Well done Chris and Alex! 👏👏 @SPIEtweets #SPIE #Optics #Photonics
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