Navid presented "An Automated Microfluidic Multiplexer for Fast Delivery of C. elegans Populations from Multiwells" at the Advances in Microfluidics and Nanofluidics 2013 conference held at the University of Notre Dame. May 24, 2013.

Laura published a blog entitled "Femtosecond laser surgery continues to advance" in BioOptics World StudentView Blog. http://www.bioopticsworld.com/blogs/biooptics-student-view/2012/12/femtosecond-laser-surgery-continues-to-advance.html

Endoscopic laser microsurgery was one of two highlighted studies at the Spring 2012 CLEO conference where Murat Yildirim presented in front of over 100 scientists. Link

The article can be found in the Publications section of our website, entitled "Towards endoscopic ultrafast laser microsurgery of vocal folds."  Link

The renovation of the Ben-Yakar lab is underway! Three new lab spaces will be constructed, including:

• New optics lab for high-throughput screenings - this lab will accomodate 5 new floating optical tables that will be connected to the existing 5 optical tables.
• New C. elegans biology lab.
• Clean room facility for microfluidic chip fabrication.